Better Sidebar
omdsh-dev
A sidebar platform for DSH — file, terminal, diff and agent pages, plus a service other plugins use to register their own tabs and file viewers.
L3
3.6k TypeScript
Editorial collection · updated 2026-09-16
Best DSH UI and theme plugins
Seven DeepSeek Harness plugins that change how the harness looks and where information sits, from sidebars to inline generative UI.
This collection selects 7 plugins from the directory. Their verification levels are L1 2, L2 2, L3 3, L4 0, L5 0: L3 means the install command was parsed and a compatibility target declared, while L1 means only the repository and its README were confirmed. No pick has been installed or run in a sandbox, so none claims L4 or L5. 0 of 7 have passed an automated security scan, and the other 7 are marked unverified rather than safe. Declared compatibility targets are ^0.1.5-rc.1 1, ^0.1.2-rc.1 || ^0.1.5-alpha.1 || ^0.1.6-alpha.1 1, unstated 4, 0.1.1-rc.2 || 0.1.2-rc.1 1. Together the picks carry 19,010 GitHub stars, and the most recently checked is Better Sidebar (2026-09-18). Every listing below records its own licence, language and last-checked date, so a claim here can be traced back to the listing it came from. Selection weighed capability gain and maintenance through the preview churn rather than star count, so read the list below as a build order rather than a ranking.
Written by Chiyu · Maintainer and editor
Maintains this directory: checks every install command against the published package, assigns verification levels, runs the automated scans, and writes the guides. ·
Plugins in this collection
Editor's pick
GenUI
omdsh-dev
The model writes a dsh-ui fence and real UI components render inline in the reply, with an action loop back to the model.
L3
463 TypeScript
DSH TUI
ccch1mneyyy
Terminal front end for DSH with a pixel-whale header, live work status, streaming thinking, time rewind and a context/TPS gauge.
L2
3.1k TypeScript
Deep Whale
Small-tailqwq
A whale-girl skin pack that redresses the DSH Web interface, shipped as three separately installable subdirectory packages.
L1
2.1k TypeScript
DSH Web
zhu1090093659
An aggregation bundle that brings fifteen Web GUI extensions into one DSH install, mounted through the official web profile.
L2
7.7k TypeScript
dsh-worktable
Aisland-SJL
An agent-project workbench for the web profile — a sidebar app drawer, a dockable split workspace, and a control room that mirrors every project's state without polling.
L3
640 JavaScript
deepseek-design
Devin-AXIS
A native design suite for DSH — AI generation, visual editing, curated templates and a PPT studio.
L1
1.3k JavaScript
Interface plugins are the most visible part of the ecosystem and also the most sensitive to runtime changes, because they hook rendering paths that shift between preview releases. Three of the seven declare a dshTarget outright; the rest are re-checked by hand on every refresh, which is the honest state of this category.
Better Sidebar
An extensible sidebar that other plugins can add pages to, shipped with file editing, a terminal, Git and a subagent view. If you install one interface plugin, this is the one with the most leverage.
GenUI
Renders real interface inside replies: charts, plots, forms, quizzes, mermaid diagrams and 3D scenes, with an action loop back to the model. It changes the shape of an answer rather than the frame around it.
DSH TUI
A terminal front end for people who never wanted a browser tab. Whale status bar, streaming thoughts, tokens per second, context progress and double-Esc rollback.
Deep Whale
A themed skin series with several variants. Palettes are chosen so panels stay readable, which is the part skins usually get wrong.
DSH Web
An aggregation layer that installs a set of Web UI extensions together with shared component conventions, so panels look like they belong to the same product.
dsh-worktable
Turns the web client into a project workspace: a sidebar drawer of projects bound to their own conversations, dockable split panes, and a pinned control room that mirrors every project’s state through host subscriptions — zero polling, zero tokens.
DeepSeek Design
Generate a layout or deck, then edit it visually instead of iterating through prompts. The template market removes the blank-page problem.
How we choose
We favour plugins that modify chrome rather than content, keep contrast readable in panels, and switch on without a restart. A skin that makes a status field unreadable is a net loss regardless of how it looks, so we check the panels before the hero.
Sources & references
The technical claims on this page rest on the primary documents below. Each link is followed so it can be checked directly.
- [1]deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness — GitHubUpstream repository for DeepSeek Harness, the Cordis runtime and the plugin loading model.
- [2]Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 — W3CAccessibility baseline applied to this site and recommended for interface plugins.
- [3]dsh-plugin GitHub topic — GitHubThe discovery mechanism used to find plugins listed in this directory.
- [4]MIT License — Open Source InitiativeCanonical text for the most common license declared by plugins in this index.
All links last verified 2026-09-11
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