A always-on-top bar at the top of the screen showing control progress and the current DeepSeek peak/off-peak badge
dsh-control-bar
Whenever the agent starts driving your computer (moving the mouse, typing, running commands
that change state), a slim status bar stays pinned to the top of the screen: 正在操控
(“controlling”) plus what it is doing right now, an honest percentage, and a badge telling you
whether DeepSeek is currently in peak or off-peak pricing hours.
Peak tokens cost twice as much as off-peak ones, so the plugin also ships a policy:
expensive operations ask for your confirmation during peak hours, and just run off-peak.
中文说明
Install
In DSH Desktop: Plugins → Plugin Market, search dsh-control-bar, install, restart.
Or from a CLI (desktop = your profile name):
dsh plugin --profile desktop add dsh-control-bar
Or straight from the repository (same thing before the npm release; there is no build step):
dsh plugin --profile desktop add github:JianGuo396/dsh-control-bar
The bar is a separate Electron process, so it needs an Electron binary. Lookup order:
overlay.electronPath → DSH_CONTROL_BAR_ELECTRON → DSH_ELECTRON_PATH → $DSH_HOME/electron
→ ~/.dsh/electron (installing dsh-pet puts one there).
If nothing is found the bar is skipped, everything else keeps working, and the host logs
overlay not running (electron-not-found).
Usage
Nothing to do after installing, and nothing the model has to remember — the bar follows the agent's
turn, the same way codex's status line does:
| Host event | Bar |
|---|
turn/start | appears with "正在工作" / "正在处理你的请求" at 4% |
every tool/call | label switches to what is happening (执行命令 / 读写文件 / 查资料 / 操作浏览器…), progress advances on a monotonic curve |
turn/end or agent/error | fills to 100% ("完成"), waits 1.2 s, then hides itself |
A turn that is interrupted, fails, or is simply forgotten can no longer leave a bar hanging on screen.
control_bar still works (start/update/finish/hide) when the model wants to report an exact
percentage while driving your desktop.
Manual control, also handy from scripts:
dsh-control-bar 35 "opening the browser to search"
dsh-control-bar hide
dsh-control-bar peek # current phase + next switch
dsh-control-bar overlay start|stop|status
Peak / off-peak windows
| Beijing time | Price |
|---|
| Peak | Mon–Fri 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 (UTC 01:00–04:00, 06:00–10:00), excluding statutory holidays | ×2 |
| Off-peak | everything else, including weekends and holidays | ×1 |
Off-peak rates are half of peak rates per DeepSeek's pricing notes. Public holidays for 2026 are
bundled, so the check needs no network. Override pricing.windows / pricing.holidays if your
account uses a different schedule.
Gate rules written into the system prompt: during peak, a large token operation (default
threshold ≈ 200k tokens) must write text:"峰时大额操作，等你确认", ask you with three options
(do it now / wait for off-peak / narrow the scope) and only continue after you pick one; off-peak
it just runs; small reads are never gated.
Configuration
- id: dsh-control-bar
name: dsh-control-bar
config:
overlay:
enabled: true
height: 34
electronPath: ''
staleMs: 300000
pricing:
timezone: Asia/Shanghai
windows: '09:00-12:00,14:00-18:00'
holidays: cn-2026
gate:
enabled: true
tokenThreshold: 200000
dataDir: ''
Privacy
No network calls, no telemetry. The overlay only reads a local state.json (a number and a
string). Its renderer is sandboxed, unfocusable, and click-through, so it never blocks the window
you are working in.
License
MIT
