xinyang920/dsh-caps-beacon

Plugin插件 Native原生 ⭐ 2 MIT Approval & Security审批与安全

Caps Lock LED status beacon for DeepSeek Harness — solid while agents work, blinking when your approval or answer is needed

Project Overview项目介绍

This is a native plugin built exclusively for DeepSeek Harness (DSH), designed to turn the Caps Lock LED on built-in MacBook keyboards into a status beacon for DSH. The plugin works by listening to DSH’s public host events, updating the LED state based on the current DSH status: solid when working, fast blinking when attention is needed, and off when idle. It can be added directly to any DSH profile with the command dsh plugin --profile <profile-name> add github:xinyang920/dsh-caps-beacon, which automatically registers the bundle in your DSH profile. Users do not need to manually edit configuration files to complete the initial registration.

This plugin is ideal for users who regularly leave DSH running tasks in the background, as it eliminates the need to switch back to the DSH window repeatedly to check on task progress. By default, it only tracks root agent activity and ignores subagents and background child processes, so parallel fan-out tasks do not cause constant strobing of the keyboard LED. When an approval request or pending user question comes in, the LED switches to blinking immediately, and goes back to solid once the user resolves the request. This makes it easy to see at a glance when you need to step in.

The plugin is released under the MIT open source license, and requires macOS with Xcode Command Line Tools installed to compile the native C helper that controls the LED. After adding the plugin via DSH CLI, you have to manually run make in the plugin directory to build the helper binary, then restart DSH for the plugin to load. Only MacBooks with built-in Apple keyboards are supported; external keyboards and Magic Keyboards will not work, and some machines require enabling input monitoring for the helper in system privacy settings.

这是一个专为 DeepSeek Harness(DSH)开发的原生插件,仅支持搭载内置Apple键盘的MacBook设备,可将键盘的Caps Lock指示灯用作DSH的运行状态信标。它通过监听DSH的公开主机事件调整指示灯状态:固态亮表示代理正在运行,快速闪烁表示需要用户处理,熄灭表示空闲,用户只需要扫一眼键盘就能知道状态,不用反复切回窗口查看进度。

对于习惯让DSH在后台长期处理任务的macOS用户来说,这个插件能大幅减少不必要的窗口切换操作。典型工作流程是:安装并编译插件后,启动DSH运行任务,默认仅监听根代理,子代理和后台任务不会触发灯光变化,避免并行任务造成指示灯频繁闪烁。任务运行时指示灯保持常亮,当出现需要用户批准的请求或是等待用户回答的提问时,指示灯会自动闪烁提醒,处理完成后会自动回到常亮状态。

插件遵循MIT开源许可,使用前需要先安装Xcode命令行工具,通过DSH的插件命令添加后,进入插件目录执行make编译辅助工具,再重启DSH才能生效。它仅支持内置Apple键盘的MacBook,外接键盘和妙控键盘暂不支持,部分设备需要在系统隐私设置中给辅助工具开启输入监控权限,才能正常控制指示灯。

Pre-install check安装前体检Compatibility · Security兼容性 · 安全性 1 warning1 项注意
  • Only 2 stars - very few users, little community feedback星标只有 2,几乎没人在用,遇到问题缺少社区反馈
DSH walks through these 9 checksDSH 会逐条核对这 9 项

Compatibility兼容性

  • DSH, Node, OS and profile requirementsDSH 版本 / Node 版本 / 操作系统 / profile 是否满足要求
  • External dependencies and runtimes (Electron / Python / Docker, ...)外部依赖与运行时(Electron / Python / Docker 等)是否齐备
  • Conflicts with installed plugins: command names, skill / tool names, ports, duplicate MCP registration与已装插件是否冲突:命令名、skill / tool 重名、端口占用、重复 MCP 注册

Security安全性

  • Repo matches the facts registered here; archived or abandoned?仓库是否与页面登记一致,是否归档或长期停更
  • Safety of preinstall / install / postinstall and install.sh / setup.ps1preinstall / install / postinstall 与 install.sh、setup.ps1 是否安全
  • curl|bash, download-then-execute, obfuscation, unrelated domains → stop immediatelycurl|bash、下载即执行、混淆代码、无关域名 → 立刻停止
  • Typosquatting or unmaintained packages among the new dependencies新增依赖里有没有 typosquatting 或无人维护的包
  • Requested permissions vs. what the feature actually needs申请了哪些权限、是否超出功能所需(filesystem / network / shell / clipboard)
  • Any sudo / admin requirement, plus uninstall and rollback是否要求 sudo / 管理员权限,以及卸载与回滚方式

Anything uncertain must be marked unknown with a note on how to confirm it. This site's signal screen is a static snapshot, not a security audit.拿不准的必须标「未知」并说明要我怎么确认。本站的信号筛查是静态快照,不能替代安全审计。

Or use CLI install (for developers)或使用命令行安装(适合开发者)

CLI Install命令行安装

dsh plugin --profile web add github:xinyang920/dsh-caps-beacon

把 xinyang920/dsh-caps-beacon 加入你的 DSH 配置(web profile)即可启用。

READMEREADME

dsh-caps-beacon

English | 简体中文

Use the Caps Lock LED on your MacBook as a status light for DeepSeek Harness — a DSH-native take on Mac-Agent-Beacon.

Solid = working · Fast blinking = needs your attention · Off = idle

When you send DSH off to work in the background, you can stop switching back to check on it: a glance at the keyboard tells you everything.

What the LED means

Host state LED
A root agent is running (tools, model calls, retries) solid
An approval request is waiting for you blinking
An ask_user_question prompt or plan review is waiting for your answer blinking
A root turn ended in error or blocked (latched until the next turn starts) blinking
Idle off

Attention always wins over working: the moment an approval is resolved, the light returns to solid. Subagents and background children stay silent by default (rootsOnly) so parallel fan-outs don't strobe your keyboard.

The plugin is a pure observer: the approval/request and tools/execute listeners delegate through next() and never decide anything. It writes the LED only — no key presses, no keyboard remapping, no approval-policy changes. On exit, the helper restores the physical light to the current logical Caps Lock state.

How it works

DSH host events ──▶ plugin state machine ──▶ beacon-led (C) ──▶ Caps Lock LED
  • The plugin listens to DSH's public host events — agent/status, approval/request, tools/execute, and session/event. No internal interfaces are reverse-engineered, so nothing silently breaks when the agent stack updates.
  • A small C helper (native/led.c, adapted from CapsPulse via Mac-Agent-Beacon, both MIT) drives the built-in keyboard's Caps Lock LED through macOS IOKit/IOHID output elements. The plugin keeps one beacon-led serve child alive and writes 1/0 bytes to its stdin; blinking is a timer in the plugin.
  • The helper never injects key presses. If the logical Caps Lock state changes under a write, it stops immediately.
  • The helper can still die for environmental reasons — a system sleep resetting the HID device, a stray signal reaching its process group. The plugin restarts it automatically (exponential backoff, 1s to 30s) and re-applies the current mode, so the beacon self-heals instead of going dark until the next dsh restart.

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