Living Dream DSH 🚀

Living Dream DSH — The Ultimate DeepSeek Harness Desktop Configuration

A battle-tested DSH configuration framework with 8+ MCP servers, custom plugins, free model access, mobile remote control, and more.

📖 English | 简体中文

🆚 Living Dream DSH vs. Mainstream AI Coding Frameworks

Data as of 2026-08. Prices from official pages. Living-Dream-DSH is an open-source DSH config pack (MIT).

Overview

Why Choose Living-Dream-DSH?

1. Zero cost: The only "out-of-box and fully free" option. Claude Code costs $100–200/mo for heavy use; Copilot/Cursor start at $10–20/mo. This repo integrates multiple free model channels (AMD Radeon Cloud, DeepSeek signup bonus, Zhipu GLM-4V-Flash free vision), lowering the barrier to $0 while keeping BYOK for upgrades.

2. Full-stack capability: 8+ MCP servers out of the box — desktop automation, browser control, screen OCR, doc conversion, semantic memory, code execution. Others either don't support these or require manual per-server setup. One install = full toolkit, every component battle-tested (pitfalls documented in the troubleshooting guide).

3. Chinese ecosystem: The only full-Chinese one-stop solution. Complete Chinese docs, troubleshooting manual, and anti-pitfall guide. Commercial products and OSS projects are predominantly English, which is a real barrier for Chinese users.

4. Open source + self-built: MIT license — configs, scripts, custom plugin source all public. Local-first, API keys stay with you. No vendor lock-in vs. closed-source Claude Code/Copilot/Cursor; vs. OSS trio (OpenHands/Aider/Cline), adds the "pre-integrated config" layer.

5. Mobile office: Tailscale-based remote access from phone browser — a capability most CLI/IDE competitors (Aider, Cline, Cursor) lack.

Caveats

• Free channels depend on third-party policies; stability and quotas are subject to change. Heavy/commercial use recommended with BYOK or commercial subscriptions.
• This repo is a DSH config pack, not an independent agent kernel; the "framework ceiling" depends on official DSH capabilities.
• Comparison based on public info; some features (Claude Code computer use, Cline Browser Use) are still in Beta.

Quick Decision Guide

✨ Features

📁 Directory Structure

Living-Dream-DSH/
├── README.md                    # English
├── README.zh.md                 # Chinese
├── LICENSE                      # MIT License
├── .gitignore
├── install.ps1                  # One-click installer
├── install.bat                  # Installer wrapper
├── package.json                 # repo scripts deps (http-proxy for proxy.js)
├── configs/
│   ├── cordis.patch.yml.template   # MCP config template
│   ├── package.json.template       # Plugin list template
│   ├── settings.yaml.template      # Global settings template
│   ├── AGENTS.md                   # AI instructions
│   ├── .credentials.yaml.template  # API Key template
│   └── README.md                   # Config file guide
├── scripts/
│   ├── start-dsh.bat.template      # DSH launcher
│   ├── proxy.js                    # Phone remote proxy (CORS rewrite)
│   ├── secrets.ps1                 # DPAPI key decryption (reads secrets.json)
│   ├── os-copilot-mcp-server.py    # OS-Copilot MCP (legacy location)
│   ├── os-copilot-mcp-README.md    # OS-Copilot MCP docs
│   ├── os-copilot-mcp-LICENSE      # OS-Copilot MIT license
│   └── mcp/                        # MCP server scripts (all 6 bundled)
│       ├── dsh-history-server.py
│       ├── dsh-vision-server.py
│       ├── dsh-memory-server.py
│       ├── store_engine.py         # Memory engine (SQLite + vector search)
│       ├── dsh-markitdown-server.py
│       ├── dsh-ocr-server.py
│       └── os-copilot-server.py
├── plugins/
│   ├── README.md                   # Plugin installation guide
│   └── dsh-paste-input/            # Custom file drag & paste plugin
│       ├── package.json
│       ├── lib/
│       │   ├── index.js
│       │   └── client.js
│       ├── cordis.patch.yml
│       ├── README.md
│       └── LICENSE
└── docs/
    ├── comparison.md               # EN comparison table (7 frameworks)
    ├── comparison.zh.md            # ZH comparison table
    ├── phone-remote.md             # Mobile remote access tutorial
    ├── vision-patch.md             # Image recognition patch
    └── troubleshooting.md          # Troubleshooting manual

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites (Must Install First)

💡 After installing Python, run pip install mcp markitdown zstandard to enable all MCP servers. The one-click installer does this automatically.

💡 The launcher auto-detects DSH Desktop from common install paths. If it fails, set $env:DSH_DESKTOP_PATH = "D:\Tools\DeepSeekHarness-Desktop" (your actual path), or add it as a system environment variable for persistence.

Option 1: Offline Install ⭐ Recommended

No internet required during install. Node.js, Python, Git are bundled in the package.

