Paper Skin · Journal Desk

A quiet, scholarly skin for DeepSeek Harness. Choose the paper you are publishing today — Nature, Science, IEEE or Elsevier — set the manuscript stage, and a professional editorial letter settles behind the conversation.

A typographic homage only. This project is not affiliated with Nature, Science, AAAS, IEEE or Elsevier.

What it does

• Journal masthead. The sidebar becomes a deep cover-coloured spine with a typographic wordmark, a circular cover thumbnail, a journal descriptor and a slim colophon showing volume and stage.
• Four covers. Pick a journal from the small journal-cover button beside Harness Settings. The lower-left sidebar carries a slim colophon instead of a bulky journal switcher.
• Manuscript progress. Choose the stage in the same skin panel:
  • 初审 · With Editor — initial editorial assessment
  • 中期 · Under Review — peer review
  • 大修 · Major Revision — revise and resubmit
  • 小修 · Minor Revision — minor revision anticipated
  • 录用 · Accepted — formal letter of acceptance
  • 见刊 · Published — final article online
• A professional letter, behind the conversation. The selected stage renders a letter as the conversation background: a large stage word, editorial-office wording, manuscript number, date and a circular seal. It is a real CSS background layer, not a composer banner. Its visibility is adjustable from 5% to 80%, and its colour can follow the manuscript stage or be set from a palette or the custom colour picker.
• Journal artwork. All four covers use the artwork in assets/: the Nature, Science and IEEE covers, and the Elsevier tree plus wordmark. The same artwork appears in the small journal button, the hero seal and the sidebar mark.
• Visible paper grain. A laid-paper texture runs across the conversation, composer, settings panel and sidebar, and can be switched off entirely.
• Light & dark. Paper, cover ink and watermark adapt to the Harness colour scheme.
• Local only. Choices live in this browser’s localStorage under dsh.paper-skin.v1. The skin makes no external network requests and collects no data.

Use

After installation, reload the page once.

1. The small journal-cover button sits beside Harness Settings at the lower left.
2. Click it to choose a journal and a manuscript stage.
3. The sidebar, cover colour, typography and the editorial letter behind the conversation change together.
4. Accepted uses a formal letter of acceptance; every other stage uses the corresponding editorial-office language.

The floating quick-settings pattern takes after open-sea-skin; the panel and skin here are an independent implementation. open-sea-skin is not required.

Install

Paper Skin is a self-contained DeepSeek Harness bundle: one Host row (paper-skin), one Web client module, and a read-only local asset route. There are no runtime dependencies and no build step.

From GitHub

Install the tagged release straight from the public repository:

dsh plugin --profile desktop add github:1552421144-cloud/paper-skin#v1.0.0

Or open Harness Plugins → Add plugin → Install a third-party plugin, paste the same github:... spec, install, then enable Paper Skin · Journal Desk.

From a release tarball

Download paper-skin-1.0.0.tgz from the release page, then install it into the same profile that runs Harness:

dsh plugin --profile desktop add /absolute/path/to/paper-skin-1.0.0.tgz

For the macOS Desktop app, the bundled CLI is:

"/Applications/DeepSeek Harness.app/Contents/Resources/runtime/cli/bin/dsh" \
  plugin --profile desktop add /absolute/path/to/paper-skin-1.0.0.tgz

Restart Harness, reload the page once, then open Plugins and confirm Paper Skin · Journal Desk is enabled. The bundle row is paper-skin.

From npm

Once the package is published to npm, install an exact version:

dsh plugin --profile desktop add paper-skin@1.0.0

Or open Harness Plugins → Add plugin, enter paper-skin@1.0.0, install, and enable Paper Skin · Journal Desk.

From a checkout

For development against a working copy:

dsh plugin --profile desktop add "link:/absolute/path/to/paper-skin"

Uninstall

Remove Paper Skin in Plugins, or:

dsh plugin --profile desktop remove paper-skin

Unloading removes the CSS, root attributes, background watermark and every slot entry. The localStorage key remains until cleared.

Compatibility

Verified against DeepSeek Harness Desktop 0.2.1-rc.2 on macOS. The client half uses the standard Web slots listed below, so it also works in a dsh web profile that has the same client packages. It does not modify the Harness checkout.

Files

File	Purpose
client.js	Browser skin: React slots, covers, stage letters, colour and opacity controls, CSS and the settings panel.
index.js	Host half; serves the cover artwork from assets/. It registers no tools, model context or session routes.
cordis.patch.yml	Bundle patch inserting the paper-skin row.
locale/*.json	Plugin-manager metadata (English and Chinese).
icon.svg	Original journal-cover icon.
assets/*	Optimised Nature/Science/IEEE covers, the Elsevier cover, and the transparent Elsevier tree mark.
docs/*.webp	Screenshots used by this README.
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md	Trademark and artwork attribution.

Slots

• sidebar.brand.mark, sidebar.brand.name
• sidebar.footer.action (slim colophon, not a switcher)
• conversation.hero.brand.mark
• shell.overlay (the only journal/stage switcher)

The conversation letter is a CSS background on the transcript surface; it adds no transcript rows. Cover artwork is served locally by the Host half from assets/. No app-root replacement, no external network requests.

Packaging a release

npm pack

The resulting paper-skin-1.0.0.tgz contains only the runtime files, locales, icon, artwork, screenshots and documentation. The repository and release are at 1552421144-cloud/paper-skin. Publishing to npm is optional and would allow installation by package name:

npm publish

Licence

MIT for the plugin code. Journal and publisher names and the cover artwork are used descriptively; they are not official endorsements, and the artwork is not covered by the MIT licence. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. All trademarks remain with their owners.