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dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial

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What it does

Unofficial community fork of the Aqua glassmorphism theme for the DeepSeek Harness web UI (upstream: WYH66666666/DSH-Transparent-UI-Plugin, MIT). Adds DSH rc.7 compatibility. Not affiliated with DeepSeek.

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Unofficial community fork of the Aqua glassmorphism theme for the DeepSeek Harness web UI (upstream: WYH66666666/DSH-Transparent-UI-Plugin, MIT). Adds DSH rc.7 compatibility. Not affiliated with DeepSeek. It installs cleanly and boots without issues in our testing. It's early-stage but functional.

“Verified” means our automated CI actually ran dsh plugin add in a clean profile and it booted — nothing more. Feature descriptions and version compatibility are the author’s claims. This is not a security audit and not an endorsement of third-party code.

README

dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial

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UNOFFICIAL — This is a community third-party fork. It is not an official DeepSeek product, is not affiliated with or endorsed by DeepSeek, and claims no connection to the @deepseek-ai package scope. Use at your own risk.

Upstream: WYH66666666/DSH-Transparent-UI-Plugin (MIT, (c) 2026 John Wu). This fork adds DSH rc.7 compatibility and rebrands the package as unofficial.

Aqua is a highly customizable glassmorphism theme for the DeepSeek Harness web UI. The header, sidebar, composer, stats line, and trajectory view all become panes of frosted glass. You can set an image or video as wallpaper, and switching it off restores the stock UI exactly — with no source changes to DSH itself.

Features

  • Two modes: Mica restyles the layout into floating glass cards (blur and frost adjustable), while Compatibility Mode keeps the stock layout byte-for-byte and only swaps the material to generic glass — other plugins' UI gets the same treatment automatically
  • Free backdrop: a living fluid board (hue adjustable) or your own wallpaper (fills the page, aspect preserved, with its own blur and frost); light wallpapers look best in light mode, dark wallpapers in dark mode
  • Background brightness: follows the resolved scheme — dark mode darkens (0–50), light mode brightens (50–100), 50 is unchanged
  • Particle whale: the deepseek.com/harness centerpiece fish (a 2D port of the site's particle engine), centered in the chat area right of the sidebar — white particles on dark, gray on light, toggleable in settings
  • Glossy "Harness" badge: in dark mode the sidebar wordmark wears the official nameplate pill (135° gradient ring + soft glow); light mode keeps the stock plate
  • Edge fades: 5px gradient blur bands pinned to the top and bottom of the page, above the chat content — scrolling content melts into the edges; faint white veil on light, faint black on dark
  • One switch: off restores the stock UI exactly, and every effect is removed with the plugin

What this fork changes

  • DSH rc.7 compatibility (v1.4.0): the Plugins-section card slot became a keyed slot; the master-switch card now registers with key: 'aqua' and the node half serves the aqua settings namespace so the card still appears in Settings → Plugins.
  • Unofficial rebrand: package renamed to dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial (no @deepseek-ai scope) and the repository name carries the -unofficial suffix.
  • Everything else (theme, settings, wallpapers) is unchanged from upstream v1.3.0.

Installation

Option 1: npm one-liner (recommended)

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial

Installs the latest version from npm and registers it as a profile plugin layer (dsh.bundle patch) — works on every platform. Reload the web UI and it is on.

Auto-registration: v1.4.1+ ships the dsh.bundle patch inside the package, so dsh plugin add registers the plugin layer automatically. v1.4.0 needs the ui-aqua row added to cordis.patch.yml by hand.

DSH rc.7: v1.4.0+ targets @deepseek-ai/dsh-* rc.7 (the Plugins-section card slot became a keyed slot). Earlier versions still run on rc.5/rc.6.

Option 2: GitHub installer (fallback)

No npm account and no git needed (falls back to a plain zip download).

Windows (one command):

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Invoke-WebRequest 'https://github.com/afrel1024/dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial/raw/main/install.ps1' -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1"

Installs the latest release by default. The script links the plugin into the profile's node_modules and registers ui-aqua in cordis.patch.yml (idempotent — safe to run again).

Pin a version or track the dev branch:

.\install.ps1 -Version 'v1.4.0'   # a specific release
.\install.ps1 -Version 'main'     # the development branch

macOS / Linux (manual, three steps):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/afrel1024/dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial.git
ln -s "$PWD/dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial" "$DSH_HOME/profiles/node_modules/dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial"

then append to $DSH_HOME/profiles/web/cordis.patch.yml:

- insert:
    - id: ui-aqua
      name: 'dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial'

Usage

Reload the web UI. Aqua is on by default; the master switch lives in Settings → Plugins → Glass theme (same shape as the other plugin cards), and every other control sits directly under Settings → General → Appearance (no title of its own): mode, blur/frost (Mica mode), fluid color, background brightness, backdrop (fluid/wallpaper) with its wallpaper controls, and the particle-whale toggle. With the master switch off, the whole control block under Appearance is hidden.

License

MIT, inherited from the upstream project ((c) 2026 John Wu). See LICENSE.

Install

🧩 Let your agent install it (recommended)

Install the catalog once, then DeepSeek Harness can find and install any plugin from this site automatically:

dsh plugin add dshbase-catalog

Then say "install dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial for me" — your agent finds it in the directory and installs it. Docs: dshbase-catalog · verified packs.

This plugin is GitHub source (not published to npm) — install it straight from the repo:

Web profile:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:afrel1024/dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial

Headless (CLI) profile:

dsh plugin --profile headless add github:afrel1024/dsh-client-ui-aqua-unofficial

Test report

Verified: L1 install + L2 load + L3 runtime from GitHub source on dsh 0.1.0-rc.6.

Security: not yet scanned — our daily static scan will cover it shortly.

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