ASCetic

A compact ASCII / terminal theme for DeepSeek Harness.
_{ASCII + ascetic: nothing extra, everything drawn in characters.}

Features

• Terminal look. Monospace everywhere, square box-drawing chrome, hard drop shadows, Markdown that reads like source.
• 19 palettes. Retro monitors (phosphor, amber, ice, mono), vapor, schemes after editor favourites, plus auto and host.
• 3 densities. cozy, compact, dense: rows, spacing and type tighten together.
• Status line. Agent state and turn timer, steps and tok/s, a context meter, tokens and tool calls; click a segment for its details.
• ASCII art. Hero scenes from ascii.rest on empty sessions, a framed New Session button, a retro boot intro with your own logo text.

A session in tokyo-night	terminal chat style on amber, CRT scanlines on
Palette picker with swatches, rose-pine	Boot intro; the logo text is yours to change

Install

Desktop

Open Plugins → Add plugin, paste the address and press Install:

https://github.com/TABmk/dsh-theme-ascetic

Web

dsh plugin --profile web add github:TABmk/dsh-theme-ascetic

Then restart DeepSeek Harness.

Update

Desktop: open Plugins → dsh-theme-ascetic, press Uninstall and add it again.

Web: run the command again. Your settings are kept.

Use

Where	What
ASCII in the status line	Quick menu: palette, density, chat style, hero art, logo text, toggles
pal / den segments	Pickers; the palette list shows each palette's colours
⚙ in the status line	The stock menu: Settings, Feedback, account
Hero art on an empty session	Click for the next art; random draws a new one per session
Settings → General → ASCetic	Every option in one place

Tested on DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.3.

Thanks to ascii.rest

All the ASCII art in ASCetic comes from ascii.rest by bas3line: the hero scenes, the glinting block-letter banner, the chat piece, and the mount() engine that draws the New Session button and the boot intro cell by cell. It is a lovely library, and this theme would be a lot plainer without it. Thank you!

Palettes are inspired by Gruvbox, Nord, Dracula, Catppuccin, Tokyo Night, Rosé Pine, Everforest, Kanagawa and Solarized; colours were adjusted where text needed more contrast.