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Omanews

by Brian Blakely

Omarchy-native headline ticker for the bar

GitHub

Security review

No obvious issues detected

Deterministic scan — not a security guarantee

None
Risk level
None
Analyzed commit
2978003
Scanned
1 month ago

No potentially dangerous behavior detected in the analyzed commit.

Automated analysis only — not a security guarantee.

AI advisory review

No obvious issues detected

Language-model assessment · ~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest — advisory only

Low
AI risk level
Low
Recommendation
install
Model
~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest
Analyzed commit
2978003
Reviewed
1 month ago

The plugin fetches an RSS feed from Google News and displays headlines in a bar widget. It uses curl with size limits, sanitizes output by escaping HTML entities, and does not execute any code from the feed. No malicious behavior was found.

  • Network access is required to fetch the RSS feed, which could be a privacy consideration.
  • The feed parsing is regex-based and may be fragile, but it does not introduce security vulnerabilities.
How this check works

This review combines the deterministic scan (the rule-based results above) with an independent look at the plugin's code by a language model. The model reads a trimmed sample of the repository's files, the manifest, and the README, then gives a plain-language risk level and a recommendation: install (no notable danger), review (look closer first), or avoid (clearly dangerous).

It runs on the same analyzed commit as the deterministic scan and is strictly advisory — it is not a security guarantee and never blocks a plugin by itself. A human moderator still reviews plugins before they are listed.

AI advisory only — automated analysis, not a security guarantee.

Install
$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/brianblakely/omanews --enable
Widgets #bar #launcher #media

Omanews

Omanews is a headline ticker for the Omarchy bar. Left-click advances to the next headline, right-click returns to the previous headline, and middle-click opens an X search for the current headline.

Omanews screenshot

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/brianblakely/omanews.git --enable --yes

Shortcuts

o.bind("SUPER + F10", "Next headline", "omarchy-shell b.omanews next")
o.bind("SUPER + ALT + F10", "Previous headline", "omarchy-shell b.omanews previous")
o.bind("SUPER + CTRL + F10", "Search headline on X", "omarchy-shell b.omanews search")

Update

omarchy plugin update b.omanews

Uninstall

omarchy plugin remove b.omanews