dsh-arckep

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Shows the balance and spending of your arckep.ru account right inside the DeepSeek Harness (DSH) web UI: a small badge with the balance in the session header and at the foot of the sidebar, a panel with the details, and a settings page for the API key.

Unofficial. This is a community plugin. It is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with DeepSeek. arckep.ru is the third-party service the plugin connects to; you need your own arckep.ru account and API key.

What you get

• Badge in the header of an open session: the balance as 1 234,50 ₽. It turns to a warning colour when the balance is below your threshold (default 100 ₽) or when the forecast says the money lasts less than 3 days. Click it to open the panel.
• Sidebar badge: the same balance (icon and amount) at the foot of the sidebar, above Settings, so it is visible on the empty start screen too, with the same warning rules. Click it to open the same panel. You can switch it off in Settings → Arckep.
• Panel: balance (with a note for a corporate wallet), spending for today / 7 days / 30 days, the top 5 models by cost, "enough for about N days", "updated N min ago" and a refresh button.
• Settings → Arckep: the API key field (it is cleared after saving and only shows that a key is set), Save / Delete key, "count spending for this key only", the polling interval (default 300 s, minimum 60 s), the warning threshold, "show the balance in the sidebar" and the interface language.
• Russian and English interface, following the DSH language (Russian when it cannot be determined, English for other DSH languages). DSH itself ships English and Chinese, so a Russian reader can switch the plugin to Russian in Settings → Arckep. Colours come from the DSH theme, so light and dark themes work.
• If arckep.ru is unreachable, the last good numbers stay on screen and are marked "data is out of date".

The header badge exists only while a session is open. The sidebar badge does not depend on a session. When the sidebar is collapsed to its narrow rail it shows only the ruble icon (hover or focus it for the amount), so nothing wraps or is cut off. Both badges share one state and one panel: only one panel is open at a time, a refresh in one place shows in the other at once, and the second badge makes no extra requests.

Requirements

• DSH 0.2.0-rc.2 or newer with the web UI (dsh web). DSH is a developer preview and its plugin APIs are still changing, see Compatibility. DSH itself needs Node.js 22.19+ (or 24+); the plugin has no other requirement.
• A DSH profile that includes the web app (the shipped web profile does).
• An arckep.ru API key with the balance:read scope.

Install

The package is not on npm yet; install it from GitHub:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:gmen1057/dsh-arckep
dsh web

(web is the profile name; use your own profile if you have one.) There is no build step and no install script, so nothing else needs to be allowed or built. To pin an exact version append a commit or tag: github:gmen1057/dsh-arckep#<commit-or-tag>.

Once it is published to npm the command will be:

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-arckep

Check that the layer is active with dsh --profile web --dump-config (look for the # == dsh-arckep block). Remove the plugin with dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-arckep.

Desktop app

DSH Desktop owns its own profile, desktop. As the DSH docs describe: launch the app once, quit it completely, run dsh plugin --profile desktop add github:gmen1057/dsh-arckep (with the dsh command that ships with the app), then reopen the app. For the desktop profile dsh --profile desktop --dump-config is refused ("managed exclusively by the Electron application"), so the only check is the badge at the foot of the sidebar (or in the header of an open session). The author has not tested the plugin in the desktop app.

Set the key

1. On arckep.ru open Settings → API and create a key. It needs access to the balance (balance:read). New keys have it by default; a dedicated key with only this scope is the safest choice.
2. In DSH open Settings → Arckep, paste the key and press Save. The field is cleared and the page says "Key is set".

Alternatively export ARCKEP_API_KEY before starting DSH. DSH's rule applies: an environment variable wins over a stored key, and the settings page then shows the key as read-only.

Settings

Setting	Default	Where it is stored
API key	none	DSH credential store (ARCKEP_API_KEY), see Privacy
Show the balance in the sidebar	on	this browser
Count spending for this key only	off	this browser
Polling interval	300 s (minimum 60 s)	this browser
Warn when the balance is below	100 ₽	this browser
Interface language	same as DSH	this browser

The three display settings above the language can also get deployment-wide defaults by overriding the arckep row in your profile's cordis.patch.yml ($DSH_HOME/profiles/<profile>/cordis.patch.yml):

- id: arckep
  config:
    refreshSeconds: 600
    warnBelowRub: 300
    keyOnly: false

Anything the user changes in Settings → Arckep overrides these defaults in that browser.

