dsh-shortcut-creator

Firing up a local server always follows the same ritual: open PowerShell, type the command, watch the terminal until the port is ready, then manually switch to the browser. Do it enough times and it becomes pure friction. dsh-shortcut-creator collapses that entire sequence into a single double-click: fill in a small form on the Desktop Shortcut panel in DSH Settings, and the plugin handles everything else.

The generated .cmd launcher performs a port check first: if the server is not yet running it starts the command in a console window, waits until the target URL responds, then opens your default browser and keeps the window alive so closing it stops the service. If the server is already running it simply skips straight to opening the browser. The plugin then creates a desktop .lnk shortcut pointing at the launcher (using the Node.js icon for DeepSeek Harness) and attempts to pin it to the taskbar; when the target type cannot be pinned programmatically it prints a reliable fallback instruction to pin the running window. All of this is driven by a bundled, self-contained PowerShell script with zero external dependencies, and the script can also run standalone.

It is built for anyone on Windows who repeatedly launches DeepSeek Harness, dev servers, or npx tools. Whether you are comfortable in a terminal or prefer to stay out of one, a double-click on the desktop icon brings the service up and opens the browser automatically, turning a three-step manual ritual into a one-click habit.