DeepSeek Harness TUI and CLI: there isn’t an official one

DeepSeek Harness v0.1 has no official TUI or CLI. How to run dsh web, and which community TUIs exist.

Last updated: 2026-08-14

Search “DeepSeek Harness TUI” or “dsh CLI” and you hit a real gap. Official v0.1 is:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web

Web UI on 127.0.0.1:3080, plus a headless path. No official terminal agent. That surprised people who expected a Claude Code clone.

Why they shipped Web first

DSH is a plugin kernel. The UI is a plugin too. A TUI is another plugin, not the product. Official energy went into Cordis, modes, and the session log.

Community TUIs

Hand-checked, 14 Aug 2026:

ccch1mneyyy/dsh-cc-tui — Claude Code-style full-screen TUI (highest star count among TUI ports the same day).
openguardrails/dsh-tui — another out-of-tree TUI bundle.
Ruler4396/dsh-launcher — Windows WebView2, not a TUI, but skips the browser chrome.
bruc3van/dsh-desktop — desktop wrapper around the official Web UI.

These are unofficial. Preview APIs break. Pin a commit.

If you just want a terminal agent on DeepSeek V4

You do not have to wait for an official DSH TUI. DeepSeek already documents adapters for Claude Code and Codex. That is often the shorter path to “type in a terminal.” DSH is the path to “replace the harness.”

See vs Claude Code and vs Codex.