Preamble

During the development and debugging of DeepSeek Harness (DSH), an Agent’s thinking process and tool execution status are often only reflected in logs, lacking intuitive auditory feedback. This can make it difficult for developers to judge the Agent’s running state or the success or failure of tool invocations based on ambient sound. dsh-soundscape listens to Agent status and tool lifecycle events, providing immediate local audio feedback.

What This Is

dsh-soundscape is a native DSH soundscape plugin maintained by berserk0501. It plays thinking, tool, error, and emotional cue sounds through a resident PowerShell dual MediaPlayer daemon ($think thinking loop + $fx one-shot sound effects).

Core Features

  1. Agent status monitoring: Listens to the agent/status event. When entering the running state, it plays the thinking sound in a loop; when returning to the idle state, it stops the thinking sound and plays an ending sound.
  2. Tool sound ducking: When playing a tool sound effect, it reduces the thinking loop to 20%, then automatically restores it afterward. This enables seamless mixing and prevents sound effects from interrupting the thinking loop.
  3. Emotion-aware sound effects: Plays different ambience sounds based on the Agent’s performance. Consecutive successes trigger an ascending chord, consecutive failures trigger a descending dissonant sound, and prolonged execution triggers a low-frequency drone ambience.
  4. Tool management: Supports independent toggles and throttling protection for tool sound effects.
  5. Audio assets: Includes 15 asset-free PCM WAV files (verification logs show 12). Users can place <tool_name>.wav or <tool_name>.mp3 files under the assets/sounds/ directory to override defaults. The plugin automatically converts MP3 to WAV internally.
  6. Settings panel: Provides features such as toggle, volume, thinking sound, tool mapping, preview, rescan, and opening the sounds directory.
  7. Tool mapping: The panel displays all 51 standard DSH tools and supports search filtering and per-tool custom sound effects.
  8. Reliability design: Supports dark mode. Configuration writes use temporary file replacement, with automatic cleanup on uninstall. The daemon uses a sliding window restart policy (at most 3 times within 30 seconds).

Installation and Enablement

Run the following command in the project directory to install dependencies:

npm install --ignore-scripts --legacy-peer-deps

Typical Usage

  1. Custom sound effects: Create a <tool_name>.wav or <tool_name>.mp3 file under the assets/sounds/ directory to override the default sound effect.
  2. Configure mapping: Customize tool sound mapping and volume through the settings panel, or configure it via API.
  3. Rescan updates: If new sound files are added, click the “Rescan” feature in the settings panel to update the sound list.
  4. Test: Use the preview feature in the settings panel or call the /api/dsh-soundscape/play-test endpoint to test.

Applicable Scenarios and Notes

  • Applicable scenarios: Suitable for developers who need to monitor Agent status and tool invocations through auditory feedback during development.
  • Notes: The plugin runs with the permissions of the current DSH process. Before installation, review the source code and license (MIT). MP3 conversion cache is managed by the plugin and should not be manually written into configuration. Verification logs mention a list of 12 built-in sounds, but actual speaker listening experience, full restart of final code, actual custom file hits, and clean uninstall verification still require manual acceptance and cannot be inferred solely from logs.

Conclusion

dsh-soundscape provides immediate auditory feedback for DSH Agents through a dual MediaPlayer daemon and emotion-aware mechanisms. Developers can quickly configure tool sound effects via the settings panel or API. For more information, see the GitHub repository or the SkillHub catalog page.