dsh-startup-screen: A Boot Animation DSH plugin for DeepSeek Harness

What Does It Do?

Startup Screen is a DSH plugin for DeepSeek Harness that adds a six-act boot animation to cold starts: a black title card, an overexposed wash-out, a warm-white "technical dossier" backdrop, a five-step interactive access authorization, and a chromatic-glitch reveal. It solves the problem of a flat, uneventful launch by turning startup into a voiced, interactive identity-verification sequence. Maintained by 6shenhonghong9 under the MIT license, it works with both the web and desktop profiles.

Core Features

• Six-act boot sequence: the brand mark, wash-out, warm-white backdrop, five-step authorization and reveal play in order, with a slowly rotating ring reticle whose gap stays at the bottom so it never covers the footer text.
• Interactive rather than a passive video: steps one and two wait for a button click, Enter or Space, a skip button sits in the top-right corner, and Esc also skips; the confirmation requirement can be turned off.
• Real-voice lines and UI sounds: the first five lines come from the original recording, the closing welcome line is custom-made, and interface sounds are drawn from the same source; playback never advances before the voice line finishes, so clicking fast cannot cut it off.
• Thirty-three live settings: identity name, ID number, clearance level, theme, speed, voice, rate, pre-speech pause and every piece of copy can be edited in the settings page and take effect immediately.
• Two themes and playback policies: warm-white and dark share identical layout, differing only in background and inverted text; display mode can be per session, always, or once a day.

How to Use This Plugin?

After enabling it in DSH, restart the web or desktop app and refresh the page to see the boot animation; a new "Startup Animation" entry appears in settings. Open DSH settings → Startup Animation to toggle playback, choose the display mode, theme and a 0.35–3x speed; under identity details set the name used in the closing welcome line, the ID number and clearance level on the identity card; in the voice section switch between the built-in recording and system TTS and tune voice, rate, pitch, volume and the pause before speech; the visual section changes the accent and glitch colors, and the copy section edits the brand block, black-screen lines, closing box and footer. Browsers require one click before audio may play, so sound starts only after you press a button.

How to Troubleshoot This Plugin?

Some DSH versions refuse to operate the desktop profile from a terminal, reporting that it is managed exclusively by the Electron application; in that case install from the desktop app's Plugins page or follow the official junction instructions. If no animation appears after setup, restart dsh web or the desktop app (close the launcher window and reopen it) and refresh the page.