dsh-wsl-tray

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A DeepSeek Harness plugin for WSL deployments: it puts a Windows desktop
shortcut and a system-tray launcher in front of the DSH web server running
inside WSL.

Features

• Double-click the DeepSeek Harness desktop shortcut to start DSH in the
  background (or reuse an already-running instance). The default browser opens
  exactly once when DSH is ready (the built-in DSH browser-open is disabled by
  --no-open; only the tray opens it).
• A DSH fish tray icon appears. Right-click menu:
  • 打开 DeepSeek Harness / open the DSH web page
  • 重新生成桌面快捷方式 / recreate the desktop shortcut
  • 重启 DSH 服务 / restart the DSH service
  • 暂停守护进程 / 恢复守护进程 / pause or resume the watchdog
  • 退出 / exit the tray icon
• Double-clicking the tray icon also opens the DSH web page.
• A watchdog daemon runs inside the tray: it probes the DSH URL on a
  timer, restarts DSH when the probes fail, gives up after a bounded number of
  consecutive failed restarts, and writes a full audit trail to
  watchdog.log (see Watchdog below).
• The plugin-configuration card shows live status (tray files + watchdog
  state) and a button that recreates the desktop shortcut without touching
  WSL by hand. The card can also show the tail of the watchdog log.
• No console window is shown: the shortcut goes through wscript.exe + VBS and
  the entire chain is launched with window style 0.

Requirements

• DSH itself must be running inside WSL (WSL_DISTRO_NAME set, /mnt/c
  accessible).
• Windows must be able to run wscript.exe, powershell.exe, and wsl.exe.
• DSH web 0.1.0-rc.7 or newer (settings cards + client bundle machinery).

Install

Once published to npm:

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-wsl-tray

Or add it manually to a DSH web profile:

cd ~/.dsh/profiles/web
pnpm add dsh-wsl-tray

and add "dsh-wsl-tray" to package.json:

"dsh": {
  "profile": {
    "bundles": [
      "@deepseek-ai/dsh-base",
      "@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-app",
      "dsh-wsl-tray"
    ]
  }
}

Restart dsh web and open Settings → Plugins → Plugin configuration to see
the WSL 桌面与托盘 card.

Generated files

The plugin writes four generated files:

and creates:

%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\DeepSeek Harness.lnk

While the tray runs, the watchdog maintains two runtime files (both are shown
on the config card):

The shortcut points at wscript.exe, which runs dsh-tray.vbs; the VBS starts
the tray PowerShell hidden, and the tray starts start.sh inside WSL through
WScript.Shell.Run(..., 0, false).

Watchdog

The watchdog lives inside the tray helper (the one process that is deliberately
independent of DSH), and answers the three questions a restart daemon has to:

1. How liveness is judged — an HTTP Invoke-WebRequest probe of the DSH
   web URL every probeIntervalSec (default 10 s, probe timeout 3 s). Each
   probe records its status code or error text, so a refused connection
   (nothing listening), a timeout (hung server) and a bad status stay
   distinguishable in the log. DSH is only considered DOWN after
   downThreshold (3) consecutive failed probes.
2. Restart success & giving up — a restart is triggered (stop + start via
   wsl.exe) and the watchdog waits up to restartWaitSec (180 s) for the URL
   to answer again: an answer = success, which resets the failure counter; an
   unanswered window = one failed restart. After maxRestartFailures (3)
   consecutive failures the watchdog pauses instead of looping forever. It
   resumes from the tray menu (恢复守护进程), or automatically as soon as DSH
   answers again.
3. Logging — every probe transition, restart trigger, success/failure and
   pause/resume is appended to watchdog.log with a timestamp, level and the
   probe detail; the current state machine snapshot goes to
   watchdog-status.json every tick. The plugin card exposes both through
   /dsh-wsl-tray/watchdog and /dsh-wsl-tray/watchdog-log.

Phases: starting (initial boot grace) → probing (steady state) →
restarting (waiting after a restart) → backoff (cooldown) or paused
(give-up / manual pause). The tuning values above are baked into
dsh-tray.ps1; change them in src/artifacts.ts
(DEFAULT_WATCHDOG_CONFIG) and regenerate.

Install without npm publishing

If npm publishing is not an option, install the prebuilt tarball that is
included in this repository:

cd ~/.dsh/profiles/web
pnpm add /path/to/dsh-wsl-tray-github/dist/dsh-wsl-tray-0.1.4.tgz

Then add "dsh-wsl-tray" to the profile bundle list as above.

How it works

1. Hidden launch: shortcut → wscript.exe → VBS → hidden PowerShell tray.
2. DSH stays alive: start.sh runs DSH in the foreground of the hidden
   wsl.exe session, so WSL does not recycle the process after the one-shot
   launcher exits.
3. Automatic browser open: a Windows-side timer in the tray polls the DSH
   URL every 2 seconds and calls Start-Process $webUrl once DSH answers.
4. Watchdog: a second tray timer probes the URL every 10 seconds and runs
   the state machine described above.
5. Regeneration: the config card and the tray menu both run
   dsh-tray.ps1 -Regenerate.

Development

npm install
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build
npm pack --dry-run

Known limitations

• Only enabled inside WSL; on non-WSL hosts the card reports that the feature
  is unavailable.
• The watchdog runs only while the tray icon is up: choosing 退出 stops both
  the tray and the watchdog. Add the shortcut to the Windows Startup folder
  if you want the watchdog to follow Windows boot.
• “退出” only exits the tray icon; it does not stop the already-started DSH
  background process (use Windows Task Manager or wsl --shutdown).