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Martty
A DSH-first terminal with the same Cordis plugin model, plus support for other ACP agents.
Native binaries are packaged for macOS arm64, macOS x64, Linux x64, and Windows
x64. Requires Node.js 18+.
Rename note: the project and recommended npm package have moved from
DeepSeek Harness TUI / @openma/deepseek-harness-tui to Martty / martty.
The dsh-tui command, configuration, and session data remain compatible.
The production profile is now martty; legacy tui profiles
continue to work.
Global Agent TUI
npm install --global martty
martty
Martty directly depends on our @openma/deepseek-harness-acp implementation.
It resolves this built-in ACP from its own dependency graph, connects DSH by
default, and requires no separate ACP installation. For another ACP server,
configure DSH_TUI_AGENT; Cordis embedding can instead provide config.agent
or config.stream. --agent is only the standalone CLI override for the same
connection configuration.
Recommended
npm install --global @deepseek-ai/dsh
dsh plugin --profile martty add martty@latest
dsh --profile martty
The profile command is the recommended install and upgrade path. It creates a
missing profile and installs the TUI plus its ACP dependency; no global
martty installation is required.
Migrating from DeepSeek Harness TUI / the scoped package
martty is the recommended package name. Starting with 0.2.13, it and the
legacy @openma/deepseek-harness-tui package are published by the same CI run
with identical versions and artifacts. Existing scoped-package installs remain
supported. To switch package names:
dsh plugin --profile tui remove @openma/deepseek-harness-tui
dsh plugin --profile martty add martty@latest
The recommended profile changes from tui to martty; runtime behavior,
config, and session data remain unchanged. dsh-tui and legacy tui
profiles remain compatible.
The profile Host mounts the ACP plugin on Base, then starts a separate TUI
Client process over standard ACP stdin/stdout. For standalone use, run
martty and use --agent <cmd> plus repeated --agent-arg <arg> for another
ACP server. The Node Client process owns a Cordis tree and starts the Rust painter. A sibling
tui-cordis-client-runner publishes TUI Client capabilities and evaluates
approved code.client packages from dsh-tool-cordis against that client tree.
ACP is a runtime dependency of this package. On a profile that already carries
a different version through the standard ACP bundle, the package manager may
retain both copies, but the TUI bundle replaces that surface's rows and mounts
only the plugin resolved from TUI's own dependency graph. The supported profile
shape never runs two ACP surfaces for one TUI.
The package carries ACP as a runtime dependency and exports its Creator Host
overlay internally. The profile bundle mounts both on the Host Base tree;
neither enters the Client tree. Creator adds TUI plugin guidance to the
existing cordis preset and does not use ACP for skill registration.
Creator-authored UI Presets and Theme Plugins preview as process-local dynamic
Packages, then persist explicitly under $MARTTY_HOME/plugins through
tui_plugin_save; tui_plugin_read resumes authoring after restart.
MARTTY_HOME resolves explicitly first, then to $DSH_HOME/.martty, then to
~/.martty. UI choices live in $MARTTY_HOME/settings.json. On first use,
legacy Creator artifacts and settings are copied forward without deleting or
overwriting the old files.
Third-party TUI plugins remain ordinary installed packages. Their Host-side
registrar contributes an absolute Client module entry to tuiClientPlugins;
the Host runner serializes only that directory into the separate Client
process. Package entries and Creator artifacts share one Client lifecycle
manager, with installed packages winning same-id conflicts.
Node and Rust use inherited pipes on Unix and an authenticated loopback TCP
socket on Windows. This compositor channel carries theme/render data only;
agent traffic remains ACP.
Demo
martty --demo
martty --demo-skin
Without a global installation:
npx --yes martty --demo
The profile path remains recommended for an existing DSH installation that
wants standard plugin management and a durable martty profile. martty is the
primary command; dsh-tui remains a compatibility alias.
Highlights
- Streamed reasoning, replies, tool activity, subagents, run state, and
token/cache metrics in one terminal timeline.
- Agent-advertised models, compositions, permissions, authentication methods,
and invocable skills in one searchable slash menu.
- Up to eight editable image chips per prompt, with clipboard/file staging and
metadata previews on kitty-capable terminals.
- Terminal-aware Markdown for headings, lists, quotes, code, emphasis, links,
and mixed CJK/Latin text.
- Durable sessions, queued follow-ups, immediate steering, readline editing,
platform-native modifier bindings, mouse selection, and inline-expanded tools.
- Dark/light themes, clipboard routing for local, tmux, and SSH sessions, plus
the optional
/liang pixel companion.
- Persistent UI Presets selected with the native
/ui picker (or /ui <id>): builtin Martty and the classic
DeepSeek Harness composition, both assembled from independent welcome Hero
and information slots without writing to the transcript.
- A root
chrome.right plugin rail for validated TuiNode trees, with live
update/unload and Client inspect support for Creator-authored plugins.
- Lifecycle-owned local commands and native slider overlays, plus transactions
over the current Session's standard ACP
configOptions.
- Dynamic
code.host + code.client Packages with inspect/run lifecycle and
package-private Host/Client RPC over a negotiated _dsh/cordis/* ACP
extension. Ordinary ACP agents remain usable when they do not advertise it.
Plugin surface
TUI extensions are ordinary Cordis plugins on the Node Client tree. A single
plugin may register a theme, chrome.right nodes, slash commands, overlays,
timers, Session config transactions, and Host/Client RPC; all contributions
leave together when its fiber stops or /theme replaces the selected Theme
Plugin. Plugins submit semantic data and never receive the TTY, Ratatui,
absolute coordinates, compositor fds, or private transport methods.
The versioned contract and examples live in the repository's
plugin API.
The demo needs no API key or agent. Run martty --help for agent, model,
credential, session, theme, and demo options.
Supported platforms
| Node platform key | Binary |
|---|
darwin-arm64 | vendor/darwin-arm64/martty |
darwin-x64 | vendor/darwin-x64/martty |
linux-x64 | vendor/linux-x64/martty |
linux-arm64 | vendor/linux-arm64/martty |
win32-x64 | vendor/win32-x64/martty.exe |
If installation succeeds but launch reports no native binary for ..., confirm
that you installed the latest version and that your platform appears above.
Uninstall
npm uninstall --global martty
Use npm uninstall --global @openma/deepseek-harness-tui instead for a legacy
global installation.
Source, screenshots, development commands, and architecture notes live in the
GitHub repository.
MIT.
