dsh-theme-cutout-clash

English

Cutout Clash is a selectable neo-brutalist/pop-art theme bundle for DeepSeek Harness Web. It keeps conversation content calm while adding expressive shell, Composer, Goal, and transition surfaces. The Client Store compatibility path targets DSH 0.1.2+, with a legacy runtime fallback for older RC hosts.

中文

Cutout Clash 是面向 DeepSeek Harness Web 的可选择新粗野主义 / 波普艺术主题包：保持会话内容安静易读，同时增强 Shell、Composer、Goal 和转场表面。优先使用 DSH 0.1.2+ 的 Client Store，并为旧版 RC 保留 runtime 回退。

Cutout Clash 0.5.9 is a standalone selectable DSH Web theme bundle built around original neo-brutalist and pop-art composition. It is a companion to dsh-theme-acid-noir; neither plugin replaces or patches the other.

Visual system

The theme follows Loud edge, calm center:

• Sidebar, selection, Composer, Goal, and the transient theme transition carry the expressive geometry.
• Conversation text, Markdown, terminals, diffs, code metrics, scroll geometry, and streaming content remain level and quiet.
• Tool and Think surfaces use a narrow semantic state rail instead of a heavy shadow on every card.
• Semantic states cover Goal/Todo text, inline code, distinct workspace-expanded and active-session states, Subagent popup hover, task-management hover, Settings navigation, Composer command controls, and the context dialog without relying on CSS-module hash names.
• Settings content buttons retain their plugin-owned semantic foregrounds: a theme never flattens every dialog button to ordinary label text, so primary Save/Upgrade controls preserve the foreground paired with their fill token.
• Produced-file chips keep their own controls, but the row behind them is transparent so the deliverables line does not read as another selected state.
• Inline links are scoped to the conversation prose plane and use variant-specific, explicitly underlined link pairs: bright cyan/yellow on Night and deep blue/red on Pop. The explicit decoration line is required because DSH's base Markdown link style resets text-decoration-line to none; setting only decoration color and thickness does not render a highlight. Navigation, buttons, file chips, and plugin chrome are not recolored as prose links.
• DSH's official Markdown renderer automatically turns an inline-code token whose complete value is an absolute HTTP(S) URL into <code><a></a></code>, including inside tight or loose list items. The theme therefore pairs every code:not(pre code) a[href] with the code chip foreground without assuming a paragraph parent.
• When DSH's file-mention provider recognizes an inline-code path, the same renderer emits <code><button type="button" title aria-label></button></code>. The theme targets this stable semantic structure—not its CSS-module hash—so clickable file paths inherit the code chip foreground and retain an explicit underline in normal and hover states.
• The Composer never receives a transform on hover, so its native context dialog retains DSH's original containing block and placement.
• No external fonts, images, audio, network assets, game marks, or character assets are included.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-theme-cutout-clash
dsh web

Then open Settings → General → Cutout Clash theme.

Available choices:

• Default appearance — follow the DSH built-in appearance.
• Cutout Clash — warm paper, lime action, pink events, cyan signal.
• Night Cutout — ink-blue Voltage palette with yellow and cyan hierarchy; filled yellow controls use dark foregrounds, while dark selected navigation uses light text.
• Pop Signal — warm Press palette with print blue, red, and yellow.

Motion and lifecycle

• DSH currently exposes no public app/ready, shell/ready, or boot/ready Client event. shell.overlay is declared by AppFrame and therefore cannot cover the frame before AppFrame's first render.
• A saved Cutout theme installs a small viewport-fixed early curtain as soon as the Client bundle script executes. The curtain is already present before [data-dsh-frame] mounts; after Theme Runtime restores the saved tokens and the official shell Slot is available, it reveals and removes itself.
• Ordinary theme switches keep an additive shell.overlay lifecycle anchor, while the visual Plate is mounted directly under document.body. At a normal z-index: 90 it escapes AppFrame's stacking context and covers shell content, yet sits below DSH's popup bands (menus at 100, dialogs at 1000, toasts at 1100), so menus, dialogs, toasts, and third-party overlays can cover the transition.
• Boot reveal cleanup has its own timer channel, so a simultaneous Theme Runtime event cannot cancel removal and leave an opaque curtain over the restored application. The pre-Cordis curtain also owns an independent 2.5-second watchdog that performs the same reveal and removal if any Client plugin load failure prevents the Cutout Fiber from applying.
• Two geometric plates and one registration band perform a short non-blocking cover/reveal sequence.
• The overlay is always pointer-events: none.
• A monotonically increasing generation cancels stale timers during rapid switching.
• Motion is selectable in Settings: 完整转场 / Full motion, 跟随系统 / Follow system, or 关闭转场 / Motion off. Existing Cutout users default to Full motion so a browser-level reduced-motion flag does not silently hide the requested theme effect; users can choose Follow system at any time.
• prefers-reduced-motion: reduce is honored when Follow system is selected; Full motion is an explicit user override, and Motion off is synchronous.
• No transcript node, code line, terminal output, diff, or streamed token receives entrance motion.
• Theme registrations, Slot entries, style nodes, timers, and body markers all belong to the plugin lifecycle and are removed on stop/unload.

Preference coordination

Acid Noir and Cutout Clash now share the versioned browser record dsh.theme.preference.v1. Legacy keys are read only for migration. A selected theme writes one record, and Default clears it, so a DSH restart has one unambiguous custom-theme owner instead of two competing restorers.

DSH's built-in appearance scope can re-emit its durable light / dark / system preference when any Settings section is saved. If that refresh transiently replaces an active Cutout theme, the plugin restores the still-selected custom preference on the next task without requiring F5. This administrative recovery path is explicitly silent: it cancels any pending Plate and never plays the cover/reveal animation. Only cold boot and an intentional theme change animate. An explicit click on a built-in appearance choice or either theme family's Default button clears the custom record first, so intentional switching is never fought.

The motion choice is stored separately as dsh-theme-cutout-clash.motion.