diff --git a/komorebi-for-kde/komorebi/src/backend/mod.rs b/komorebi-for-kde/komorebi/src/backend/mod.rs
index 82a86330..e6ef9690 100644
--- a/komorebi-for-kde/komorebi/src/backend/mod.rs
+++ b/komorebi-for-kde/komorebi/src/backend/mod.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ use std::path::Path;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 pub mod fake;
+pub mod shared;
 
 /// What the compositor currently knows about one window.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq)]
diff --git a/komorebi-for-kde/komorebi/src/backend/shared.rs b/komorebi-for-kde/komorebi/src/backend/shared.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6e546ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/komorebi-for-kde/komorebi/src/backend/shared.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,284 @@
+//! komorebi for KDE's backends, seen as the shared [`komorebi_backend::Backend`].
+//!
+//! [`Shared`] wraps any KDE [`Backend`](super::Backend) (the real KWin one or the fake) and
+//! implements the trait that every komorebi shares, which is how KDE is its first implementation:
+//! the daemon keeps calling its own trait (`u32` ids, `eyre` errors, the look, the wallpaper and
+//! the drag frames) until the shared core is adopted, and everything the shared trait asks for is
+//! answered by the KDE methods underneath. Nothing about how KDE behaves changes.
+//!
+//! What the translation does:
+//!
+//! - an id is a [`WindowId`] made from the `u32` ([`WindowId::from_u32`]); an id too wide for a
+//!   `u32` is a window KDE never had;
+//! - an `eyre` error of a window command becomes [`Error::WindowGone`] if the window is not alive
+//!   any more by the time the command is answered (KDE fails only for an unknown or dead
+//!   window), and [`Error::Platform`] otherwise;
+//! - KDE fills every field of a window, so the optional fields are all `Some`;
+//! - every [`Capability`] is supported: KDE has workspaces, maximize, opacity and focus follows
+//!   mouse;
+//! - a batch does nothing: KDE batches by construction (the answer to a held poll carries every
+//!   command that was queued).
+
+use super::Backend;
+use komorebi_backend as shared;
+use komorebi_backend::Capability;
+use komorebi_backend::Error;
+use komorebi_backend::MonitorId;
+use komorebi_backend::Rect;
+use komorebi_backend::WindowId;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+/// A KDE [`Backend`] as the shared [`komorebi_backend::Backend`].
+pub struct Shared<B: Backend + ?Sized>(pub Arc<B>);
+
+impl<B: Backend + ?Sized> Shared<B> {
+    /// Returns the KDE backend underneath.
+    pub fn kde(&self) -> &B {
+        &self.0
+    }
+
+    /// Runs a window command through KDE's trait and says why it failed in the shared terms.
+    fn window_command(
+        &self,
+        id: WindowId,
+        command: impl FnOnce(&B, u32) -> color_eyre::eyre::Result<()>,
+    ) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        let Some(raw) = id.to_u32() else {
+            return Err(Error::WindowGone(id));
+        };
+        command(&self.0, raw).map_err(|report| {
+            if self.0.is_window(raw) {
+                Error::Platform(report.into())
+            } else {
+                Error::WindowGone(id)
+            }
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn platform(report: color_eyre::eyre::Report) -> Error {
+        Error::Platform(report.into())
+    }
+}
+
+fn window_info(info: super::WindowInfo) -> shared::WindowInfo {
+    shared::WindowInfo {
+        id: WindowId::from_u32(info.id),
+        pid: info.pid,
+        rect: info.rect,
+        minimized: info.minimized,
+        alive: info.alive,
+        title: Some(info.title),
+        class: Some(info.class),
+        exe: Some(info.exe),
+        path: Some(info.path),
+        fullscreen: Some(info.fullscreen),
+        maximized: Some(info.maximized),
+        normal: Some(info.normal),
+    }
+}
+
+impl<B: Backend + ?Sized> shared::Backend for Shared<B> {
+    fn windows(&self) -> Vec<shared::WindowInfo> {
+        self.0.windows().into_iter().map(window_info).collect()
+    }
+
+    fn window(&self, id: WindowId) -> Option<shared::WindowInfo> {
+        self.0.window(id.to_u32()?).map(window_info)
+    }
+
+    fn foreground_window(&self) -> Option<WindowId> {
+        self.0.foreground_window().map(WindowId::from_u32)
+    }
+
+    fn monitors(&self) -> shared::Result<Vec<shared::MonitorInfo>> {
+        Ok(self
+            .0
+            .monitors()
+            .map_err(Self::platform)?
