dsh-ask

In everyday DeepSeek Harness work, the TUI is full-featured but heavy. Often all you need is one quick question in the current directory, a streamed answer, and to be back at your prompt. dsh-ask is a lightweight bundle built exactly for that: ask, stream, exit - no interactive UI.

Terminal output is deliberately restrained. The answer goes to stdout only; spinners, thinking status, and tool-call lines are routed to stderr, so redirecting to a file always yields clean prose. Consecutive questions in the same terminal and directory automatically resume a persistent session, with --new and --session for manual control. Provider, model, and effort defaults live in an ask-specific config that never leaks into other DSH profiles. Shell integrations for Fish, Bash, Zsh, and experimental PowerShell let you turn any unrecognized interactive command straight into a question.

If you live in a plain terminal, lean on pipes and redirects, and do not want to open a TUI window for a single question, dsh-ask is the just-right tool. It also fits automation scripts that need a one-shot Q&A with strict output-format guarantees.