⚡ dsh-cli (dsh-terminal)

DeepSeek Harness in the terminal — A Web-GUI-parity Cordis surface over dsh-base. Your agents, presets, tools, sessions, approval, settings, and plugins directly in your terminal. Nothing extra, nothing less.

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Important

Disclaimer: This is an independent, community-driven open-source project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DeepSeek AI or the official DeepSeek team. "DeepSeek" and "DeepSeek Harness" are trademarks of their respective holders.

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✨ Features

• 🎨 DeepSeek Blue Theme & Modern TUI: Clean rounded composer, branded ASCII whale banner, dynamic status bar, and automatic full-terminal width adaptation.
• 🎛️ Full Agent Presets Parity: Switch dynamically between Standard mode, PTC mode (Code Mode), Minimal mode, and Creator mode using /presets.
• ⚡ Web-GUI Parity: Live stream rendering, reasoning effort indicators, tool call cards, session picker, model switchers, and interactive approval modals.
• 🔌 Seamless Cordis Plugin Support: Any plugin in your DSH environment automatically works in the terminal.
• 🖱️ Full Terminal Navigation: Smooth mouse wheel scrolling, PageUp/PageDown, Tab auto-completion for slash commands, and hotkeys.
• 🧩 Three Modes at Boot:
  • Full-screen TUI: Default on interactive TTY.
  • Line REPL: For pipes, headless environments, CI, or --line.
  • One-shot CLI: Run a single task via --print "<task>" and output the response.

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📦 Installation & Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js ^22.19 || >=24
• DeepSeek Harness (dsh) CLI installed on your system.

Option 1: Install Directly via DSH CLI (Recommended)

Add this plugin directly to your DSH configuration using dsh plugin add:

# Add to a dedicated 'terminal' profile
dsh plugin --profile terminal add github:rakibulrocky14/dsh-cli

Option 2: Clone and Install Locally

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/rakibulrocky14/dsh-cli.git
cd dsh-cli

# 2. Install dependencies & build
npm install
npm run build

# 3. Add to DSH profile as a local plugin
dsh plugin --profile terminal add .

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🚀 Usage

Starting the Terminal TUI

Launch the full-screen terminal interface:

dsh --profile terminal

Command-Line Flags

# Run with a specific model
dsh --profile terminal --model deepseek-reasoner

# Resume an existing session
dsh --profile terminal --resume session-c302f9d0

# Force standard line REPL (non-TUI)
dsh --profile terminal --line

# One-shot execution (executes task, prints result, and exits)
dsh --profile terminal --print "Explain how to set up a git repository"

Adding More Plugins

Stack additional DSH plugins into your terminal profile:

dsh plugin --profile terminal add <npm-pkg | github:owner/repo | ./path | ./pkg.tgz>

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🎛️ Agent Presets

Open the interactive presets menu anytime with /presets or switch directly via /presets <id>:

Preset	ID	Description
Standard mode	standard	Full coding agent with file editing, shell execution, search, skills, planning, subagents, and workflows.
PTC mode	code	All Standard mode capabilities with tools exposed via the Code Mode SDK for multi-step TypeScript execution.
Minimal mode	minimal	Ultra-fast two-tool coding agent with persistent bash and str_replace_editor.
Creator mode	cordis	Built for authoring and testing custom agent presets with live runtime inspection and plugin tools.

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⌨️ Shortcuts & Navigation

Key	Action
Enter	Send message / confirm selection
Esc	Close active dialog / return to transcript
Tab	Autocomplete slash commands
↑ / ↓	Cycle command history or navigate menus
PageUp / PageDown	Scroll transcript up / down
Mouse Wheel	Smoothly scroll through history and code outputs
Ctrl + O	Expand / collapse tool output cards
Ctrl + C	Cancel current turn (or clear prompt when idle)
Ctrl + D	Exit / quit session

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🛠️ Slash Commands

Type / followed by Tab to see all available commands:

• Sessions: /sessions (interactive session browser), /resume <id>, /new, /fork
• Configuration: /presets (agent modes), /model (provider & model picker), /effort (reasoning effort levels), /settings, /permissions
• Inspection: /tools (active tool definitions), /commands (all registered slash commands), /skills, /agents, /plugins, /jobs, /usage, /doctor
• Workspace: /terminals, /todos, /title, /clear, /stop, /quit

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🏗️ Architecture

dsh --profile terminal
  └── dsh-terminal (Cordis bundle)
        ├── cordis.patch.yml      base rows + code-runtime + cordis-host + ask-user + startup + runner
        ├── dsh-terminal/startup  command-line flags → terminalStartup
        └── dsh-terminal          runner → TUI | REPL | --print
              ├── core/dsh.ts         service facade & runtime feature detection
              ├── core/transcript.ts  durable-log projection & live streaming overlay
              ├── core/messages.ts    deep-frozen message factories
              ├── core/lineinput.ts   single-reader TTY/pipe input
              ├── repl.ts             line REPL surface
              ├── print.ts            one-shot execution surface
              └── tui/                behavioral engine & Ink React widget tree

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🧪 Development & Testing

# Typecheck
npm run typecheck

# Build TypeScript to lib/
npm run build

# Run comprehensive test suite (61 tests)
npm test

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🏷️ Discovery & Tags

#deepseek #deepseek-harness #dsh #dsh-cli #dsh-terminal #terminal #tui #cli #ai-agent #llm #cordis #coding-assistant

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions, bug reports, and pull requests are warmly welcomed! Anyone is welcome to contribute to dsh-cli.

• 📖 Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for local development setup, testing guidelines, and PR process.
• 💡 Have an idea or found a bug? Feel free to open an issue or pull request anytime!

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⚠️ Disclaimer

dsh-cli is an independent, unofficial community project built for the DeepSeek Harness ecosystem. It is not affiliated with, maintained by, sponsored by, or endorsed by DeepSeek AI or Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.

All product names, logos, brands, and trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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📄 License

Apache-2.0 © rakibulrocky14