DSH Skin Studio · Desktop
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Create, preview and share complete skins in DeepSeek Harness for Windows. This repository now maintains the desktop edition, succeeding the deprecated WebUI-only 0.6.0-alpha.1.
Tested with DSH desktop 0.2.0-rc.2. Other desktop versions and operating systems are not yet verified. Historical WebUI releases remain available in the release archive.
Install
- Start DSH desktop once to initialize its desktop profile, then save your work and quit it.
- Install Node.js 22 or newer if
node --version is unavailable.
- Download the desktop release's Source code (zip) or
.tgz archive and extract it to a permanent folder.
- Double-click
install-desktop.cmd, or run node scripts/install-desktop.mjs from that folder.
- Reopen DSH. Open Account menu → Settings → General → Custom skins → Open skin studio.
The source archive includes the prebuilt client and all preset media. No build step is needed to install a release. Keep the extracted folder: your desktop profile links to it. The installer backs up the selected profile, installs this package using DSH's bundled pnpm, and enables it without altering other plugins' settings.
For custom installations:
node scripts/install-desktop.mjs --profile "D:/DSH/profile" --resources "D:/DSH/resources" --dry-run
node scripts/install-desktop.mjs --profile "D:/DSH/profile" --resources "D:/DSH/resources"
The global dsh plugin --profile desktop add command may reject desktop profiles because they are managed by Electron; use the included installer.
The desktop edition is also available as dsh-skin-studio@0.7.1 on npm. To download it, run:
npm pack dsh-skin-studio@0.7.1
tar -xzf dsh-skin-studio-0.7.1.tgz
node package/scripts/install-desktop.mjs
Save your work and quit DSH before running the installer. Keep the extracted package folder. To update an existing installation, run the installer from the new package and fully restart DSH. Choose either GitHub or npm; disable an earlier local skin studio entry before switching distribution channels. Versions through 0.6.0-alpha.1 remain the historical WebUI edition.
Complete skin editing
| Page | Features |
|---|
| Library | Create, duplicate, edit, activate, delete and restore DSH defaults |
| Basic editor | Light/dark palettes, OKLCH generation, image/video wallpaper and WOFF2 fonts |
| GUI components | Token groups/search, component picker, per-component media, opacity and blur |
| Visual assets | Five semantic image positions, original/custom previews and sidebar branding |
| Copy | Bilingual fixed copy, structured text targets and input hints |
| Import & export | Portable .dshskin v5 packages, resource validation and conflict choices |
Seventeen complete presets are bundled: Bright Studio, High Contrast, Tidal Paper, thirteen Nijigasaki character skins and one group skin. Media is included locally. Edited presets survive updates.
Edits preview live. Apply & save persists and activates the draft; Cancel preview restores the previous skin. The editor reports contrast/readability concerns and protects unsaved changes. Pickers support mouse/keyboard, F2 mode switching and Esc return. Visual positions that do not exist in the current view are reported and left unchanged.
Storage and migration
Desktop data lives in the independent dsh-desktop-skin-studio IndexedDB namespace. A lightweight localStorage snapshot restores the active skin at startup. The original WebUI database is untouched; use .dshskin files to move skins between editions.
Legacy desktop v1 data upgrades transactionally to v2 with original rows and snapshot retained in migration-backups. Unconvertible records remain preserved with visible warnings. Switching skins, restoring defaults, cancelling preview and unloading release media, fonts, observers and object URLs.
Development
npm ci
npm run verify
npm run verify:client
npm pack
Edit TypeScript/TSX/CSS Modules in src/, then run npm run build. The lazy client.js is generated with tsdown. React comes from the host's platform table; the plugin does not import private Harness Client packages or create a second renderer.
CI verifies Node.js 22/24 on Windows and Linux; desktop runtime support is Windows only. Optional installed-host checks are npm run check:install, npm run asar and npm run drift. Override DSKIN_RESOURCES_DIR, DSKIN_DSH_ROOT, DSH_HOME or DSH_PROFILE_DIR for nonstandard locations.
See runtime notes, verification history, v5 format and design documentation. Report your DSH version, plugin version and reproduction steps with issues.
License
Source is AGPL-3.0-only, continuing the original project. Legacy desktop integration retains its MIT notice in LICENSE.local-MIT; bundled fflate is MIT. Character artwork and logos have separate rights and attribution in THIRD_PARTY_ASSETS.md.
