ThinkofRain1213/dsh-smooth-cursor-patched

dsh-smooth-cursor-patched is a caret / cursor / DSH cosmetic plugin built specifically for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Web. It replaces the native text caret with a glowing comet that slides smoothly toward the input position and supports a configurable comet trail, accent color, thickness, and a 500ms breathing blink rhythm. The package is published on npm and tagged dsh-plugin, and it bundles a DSH manifest so that dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-smooth-cursor-patched installs it from npm or dsh plugin --profile web add github:ThinkofRain1213/dsh-smooth-cursor-patched installs it from GitHub.

This repository is a personal patched fork of Lacquervii/smooth-cursor, maintained because the upstream has not shipped since 2026-09-09; the author warns that maintenance is best-effort, issue response may be slow, and the fork will be retired if upstream resumes active releases. The patch fixes five reproducible upstream bugs: zero-height rects on empty or freshly focused rich-text inputs, forward-selection caret that does not follow the mouse, Chromium-snapped rects on empty soft-wrapped lines, viewport overflow where the caret floats over the chat area or toolbar, and coverage limited to textarea[data-phase] instead of the ask_user_question answer card. It also adds the 500ms breathing blink effect that mirrors VS Code's native cursor cadence.

The intended audience is DSH Web power users who want a smoother, more polished caret while chatting or prompting. After refreshing or restarting dsh web, the configuration surface lives only on the bundle's own plugin settings page between the description and the "included components" block, where the overall effect, comet trail, breathing blink, accent color (palette or custom picker), and caret thickness can be toggled, with preferences written immediately and without reload. The plugin requires DSH 0.1.6-alpha.2 or later because the settings slot plugins.bundle.config ships from @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-plugin-manager introduced in that version; on older hosts the configuration area is silently absent while the visual effect itself keeps working via localStorage.

Dependencies and limits are explicitly documented in the README. There is no automated test suite; CI only enforces type checking, the tsdown build, register-id consistency between the bundle and cordis.patch.yml, and freshness of the committed lib/ artifacts against src/, so cross-browser caret behavior must still be verified manually. The bundle's id and name must match the npm package name exactly; renaming them to the upstream smooth-cursor / dsh-smooth-cursor will collide with the official entry and cause DSH to raise Failed to load plugins. Local development uses pnpm with --ignore-scripts, then pnpm run typecheck, pnpm run build, pnpm run check:register-id, and pnpm run watch, and the README insists that contributors keep lib/ in sync before pushing because CI rejects stale products. Inspiration comes from VS Code's smooth caret plus the Obsidian animated-cursor plugin by Kotaindah55, while the rendering and DSH integration are an independent rewrite released under the MIT license.