DeepSeek Harness TUI Plugins: Terminal UI Options
DeepSeek Harness (dsh) has no official terminal UI — here are the community TUI plugins that give you a Claude Code-style terminal client instead of the web UI.
DeepSeek Harness (dsh) ships one official interface — the browser-based Web UI, launched with dsh web — and no terminal UI of its own. If you want a terminal-native experience instead, the community has built several options. By GitHub stars, the clear leader is dsh-TUI, a Claude Code-style full-screen terminal client. Full list, sourcing notes, and install commands below.
Why there's no official TUI, and why "TUI" isn't its own category
The official CLI (dsh --profile headless "task") is a genuinely headless, one-shot mode — no interactive terminal session, no live rendering, just a task in and a final answer out. That's covered in DeepSeek Harness Headless Mode. It's not a substitute for an interactive terminal client, and dsh's own docs don't describe one.
TUI plugins also don't have a dedicated FindHarness category — they're scattered across UI Enhancements, the largest category in the catalog, and occasionally Development & Runtime. This list pulls them together by name and description rather than by category filter.
Sourcing note: this list mixes curated and auto-discovered plugins
Unlike most other lists on FindHarness, this one isn't limited to the human-reviewed awesome-dsh-plugin collection, because most TUI-specific plugins haven't been submitted to that list yet. The first three entries below are from the curated (source=awesome) set. Everything after that is auto-discovered — found via GitHub topic search or npm keyword search and verified against the dsh field in package.json before being indexed, per FindHarness's own discovery pipeline — but not human-reviewed the way the awesome-list entries are. Treat the auto-discovered entries with the same scrutiny you'd apply to any unfamiliar GitHub repo before installing: check the README, check recent activity, check what allowBuilds would actually be granting.
This is also a good illustration of how young this specific niche is: seven independent teams have all built essentially the same thing — a terminal front end for dsh — within the same few weeks, several of them explicitly modeled on Claude Code's TUI. Expect the field to consolidate as the ecosystem matures; today, picking one means comparing README screenshots and recent commit activity rather than relying on a single obvious winner beyond dsh-TUI's star count.
The list
Stars are a snapshot as of August 2026.
| # | Plugin | Stars | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dsh-TUI | 910 | curated | Claude Code-style full-screen TUI |
| 2 | dsh-tianshu-tui | 135 | curated | General-purpose TUI |
| 3 | deepseek-harness-tui (openma-ai) | 20 | curated | Rust/ratatui, standalone JSON-RPC client |
| 4 | dsh-tui (dsh-tui org) | 14 | auto-discovered (topic) | Out-of-tree Claude Code-style bundle |
| 5 | deepseek-harness-tui (gxinxing) | 7 | auto-discovered (topic) | Built with Ink (React for terminals) |
| 6 | deepseek-harness-tui (boxeryao) | 5 | auto-discovered (topic) | Lightweight, direct runtime connection |
1. dsh-TUI — 910 stars
Category: UI Enhancements · Repo: ccch1mneyyy/dsh-tui
The most-starred TUI plugin by a wide margin, and one of the highest-starred plugins in the entire catalog regardless of category. A Claude Code-style full-screen terminal UI: a pixel-art whale header, a live status line, and streaming thought-expansion as the agent works. If you live in the terminal and want dsh to feel like the polished TUI coding agents you're used to rather than a bare CLI, this is the starting point.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:ccch1mneyyy/dsh-tui
2. dsh-tianshu-tui — 135 stars
Category: UI Enhancements · Repo: huiliyi37/dsh-tianshu-tui
A more general-purpose terminal UI for dsh — its own description is deliberately plain ("A terminal UI (TUI) for DeepSeek Harness"), which makes it worth a look as a lighter-weight alternative to dsh-TUI's more stylized whale-and-status-line presentation if you want a simpler terminal client.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:huiliyi37/dsh-tianshu-tui
3. deepseek-harness-tui (openma-ai) — 20 stars
Category: UI Enhancements · Repo: openma-ai/deepseek-harness-tui
Architecturally the most interesting entry here: a Rust/ratatui terminal client that speaks the DSH SDK JSON-RPC protocol directly and runs standalone, rather than being loaded as an in-process Cordis plugin the way most other TUIs are. That means it's driving dsh the same way the official TypeScript and Python SDKs do — see DeepSeek Harness Python SDK for the same underlying protocol from a different angle — instead of running inside the Web UI's plugin tree.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:openma-ai/deepseek-harness-tui
4. dsh-tui (dsh-tui org) — 14 stars, auto-discovered
Category: UI Enhancements · Repo: dsh-tui/dsh-tui
Discovered via GitHub topic search, not the curated awesome list. Describes itself as a Claude Code-style terminal UI for DeepSeek Harness agents, distributed as an out-of-tree dsh plugin bundle. Verify its dsh field and recent commit activity before installing, the same way you would for any auto-discovered result.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:dsh-tui/dsh-tui
5. deepseek-harness-tui (gxinxing) — 7 stars, auto-discovered
Category: UI Enhancements · Repo: gxinxing/deepseek-harness-tui
Also topic-discovered. Built with Ink — the React-for-terminals framework — which makes it architecturally distinct from the Rust-based openma-ai option above if you'd rather read/contribute to a TypeScript codebase than a Rust one.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:gxinxing/deepseek-harness-tui
Further auto-discovered options worth a look, all lower-star and less vetted: deepseek-harness-tui by boxeryao (5 stars, topic-discovered, described as "lightweight and fast," connecting directly to the DSH runtime), dsh-code by unlinearity (4 stars, topic-discovered, another Claude-Code-style TUI bundle), dsh-pi-tui by lqhl (1 star, sourced from the 0xsline awesome list rather than GitHub topic search — treat this source with extra caution, since it has a known history of dead links per FindHarness's own data-quality notes; a "differential-rendering terminal framework" front end with streaming markdown and thinking-collapse), and deepseek-harness-tui by demo-0416 (0 stars, npm-discovered, installed as a dsh profile bundle). None of these six are part of the human-reviewed curated set — evaluate each on its own README and commit history before installing.
FAQ
Is there an official DeepSeek Harness TUI?
No. dsh ships a Web UI (dsh web) and a headless CLI mode, but no interactive terminal client of its own — every option on this list is a third-party plugin.
Which TUI plugin should I try first?
dsh-TUI, by star count and by being the most feature-described (pixel-whale header, live status line, streaming thought-expansion). If it doesn't fit your taste, dsh-tianshu-tui is the simpler, more general-purpose fallback.
Are the auto-discovered TUI plugins less trustworthy than the curated ones?
Not automatically less trustworthy, but less vetted — they haven't gone through the same human-review process as the awesome-dsh-plugin collection. FindHarness verifies the dsh field in package.json before indexing any auto-discovered plugin (which rules out projects that merely mention dsh without being real plugins), but that's a mechanical check, not an endorsement of code quality or safety.
Is dsh's CLI/headless mode a TUI?
No — headless mode (dsh --profile headless "task") is a one-shot, non-interactive mode: it prints a final answer and exits, with no live terminal rendering or ongoing session view. See Is There a DeepSeek CLI? for how headless mode, the SDKs, and these TUI plugins relate to each other.
Next steps
For the official one-shot CLI path these TUI plugins don't replace, read DeepSeek Harness Headless Mode. For the browser-based UI these plugins substitute for, see DeepSeek Harness Web UI Explained. For everything else in UI Enhancements, browse /categories/ui-enhancements.