whale-desktop-kit

DeepSeek Harness is a capable backend service, but it lives in a terminal by default. Wanting a wallpaper, a draggable desk pet, or a quick glance at your account balance still requires a context switch back to the command line. whale-desktop-kit fills that gap by layering a full desktop experience on top of DSH, so opening it for the first time feels less like peeking at a web console and more like launching a native desktop application.

The suite ships six core modules. The desktop-experience module handles locally imported wallpapers (PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF; SVG and remote URLs rejected after a safety scan and a transcode pass), blur and glassmorphism sliders, independent opacity controls for the input bar and the sidebar, and a dock that slides in when your cursor touches the top edge of the screen. The star of the show is a transparent, always-on-top black-whale desk pet that detaches from the DSH window and wanders freely across your Windows desktop: click it for a live balance, token usage, and cache-hit summary; right-click to refresh or dismiss. A personal-assistant module adds a local to-do list, sticky notes, daily summaries, and one-click document generation (text, docx, pptx, xlsx), all sandboxed to a fixed workspace directory. The remaining pieces cover safe read-only Office document parsing, automatic approval for read-only tool calls to cut down confirmation interruptions, and a native frameless desktop app with its own title bar, edge-dock auto-hide, system-tray management, auto-start on boot, and a single-instance lock.

If you use DeepSeek Harness day to day, find the pure-terminal workflow limiting, and want wallpaper beautification, a desktop pet, and light productivity helpers without altering DSH backend logic, this plug-in is worth a quick setup. It is MIT-licensed, ships no keys or conversation logs, degrades gracefully when the optional sharp image library is missing, and targets DSH 0.1.0-rc.6.