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dsh-lan-access

DeepSeek Harness web plugin that adds a LAN access

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Created
Aug 16, 2026
Updated
Aug 16, 2026

Introduction

dsh-lan-access

A DeepSeek Harness web plugin that adds a LAN access toggle to the DSH Settings shell (Settings → General). It replaces the manual cordis.patch.yml webserver override:

  • On — the web GUI binds 0.0.0.0, so other machines on the same network can open it at http://<LAN-IP>:3080. The /api trust fence is updated live, so the browser on a LAN machine works fully (chat, tools, workspace).
  • Off — the GUI binds 127.0.0.1 again (loopback only — the safe default).

How it works

HalfFileRole
Hostsrc/index.tsRegisters the persisted lan-access settings namespace, the fenced /lan-access JSON route (GET state / POST set), the bind controller, and the lanAccess bind-host service. The webserver row's composed host expression reads that service, so every webserver (re)start — boot, toggle, or a post-boot user-patch re-apply — converges to the persisted setting; the controller only restarts the row when the bind actually differs.
Clientsrc/client/Registers the General-settings row (settings.general.item, order 15) with a native checkbox switch, the LAN URLs (primary first, all live NIC addresses shown, copy button), zh/en copy, and restart-tolerant polling.

The route fence accepts loopback or the deployment's trusted authorities, read live from the connection row's resolved config — the same boundary the /api gateway uses. Cross-site requests are refused.

Install from GitHub

The built artifacts (lib/) are committed, so installation needs no build step and no modification of the DeepSeek Harness checkout:

# From GitHub (replace <owner>/<repo>)
dsh plugin --profile web add git+https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>.git

# ...or clone and install the local checkout (link: keeps your rebuilds live)
git clone https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>.git
dsh plugin --profile web add link:/path/to/dsh-lan-access

# Restart the GUI
dsh web

The install appends dsh-lan-access to dsh.profile.bundles; its dsh.bundle.patch inserts the host row and overrides the webserver row's host with the lanAccess service expression. The client half is picked up by the client-modules scanner automatically. No harness change is required for the core feature — the toggle, the LAN bind, and the live /api trust fence all ship inside the plugin.

Local development — rebuild with pnpm build (or npm run build) after changing src/, then reinstall/restart. The repo's node_modules mirrors the DSH profile's package farm (TypeScript/tsdown come from the harness checkout).

Migrating from a manual patch — remove any webserver host: 0.0.0.0 override from the profile's cordis.patch.yml (and the bundle patch layers) so the plugin is the single owner of the bind host.

Use

  1. Open the GUI, go to Settings (sidebar footer) → General.

  2. Flip 局域网访问 / LAN access.

    • Enabling shows the ONE address other devices can open — the IPv4 of the interface that owns the default route (http://192.168.x.x:3080) — with a copy button.
    • The web server restarts to rebind; the row waits for it and re-reads the state (a network error mid-restart is not reported as failure).
    • The plugin also installs a crypto.randomUUID polyfill on plain-HTTP LAN origins (that Web API only exists in secure contexts, and the DSH API client mints every RPC id with it — without the polyfill a remote browser fails with "crypto.randomUUID is not a function").
  3. The choice is persisted in ~/.dsh/settings.yaml:

    lan-access:
      enabled: true
    

Remote Settings pages and workspace — no harness change needed

Everything the plugin serves works from a LAN browser with zero modification of the DSH checkout:

  • The /api gateway pins the configuration plane (settings.*, credentials.*) to loopback. The plugin mirrors those domains on its own fenced route (/lan-access/rpc) — same exposure boundary (model providers + web/product namespaces), redacted values, revision-fenced writes, same error codes — and the browser bundle routes the shared api.settings.* / api.credentials.* calls through it. The Models page provider directory, the Plugins configuration cards, and the Language/Appearance rows therefore work remotely.
  • The client settingsScope degrades to memory mode on non-loopback origins (surfaces render empty). The browser bundle widens connection.isLoopback to "loopback OR served LAN authority" at runtime. The client entry is inject-less and marked dsh.client.immediately, so its bundle is prefetched and its apply runs in the first boot wave — before any settings surface bundle finishes fetching — guaranteeing the patch is in place before the Plugins cards, Models page, and preference rows bind their scopes. (Without that ordering, a surface that binds early sees the unpatched isLoopback and its scope stays memory-mode: the plugin configuration cards render nothing.)
  • crypto.randomUUID does not exist on plain-HTTP LAN origins. The bundle installs a getRandomValues-based polyfill (same CSPRNG).

Remaining loopback-only (hardcoded in the harness, not patchable from a plugin): host.pickDirectory / host.openPath (native dialogs and host file opens) and llm.discoverModels (the Models page "discover" button). The workspace's own add/browse flow does not need them, and chat file opens route into the sidebar editor.

Debug aids

The host exposes GET /lan-access/diag (fenced like the other routes) with the latest browser boot reports: slot-registration counts, whether the connection patch is active, and a settingsScope probe bound to the shell namespace (status ready proves the host-mode + proxy path works end to end). During the first minute after boot the browser also posts a 2-second poll of the Plugins cards' own injected snapshots (available flags), the slot ledger view, and the declared spec — the exact data that separates "cards gone", "cards abdicated", and "cards present but rendering null" when a Settings page misbehaves on a remote machine.

Optional: dsh-better-sidebar compatibility patch

dsh-better-sidebar's trust fence matched the connection row by the wrong name and read the raw !!js config, so its panels (explorer / editor / terminal / git) only ever accepted loopback. The repo ships the fix as a profile-level pnpm patch (no harness change):

./scripts/install-patches.sh web

This copies patches/dsh-better-sidebar.patch into the profile's patches/ directory, registers it under patchedDependencies in pnpm-workspace.yaml, and runs pnpm install.

Security notes

  • Default is off (loopback). The DSH launcher itself refuses --host 0.0.0.0 for the same reason: binding all interfaces exposes the agent's tools to the network. Only enable it on a trusted network.
  • The toggle is only reachable through the fenced route, and disabling from a remote machine cuts that machine off (expected — re-enable locally).
  • The bind survives plugin reloads and patch re-applies; a full process restart re-applies the persisted value at boot.

Development

pnpm build        # tsdown: lib/index.js (host) + lib/client.js (browser bundle)
pnpm typecheck    # tsc --noEmit

The client bundle is a __ModuleLoader__.load closure-factory artifact (same format as the DSH monorepo's tsdown client preset); only the frozen platform-module table words stay external. After changing client code, rebuild and restart dsh web (the client-modules package metadata cache expires only on restart).