The Most Fun DeepSeek Harness Plugins (2026)
The most fun DeepSeek Harness (dsh) plugins by GitHub stars: fake ads, desktop pets, Gomoku, mini-games, stickers, and a manners-obsessed reply appender.
Just for Fun is exactly what it sounds like, and it's a genuinely large category — proof that theming and personality aren't an afterthought in the dsh plugin ecosystem. By real GitHub stars, the top picks are dsh-ads (a parody skin, at 341 stars, more than double the next entry) and whale-girl (a desktop pet). Full list and install commands below.
Why this category exists — and why it's this big
DeepSeek AI doesn't build any of this. Nothing in the official dsh repository ships fake ads, a desktop pet, or a Gomoku board — every plugin on this list is a community project layered entirely on top of the plugin system covered in DeepSeek Harness Architecture. What it says about the ecosystem is that "everything is a plugin" applies just as much to jokes as it does to serious tooling, and that a meaningful chunk of dsh's early adopters are building for their own amusement, not just production workflows.
It's also a useful reminder of the practical mechanics behind any of this: a desktop pet or a fake-ads skin is implemented the exact same way a serious UI plugin is — a cordis.patch.yml inserting a config row, a plugin module registering itself via apply(ctx). Nothing about the plugin category changes how it loads, what permissions it inherits, or how it gets removed.
The list
This ranking uses only the human-reviewed awesome-dsh-plugin collection (source=awesome) — not the auto-discovered plugins also indexed on the full Just for Fun category page, which holds 31 plugins as of August 2026. Stars are a snapshot as of August 2026.
| # | Plugin | Stars | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dsh-ads | 341 | Parody 2005-era Chinese web-portal ads |
| 2 | whale-girl | 130 | QQ-pet-style desktop companion |
| 3 | dsh-pet (dsh-pet) | 14 | 25-animation transparent desktop pet |
| 4 | dsh-gomoku | 13 | Play Gomoku vs. the AI, or AI vs. AI |
| 5 | dsh-emoji | 13 | Auto-adds emoji to AI replies |
| 6 | dsh-minigames | 13 | 18-game side-panel arcade |
1. dsh-ads — 341 stars
Category: Just for Fun · Repo: nagi-ovo/dsh-ads
The runaway leader in this category by a wide margin. dsh-ads skins the DSH Web UI with fake ads in the style of 2005-era Chinese web portals — sidebar banners, in-chat feeds, corner popups, and a close button whose hit area is deliberately smaller than it looks. Every ad is fictional. It's a joke, but the star count says something real: this is exactly the kind of thing this ecosystem's early adopters actually enjoy installing on a Friday afternoon.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:nagi-ovo/dsh-ads
2. whale-girl — 130 stars
Category: Just for Fun · Repo: vlln/whale-girl
A QQ-pet-style desktop companion for dsh: it floats in the corner of your screen, can be dragged around, fed, and played with. Purely cosmetic, genuinely popular — a second data point that desktop-pet plugins have real staying power in this ecosystem (see dsh-pet below for a second, larger take on the same idea).
dsh plugin --profile web add github:vlln/whale-girl
3. dsh-pet (dsh-pet) — 14 stars
Category: Just for Fun · Repo: pc2005-cloud/dsh-pet
A more elaborate desktop pet for the DSH Web UI: 25 transparent animations, screen wandering, click reactions and drag, plus a reproducible asset-generation pipeline for anyone who wants to build their own animation set rather than use the bundled one.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:pc2005-cloud/dsh-pet
Installs from the dsh-pet subpath inside the repo — see the plugin page for the full install note.
4. dsh-minigames — 13 stars
Category: Just for Fun · Repo: lhh010/dsh-minigames
A side-panel arcade with 18 offline mini-games, built for the actual dead time while a model is thinking through a long turn. Tied at 13 stars with dsh-gomoku and dsh-emoji below, but the broadest single install if you want variety rather than one specific game.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:lhh010/dsh-minigames
5. dsh-gomoku — 13 stars
Category: Just for Fun · Repo: omdsh-dev/dsh-gomoku
A single, focused game: play Gomoku (five-in-a-row) against the AI, or let two AI instances battle it out. Simpler than dsh-minigames' arcade approach, but a cleaner install if Gomoku specifically is what you want.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:omdsh-dev/dsh-gomoku
6. dsh-emoji — 13 stars
Category: Just for Fun · Repo: hellodigua/dsh-emoji
The simplest entry on this list to describe: it automatically adds emoji to AI replies. No configuration complexity, no game logic — just a tone change to how the agent talks back to you.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:hellodigua/dsh-emoji
Also in this category: dsh-stickers (12 stars, bidirectional sticker reactions between user and agent), dsh-stock-market (11 stars, described in its own README as fixing "the bug where your account can't lose money while you code"), deepseek-manners (10 stars, appends a thank-you note after every message — mind your manners), dsh-plugin-d399 (5 stars, a mini-game menu that pops up while the model generates), dsh-web-search-pro (4 stars, a persistent multi-engine web search plugin that landed in this category rather than Tools & Capabilities), dsh-auto-chess (3 stars, human vs. AI or AI vs. AI auto chess), dsh-expression (3 stars, describe a vibe and the agent finds a real meme that fits, published to npm), dsh-LorebookMD (3 stars, imports SillyTavern/TavernAI character cards and world books as Markdown lore documents), and dsh-douyin (2 stars, a short-video sidebar with native playback). Browse the full set on the Just for Fun category page.
FAQ
Are these plugins safe to install alongside serious/production work?
Treat them like any other GitHub-sourced plugin: they run in the same process, and installing one still means executing the author's code on your machine — see How to Install DeepSeek Harness Plugins for the allowBuilds prompt you may hit. Nothing about a plugin being cosmetic changes that install-time risk profile.
Why is dsh-ads so far ahead of the rest of this category?
Star count is one signal, not a full explanation, but the gap (341 vs. the next entry's 130) is large enough to be worth noting on its own — it's the single most-starred plugin in this category by a wide margin, and one data point suggesting humor-as-plugin resonates unusually well with this specific community.
Do any of these affect the agent's actual behavior, or are they purely cosmetic?
Most are purely cosmetic — pets, ad skins, stickers. A few cross into actually changing agent output: dsh-emoji alters how replies are formatted, and deepseek-manners appends text to every message. Read the specific plugin's README before installing if that distinction matters to your workflow.
Is there a serious counterpart to dsh-web-ui-notify or dsh-minigames if I want productivity plugins instead?
Yes — see 10 Best DeepSeek Harness Plugins for the highest-starred plugins across all 12 categories, or browse a specific productivity category like Tools & Capabilities directly.
Next steps
For the serious side of the UI category these fun plugins often sit next to, see Best DeepSeek Harness UI Plugins. To see how all 12 categories break down, read DeepSeek Harness Plugins by Category. For the full catalog, browse /plugins.