1. Download Living-Dream-DSH-v1.2.0-Offline.exe (~120 MB) from Releases
2. Double-click to run — it extracts deps + repo + installer to a temp directory
3. The PowerShell installer launches automatically:
   • Installs Node.js, Python, Git from local files (no download)
   • Copies configs to ~/.dsh
   • Prompts for API Keys
   • Installs plugin dependencies
   • Creates desktop shortcut

Living-Dream-DSH-v1.2.0-Offline.exe (SFX contents, not in repo)
├── deps/                      # Node.js 22.16.0 MSI, Python 3.13.0, Git 2.47.0
├── Living-Dream-DSH/          # Full repo snapshot
└── install-offline.ps1        # Offline installer script (bundled, not in repo)

Option 2: Online One-Click Install

# 1. Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/alllllllllli/Living-Dream-DSH.git
cd Living-Dream-DSH

# 2. Double-click install.bat
#    Or run in PowerShell: .\install.ps1

The installer will automatically:

• ✅ Check environment (Node.js, Python, pnpm)
• ✅ Copy config files to ~/.dsh
• ✅ Interactively fill in API Keys
• ✅ Install plugin dependencies
• ✅ Create desktop shortcut

Option 3: Manual Install

# 1. Install prerequisites (if not installed)
winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS        # Node.js
winget install Python.Python.3.13       # Python
npm install -g pnpm                      # pnpm

# 2. Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/alllllllllli/Living-Dream-DSH.git
cd Living-Dream-DSH

# 3. Copy config files to DSH directory
Copy-Item configs\cordis.patch.yml.template $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\profiles\web\cordis.patch.yml
Copy-Item configs\package.json.template $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\profiles\web\package.json
Copy-Item configs\settings.yaml.template $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\settings.yaml
Copy-Item configs\AGENTS.md $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\AGENTS.md
Copy-Item configs\.credentials.yaml.template $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\.credentials.yaml

# 4. Edit config files (fill in your API Keys)
notepad $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\.credentials.yaml

# 5. Install plugins (dsh-paste-input is a file: dependency - bundled in repo)
Copy-Item plugins\dsh-paste-input $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\profiles\plugins\dsh-paste-input -Recurse
cd $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\profiles\web
pnpm install

# 6. Restart DSH Desktop

🔌 MCP Server List

All server scripts are bundled in scripts/mcp/. One-click installer configures paths automatically.

🤖 Free Model Access

AMD Radeon Cloud

• Endpoint: https://developer.amd.com.cn/radeon/api/v1
• Model: DeepSeek-V4-Flash
• Register: developer.amd.com.cn/radeon

📱 Mobile Remote Access

Access DSH from phone browser via Tailscale:

# 1. Install Tailscale
winget install tailscale.tailscale

# 2. Login to same account
tailscale up

# 3. Start the rewrite proxy (must go through 8090 - DSH Web UI has CORS
#    checks, connecting directly to 3080 fails)
npm install http-proxy                  # one-time dependency
node scripts/proxy.js                   # listens on 127.0.0.1:8090

# 4. Configure serve (point to the 8090 proxy, NOT 3080)
tailscale serve --https=443 --bg http://127.0.0.1:8090

# 5. Access from phone browser
# https://<your-device-name>.<your-domain>.ts.net

See docs/phone-remote.md

🖼️ Image Recognition Patch

Make DSH Desktop auto-call GLM-4V-Flash for image recognition:

# 1. Backup original file
$dshPath = (Get-Process DeepSeekHarness* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Path
if (-not $dshPath) { $dshPath = "D:\Tools\DeepSeek-Harness-Desktop" }
Copy-Item "$dshPath\resources\runtime\node_modules\@deepseek-ai\dsh-host-apiproxy\lib\index.js" `
          "$env:USERPROFILE\dsh-host-apiproxy-index.js.bak"

# 2. Apply patch (manually modify describeImagesLocally function around line 911)
# See docs/vision-patch.md

⚠️ Note: DSH upgrades will overwrite this patch, re-apply after upgrade.

🛡️ Troubleshooting

1. Plugin Installation

# ✅ Correct way
dsh plugin --profile web add <package>@<version>

# ❌ Wrong way (will clear unlisted bundles)
cd $env:USERPROFILE\.dsh\profiles\web
pnpm add <package>

2. Desktop vs Dev Version Conflict

Both share ~/.dsh, causing concurrent write conflicts. Close Dev version (port 3080) when using Desktop.

3. Image Patch

DSH upgrades will overwrite dsh-host-apiproxy modifications, re-apply patch.

4. billion-context-dsh Version

Must lock version 0.2.1, default will misparse as 0.1.7 (no dsh.bundle).

📝 Configuration Files

cordis.patch.yml

MCP server config file at ~/.dsh/profiles/web/cordis.patch.yml

# Example: Add an MCP server
- insert:
    - id: mcp-dsh-example
      name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client'
      config:
        transport: stdio
        serverName: dsh-example
        command: python
        args:
          - path/to/server.py
        env: {}
        cwd: ''
        toolCallTimeoutMs: 120000
        failOnStartupError: false

settings.yaml

Global settings file at ~/.dsh/settings.yaml

# Configure model providers
llm-pi-ai:
  providers:
    my-provider:
      apiKeyEnv: MY_API_KEY
      api: openai-completions
      baseURL: https://api.example.com/v1
      models:
        - id: my-model
          name: My Model
          contextWindow: 1000000

.credentials.yaml

API Key storage at ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml

MY_API_KEY: sk-xxxxxxxxxxxx

🔧 Custom Extensions

Add New MCP Server

1. Create MCP server (reference existing implementations)
2. Add config to cordis.patch.yml
3. Add plugin to package.json bundles (if needed)
4. Restart DSH Desktop

Create Custom Plugin

Reference dsh-file-uploads plugin structure.

📚 Resources

• DeepSeek Harness Official
• DSH Handbook
• Playwright MCP
• MarkItDown

🤝 Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests are welcome!

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

👤 Author

🙏 Acknowledgments

Living Dream DSH stands on the shoulders of these amazing open-source projects and services:

Core Platform

MCP Servers & Engines

AI Models & Services

DSH Plugins

Infrastructure & Tools

Last Updated: 2026-08-18