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dsh-theme-machine
Verified · install-tested on dsh yuqisun
What it does
A Person-of-Interest surveillance-terminal theme for deepseek-harness — the machine is watching.
Works — verified, early-stage project
A Person-of-Interest surveillance-terminal theme for deepseek-harness — the machine is watching. 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-theme-machine
Person of Interest skin for DeepSeek Harness (dsh) — THE MACHINE surveillance-HUD theme for the web UI: deep blue-black surfaces, machine-cyan accents, scanline/grid atmosphere, and a live telemetry panel that makes the UI feel like it's backed by a superintelligence.
Preview


Features
A THE MACHINE dark HUD skin — applied on install, fully restored to the official look on uninstall.
- Token override layer — repaints the whole UI through
ctx.theme.overrideTokens()(~50--dsw-alias-*semantic tokens). Install = applied, uninstall = restored. Works on top of the built-in light/dark preference (the skin is dark-only by design and pins both palettes). - HUD chrome — monospace typography, subtle HUD grid, slow scanline, cyan selection color. Injected as
<style data-plugin>+ two atmosphere<div>s, removed on unload. - Live telemetry panel (
shell.overlayfloating seat, bottom-right):- Radar — sweeps only while the agent is actually running (
ConversationSnapshot.running) - SUCCESS / RISK — real settled tool-call success/error rates (
tool-resultnodes) - CONTEXT — real context-window occupancy from the token-meter
contextPressureprojection (same source as the official composer ring) - THROUGHPUT — decode tok/s folded from assistant timing + provider usage
- EVENT STREAM — the session's real tool calls with durations and error states
- Radar — sweeps only while the agent is actually running (
Collapsed it shrinks to a MACHINE LINK pill that pulses while the agent works.
Install
Requires DeepSeek Harness (dsh CLI). Plugins are managed via dsh plugin; --profile web targets the web profile. Pick one source:
# from npm (recommended)
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-theme-machine
# from a local checkout
dsh plugin --profile web add link:/path/to/dsh-theme-machine
# from GitHub — pnpm ≥10 will ask you to allowBuilds the prepare script
# (zero-dependency build, see scripts/build.mjs), then re-run the add
dsh plugin --profile web add github:yuqisun/dsh-theme-machine
Then:
- Run the
addcommand above. - Restart
dsh web— the skin applies on load. - Optional — verify the plugin loaded:
dsh web --dump-config | grep dsh-theme-machine
Uninstall
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-theme-machine
- Run
removeto drop the plugin dependency. - Restart
dsh web— the stock look is fully restored.
Note: if the Loader row was manually written into
$DSH_HOME/cordis.patch.yml,removewon't rewrite that patch line — delete the matchinginsertentry by hand.
License
MIT
Install
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-theme-machine 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:yuqisun/dsh-theme-machine Headless (CLI) profile:
dsh plugin --profile headless add github:yuqisun/dsh-theme-machine Test report
Verified: L1 install + L2 load + L3 runtime from GitHub source on dsh 0.1.0-rc.6.