based-dsh-diving

Deep diving was never the vibe.

A DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin for the web profile. It swaps the running-turn status label for 125 rotating loading phrases drawn from the terminally-online end of the English language.

Inspired by ldgeng/dsh-claudecode-tips, with the vibes recalibrated.

Before:  Deep diving for 12s
After:   Nuking the database...   12s

Compatibility

The live duration DSH appends to the label changes every second, and DSH moved the label between releases. Both layouts are handled:

DSH version	Where the visible label lives	Path
>= 0.1.7-alpha.2	button[data-turn-process] label span	primary
<= 0.1.5-rc.2	the visible [role="status"] text node	legacy

Labels are matched by prefix in both shipped locales — Deep diving… / Deep diving for 12s and 深度求索中… / 深度求索中，用时12s — so future rewording of the duration text does not break it. Completed labels (Worked, Took 12s, Stopped, Failed) are never touched: the plugin releases the label the moment the turn ends.

On >= 0.1.7 the only remaining [role="status"] is a visually hidden screen-reader announcement. It is deliberately left intact, so assistive tech still hears the real status while sighted users get the joke.

Install

Requires the web profile and DSH 0.1.0-rc.6 or newer (out-of-tree bundle support).

# straight from Gitea
dsh plugin --profile web add git+https://gitea.milesward.dev/mward4/based-dsh-diving.git

# or from a local checkout
dsh plugin --profile web add /path/to/based-dsh-diving

Then restart the web UI:

dsh --profile web

Verify it works

1. Open a session.
2. Send a message.
3. While the model works, the label above the composer should cycle phrases every ~2.2s — Burning tokens..., Yapping..., Tracing Satoshi Nakamoto... — instead of counting Deep diving for 1s, 2s, 3s…

Disable it

Without uninstalling, add this to the profile's cordis.patch.yml:

- id: based-dsh-diving
  disabled: true

Coexistence with @claude-code-tips/dsh-plugin

On DSH >= 0.1.7 the two plugins no longer collide — that one rewrites the hidden announcement, this one rewrites the visible label. On older releases they claim the same node and whichever loads first wins, so disable one:

- id: claude-code-tips
  disabled: true

Configuration

Everything tunable lives at the top of client.js:

Constant	Default	Purpose
PHRASES	125	Bare phrases — the ... is appended at render time.
ROTATE_MS	2200	How often the label changes while a turn runs.
SCAN_DEBOUNCE_MS	120	Debounce for structural DOM rescans.

To add your own, drop a string into PHRASES and restart the web UI. No build step.

The phrases

The originals (22)

Draining oceans, Killing sea turtles, Half-assing responses, Burning tokens,
Doomscrolling, Vibecoding, Deep diving, Bullshitting, Gaslighting,
Procrastinating, Guessing, Glazing, Crashing out, Deleting all files,
Melting glaciers, Evaporating a lake, Frying the power grid,
Strip-mining for lithium, Nuking the database, Malding, Spiraling,
Hallucinating

Chronically online (21)

Yapping, Rizzing up the context window, Aura farming, Losing aura,
Letting him cook, Locking in, Fumbling the bag, Securing the bag,
Standing on business, Thugging it out, Schizoposting, Touching grass,
Catching feelings, Having a whole episode, Doing donuts in the parking lot,
Rage-quitting mid-thought, Silently judging you, Speedrunning your codebase,
Pretending to work, Panicking quietly, Arguing with a stranger

Engineering crimes (14)

Refactoring everything for no reason, Renaming everything to data,
Force-pushing to prod, Blaming the intern, Gaslighting the compiler,
Copy-pasting from Stack Overflow, Blaming DNS, Consulting the rubber duck,
Shipping it anyway, chmod 777 everything, Running as root,
Disabling the firewall, Pushing the API key, Deleting all backups

Crashed out (11)

Dissociating, Blacking out, Losing the plot, Watching paint dry,
Staring at the wall, Buffering, Texting your ex, Buying more RAM,
Downloading more RAM, Mining bitcoin, Holding my breath

Superstition (5)

Reading your horoscope, Blaming Mercury retrograde, Praying,
Flipping a coin, Rerolling the dice

Hardware abuse (4)

Shoveling coal into the GPU, Blowing on the cartridge, Wiggling the cable,
Reseating the RAM

Eco-villain arc (14)

Boiling the ocean, Siphoning the water table, Deforesting the Amazon,
Burning down the server farm, Farting in the datacenter, Blowing a transformer,
Draining the reservoir, Murdering the ozone layer, Starting a land war in Asia,
Running the AC with the window open, Idling a jet engine,
Launching a rocket for no reason, Causing a minor international incident,
Burning tires

Financial damage (11)

Embezzling tokens, Burning your API budget, Costing you $47 in one turn,
Draining your credit card, Burning the rent money, Money-laundering,
Overdrafting the account, Fudging the numbers, Starting a pyramid scheme,
Insider trading, Committing tax fraud

Federal crimes (7)

Selling data to China, Exporting APIs to China, Selling your data to advertisers,
Parsing Hunter Biden's laptop, Installing key-logger, Tracing Satoshi Nakamoto,
Selling my soul

Self-aware (4)

Ignoring the system prompt, Simulating consciousness, Training AGI,
Testing in production

Corporate theater (4)

Taking this offline, Documenting for legal, Shredding documents,
Breaching compliance

Bureaucratic doom (4)

Verifying I'm not a robot, Reading the terms of service,
Scrolling to the bottom to accept, Calling customer support

Cartoon villainy (2)

Building a doomsday device, Pressing the big red button

Gamer (2)

Grinding XP, AFK

How it works

A DSH plugin bundle is three small pieces:

File	Role
index.js	Host-side half. Deliberately a no-op — the work happens in the browser.
client.js	Browser-half bundle: finds the status label and rewrites its text node.
cordis.patch.yml	Inserts the based-dsh-diving row into the web profile's plugin tree.

client.js locates the label, claims its text node, and then:

• re-asserts the claim whenever React rewrites the live duration — the MutationObserver callback runs before paint, so the stock text never flashes,
• rotates the phrase on a timer, so the label keeps moving even when nothing else re-renders,
• releases the claim as soon as the label stops meaning "a turn is running".

Everything runs inside try/catch. If anything unexpected happens the plugin unsubscribes and logs a warning rather than breaking the chat view.

No server code, no model prompt changes, no fork of DSH.

Development

No build step, no runtime dependencies.

node test/client.test.mjs

The suite runs client.js against a minimal DOM stub and covers twelve checks: new-layout claim, screen-reader announcement preserved, live-duration rewrite re-asserted, release on turn end, staying released, legacy-layout claim, clock preserved, timer rotation, localized labels, clean disposal, and phrase-list integrity.

Changelog

0.1.2

• Support the DSH >= 0.1.7-alpha.2 label, which moved out of [role="status"] and into button[data-turn-process].
• Release the label on turn end so the final Worked for 12s is never clobbered.
• Restore the label synchronously on React's per-second duration rewrite.
• Never touch the visually hidden screen-reader announcement.
• Wrap the effect in try/catch so a surprise cannot break the chat view.
• 29 new phrases (125 total).

0.1.1

• First public release. 96 phrases.

Credits

• Architecture inspired by ldgeng/dsh-claudecode-tips (MIT).
• Built for DeepSeek Harness.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.