dsh-qq-skin

A QQ NT messenger skin for DeepSeek Harness (dsh). Light and dark share one QQ NT language — light mode is clean and restrained (near-white surfaces, neutral borders/hover, brand blue #12B7F5 and light-blue bubbles #A8E3FF as recognition accents), dark mode is a calm blue-gray (base #101822, desaturated, blue reserved for accents), instantly recognizable. Ships with five palette variants (Classic Blue / Vivid Purple / Clean White / Green Bubble / Deep Black), configurable toggles and sizing, plus a settings-panel visual switcher with hot reload.

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How it works. The skin is two reversible layers; it never registers a new theme id and never touches the user's Light/Dark/System preference.

• Token layer — stacks one --dsw-* semantic-token override via ctx.theme.overrideTokens('dsh-qq-skin', ...). Every token carries a { light, dark } pair, so the skin follows the active base palette instead of fighting it. Light mode runs blue through surfaces, borders, interactions, and scrollbars; the dark palette is a #101822-based calm blue-gray scale where blue only accents (brand, bubbles, primary buttons). The set is generated per palette (buildTokenOverrides(palette)): the five palettes share the neutral blue-gray skeleton and differ only in the personality tokens.
• Layout layer — injects one global <style> tag (qq-layout.ts) for geometry and structure: the chat flow is centered and narrowed, user bubbles are light blue with a "tail", assistant rows get an avatar disc + white card (matched via data-chat-flow-kind='assistant-step'), the input area becomes a capsule, plus a slim conversation-header divider, QQ-styled timestamps and scrollbar, and sidebar session-row hover/selected states. The brand area stays product-native — the QQ feel comes entirely from the blue token layer. Colors always come from --dsw-* tokens, and dark variants are gated by body[data-ds-dark-theme]. The CSS is generated from the config (buildQQLayoutCss).

On unload both layers are fully removed through effect cleanup and the product look returns. Settings and config changes hot-reapply both layers via QQSkinRuntime.update without restarting the plugin.

Screenshots

The chat view in the Classic Blue palette: centered, narrowed chat flow, light-blue user bubbles with a "tail", and the penguin avatar disc on assistant rows:

The QQ Skin settings row in the App settings General section, with the palette / bubble tail / assistant avatar / chat width toggles:

Settings panel

The skin registers a QQ Skin settings row in the App settings General section, with visual toggles for palette / bubble tail / assistant avatar / chat width. Changes apply immediately (hot reload remounts both layers) and are persisted to the user-settings document. The settings panel overrides the static config below.

Configuration

The plugin receives config the cordis function-plugin way (apply(ctx, config)); unset fields fall back to defaults:

Option	Default	Meaning
palette	'classic'	Palette variant: classic Classic Blue / vivid Vivid Purple / clean Clean White / green Green Bubble / black Deep Black
bubbleTail	true	Small triangular "tail" on the right of user bubbles
assistantAvatar	true	Official QQ-penguin avatar disc left of assistant messages
chatMaxWidth	880	Max width of the chat flow (px)

Example (set in the profile's plugin config):

{ "palette": "vivid", "bubbleTail": false, "chatMaxWidth": 720 }

What it covers

Area	Mechanism
Brand & primary actions (QQ blue)	--dsw-alias-brand-primary, --dsw-alias-button-primary-*, --dsw-alias-state-business-*
Canvas & surfaces (clean light)	--dsw-alias-bg-base (#F7F9FB), --dsw-alias-bg-layer-1..3, --dsw-alias-bg-overlay
Conversation bubbles (light blue #A8E3FF)	--dsw-specific-bubble, --dsw-specific-bubble-highlight + layout-layer radius/shadow
Assistant messages	layout-layer avatar disc (token colors) + white card with border (--dsw-alias-bg-layer-1 + border-l1)
Chat flow	layout-layer centering (via data-chat-flow, width configurable)
Input bar	layout-layer capsule (data-composer-card) + toolbar button radius + --dsw-specific-input-major
Conversation header	layout-layer slim divider (header[class$='_header'], never hits side panels)
Message timestamps	layout-layer QQ-style chips (data-time-hover-root + _timeStart/_timeEnd)
Sidebar session rows	layout-layer hover/selected fill + status-dot radius (_sessionRow/_projectRow/_dot)
Scrollbar	layout-layer widening + radius (data-conversation-scroll) + --dsw-alias-scrollbar-*
Sidebar (clean light / blue-gray dark)	--dsw-specific-sidebar-fill (#F2F5F8), --dsw-specific-sidebar-nav-item-* + layout-layer divider
Text & borders	--dsw-alias-label-*, --dsw-alias-border-l1..l4 (blue-tinted strokes)
Status colors (QQ green/red/amber)	--dsw-alias-state-success/error/warn-*
Static palette (component-direct, unified sky blue)	--dsw-static-deepseek-*, --dsw-static-blue-* (remapped to the #12B7F5 sky-blue scale)
Markdown, scrollbar (QQ blue), menus, tooltips	--dsw-alias-markdown-*, --dsw-alias-scrollbar-*, --dsw-specific-menu, --dsw-alias-tooltip-bg

Tokens that are not overridden keep the product default, so a QQ-skin run stays readable and consistent everywhere else.

Requirements (dsh version)

Built and run against deepseek-harness (dsh) 0.1.2-alpha.5 or later. That line removed the client @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-runtime package (client "Runtime" split refactor, 2026-08): the store engine now comes from @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-store, the client context is cordis Context plus the /client type merges of the UI packages, and host-side settings registration takes the namespace string straight in ctx.settings.register. Earlier dsh versions are not compatible — the dependency no longer exists and pnpm i fails with ERR_PNPM_WORKSPACE_PKG_NOT_FOUND.

Install

One command installs the plugin into the web profile:

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-qq-skin

That is the whole flow: dsh plugin initializes the profile on first use, runs pnpm add dsh-qq-skin inside the profile directory, then reconciles the profile's bundle layer against the installed state — because dsh-qq-skin declares dsh.bundle.patch (→ cordis.patch.yml), it joins the bundle stack automatically. The next dsh web boot composes it, the client bundle loads, and the skin stacks as soon as ui-theme is active.

Installing from a local checkout (path specs are anchored to your invoking directory; link: keeps the live checkout linked):

dsh plugin --profile web add ../dsh-qq-skin
dsh plugin --profile web add link:../dsh-qq-skin

Removing is equally one command:

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-qq-skin

The plugin declares dsh.client with platform: web and injects the theme and settings-collaboration services, so the Web boot loads its client bundle and applies the layer as soon as ui-theme is active.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit
pnpm test            # vitest (token shape + layout injection + runtime hot reload + settings wiring)
pnpm run build       # tsc + tsdown → lib/index.js (host) + lib/client.js (browser closure-factory)

The client bundle is produced by the same two-face layout as the harness clientBundle preset: lib/index.js is the plain ESM host row, lib/client.js is the window.__ModuleLoader__ closure-factory the Web boot consumes. No build-time CSS pipeline is needed: the layout styles ship as an inline string inside the client bundle (QQ_LAYOUT_CSS in qq-layout.ts) and are injected at runtime via document.createElement('style') — the same shape as ui-theme's installThemeStyles — then removed on effect dispose. Layout selectors rely on the client CSS Modules [hash]_[local] naming ([class$="_localName"] suffix matches) and the components' own data-* hooks, never on build-time hash values.

The settings row (settings-row.tsx) uses inline token styles reading --dsw-* directly, so it adds no CSS Modules pipeline; react and the collaboration services stay external to the client bundle and resolve through the platform module table.

License

MIT