Beyond Glass

A glass shell for DeepSeek Harness

Foldable sidebars, a launcher with a data island, nine wallpapers — as six packages. The frame is the author's own setup; the field around it is live.

GitHub Install

127.0.0.1:3080

Deep Ocean 1 / 9

Three pieces of interface

Everything in these three cards is in the packages. Every screenshot on this page comes from the author's own setup: the launcher opens on these nine cards out of the box — their names, descriptions, covers and categories all ship with the packages — but the applications behind them do not. Each is a plugin of its own, and opening one of those cards says so.

Glass three columns

Brand rail, left sidebar and right sidebar all sit on the same glass tokens: translucent gradient, backdrop blur, hairline edge. The left folds to an icon rail, the right folds away entirely.

ui-layout · ui-sidebar · ui-sidebar-right

Wallpaper picker

Four procedural fluid palettes drawn locally in WebGL, five muted nature loops, one panel in the right column. Selecting one repaints every surface in the app.

ui-wallpaper

Launcher and data island

A launcher that lays apps out by category, and an immersive mode whose right half is a data island: AI headlines, token usage, date and weather, to-dos.

ui-workbench

What the packages do not include

The boundary is worth stating plainly, because three of these look like missing features and are not.

The launcher's apps. Each one is its own plugin. These packages ship the launcher, its category grid, the card treatment and the registration point; what appears in yours depends on what you install.
The right column's other panels. Plugin market, skin switcher, unified covers — each registers into a seat. These packages ship the column, sessions and wallpapers.
The to-do card's data. It reads the right sidebar's to-do panel, which is not in these packages, so it is empty on a clean host.
Weather, when the host cannot reach it. The card resolves a city from the egress IP and fetches from Open-Meteo, host-side. Behind a proxy, or offline, it stays on its locating state and reports nothing — by design, not as a bug.

Install

Node.js, pnpm and the dsh command — dsh plugin forwards to pnpm, so pnpm has to be on PATH. No clone, no build. All six packages go in at once — one of them is the profile layer that mounts the other five.

You already have the harness

Confirm the version first — 0.1.5-rc.2 or 0.1.6-alpha.2. Anything else is untested.

# macOS / Linux — bash, zsh
dsh --version      # 0.1.5-rc.2 or 0.1.6-alpha.2

BASE=https://github.com/LeoEthanZ/dsh-beyond-glass/releases/download/v0.1.3

# create the profile first (plain add leaves it with no app layer)
dsh --profile glass --from-default-profile web --dump-config > /dev/null

dsh plugin --profile glass add \
  $BASE/beyond-glass-harness-0.1.6-alpha.2.tgz \
  $BASE/beyond-glass-ui-layout-0.1.5-rc.2.tgz \
  $BASE/beyond-glass-ui-sidebar-0.1.5-rc.2.tgz \
  $BASE/beyond-glass-ui-sidebar-right-0.1.5-rc.2.tgz \
  $BASE/deepseek-ai-dsh-client-ui-wallpaper-0.1.2-rc.1.tgz \
  $BASE/deepseek-ai-dsh-client-ui-workbench-0.1.2-rc.1.tgz

dsh --profile glass

# Windows — PowerShell
dsh --version      # 0.1.5-rc.2 or 0.1.6-alpha.2

$BASE = "https://github.com/LeoEthanZ/dsh-beyond-glass/releases/download/v0.1.3"

# create the profile first (plain add leaves it with no app layer)
dsh --profile glass --from-default-profile web --dump-config > $null

dsh plugin --profile glass add `
  "$BASE/beyond-glass-harness-0.1.6-alpha.2.tgz" `
  "$BASE/beyond-glass-ui-layout-0.1.5-rc.2.tgz" `
  "$BASE/beyond-glass-ui-sidebar-0.1.5-rc.2.tgz" `
  "$BASE/beyond-glass-ui-sidebar-right-0.1.5-rc.2.tgz" `
  "$BASE/deepseek-ai-dsh-client-ui-wallpaper-0.1.2-rc.1.tgz" `
  "$BASE/deepseek-ai-dsh-client-ui-workbench-0.1.2-rc.1.tgz"

dsh --profile glass

Pick an unused profile name. If the name is taken, add stacks onto that existing profile instead of creating a new one. glass is only an example.
Your current setup is untouched. The UI lives in the new profile; run it with dsh --profile glass and your usual command still behaves as before.
To remove it: dsh plugin --profile glass remove the six package names, or delete the profile directory — ~/.dsh/profiles/glass, or %USERPROFILE%\.dsh\profiles\glass on Windows.

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