dsh-thought-buddy

A DeepSeek Harness Web plugin that puts a dynamic little buddy — a GrokBot-style animated avatar with a synchronized typewriter status line — right in front of the "Deep diving..." indicator.

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dsh-thought-buddy is a pure client-side plugin for the DeepSeek Harness Web GUI. While the model is working, the status pill that reads Deep diving... grows a tiny Grok-style robot avatar: it blinks, swaps expressions with a springy morph, wanders its gaze, and gently bobs — all drawn live as SVG via requestAnimationFrame, with zero runtime dependencies. Every time the avatar switches expression, the status text rewrites itself with a typewriter effect (deleting character by character, then typing out the next word).

The avatar animation is ported from nasawz/GrokBot (a pure Flutter CustomPaint widget) to the web: all 25 expressions × 2 eyes × 48-point eye rings, 18 body shapes, and 39 states with their expression/blink cadences are preserved.

Features

Feature	Description
GrokBot avatar	thinking-state expression pool [8,16,14,17,5] cycles automatically; springy morph between expressions; 320 ms blinks (random 3.5–7 s interval); spherical head-turn projection + wandering gaze; gentle 1.7 s breathing bob
Expression-synced typewriter	on every expression switch, the status text leaves Deep diving... via a typewriter effect (delete character by character, pause, then type out the next word) cycling through 55 candidates (Accomplishing…Working), e.g. Reticulating...; React re-renders never overwrite it (the text fiber's children string never changes, so React bails out)
Emoji mode	fallback mode that cycles an emoji list (default 🤿 🫧 🌊 🐙 🔍 🧠 💭) with a pop-in on every switch
Theme aware	follows prefers-color-scheme: light #5b7fe5/#fffdf7, dark #6689ea/#181a15 (matching the DSH theme)
Reduced motion	under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, the bob and head-turn sway are disabled; expression changes and blinks remain
Self-cleaning	the animation stops as soon as the status pill leaves the DOM; inserted nodes survive React re-renders and are re-asserted on the next mutation if ever removed

Install

Copy the block below and paste it to your DSH agent (the assistant in this web GUI). The agent performs the install and verification for you — no manual npm or profile editing needed:

Install the @dsh-plugin/dsh-thought-buddy plugin into the profile I specify (or ask me if I didn't name one). The npm package name is `@dsh-plugin/dsh-thought-buddy`; use the GitHub source `github:dsh-plugins/dsh-thought-buddy`, or `file:<path>` / `link:<path>` for local development.

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