dsh-extreme-xianxia-light · Misty Xianxia

A skin for DeepSeek Harness (dsh): paper white and mist white as the ground, ink grey for text, pale gold for borders and buttons and jade green only for running, with a full xianxia hero on the new-session page.

What it changes

• A full set of semantic tokens (light): a paper-white ground #f4f3f0 rising to pure white panels and mist-white dividers, with exactly two warm grey lines (#d7d2c8 / #c9c2b5) and ink-grey #313331 text — this skin contains no pure black. Around 80 --dsw-alias-* / --dsw-specific-* variables change at once, and every layer of the interface follows.
• The ground is not one flat sheet of paper white: body::before lays a soft white glow along the top, giving the paper some thickness.
• A full-bleed cover on the new-session page: the calligraphy, the sword-bearing adept and the white dragon. Its lower edge is a paper-white gradient rather than a darkening, bleeding the art into the interface's paper. The cover retracts once you enter the chat or trajectory pages.
• Brand mark takeover: both the sidebar and hero marks become a paper-white seal bearing the character 天 (heaven), subtitled "Misty Xianxia".
• Personified copy: thinking → "The acolyte is contemplating the workings of fate…"; failure → "The workings are disturbed — recalculate."; and a confirmation prompt is prefixed with "this carries consequences; a human decides" — the original text stays, since that is what you judge by.
• A right-hand status dock: always present; see the table below.

Palette rules

The prototype's theme rules state the ratio as a single figure, and it is this skin's hardest constraint:

80% grey-white / mist-white base; 12% ink grey for hierarchy; 5% pale gold for interaction; 2% jade green for running; 1% cinnabar for danger

Colour	Value	Share	Used for
Paper white / mist white	#f4f3f0 / #eceae5 / #e3e0da	80%	Ground, panels and the composer
Ink grey	#313331 / #676b68 / #8f918d	12%	Text and hierarchy. No pure black — black would press the mist into shadow
Pale gold	#b18a50	5%	Borders, the primary action and the wordmark. 5% means edges and text, not a large solid button
Jade green	#6d948d / #4f7871	2%	Reserved for running
Cinnabar	#b55a52	1%	Reserved for danger and failure

🔴 Success also takes jade green: this draft's palette contains no green at all, and forcing one in would break both the 2% jade and the 80% grey-white proportions. Better to let success and running share a family (separated by depth, #4f7871 / #6d948d) than to introduce a seventh colour.

🔴 A light skin needs two extra rules:

• Text on inverted blocks (label-primary-foreground) cannot stay white: the primary button is solid pale gold, where white lacks contrast and black is too hard, so a warmer step of paper white, #fdfcf9, is used.
• Toasts and tooltips invert to a dark ground (#3a3c39): a light overlay floating on paper white has no separation.

One more line is equally binding: strong xianxia atmosphere, stronger SaaS usability; the hero visual concentrates on New Session and the empty state, and the working state is never covered wall to wall. So the cover is drawn on the hero only, leaving the three-column layout and its information density untouched.

What the status dock shows

Card	Fields	Source
Waiting on you	Tools awaiting approval, questions awaiting an answer	ConversationSnapshot.pending. Appears only when something is genuinely waiting
Current Session	State, elapsed turn time, current tool duration, inbox, model	running / turnTimings / runningCalls / queue; the model comes from the latest assistant message's provenance.model
Context	Occupancy %, token load, and the System / tool-schema / conversation composition bar	The contextPressure and contextBreakdown projections
Permission	The active permission and sandbox mode	The permissions projection
Usage	Input / output / cache hits / time spent / turns	The tokenUsage and sessionStats projections
Plan	Todo progress	The todos projection (the card is absent when there is no list)
Tool calls	Tool name · real duration · outcome	Trajectory tool-result nodes (duration = time - callTime) plus the snapshot's runningCalls. Appears only once a call has happened
Scripture reading	The source and form of each context injection	Trajectory context nodes (provenance.label / form)
Folded away	Compaction count, items and tokens folded	Trajectory compaction nodes. Absent when nothing was compacted

⚠️ A tool duration may be absent: it can only be computed while the matching tool/call is still inside the session window. Older calls that scrolled past report only name and outcome — better blank than an invented figure.

⚠️ Composition is not a total: the three contextBreakdown figures use fixed-density estimates (systematically low for Chinese and JSON schema) and do not add up to the token load, which is anchored to the provider's reported value. The UI says so too.

Deliberately not done

The four rows under Arts invoked in the prototype's right column — a divination array at done 2.1s, a scripture reading at running 8.4s, a formation simulation at queued — are hardcoded demo data in the draft; so are the "Spirit energy 68,250 / 108,000" at the foot of the sidebar and the top bar's standing-by line.

The harness has no matching projection. Decoration is fine; fake state is not. A spirit-energy gauge frozen at 68,250 disbelieved the second time it is seen, and the real numbers beside it get doubted along with it. So the right column keeps only cards backed by real data.

The draft's agent copy for Tool (invoking an art…) and Context (leafing through the scriptures…) is not built either: The harness's tool rows have only ok / error and no running to hang on, and forcing one would produce a permanently lit fake state.

Install

Skin market (recommended): find it in the market and install, then restart dsh.

Manual install (during development):

npm install && npm run build
DST=~/.dsh/profiles/web/node_modules/dsh-extreme-xianxia-light
mkdir -p "$DST" && cp -R lib cordis.patch.yml skin.json package.json README.md "$DST/"
# then add dsh-extreme-xianxia-light to the profile package.json's dependencies and dsh.profile.bundles

After changing it you must restart dsh: the profile tree has to be recomposed, and without a restart the UI stays as it was.

🔴 The side effect of autoApply

Installing switches to this skin by default (autoApply, default true). The reason is that the harness does not persist third-party theme ids, and the built-in Settings → Appearance has only three cells: light / dark / follow system, with no third-party themes — switching manually requires the skin market's own panel (Settings → Skin Market).

The cost: it reapplies on every refresh, so switching away lasts only for that session. To change permanently, set autoApply to false or uninstall the plugin. It is implemented as an 8-second window after startup (long enough to outlast the Host preference snapshot), after which it lets go entirely.

Version requirements

Requires dsh 0.1.1-rc.2 or newer. The brand-slot takeover relies on slot priority shadowing (only equal priorities count as a conflict; different priorities shadow, and the lower number renders). On older versions these three registrations throw and are swallowed, merely falling back to the official brand mark, while the palette and cover keep working.

Assets

The cover comes from the prototype's full-screen mockup, with its fake sidebar, fake details rail and title cropped away so that only the art remains (695×500 webp, inlined as a data URI).

Development

npm run check   # tsc --noEmit
npm run build   # produces lib/index.js (host half) and lib/client.js (browser half)

lib/ must be committed: skins install via github:owner/repo, which installs the build output from the repository; if the source moves and the output does not, people install the old version (and the market uninstalls the package outright over the missing entry file).

License

MIT © Science Roam Limited