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dsh-plugin-pets

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A plugin in the Developer category for DeepSeek Harness.

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A plugin in the Developer category for DeepSeek Harness. 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-pets

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Animated Codex-style pets for the DeepSeek Harness (DSH) web interface.

The plugin adds a floating pet layer to the DSH web app. Adopt pets from the public codex-pets.net gallery, drag them into place, and let their animation reflect the current session's activity.

Features

  • Renders standard Codex Pet spritesheets with an 8 x 9 cell layout on a pixelated canvas.
  • Shows an adopt button until a pet is installed; then displays the active pet as a draggable floating sprite.
  • Derives pet mood from the active DSH session:
    • Idle: no active agent or live background job.
    • Working: the agent is running, or a job is running or stopping.
    • Happy: a live job completes or is killed; shown for five seconds.
    • Sad: a live job fails; shown for five seconds.
  • Automatically detects occupied animation rows and skips transparent frames. You can preview rows and choose the idle row manually.
  • Includes Chinese and English UI, a size control, adopted-pet switching/removal, and gallery search by name, slug, or tag.
  • Fetches the public gallery through the DSH server, caching it in memory for 10 minutes and on disk for offline fallback.

Requirements

  • A DSH installation with the web profile available.
  • A Node.js version supported by your DSH installation. The plugin itself has no runtime npm dependencies.
  • pnpm available on PATH; DSH delegates plugin installation and removal to it:
    npm install -g pnpm
    
  • Network access to codexpets.net when browsing the gallery or adopting a new pet.

Install

Install the package into DSH's web profile. The commands below use npx, so
they work without a globally installed dsh executable:

# Local checkout
npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web add file:/absolute/path/to/dsh-pets

# GitHub repository
npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web add github:next-evolve-x/dsh-plugin-pets

# Or a published package
# npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-pets

If dsh is globally installed, replace npx @deepseek-ai/dsh with dsh.
The package declares a DSH bundle, so installation automatically adds its host
entry to the web profile. No cordis.patch.yml edit is needed.

If you installed an earlier version by manually adding a dsh-pets entry to
~/.dsh/profiles/web/cordis.patch.yml, remove that legacy entry before
restarting after the upgrade. The bundle now supplies the entry itself.

Restart the web profile:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web

Open the DSH web interface. A paw button appears in the lower-right corner before the first adoption. Click it to open the pet shop, choose a pet, and it becomes active immediately.

Uninstall

Remove the installed package by its package name, not its GitHub spec:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-pets

The plugin manager automatically removes the bundle from the profile. Restart
the web profile afterward. Only installations upgraded from an earlier manual
setup need to remove the old dsh-pets entry from cordis.patch.yml.

For Git, npm, upgrade, and distribution options, see DISTRIBUTION.md.

Using The Pet

  • Open the shop: click the active pet, or the paw button before adopting one.
  • See a pet before adopting: shop cards show a spritesheet thumbnail (lazy-loaded for
    not-yet-adopted pets; an animated same-origin preview once adopted). Adopting a pet
    activates it immediately in the corner.
  • Adopted list previews: each adopted pet shows a small animated thumbnail, so you can
    see its look before switching to it.
  • Move it: drag the active pet. Its right and bottom offsets are saved after the drag ends.
  • Change animation settings: open the pet menu to adjust scale, preview sprite rows, and set the idle row.
  • Switch or remove: use the Adopted section in the menu. Removing the active pet clears the active selection.
  • Browse the gallery: search by pet name, slug, or tag. The shop initially shows 60 results and can load more.

Storage And Configuration

By default, the plugin stores its data in:

$DSH_HOME/storages/pets/

If DSH_HOME is not set, this resolves to ~/.dsh/storages/pets/.

pets/
  state.json            # active pet, scale, idle row, and position
  gallery.json          # last successfully fetched gallery response
  <pet-id>/
    pet.json            # manifest from the pet package
    meta.json           # local install metadata
    spritesheet.webp    # downloaded sprite asset

The host plugin also accepts an optional root configuration value to use another storage directory.

HTTP API

The host registers same-origin routes on the DSH web server.

Method Route Description
GET, HEAD /pets/api/state Returns persisted settings and installed pet manifests.
POST /pets/api/state Merges supported settings: activeId, hidden, scale, idleRow, and position. Scale is clamped to 0.25-6.
GET, HEAD /pets/api/gallery Returns gallery items. Add ?refresh=1 to bypass the 10-minute in-memory cache.
POST /pets/api/install Downloads and installs a pet. Body: { "slug": "pet-slug" }. The installed pet becomes active.
POST /pets/api/remove Removes a cached pet. Body: { "id": "pet-id" }.
GET, HEAD /pets/assets/<id>/<file> Serves an installed pet asset.

Request bodies must be JSON and are limited to 1 MiB. Pet IDs, slugs, and asset names are validated, and asset paths are checked to remain inside the configured pets directory.

Data And Privacy

The browser talks only to the same-origin DSH routes. The DSH host contacts codexpets.net only to fetch the gallery and download an adopted pet package. Gallery data and installed assets are stored locally under the pets directory above.

Development Notes

The package has two halves:

File Role
lib/index.js DSH host plugin: storage, ZIP extraction, gallery retrieval, and HTTP routes.
lib/client.js DSH browser client module: overlay UI, sprite rendering, session-driven moods, and localization.

The repository includes standalone smoke-test scripts:

node test-host.mjs
node test-client.mjs

test-host.mjs expects locally prepared fixture files at /tmp/agumon.zip and /tmp/codexpets_fresh.html, then also exercises live gallery and installation requests. test-client.mjs expects the DSH web profile and its React dependencies to be installed.

Credits

License

MIT

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-plugin-pets 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:next-evolve-x/dsh-plugin-pets

Headless (CLI) profile:

dsh plugin --profile headless add github:next-evolve-x/dsh-plugin-pets

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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