dsh Browser Control

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Connect DeepSeek Harness to the Chrome tab you are already using. The model can read page content, click controls, fill forms, scroll, and navigate while preserving your login state, session, and cookies. A side panel provides the conversation UI.

dsh is DeepSeek AI's open-source, plugin-based agent harness. This repository provides a companion browser bridge plugin and Chrome MV3 extension as one standalone pnpm workspace.

The integration is text-only: pages become structured text with a numbered inventory of interactive elements, and the model addresses those elements by number. Screenshots never enter the model-facing pipeline.

The workspace uses a pinned, publicly available @deepseek-ai/dsh release for reproducible installation. It requires neither a DeepSeek Harness source checkout nor npm credentials. DeepSeek Harness is currently a developer preview, so upgrades may require coordinated dependency and API updates.

Core capabilities

Capability	Tool	Notes
Read page	browser_snapshot	Structured text snapshot: title, URL, main text, numbered controls, and masked form fields; delta: true returns only changes
Click element	browser_click	Click links, buttons, checkboxes, and other controls by inventory number
Fill forms	browser_type	React/Vue-compatible input; replace clears the field first
Press keys	browser_press	Keyboard events such as Enter, Tab, Escape, and arrow keys
Scroll	browser_scroll	Viewport scrolling: up, down, top, and bottom
Navigate	browser_navigate / browser_back / browser_forward / browser_reload	In-tab navigation with login state preserved
Read region	browser_get_text	Lazy-loaded or partial page text
Wait for stability	browser_wait	Page-load and render-settle detection

Repository layout

packages/browser/bridge-browser/
extensions/dsh-browser/
examples/browser-bridge.cordis.yml
scripts/install.sh

Why this design

• Your real browser, not a headless copy: the model works in the page you already have open, retaining logins, sessions, and cookies.
• A text-first model interface: numbered controls, stable IDs across snapshots, delta updates, and masked sensitive values make pages operable without vision.
• A narrow privacy boundary: passwords and payment-card values are always rendered as •••• and never leave the page.
• A guarded bridge: authenticated handshakes protect remote connections, privileged gateway methods reject non-loopback callers, and the extension only operates the active tab.

Zero-configuration install and use

Prerequisites: Node.js ^22.19 or >=24, Corepack/pnpm, and Google Chrome. All required @deepseek-ai packages are available from the public npm registry; installation does not require an npm token.

Step 1 — install dependencies and the extension:

./scripts/install.sh

The script installs the pinned public npm dependencies from the lockfile, builds the bridge plugin, links it into dsh's local web profile, builds the extension, copies it to ~/.dsh/browser-extension, and opens chrome://extensions. Enable Developer mode and load that directory when prompted.

Step 2 — start dsh from this repository root:

pnpm start

Port 3080 is used by default. Run pnpm start -- --port <port> if it is occupied. When the DeepSeek whale icon appears in the toolbar, click it to open the side panel.

For subsequent use, the extension does not need to be installed again. Start dsh from this repository root with:

pnpm start

No configuration is required for local use: the extension discovers dsh through /ext/bridge-config, and loopback connections do not require a bridge token. This runtime security token is unrelated to npm authentication; an address and bridge token are only needed for remote deployment with --host 0.0.0.0.

Step 3 — use it: open any normal http:// or https:// page and click the DeepSeek whale icon. When the side panel reports "Connected", chat normally or click "Read page" first. A page that was already open before the extension was installed or reloaded is instrumented automatically on the first action; no page refresh is needed. Browser-internal and protected pages such as chrome:// and the Chrome Web Store cannot be read or operated.

After updating the code, run ./scripts/install.sh again, click Reload for "dsh Browser Assistant" in chrome://extensions, and reopen the side panel. Chrome should load ~/.dsh/browser-extension; do not load the source directory extensions/dsh-browser/.

Development

The bridge plugin and Chrome extension are both members of this repository's workspace. Run all commands from the repository root. For the first development installation, run pnpm install.

pnpm run build
pnpm run typecheck
pnpm run test

pnpm --filter @deepseek-ai/dsh-bridge-browser run build
pnpm --filter @deepseek-ai/dsh-bridge-browser run typecheck
pnpm --filter @deepseek-ai/dsh-bridge-browser run test

pnpm --filter dsh-browser-extension run build
pnpm --filter dsh-browser-extension run test

Notes:

• The bridge plugin must have a built lib/ before startup because the loader consumes it; both scripts/install.sh and the root pnpm run build build the plugin before the extension.
• The dependencies of @deepseek-ai/dsh and the bridge plugin are pinned to the same tested public release line. An upgrade must update the manifests and lockfile together and rerun the root checks.

Security

• The bridge path sits outside the /api trust boundary and performs its own bearer-token authentication.
• Privileged gateway methods such as settings.*, credentials.*, and host.open* reject non-loopback sources.
• The model-facing pipeline is text-only; passwords and payment-card values never leave the page.
• Only the active tab is operated; the extension never switches tabs silently.