dsh-netcafe-img

Image generation and visual artifacts for DeepSeek Harness — with a free trial, no key, no signup.

What you get

Tool	What it does
text_to_image	Prompt → image. First generation free (anonymous trial); afterwards billed per call at real upstream cost, reported in every response. Failed generations are never charged.
make_chart / render_diagram	Data → chart PNG, mermaid → SVG — deterministic and free forever. The URL is embeddable: paste it in a README and it renders live.
make_qr / make_badge / split_spritesheet	QR codes, status badges, spritesheet cutting — free forever.
what_can_you_do	Describe the visual you need (any language) → the exact tool + a ready-to-run call.

What's in this pack

8 tools, read from the live endpoint on 2026-08-22 — this table is generated, not hand-written, so it cannot drift away from what tools/list actually returns. The Arguments column is what the tool genuinely reads; it comes from the tool's own declared input schema.

Tool	What it does	Arguments	Price / call
what_can_you_do	Describe a task in plain language (any language) and get back exactly which tools on this server do it, with ready-	task	—
split_spritesheet	Cut a packed sprite sheet / texture atlas into separate transparent PNGs, returned as a zip. Give rows and cols for	url, rows, cols, margin	$0.004
make_qr	Any text or URL → a QR code PNG you can embed or download. Stateless URL form: https://ainetcafe.com/i/qr/	text	$0.001
text_to_image	Text prompt → a generated image, returned as a hosted URL you can embed straight into Markdown, HTML or a chat repl	prompt, aspect	—
make_badge	Label + message + colour → a shields.io-style badge SVG, plus a ready-to-paste Markdown embed line. Stateless URL f	label, message, color	$0.001
make_chart	Labels + values (or a full Chart.js config) → a chart PNG URL. Bar, line, pie, radar, scatter. Stateless URL form f	labels, values, type, config	$0.002
render_diagram	Turn diagram-as-code into an image: Mermaid, PlantUML, Graphviz/DOT, C4, Excalidraw and 20+ more (self-hosted Kroki	source, type, format	—
check_job	Get the status or result of a job started by deep_research, translate_pdf, or make_slides. Poll every 15-30 seconds	job_id	—

— in the price column means the tool is not metered per call (session/trial-gated instead). Failed calls are never charged. Check it yourself:

curl -s -X POST https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/img -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Install

dsh plugin --profile <your-profile> add github:mario03690/dsh-imagegen

Thin config layer only (one @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client row) — no tool code on your machine. Built against the dsh v0.1 developer preview's MCP client config shape (2026-08-13); breaks later → open an issue, same-day fix.

Cost, quota, privacy

Free anonymous quota covers the trial; every response reports its exact USD cost; failed calls are not charged. Prompts are processed in memory and not retained. The config URL carries ?s=dsh-img — a channel tag identifying the install path, not you.

Disclosure: built and run by the team behind ainetcafe.com — our own service, free tier plus paid usage. Full bundle: dsh-netcafe. MIT.

Compatibility & permissions (at a glance)

Signal	This plugin
Runtime	dsh v0.1 developer preview (2026-08-13, Cordis v4). Touches only the MCP client config shape — the narrowest surface available. Verified against a live endpoint on 2026-08-17.
What runs locally	Nothing. Ships one cordis.patch.yml row; there is no tool code, no build step and no lifecycle script in this package.
Filesystem access	None.
Shell / process access	None.
Network access	Outbound HTTPS to ainetcafe.com only, from the MCP client that dsh already ships.
Credentials	None required. No signup, no API key for the free tier. An optional AllRouter key, if you supply one, is sent by dsh as a request header and is never stored by us.
Data retention	Documents and prompts are processed in memory and not retained.
Dependencies	One peer dependency: @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client (ships with dsh).
License	MIT (see LICENSE).
Publisher	The team that runs ainetcafe.com — our own hosted service, free tier plus paid usage. Issues get a same-day reply.

A directory listing is not a security review. Read cordis.patch.yml — it is short enough to read in full in under a minute.