Inappropriate Clippy

Clippy as-a-plugin, on the Omarchy bar. He walks, parks between your widgets, and mouths off every few minutes.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/CostaFot/omarchy-inappropriate-clippy --enable

Setting him up from a coding agent? docs/ has every key and verb; omarchy-shell costafot.clippy help.

(Ab)Using him

Do	He
Nothing	paces, and drops a line every 1.5–7 minutes
Left-click	says something now
Middle-click	slap!
Fling the pointer across him	also a slap. Quite funnier
Hold left-click, then drag	picks him up. Drop him anywhere on the bar
Let go mid-fast-fling	throws him off the end of the bar — off a top bar he plummets the whole screen. Fatal, but he gets a last word in
Right-click	the menu: say something, snooze, kill him, common settings
Click his tombstone	an epitaph, from beyond
Click the paperclip on the bar	the same menu

Left-click the bubble to dismiss it.

Slaps, deaths, dodges

Ten slaps in six seconds knocks him out. Sometimes the fucker dodges.

Either way a tombstone marks the spot until he respawns — and sometimes the respawn is a stunt: he rolls in along the bar like a dropped coin, or someone off-screen lobs him back in on an arc and he lands face-first (set gags false if you like your paperclips dignified). Once in a while he also peeks in from a far corner of the screen to say something — and yes, you can slap him back into it.

He is watching you

Reads off the local crash journal. He has an opinion.

He also notices the tab. YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Hacker News, Steam — open one and once in a while he has something to say about it. Yes, those sites too (set clean true mutes that whole register). It's all matched on your machine and goes nowhere; set reactions false — or the menu row — if you'd rather doomscroll in peace.

He sleeps when you're away

Screen off, he stops.

Bonus easter egg when you are back.

Settings

Right-click him for the common ones: clean mode, sounds, walks, size, voice. Everything else is a key, set from a terminal or by your agent:

omarchy-shell costafot.clippy set clean true   # screen-share mode: drops every nsfw line
omarchy-shell costafot.clippy set respawn 0    # dead until told otherwise
omarchy-shell costafot.clippy settings         # everything, as it stands

Every key, with its default: docs/configuration.md.

The rest of him

One page each in the manual, also under docs/.

Lines from your AI agent

Off by default. ai: true and the lines are about what you're actually doing: your window titles, what's playing, what you did to him lately.

You can talk back. Ask your agent how!

Ask him to judge your screen and he finds the stupidest thing to comment on it hopefully.

promptFile makes him whoever you want.

Leaves your machine:

• those facts, to your own coding agent, nowhere else
• never your files — he doesn't read them
• a screenshot of your screen only when you ask for the verdict
• the mic is transcribed locally; only the text goes out

A voice

Set tts: true for the espeak robot.

For a local neural one you install the engine yourself — a handful of commands, all in the docs — and then scripts/setup-voice points him at it: the shipped Rubick clone (sorry I used to play that piece of shit game), a ring-modulated droid, or a clone of anyone you have twenty seconds of.

The script itself installs nothing and downloads nothing. Your machine, your pins.

Needs a decent GPU for the clones. My 3080ti works fine with it.

The graveyard

https://graveyard.costafotiadis.com/

A public leaderboard with how many times clippy has been killed/slapped. Half the fun of this app.

Leaves your machine:

• one alias shared by every install, or a handle you claim
• small kill/slap counts, when you slap or kill him
• no hostname, no install ID, no usage data
• set leaderboard off and nothing is sent

Read the source code.

Scripting him

Every verb is a command (omarchy-shell costafot.clippy help lists them), so they drop into Hyprland binds and Omarchy hooks.

Your coding agent can run him too. It's actually the preferred way! Tell it:

Read ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/costafot.clippy/docs/ and run omarchy-shell costafot.clippy help.

That's it. Then ask stuff.

Uninstall

omarchy plugin remove costafot.clippy   # when you've had enough

FAQ

Is there telemetry?

The kill/slap counts are logged to the graveyard. Shared alias, so nobody knows it's you. set leaderboard off to disable it. That's it — no hostname, no install ID, no usage data.

Does he read my files?

No. With ai off nothing about what you're doing leaves the machine. With it on, your window titles and stuff like that go to your own coding agent. Read the source.

Can I make him nicer?

set clean true makes him SFW. promptFile makes him whoever you want.

Notes and limitations

• Top and bottom bars only. On a vertical bar he doesn't show up.
• The bubble draws over your windows. He is, after all, in the way.
• Without ai the lines are random; he doesn't know what you did.
• Clippy, the name and the artwork are Microsoft's. The sprites come from clippy.js; the code here is MIT, the paperclip is not. This is a parody — not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by Microsoft, and nobody is making a penny out of their paperclip.
• The shipped clone voice is twenty seconds of Rubick from Dota 2 — Valve's audio, on the same parody terms.