dsh-control-bar

Whenever the agent starts driving your computer (moving the mouse, typing, running commands that change state), a slim status bar stays pinned to the top of the screen: 正在操控 (“controlling”) plus what it is doing right now, an honest percentage, and a badge telling you whether DeepSeek is currently in peak or off-peak pricing hours.

Peak tokens cost twice as much as off-peak ones, so the plugin also ships a policy: expensive operations ask for your confirmation during peak hours, and just run off-peak.

中文说明

Install

In DSH Desktop: Plugins → Plugin Market, search dsh-control-bar, install, restart. Or from a CLI (desktop = your profile name):

dsh plugin --profile desktop add dsh-control-bar

Or straight from the repository (same thing before the npm release; there is no build step):

dsh plugin --profile desktop add github:JianGuo396/dsh-control-bar

The bar is a separate Electron process, so it needs an Electron binary. Lookup order: overlay.electronPath → DSH_CONTROL_BAR_ELECTRON → DSH_ELECTRON_PATH → $DSH_HOME/electron → ~/.dsh/electron (installing dsh-pet puts one there). If nothing is found the bar is skipped, everything else keeps working, and the host logs overlay not running (electron-not-found).

Usage

Nothing to do after installing, and nothing the model has to remember — the bar follows the agent's turn, the same way codex's status line does:

Host event	Bar
turn/start	appears with "正在工作" / "正在处理你的请求" at 4%
every tool/call	label switches to what is happening (执行命令 / 读写文件 / 查资料 / 操作浏览器…), progress advances on a monotonic curve
turn/end or agent/error	fills to 100% ("完成"), waits 1.2 s, then hides itself

A turn that is interrupted, fails, or is simply forgotten can no longer leave a bar hanging on screen. control_bar still works (start/update/finish/hide) when the model wants to report an exact percentage while driving your desktop.

Manual control, also handy from scripts:

dsh-control-bar 35 "opening the browser to search"
dsh-control-bar hide
dsh-control-bar peek                       # current phase + next switch
dsh-control-bar overlay start|stop|status

Peak / off-peak windows

	Beijing time	Price
Peak	Mon–Fri 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 (UTC 01:00–04:00, 06:00–10:00), excluding statutory holidays	×2
Off-peak	everything else, including weekends and holidays	×1

Off-peak rates are half of peak rates per DeepSeek's pricing notes. Public holidays for 2026 are bundled, so the check needs no network. Override pricing.windows / pricing.holidays if your account uses a different schedule.

Gate rules written into the system prompt: during peak, a large token operation (default threshold ≈ 200k tokens) must write text:"峰时大额操作，等你确认", ask you with three options (do it now / wait for off-peak / narrow the scope) and only continue after you pick one; off-peak it just runs; small reads are never gated.

Configuration

- id: dsh-control-bar
  name: dsh-control-bar
  config:
    overlay:
      enabled: true
      height: 34
      electronPath: ''
      staleMs: 300000
    pricing:
      timezone: Asia/Shanghai
      windows: '09:00-12:00,14:00-18:00'
      holidays: cn-2026
    gate:
      enabled: true
      tokenThreshold: 200000
    dataDir: ''

Privacy

No network calls, no telemetry. The overlay only reads a local state.json (a number and a string). Its renderer is sandboxed, unfocusable, and click-through, so it never blocks the window you are working in.

License

MIT