A native DeepSeek Harness plugin that streams a live Android device (emulator or USB) into the chat and exposes 20 adb-driven agent tools — screenshots, UI taps, Gradle build & run, OCR, logcat and diagnostics — through signed in-process routes.
DSH integration
Native runtime
Author-claimed
Safety audit
Unaudited
Last verified
2026-08-25
License
MIT
01What can it help you accomplish?
Drive a live Android emulator or USB phone from inside a DSH conversation
A live in-process device stream plus 20 agent tools for screenshots, UI taps, Gradle build & run, OCR, logcat and process inspection
Mobile developers and agents who want to build, run and inspect Android apps without leaving DeepSeek Harness
Build, install and launch a Gradle app on the device
A debug APK built via ./gradlew assembleDebug, installed with adb install -r, and launched live in the panel
Android engineers who want the agent to drive the build-and-run loop
Inspect UI, text and logs through vision and debug tools
uiautomator UI-tree with element taps, OCR find / tap / wait for text, logcat snapshot or follow, process backtraces and meminfo
QA and automation engineers who need to drive and observe a real device's UI and state
02How to install into DeepSeek Harness
Prerequisites
- Node ≥ 24.11.0.
- adb from the Android SDK platform-tools, resolved via the ADB env var, PATH, or ANDROID_HOME
- A device: an emulator of any product, or a phone with USB debugging enabled.
- DSH ≥ 0.1.0-rc.6 with the web bundle for the panel.
- A macOS host for OCR (only android_find_text / android_tap_text / android_wait_for need it)
Installation steps
- 01
$ dsh plugin --profile web add @zseven-w/dsh-android@latest
- 02
$ dsh web
- 03
pnpm add @zseven-w/dsh-android
Verify the integration
Not specified by the author
03DSH integration and capability boundaries
Native DSH plugin: install via the dsh CLI and it registers 20 adb-driven agent tools and a live in-process device stream into the web conversation.
Live device stream & sidebar panel
an online adb serial or an AVD name→an in-process multipart/x-mixed-replace PNG stream rendered in a persistent sidebar panel
spawns a persistent `adb exec-out` screencap child while a stream is liveGradle build & run
a Gradle project path→a debug APK built via ./gradlew assembleDebug, installed with adb install -r, and launched on the device
UI tree, element & OCR taps
resource-id / text / content-description or an OCR screen query→uiautomator UI-tree nodes, element-center taps, and OCR find / tap / wait results
Logs, processes & diagnostics
a device serial and an optional bundle_id / filter→logcat snapshot / follow, running process list, ANR / crash backtrace, meminfo and app info
04Who is it for? When not to use it?
Good for
- Mobile developers and agents who want to build, run and inspect Android apps without leaving DeepSeek Harness
- Android engineers who want the agent to drive the build-and-run loop
- QA and automation engineers who need to drive and observe a real device's UI and state
Not for
- OCR tools (android_find_text / android_tap_text / android_wait_for) require a macOS host with Apple's Vision framework; on Linux and Windows they report that OCR needs the macOS Vision framework, while the other 17 tools are unaffected.
05Compatibility, maintenance and safety notes
- OCR tools (android_find_text / android_tap_text / android_wait_for) require a macOS host with Apple's Vision framework; on Linux and Windows they report that OCR needs the macOS Vision framework, while the other 17 tools are unaffected.
- Non-ASCII / CJK / emoji typing needs the optional ADBKeyboard IME on the device; `adb shell input text` is ASCII-only, so without it the plugin refuses non-ASCII typing with an install hint rather than silently dropping characters.
- `android_shutdown` cannot power off a physical phone — adb has no such verb — so the tool refuses with the reason instead of pretending.
MIT · freshly published (repo created 2026-08-21, last push 2026-08-21); README cites current plugin release 0.1.0-rc.4, tested with DSH 0.1.1-rc.1
06Frequently asked questions
How do I install DSH Android into DeepSeek Harness?
Run `dsh plugin --profile web add @zseven-w/dsh-android@latest`, then `dsh web` to open the web UI where the live device panel appears. You can also add `@zseven-w/dsh-android` as a dependency of an existing profile package with pnpm.
What are the requirements?
You need Node ≥ 24.11.0, adb from the Android SDK platform-tools (resolved via the ADB env var, PATH, or ANDROID_HOME), and a device — an emulator or a USB phone with debugging enabled. The web panel needs DSH ≥ 0.1.0-rc.6 with the web bundle.
Does it need a real phone or can it use an emulator?
Either works. adb treats emulators and phones identically through one code path; pass an online serial to stream it, or an AVD name to `android_boot` and the plugin launches and streams that emulator once it finishes booting.
Which tools require macOS?
Only android_find_text, android_tap_text and android_wait_for use Apple's Vision OCR framework, so they need a macOS host. On Linux and Windows those three report that OCR needs macOS; the other 17 tools work everywhere.
How is the device stream kept safe?
The stream is produced in-process and served only through signed, loopback-fenced `/_dsh/dsh-android/*` routes; every capability requires a loopback peer, a loopback Host header, and same-origin Fetch-Metadata/Origin checks, with HMAC-SHA256 capabilities that expire within 10 minutes.
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08Data and sources
DSH Android gives the agent a real Android device inside the conversation — and gives you the pixels.
All 20 tools are registered on every host and return plain JSON — visual bytes reach the UI only through `presentationMe…
This page is generated from the project’s public documentation, repository metadata and a structured parse of DSH Plugins; last verified on 2026-08-25. Found an error? Submit a correction.
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