description: "Stickers and emoji reactions for the DeepSeek Harness chat: a composer sticker picker, stickers the Agent can send, emoji reactions under your message, and an emoji-rain effect."

dsh-plugin-emote-chat

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Stickers and emoji reactions for the DeepSeek Harness chat — Web and Desktop.

Uses the current DSH 0.2.0-rc.2 composer and message DOM contracts, without compatibility paths for older interfaces, class names, or subscription protocols. Existing v1 reaction storage remains in use.

What it adds

Stickers

A sticker button at the composer's left edge. Choose a folder from the scrolling list on the left, then a sticker from the grid on the right. It inserts into your draft without sending.
Stickers you send appear as images, with the image on your side of the conversation and the message text below it.
The Agent sends stickers too. It can browse your available packs and stickers when needed, then choose one to include in its reply. The image appears just the same.
Your transcript keeps the short tag [[sticker:pack/name]] instead of any image data, so a plain-text export stays readable and no image ever goes to the model.
PNG, JPEG, GIF (animated), WebP, AVIF, BMP, SVG.

Emoji reactions

The Agent reacts to your message with one emoji. The reaction appears as a small chip inside your message bubble — Telegram style. It never enters the reply text and never enters the conversation history, so it costs no context.
Each reaction stays with the human message that started the turn. Messages added while the Agent is working do not move it.
Reactions survive a restart, because they are kept in a small local file.
History keeps its reactions. When you scroll back into a conversation — including into parts that had been collapsed — each message brings its reactions back with it.
Emoji rain (optional). With the rain switch on, each fresh reaction falls across the window.

Both languages

Every label follows the harness UI language (Settings → General → Language).

Install

Desktop

Download the .tgz plugin package from Releases, extract it, then install the extracted package directory containing package.json through Desktop plugin management. If no release is available yet, download and extract the source archive and install its root directory instead. Both include the prebuilt client. Desktop 0.2.0-rc.2 manages its own profile.

Web

You need the dsh CLI and pnpm (npm install -g pnpm). Download and extract the package or source archive above, then install its directory:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web add link:/absolute/path/to/plugin-directory -w

Restart dsh and refresh the page after installation.

npm

Install the published package with:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-plugin-emote-chat -w

For installation issues, open an issue.

Remove the Web plugin

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-plugin-emote-chat -w

Restart dsh and refresh the page afterwards.

Configure

Everything lives in Settings → Stickers & emoji:

Setting	What it does
Enable sticker / meme replies	Turns on the composer sticker button and lets the Agent send stickers.
Sticker folders	One folder per line. Each folder is one pack, and the folder name is the pack name. Shown only while stickers are on.
Enable emoji replies	Lets the Agent react to your message with one emoji.
Enable emoji rain	Draws each fresh reaction as rain. Shown only while emoji replies are on.

Sticker folders

Point the field at one or more directories:

D:\stickers\cats          →  pack "cats"        cats/happy.png  →  [[sticker:cats/happy]]
D:\stickers\reactions     →  pack "reactions"   reactions/ok.gif →  [[sticker:reactions/ok]]

A sub-folder becomes a sub-pack, so cats/happy/ok.png is [[sticker:cats/happy/ok]].
~ expands to your home directory.
Supported files: .png .jpg .jpeg .gif .webp .avif .bmp .svg.
An SVG must declare a size (width/height or a viewBox), otherwise it may paint unpredictably.
Files over 12 MiB and folders deeper than four levels are skipped.

Reaction storage

Reactions are kept in a small local file so they are still there after a restart:

$DSH_HOME/storages/emote-chat-reactions.json

It holds at most 500 reactions (about 60 KB). Past that, the oldest are dropped. Nothing asks you to decide which reaction is stale. Clear all reactions in the settings removes them all at once; your messages are never touched.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	What to check
`dsh: command not found`	You are using the npx-only route — prefix the command with `npx @deepseek-ai/dsh`.
`pnpm was not found` (exit 127)	Install it: `npm install -g pnpm`.
`ERR_PNPM_ADDING_TO_ROOT`	The `-w` flag is missing.
Installed, but the UI is unchanged	Restart dsh and refresh the page. Plugin bundles do not hot-reload.
The sticker button is missing	Enable sticker / meme replies is off, or the page is older than the install.
The picker says "No stickers yet"	Sticker folders is empty, the folders do not exist, or they hold no supported images.
A folder line is highlighted red	That directory is missing or is a file, not a directory.
The Agent never sends stickers	Sticker folders must be configured and readable before the setting takes effect.
The Agent never reacts with an emoji	Check that Enable emoji replies is on, then restart dsh to load the plugin.
A sticker shows as raw text	The sticker is not in the catalog, or the page is older than the install.
A sticker is missing from an older message	That part of the conversation is not loaded yet. Scroll to it — the image comes back with the message.
A reaction chip is missing from an older message	Same reason: only the loaded part of a long conversation is on screen. Scroll to the message and its reaction appears.
No emoji rain	Enable emoji rain needs Enable emoji replies on. A reaction from before you opened the page shows as a chip, not as rain.
Reactions vanished after a restart	Check that `$DSH_HOME/storages/` is writable; without the file, reactions are per-session.

Acknowledgements

The sticker interaction design draws on these projects:

yyh-001/dsh-meme: representing stickers as text in the conversation while rendering images in the chat UI.
william-jin-cmu/dsh-stickers: user and Agent sticker interactions backed by a shared catalog, with guidance for proactive Agent use.

Thanks to their authors for sharing these designs and implementations.

License

MIT

dsh-plugin-emote-chat

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description: "Stickers and emoji reactions for the DeepSeek Harness chat: a composer sticker picker, stickers the Agent can send, emoji reactions under your message, and an emoji-rain effect."