How it behaves

• The DSH server calls arckep.ru, never the browser. The browser only talks to DSH.
• Requests are made only while a DSH page is open and visible, and only when the cached answer is older than the polling interval. There are no background timers on the server.
• One request at a time, 10 s timeout, no redirects followed. After errors the next automatic attempt is delayed 30 s, 60 s, 120 s ... up to 30 minutes (and by Retry-After for HTTP 429).
• 401 (wrong key) and 403 (missing scope) are not retried automatically; press Refresh after you fix the key.
• Spending details come from GET /api/v1/usage. If the arckep.ru server does not provide that endpoint yet (HTTP 404), the plugin keeps showing the balance and hides the spending block without any error. It probes again from time to time.

Privacy and security

• The plugin talks to https://arckep.ru only: GET /api/v1/balance and GET /api/v1/usage?days=30&key_only=.... The host and the https scheme are checked in code; a redirect (any 3xx answer) is treated as an error and never followed.
• No telemetry, no analytics, no third-party requests. The plugin writes no files of its own; the only thing persisted by DSH is the key, in its credential store. The display settings live in your browser's localStorage.
• The key is sent in the Authorization: Bearer header to arckep.ru and nowhere else. It is never put in cordis.patch.yml, in the URL, in logs, in error messages, or in anything sent to the browser; the browser only learns whether a key is set and where it comes from.
• The plugin's four routes live on DSH's own authenticated /api channel, so they are protected by DSH's Host/Origin checks and its browser-session cookie. State-changing requests additionally require a JSON content type and a same-origin request.
• Know where the key is stored. DSH's local credential store is a file in $DSH_HOME (~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml, mode 600). Tools that DSH's agent runs execute as the same OS user, so they can read it. That is a property of DSH, not of this plugin. Limit the damage: create a key that only has balance:read, and revoke it on arckep.ru if you suspect it leaked.
• The standard proxy variables that DSH honours (see DSH's network-proxy guide) apply, because the plugin uses the host's regular fetch. I have not tested a proxied setup.

Report vulnerabilities privately, see SECURITY.md.

Troubleshooting

You see	Meaning
"arckep.ru rejected the key (401)"	wrong or revoked key; paste a new one
"The key lacks the required access (balance:read)"	create a key with the balance scope
"Cannot reach arckep.ru" / "did not answer within 10 seconds"	network problem; the last numbers stay, marked out of date
"Spending details are not available on arckep.ru yet"	the server has no /usage endpoint (yet); the balance still works
no badge at all	look at the foot of the sidebar, above Settings (the header badge needs an open session). If there is an Arckep page in Settings, check that "Show the balance in the sidebar" is on; if there is no such page, the plugin is not loaded: look for the # == dsh-arckep block in dsh --profile web --dump-config
"The key comes from an environment variable"	unset ARCKEP_API_KEY to manage the key in Settings
install fails and DSH prints "git-hosted plugins build on install via their prepare script…"	that hint is printed for any failed install from a github: address. dsh-arckep has no install or prepare script, so allowBuilds is not needed; read the real pnpm error printed above the hint
install fails with a minimumReleaseAge error that names other plugins	pnpm 11 refuses packages published less than 24 hours ago by default and checks every package in the profile's lockfile, not only the new one. Retry later; the plugin is not the cause

Compatibility

DSH is a developer preview; its plugin interfaces can change between releases, and this plugin depends on the web client's slots (conversation.session.header.utilities, sidebar.footer.action, settings.section) and on ctx.connection.fetch and ctx.credentials of the Host.

DSH version	Status
0.2.0-rc.2 (latest)	tested: installs (from a local path, a tarball and a git URL), loads, header and sidebar badges, panel, settings, key storage, live disable/enable
0.2.1-alpha.2 (alpha)	tested: installs from a tarball, loads, header and sidebar badges, panel, settings, key storage

Only the web UI (dsh web) was exercised. The TUI has no web client and is not supported; the author has not tested the desktop app (install steps for it are above).

Development

npm ci
npm run check      # syntax + manifest checks
npm test           # node --test, no network
node scripts/mock-arckep.mjs 39100                      # a local stand-in for the API
DSH_ARCKEP_TEST_ORIGIN=http://127.0.0.1:39100 dsh web   # point DSH at the mock

DSH_ARCKEP_TEST_ORIGIN exists for development only. It is accepted only when it names a loopback address over plain http with a port of 1024 or more (for example http://127.0.0.1:39100); any other value is ignored and logged. It cannot be set through the plugin configuration, so a profile file cannot redirect the key. Do not set it in a real setup.

The client half (lib/client.js) is a single hand-written file in DSH's lazy-CommonJS client module format, so the repository needs no build step to be installed from GitHub.

Acknowledgements

The public plugins dsh-cost-meter and dsh-web-billing were a helpful reference for how a DSH web plugin is wired (slots, the credential store, the client module format). No code was copied from them.

License

MIT © 2026 gmen1057