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Highlights

• Six official filters — Monokai Pro, Classic, Octagon, Ristretto, Spectrum and Machine, selectable as swatches in the settings row (dark scheme only, exactly like the real product).
• Warm charcoal surfaces — #2D2A2E workspace, #221F22 sidebar/status/title, #19181A deepest chrome, #403E41 widgets, panels, menus and inputs. Every filter maps its own background/dark1/dark2/dimmed5 roles onto these.
• Monokai text ladder — #FCFCFA primary, #C1C0C0 secondary, #939293 tertiary, #727072 captions, #5B595C dimmed, each taken from the active filter.
• Six-color accent family — yellow #FFD866 brand and primary action, pink #FF6188 errors, orange #FC9867 warnings, green #A9DC76 success, cyan #78DCE8 info, purple #AB9DF2 constants.
• Monokai syntax highlighting — pink keywords, yellow strings, green functions, purple constants, orange parameters and grey comments.
• Complete chrome — yellow accent wash for active and hover states, themed focus rings, scrollbars, toasts, tooltips and diffs.
• Code-first typography — Avenir Next → Inter → Segoe UI Variable Text in the UI, JetBrains Mono → Cascadia Code → Fira Code → SF Mono in code. A user font chosen in Settings → General → Font settings still wins.
• Light mode included — the official Monokai Pro Light counterpart (#FAF4F2 canvas, #EDE7E5 sidebar, #29242A text), so switching Appearance to Light never leaves half-themed surfaces. Filters apply to dark only.

What is DSH?

DeepSeek Harness (DSH) boots a profile — an ordered stack of plugin-bundle patch layers on top of a DeepSeek app (web GUI, TUI, headless…). This package is one of those plugin bundles: it carries no Host code, only a Client half that injects the theme into the Web GUI.

Installation

Requirements

• A working DSH install (dsh on your PATH) with a profile that includes the Web GUI, e.g. web.
• No build step and no peer dependencies — client.js ships as written.

From npm (recommended)

dsh plugin --profile <name> add dsh-monokai-pro

For the default Web GUI profile that is:

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-monokai-pro

The package is dsh-monokai-pro on the npm registry; dsh plugin … add delegates to pnpm, so npm/pnpm dist-tags and version ranges work the same way.

From GitHub

The npm package and this repository are published in lockstep — installing from npm is always the easier path. To hack on the theme instead, clone the repo and install it from the local directory:

git clone https://github.com/trespassmk/dsh-monokai-pro.git
dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-monokai-pro

After installing

1. Reload the Web page once after installing or updating the bundle, so the browser loads the current client.js generation.
2. Open Settings → General — the Monokai Pro row sits after Transcript view.
3. The switch is on by default on first install, and that first activation also sets the appearance preference to Dark. Turning the switch off removes the token layer immediately and leaves the built-in palette in place.
4. Pick a filter with the swatches under the description: each dot previews the variant's canvas (lower-left half) and its pink accent (upper-right half).

Updating & removal

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-monokai-pro@latest   # update
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-monokai-pro       # remove

The switch state and the filter choice are browser-local (localStorage, keys dsh.plugin.monokai-pro.enabled and dsh.plugin.monokai-pro.variant). The theme service persists only the built-in light / dark / system preference, so a third-party layer cannot store its own id in the Host settings document — the palette itself always reapplies on reload.

How it works

• client.js calls ctx.theme.overrideTokens(packageId, tokens) — a stacked alias-token layer over whatever built-in theme is active. Removing the layer restores exactly the tokens it covered; the base palette is never edited.
• buildTokens(palette) derives the whole layer from one filter's palette object, so adding a variant is adding twelve hex values, not touching the token map.
• Every value is supplied as a { light, dark } pair, as the theme service requires.
• The row is contributed to the settings.general.item slot and uses only --dsw-alias-* tokens plus role="switch" / aria-checked / aria-pressed semantics.
• index.js is an empty Host half; the bundle exists so the profile can carry the Client row and the plugin stays visible in the plugin inventory.

Palette reference

The Pro filter below is reverse-engineered from the official Monokai Pro VS Code extension (theme-monokai-pro-vscode 2.0.16, themes/Monokai Pro.json and Monokai Pro Light.json, kept in this repo as Monokai Pro-reference.json). The other five filters are transcribed from the official palettes as mirrored by monokai-pro.nvim (lua/monokai-pro/palette/*.lua), whose Pro and Light entries match the extension JSON value-for-value. Every value used by the token layer traces to one of these hexes or to an alpha step the reference itself uses — no invented colors remain in the dark scheme.

Role	Pro dark	Light
Background deepest	#19181A	#E0DAD9 (activity)
Background deep	#221F22	#EDE7E5 (sidebar/status)
Background	#2D2A2E	#FAF4F2
Surface	#403E41	#FEFAF9
Border	#5B595C	#D3CDCC
Focus	#727072	#A59FA0
Text soft	#C1C0C0	#706B6E
Text subtle	#939293	#918C8E
Text dimmed	#727072	#BFB9BA
Foreground	#FCFCFA	#29242A
Pink	#FF6188	#E14775
Orange	#FC9867	#E16032
Yellow	#FFD866	#CC7A0A
Green	#A9DC76	#269D69
Cyan	#78DCE8	#1C8CA8
Purple	#AB9DF2	#7058BE

Detail washes follow the reference's own alpha steps rather than round-number approximations: diff lines and gutters use the accent at 19 alpha, hover and line-highlight washes 0C, selections and scrollbar thumbs 26, the active scrollbar 59, and drop targets deep + BF (#221F22BF).

Files

package.json              bundle manifest, client export, locale and icon exports
cordis.patch.yml          inserts the monokai-pro row
index.js                  empty Host half
client.js                 filter palettes, token layer, settings row, row styles
locale/en.json            plugin inventory metadata (English)
locale/zh.json            plugin inventory metadata (Chinese)
icon.svg                  original mark: Monokai "M" over the six-color palette
docs/filters.svg          README preview of the six filter palettes
Monokai Pro-reference.json  official extension theme JSON used as color reference

License

MIT