DSH Box

Managed DeepSeek Harness desktop runtime — run, isolate, and extend multiple DeepSeek Harness environments on your own machine, no browser tab required.

DSH Box is a lightweight desktop shell built with Tauri 2 that installs, launches, and manages independent DSH Containers — each with its own DSH version, profile, plugins, skills, workspace, and logs — and renders them in an embedded WebView.

Highlights

• Isolated DSH Containers — install multiple DSH versions side by side and create independent Containers per project. Every Container gets its own profile (web / headless / custom), workspace, plugin set, and host process, so experiments never cross-contaminate.
• Embedded WebView, no browser needed — the DSH frontend opens in a native WebView window managed by DSH Box. No port-forwarding, no copy-pasting URLs, no tab clutter.
• Zero-dependency install — a private Node, npm, and pnpm runtime is bundled with every release. No system Node, no manual toolchain setup, no PATH hacking.
• Version manager built in — browse DSH releases from deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, install or uninstall any tag with one click, and pin a version per Container.
• Extension & Skill repository — import plugins and skills from a GitHub URL, a local directory, or a tarball, then install them into any Container's profile with a single click. Skills are auto-sorted into the Container's skill root.
• Bundle (整合包) workflow — group any mix of plugins and skills into a named bundle, then export it two ways:
  • Quick export: GitHub-sourced entries are kept as URLs, keeping the archive tiny.
  • Full export: everything is packed into one portable .tar.gz.
  • Bundles can be re-imported (with your choice of overwrite or keep on name clashes) and installed into any Container — plugins land in the profile, skills are sorted automatically.
• Smart background tasks — every long operation (install, start, rebuild, import, export) runs as a visible queued task with real-time scrolling logs, cancel/retry/delete, and history paging. Nothing feels like it "just froze".
• Network-friendly — automatic proxy detection for GitHub clones, configurable GitHub mirror, and npm registry mirror for installs inside DSH.
• Background service & tray — a small dshboxd sidecar keeps things tidy, and a system tray icon lets you control it without keeping the main window open.
• Lightweight by design — Tauri-based, so the installer is small and the memory footprint stays far below Electron alternatives.
• Bilingual UI — English and 简体中文, switchable in Settings.

Install

Download the installer for your platform from the Releases page of this repository:

Grab the latest version from the Releases page — artifact names follow the <product>-<version>-<arch> convention and may differ per release. Other formats (.msi, .rpm, .AppImage) are produced per release where supported.

No runtime prerequisites — the bundled Node/npm/pnpm runtime travels inside the installer.

Quick start

1. Launch DSH Box and pick a writable runtime directory when prompted (all DSH data lives there).
2. Open DSH Version → Load versions → install the DSH tag you want.
3. Open DSH Container → create a Container (name, profile, DSH version).
4. Press Start — DSH Box builds the frontend if needed (or launches the cached build directly), then opens the DSH UI in the embedded WebView.
5. Head to Plugin Repository to import plugins/skills or assemble bundles, then add them to any Container.

Tray

The app minimizes to the system tray on close. Use the tray menu to open the window or start/stop/restart the dshboxd background service.

Technology

The Rust codebase is organized as a workspace of focused crates (box-foundation, box-scheduler, box-runtime, box-toolchains, box-dsh-versions, box-containers, box-extensions, box-state, box-server-core) with a thin desktop adapter layer — task scheduling, extension transfer, and container lifecycle logic are framework-free and unit-tested.

Building from source

Prerequisites: Node.js 20+ with pnpm, and the Tauri 2 prerequisites for your platform.

pnpm install
pnpm runtime:prepare    # fetch the bundled Node/pnpm runtime manifest
pnpm server:prepare     # build the dshboxd sidecar
pnpm tauri dev          # run in development

Release bundles (per platform):

pnpm bundle:windows     # Windows NSIS installer
pnpm bundle:linux       # Linux .deb
pnpm bundle:macos       # macOS .dmg

Run the test suite:

cd src-tauri && cargo test --workspace

Repository layout

src/                       React/TypeScript management UI
src-tauri/                 Rust workspace + Tauri shell
  crates/                  focused, framework-free crates
  src/desktop/app/         domain modules (containers, extensions, tasks, …)
docs/HANDOFF.md            architecture & operation notes

License

Proprietary — see repository owner for licensing terms.

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