How to use smabar

Linux packages, the Windows installer, the macOS beta, what the first start looks like, and how updates work.

• Linux
• Windows
• macOS (Beta)
• The first start
• Updates
• Where things live

Modes, pinned shortcuts, the fisheye, plugins and the settings that shape the bar.

• Position, width, behaviour
• Shortcuts
• The fisheye
• Plugins
• Themes

A theme is one JSON file. Pick a bundled one, install one from the store, or ask your agent for a new look.

• Bundled themes
• Ask your agent
• The theme store
• Sharing a theme

How the Community Store works, what its labels mean, and what happens when you install something.

• What the labels mean
• Installing
• Updates
• Blocked versions
• Removing

Describe your idea and build it with AI. Use ChatGPT or Claude in your browser, or connect an agent directly to smabar.

• Choose your way
• In a web chat
• With a connected agent
• What a good request looks like
• What happens with MCP
• Where things are
• Improve and share your plugin

Turn your idea into a smabar plugin in a web chat. No MCP setup — just a request, a ZIP and a few installation steps.

• From your idea to your bar
• Copy this request
• Build workflow for the AI
• Before delivering the ZIP
• After installation

smabar has an MCP server on localhost. Connect Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client and it can build plugins for you and use them.

• Claude Code
• Codex
• Other clients
• The first prompt
• Use a plugin from your agent

Install an AI-created plugin manually and check its behavior in smabar.

• Expected ZIP structure
• Install
• Verify in the app

A public GitHub repository and one request. No review queue, no account.

• What the repository needs
• Versions
• Submitting
• What the store does not do

Where the logs are, what to ask your agent, and answers to the questions everyone asks first.

• Start with the logs
• The bar is not visible
• Clicks go through the bar or land beside it
• A plugin does not start
• Reset
• Questions