dsh-sunset-catbus · Sunset Catbus

A skin for DeepSeek Harness (dsh): deep brown as the ground, sunset orange for the primary action, wheat gold for borders and emphasis and cool blue only for running, with a full golden-hour banner on the new-session page.

What it changes

• A full set of semantic tokens: a deep brown ground #160d08 (not black), two levels of warm brown panels and a single dark border tinted wheat gold rgba(255,191,103,.16), with #fff4e7 text. Around 80 --dsw-alias-* / --dsw-specific-* variables change at once, and every layer of the interface follows.
• A full banner on the new-session page: the catbus, the wheat field and the setting sun, with a 16px radius, a wheat-gold border and a deep shadow; the composer sits separately below and the two never overlap, with an identity badge in the cover's top-left corner. The banner retracts once you enter the chat or trajectory pages.
• Brand mark takeover: both the sidebar and hero marks become a setting-sun mark, subtitled "Sunset Catbus".
• A right-hand status dock: always present; see the table below.

Palette rules

The prototype states the rule plainly in its own notes:

The theme is drawn together into sunset orange, wheat gold and deep brown.

The handoff is blunter still: theme = warm orange / golden field / dark brown, mode = companion journey.

Colour	Value	Used for
Deep brown	#160d08 / #24150d / #302016	Ground and panels — most of the interface
Sunset orange	#f49a43	The primary action. The prototype's .new: linear-gradient(135deg,#f39a43,#bd5e27)
Wheat gold	#ffd07a	Borders and emphasis. The wheat lit by the setting sun in the picture
Cool blue	#6ab6ff	Running

🔴 The ground is deep brown, not black. It carries the residual warmth of dusk, and swapping in a neutral black makes the whole cover look pasted onto a different interface — the place a warm skin most easily collapses.

🔴 In an all-warm palette, running goes cool instead: #6ab6ff is the only cool colour on the draft's palette, which leaves it free for state. Amid all that orange and gold, a cool colour is the one thing recognised at a glance.

🔴 Warnings are the hard problem here: with the whole palette orange and gold, an orange warning simply does not surface. So warnings take a bright step of wheat gold, separated by brightness rather than hue; errors take a brick red #e0674f — deeper and redder than the sunset orange, so it still reads as bad news amid the warmth.

🔴 Gold is never a solid button: here it is the language of borders and emphasis, and a large gold button would compete with the cover for light.

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)
Stops along the way	Tool name · real duration · outcome	Trajectory tool-result nodes (duration = time - callTime) plus the snapshot's runningCalls. Appears only once a call has happened
Context injections	The source and form of each 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 five AI / MM / CX / VS / FS — ONLINE rows under Harness Systems in the prototype's right column, the four Journey Modes cards (Wonder / Focus / Memory / Story), the Energy Level 88% · Journey Sync 100% under Golden Hour Energy and the "☀ GOLDEN HOUR" in the cover's top-right corner all have no matching projection in the harness.

Decoration is fine; fake state is not. An energy value frozen at 88% convinces nobody the second time they see it, and the real numbers beside it get doubted along with it. So the right column keeps only cards backed by real data.

This draft gives no agent-copy specification either, so not one line of host copy is replaced. Unfounded personified copy is embellishment.

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-sunset-catbus
mkdir -p "$DST" && cp -R lib cordis.patch.yml skin.json package.json README.md "$DST/"
# then add dsh-sunset-catbus 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 is the clean illustration from the prototype (1672×941), uncropped, at cwebp q95 in native resolution — one step down and the brushwork in the wheat and the backlit dust smear into a single field of yellow.

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