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|m| shared::MonitorInfo {
+                id: MonitorId::from_u32(m.id),
+                size: m.size,
+                work_area: m.work_area,
+                name: Some(m.name),
+                serial_number_id: Some(m.serial_number_id),
+            })
+            .collect())
+    }
+
+    fn cursor_pos(&self) -> Option<(i32, i32)> {
+        self.0.cursor_pos()
+    }
+
+    fn set_rect(&self, id: WindowId, rect: &Rect) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.set_rect(raw, rect))
+    }
+
+    fn focus(&self, id: WindowId, mouse_follows_focus: bool) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.focus(raw, mouse_follows_focus))
+    }
+
+    fn raise(&self, id: WindowId) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.raise(raw))
+    }
+
+    fn hide(&self, id: WindowId) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.hide(raw))
+    }
+
+    fn restore(&self, id: WindowId) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.restore(raw))
+    }
+
+    fn minimize(&self, id: WindowId) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.minimize(raw))
+    }
+
+    fn unminimize(&self, id: WindowId) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.unminimize(raw))
+    }
+
+    fn close(&self, id: WindowId) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.close(raw))
+    }
+
+    fn center_cursor_in(&self, rect: &Rect) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.0.center_cursor_in(rect).map_err(Self::platform)
+    }
+
+    fn supports(&self, _capability: Capability) -> bool {
+        true
+    }
+
+    fn maximize(&self, id: WindowId, maximize: bool) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.maximize(raw, maximize))
+    }
+
+    fn set_opacity(&self, id: WindowId, alpha: u8) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.set_opacity(raw, alpha))
+    }
+
+    fn set_focus_follows_mouse(&self, enable: bool) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.0
+            .set_focus_follows_mouse(enable)
+            .map_err(Self::platform)
+    }
+
+    fn ensure_workspaces(&self, names: &[String]) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.0.ensure_workspaces(names).map_err(Self::platform)
+    }
+
+    fn switch_workspace(&self, monitor: MonitorId, idx: usize) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        let id = monitor.to_u32().unwrap_or(u32::MAX);
+        self.0.switch_workspace(id, idx).map_err(Self::platform)
+    }
+
+    fn set_window_workspace(&self, id: WindowId, idx: usize) -> shared::Result<()> {
+        self.window_command(id, |b, raw| b.set_window_workspace(raw, idx))
+    }
+
+    fn window_workspace(&self, id: WindowId) -> shared::Result<Option<usize>> {
+        Ok(id.to_u32().and_then(|raw| self.0.window_workspace(raw)))
+    }
+
+    fn current_workspaces(&self) -> shared::Result<Vec<(MonitorId, usize)>> {
+        Ok(self
+            .0
+            .current_workspaces()
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|(monitor, idx)| (MonitorId::from_u32(monitor), idx))
+            .collect())
+    }
+
+    // `is_window`, `window_rect` and `monitor_from_point` are the provided ones, over `window` and
+    // `monitors`, exactly as KDE's own are; `begin_batch` and `end_batch` do nothing, as KDE's
+    // queue is flushed as a whole.
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::backend::fake::FakeBackend;
+    use komorebi_backend::Backend as _;
+    use komorebi_backend::contract::Harness;
+    use komorebi_backend::contract::check_all;
+
+    struct KdeFake(Shared<FakeBackend>);
+
+    impl Harness for KdeFake {
+        type B = Shared<FakeBackend>;
+
+        fn new() -> Self {
+            Self(Shared(Arc::new(FakeBackend::with_one_monitor())))
+        }
+
+        fn backend(&self) -> &Self::B {
+            &self.0
+        }
+
+        fn open_window(&self, seed: u32) -> WindowId {
+            self.0.kde().open_window(seed, "foot", "foot", "a terminal");
+            WindowId::from_u32(seed)
+        }
+
+        fn destroy_window(&self, id: WindowId) {
+            self.0
+                .kde()
+                .close_window_now(id.to_u32().expect("a KDE id"));
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_kde_fake_passes_the_shared_contract() {
+        check_all::<KdeFake>();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn kde_is_the_first_implementation_and_supports_every_capability() {
+        let kde = KdeFake::new();
+
+        for capability in Capability::ALL {
+            assert!(kde.backend().supports(capability));
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_command_about_a_window_that_is_gone_is_window_gone_and_other_failures_are_not() {
+        let kde = KdeFake::new();
+        let id = kde.open_window(4);
+
+        let gone = kde.backend().focus(WindowId::from_u32(9), false);
+
+        assert!(matches!(gone, Err(Error::WindowGone(WindowId(9)))));
+        assert_eq!(gone.unwrap_err().to_string(), "no such window: 9");
+        assert!(kde.backend().focus(id, false).is_ok());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_id_too_wide_for_kde_is_a_window_kde_never_had() {
+        let kde = KdeFake::new();
+        let wide = WindowId(u64::from(u32::MAX) + 1);
+
+        assert!(kde.backend().window(wide).is_none());
+        assert!(kde.backend().hide(wide).unwrap_err().is_window_gone());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn every_field_kde_knows_comes_through() {
+        let kde = KdeFake::new();
+        let id = kde.open_window(4);
+
+        let info = kde.backend().window(id).expect("window 4 was opened");
+
+        assert_eq!(info.id, id);
+        assert_eq!(info.class.as_deref(), Some("foot"));
+        assert_eq!(info.normal, Some(true));
+        assert_eq!(info.fullscreen, Some(false));
+        assert_eq!(
+            kde.backend().monitors().expect("one monitor")[0]
+                .name
+                .as_deref(),
+            Some("Virtual-0")
+        );
+    }
+}