Proposal: Electron desktop client (apps/desktop) + one-click Windows launcher

[phoenixlucky]

Summary

I implemented an Electron desktop client for DeepSeek Harness and would like to contribute it upstream. Fork pull requests are disabled for this repository, so I'm posting the contribution here — the commit is ready to merge on my fork (ahead of upstream master by exactly this one commit).

• Commit: 91ac9a1599 — feat(desktop): Electron desktop client and one-click launcher
• Fork branch: phoenixlucky/deepseek-harness master
• Compare: master...phoenixlucky:master
• Agent note: .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-08-13-electron-desktop-client.md

What it does

• Adds apps/desktop (@deepseek-ai/dsh-desktop, private, not published): an Electron main process that boots the ordinary dsh --profile web server as a child utilityProcess — reusing the product's own CLI path (apps/cli/lib/bin.js), build artifacts, and profile composition — and renders the web surface in a dedicated BrowserWindow.
• The window owns the server lifecycle: closing it terminates the server process tree (Windows uses taskkill /pid <pid> /T /F so shell sessions and watchers do not orphan), a server that dies on its own quits the app with its log on the console, and a 60s readiness timeout fails loud.
• --port 0 lets the OS assign a free port; the client matches the dsh web: http://... readiness line (the web-app printUrl contract) and loads that URL.
• Window hardening: contextIsolation, sandbox, nodeIntegration: false; external links open in the system browser.
• start-client.bat at the repository root: one-click launcher (Node/pnpm check, install if needed, build only what is missing, start).

Verification

• extractWebUrl unit-tested (5 cases: canonical line, LAN suffix, chunk-boundary rescan, unrelated output, same-line URL noise).
• The built main process compiles under the repo's host tsconfig; pre-commit hooks (lint, translation pairing, notices, whitespace) and pre-push (build:lib:host + typecheck:contracts-ready) all pass.
• End-to-end launch needs a display; exercised manually via start-client.bat.

Ask

Could a maintainer merge this commit, or open up fork PRs so I can file it properly? Happy to adjust — split into smaller commits, change the launcher UX, anything.

[xw901103]

electron app has been discussed here already. you can search this topic and find someone already created an electron app to contain the webui.

[codeAnqiang-ma]

我先做了个能用的，Mac 双击 DMG、Windows 双击 exe，装完点开就是个独立窗口：

https://github.com/codeAnqiang-ma/dsh-installers/releases/tag/v0.1.0-rc.6-2

不用装 Node，底层就是官方的 dsh。

[shinjiyu]

这就是 #358 / #576 / #998 那条缝：官方入口是 Node + npx + 自己填密钥 + 自己选文件夹。Windows 上还没有官方一键启动，后台拉起时「添加工作区」还会没反应。

easy-dsh 只做进门，不是 Electron 桌面壳，也不是 dsh 插件。

• 没有 dsh 就装
• 密钥贴一次，写进 ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml
• 选文件夹后走官方 API：workspace.create + session.create
• 浏览器打开时输入框已经能用
• Windows 有 install.cmd / 启动.cmd

安装：

npx github:shinjiyu/easy-dsh

介绍帖：#1738
Repo: https://github.com/shinjiyu/easy-dsh

[BobcGn]

我也做了一个桌面端，目前在macOS上运行流畅

https://github.com/BobcGn/deepseek-harness-app