dsh-TUI

dsh-TUI swaps the browser interface on DeepSeek's agent runtime for a terminal one. DeepSeek Harness (the dsh command) opens a local web UI by default, and this plugin gives you a Claude Code style terminal experience instead: streaming markdown, live agent status, tokens per second, a context usage meter, and double Escape to roll a turn back. MIT licensed and free.

Installing is two npm packages, and it mounts as a plugin rather than patching the harness, so removing it leaves nothing behind. You need Node 22.19 or newer, pnpm, a real terminal, and a DeepSeek API key. The plugin itself costs nothing. The model calls behind it bill at DeepSeek's published rates, which are among the cheapest of the frontier providers.

The audience is developers who want the agent in the same window as their code with no browser tab involved. Solo: free, and worth the ten minutes to try. Small teams: free, and it makes everyone's agent sessions look and behave the same way. Larger teams: this is a personal preference layer, not something to standardize centrally.

The catch: everything in this stack is days old. The harness is still on a release candidate, the plugin is pre-1.0, and the repository is barely a week into its life with dozens of open issues. That means fast fixes and fast breakage in equal measure. Worth naming plainly too: this is a front end for one vendor's runtime, so your terminal workflow now tracks DeepSeek's roadmap.