DeepSeek Harness Desktop

An unofficial desktop wrapper for DeepSeek Harness. It starts the bundled @deepseek-ai/dsh runtime on loopback only and presents its web interface in a native desktop window.

Install

Download the latest installers from GitHub Releases:

• macOS Apple Silicon: DMG
• macOS Intel: DMG
• Windows installation: Setup EXE
• Windows portable: EXE

The macOS app is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized, and the Windows app is not code-signed. macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen may require an explicit confirmation before first use.

Open on macOS

After moving the app to Applications, Control-click DeepSeek Harness Desktop and choose Open, then choose Open again in the confirmation window. You only need to do this once.

If macOS still prevents it from opening, first make sure you downloaded it from this repository, then run the following command in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/DeepSeek Harness Desktop.app"

Development

npm ci
npm start

Release

Push a version tag such as v0.1.0. GitHub Actions builds macOS Intel, macOS Apple Silicon, and Windows x64 packages, then attaches them to a GitHub Release.

Data and privacy

The app binds DeepSeek Harness to 127.0.0.1 and stores its local state in the operating-system application-data directory. It does not expose the server on the local network.

License and attribution

This wrapper is MIT licensed. DeepSeek Harness is an independent MIT-licensed project maintained by DeepSeek AI; see its repository and third-party notices for its licenses. The DeepSeek name and logo belong to DeepSeek AI and are used here to identify the bundled upstream project; this wrapper is not an official DeepSeek release.