Spritely

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Your spritely work companion — a floating mascot for the dsh web UI that reacts to the agent's live work state.

Spritely (formerly the ui-sprite plugin) is a dsh client plugin that drops a small, animated character into the corner of the web interface. It watches the agent's activity — idle, thinking, writing, running tools, waiting on you, erroring, or finishing a run — and plays a matching pose, tracks your cursor with its eyes, and can be dragged anywhere.

Four characters: Blob · Bot · Cat · Ghost

Features

• Four switchable characters — Blob (blue ball), Bot (mint robot), Cat (amber kitty), Ghost (violet specter), each with its own body and eye style.
• Live work-state poses — idle, thinking, writing, working, waiting, error, and a brief celebration when a run settles.
• Cursor-tracking eyes — pupils follow the mouse (rAF-throttled).
• Draggable — grab and move the mascot anywhere; reset returns it to the corner.
• Customizable background — solid colors, gradients, image URLs, and local image upload, with fit (contain / stretch) and a fade veil for legibility.
• Sci-fi HUD styling — the menu and panels use a fixed dark holographic palette with a cyan neon frame.
• Persisted — your character, background, and position survive reloads.

Install

Spritely is a dsh client plugin (dsh.client, not a dsh.bundle). It ships prebuilt artifacts (lib/), so it installs from git or a local checkout without any build step. Activating it in a dsh profile takes two steps:

1. Install the package into the profile.

# from git
dsh plugin --profile <name> add github:wang-junjian/spritely

# or from a local checkout
dsh plugin --profile <name> add ./spritely

2. Register a row in the browser plugin roster. Because Spritely declares dsh.client rather than dsh.bundle, dsh plugin add installs it as a plain dependency (printing "activates no layer") and does not register a row for you. Add this row to your profile's patch layer at ~/.dsh/profiles/<name>/cordis.patch.yml:

- insert:
    - id: ui-sprite
      name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-sprite'

The plugin carries its own dsh.client metadata (platform: web plus its inject edges), so once the row is present the host Loader scans it, serves /plugins/ui-sprite/client.js, and injects it into window.__DSH_BOOT__ automatically.

Its peer dependencies (@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-runtime, dsh-client-ui-layout, dsh-client-locale, …) are in-box dsh packages resolved from the dsh installation itself — they need not be installed separately.

Usage

Click the mascot to open its menu:

• New session — start a new session (default workspace flow).
• Reset position — return the mascot to its default corner.
• Set background — open the background console (colors, gradients, image URL, local upload, scale, fade).
• Switch sprite — pick one of the four characters.

Characters

Character	Look	Palette
Blob	round ball + antenna star	blue
Bot	rounded head + LED eyes	mint green
Cat	triangular ears + vertical pupils + whiskers	amber
Ghost	wavy hem + big round eyes	violet

Development

npm install          # installs dsh peer dependencies + dev tooling
npm run build        # tsc (types) + tsdown (node-half lib + browser client bundle)
npm test             # vitest
npm run watch        # tsdown --watch

The build emits the node-half library (lib/index.js, lib/invariant.js) and the browser client bundle (lib/client.js) in dsh's __ModuleLoader__ closure-factory format, with CSS Modules inlined by lightningcss.

License

MIT