dsh-one-click-launcher

Starting the DeepSeek Harness Web service has always felt like a small ritual: fire up a terminal, type dsh web, watch it load, then switch to the browser by hand. It is not a lot of steps, but doing it three or four times a day adds up. dsh-one-click-launcher collapses the whole chain into a single double-click on a desktop icon shaped like a little black whale.

Under the hood the plugin does something very concrete. On startup it writes a launch-dsh.bat script into ~/.dsh/ and places a shortcut on the desktop pointing at it. The script does not blind-wait; it polls the target port once per second and opens the browser the moment the service is listening. If the service is already running it simply launches the browser. On failure a per-second countdown appears and a clear message shows up after 120 seconds, so you are never left staring at a blank window. Once the browser opens, the launcher window exits on its own, leaving only the minimised DSH Server window, which is the service itself: close it to stop the service. The shortcut icon defaults to a black whale but can be swapped to a blue variant, pointed at any custom .ico file, or changed directly through shortcut properties. All of these are cosmetic tweaks that survive restarts.

Pure ESM JavaScript, zero dependencies, no build step. After installing and restarting dsh web the plugin has already done its job. It is made for Windows users who rely on the Harness Web console every day and find the habit of having to open a terminal first simply redundant.