DeepSeek Harness Chat UI
A social-network-style AI collaboration interface for DeepSeek Harness — Skills become recognizable digital members that users can discover, message directly, personalize, and bring into persistent group chats.
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DeepSeek Harness Chat UI main screen
Why this project
DeepSeek Harness provides a powerful agent runtime, but its default interface is organized around sessions and workspaces. This plugin turns Skills into a social collaboration network with contacts, direct conversations, persistent groups, and visible member identities:
- Persistent rooms restore the previous conversation instead of silently creating a new session.
- Normal chat works without selecting a Skill.
- Personified Skills appear as recognizable contacts with deterministic names, circular animal avatars, profiles, and original capability metadata.
- Group chats let users search Skills, pull them into a group, choose a coordinator, and define a reusable group system prompt.
- Automation entry points connect scheduled tasks to rooms and conversation history.
- Project and terminal sidecars keep files and command-line work beside the active conversation.
- Skin support allows declarative visual themes without touching Room or automation data.
Screenshots
Create a group with personified Skills
Search installed Skills, add or remove them like group members, choose a circular group avatar, and define the group's role as its system prompt.
Create a DeepSeek Harness multi-agent group
Theme center
DeepSeek Harness Chat UI theme center
Features
| Area | Capability |
|---|
| Social chat | Normal chat, Skill contacts, direct conversations, group chats, collapsible session history |
| Groups | Searchable members, coordinator selection, group system prompt, project binding |
| Personification | Circular animal avatars, deterministic friendly names, profiles and original Skill metadata |
| Skills | Installed Skill directory, skills.sh search, install and install-then-add flows |
| Workspace | Project browser, file preview, terminal and sidecar task entry points |
| Automation | Room-bound definitions, run-now flow and persisted run history |
| Appearance | Mint and Teamily-inspired skins using the DSH Web Skin Manifest v2 contract |
Requirements
- DeepSeek Harness
0.1.2-alpha.5
- Node.js
22.19+ or 24+
pnpm available on PATH because dsh plugin delegates package installation to pnpm
Install from GitHub
The repository contains both the original TypeScript/React/CSS source and committed browser/host build artifacts. Harness users can install it directly from GitHub without downloading a release archive:
dsh plugin --profile web add github:lileilei2023/deepseek-harness-chat-ui
dsh --profile web
Remove it with:
dsh plugin --profile web remove deepseek-harness-chat-ui
Install from a cloned repository
git clone https://github.com/lileilei2023/deepseek-harness-chat-ui.git
cd deepseek-harness-chat-ui
npm install
./install-ds-chat.sh
Windows users can run install-ds-chat.cmd; macOS users can double-click install-ds-chat.command.
Source code
The complete editable implementation is committed under source/:
source/
├── client-ui-skill-chat/ # React UI, Room state, personas, skins and sidecars
├── workbuddy-skill-catalog/ # Host service, persistence, Skill install and automation APIs
└── skill-chat-web-profile/ # Original Harness profile bundle
dist/ contains the reviewed build consumed by users installing directly from GitHub. It is committed intentionally so installation does not execute a remote prepare script.
Development
DeepSeek Harness is still pre-release and its Web client bundler lives inside the Harness repository. Use a dedicated matching Harness checkout or worktree when rebuilding:
git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.git
cd deepseek-harness
git checkout v0.1.2-alpha.5
pnpm install
cd ../deepseek-harness-chat-ui
npm install
DSH_SOURCE=../deepseek-harness npm run build
npm run check
npm run build copies the editable source into the matching Harness checkout, runs the official Host and Web Client build pipeline, and refreshes dist/. Do not point it at a checkout containing uncommitted work.
Compatibility
The first release intentionally targets DeepSeek Harness 0.1.2-alpha.5. Harness APIs are evolving quickly, so future Harness versions may require a matching plugin release. Model providers, API keys, permissions, and session logs remain managed by Harness; this repository does not include credentials.
License
MIT. The extracted code retains attribution to the original DeepSeek Harness project.
