DeepSeek Harness billing plugin

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A DeepSeek Harness plugin that shows your DeepSeek account balance, this session's (this conversation's) billed spend, and today's total spend across all sessions directly in the web session header.

The balance is the real GET /user/balance figure; the session and today spends price each message's billed tokens at the official peak/off-peak rates and are estimates, not billing promises.

What it shows

• Session-header badge — two lines: remaining balance (剩余额度：¥X) and this conversation's billed spend (本轮对话花费：¥X).
• Detail panel — the remaining amount, this session's spend (本会话花费) with today's all-session spend beside it (今日共花费), one priced row per model (缓存命中 ¥X · 未命中输入 ¥Y · 输出 ¥Z), plus a manual refresh action and a spend disclaimer.
• Failures and empty states — a session or day without priced usage shows "no usage recorded" instead of a fabricated figure; a missing key, rejected credential, or transport error renders a muted "Balance unavailable" whose tooltip carries the Remote's own error message.

Data update mechanics

• Session spend follows the conversation — on every new message in the current session, the badge recomputes only this session's spend and today's spend (purely local pricing, no network request), so the spend lines stay live during an ongoing conversation.
• Balance stays manual — the balance is account-level data, queried only on mount, session switch, the manual refresh action, or a browser reload; there is no polling and it does not track account changes by itself.
• Old values survive refreshes — a failed refresh keeps the last good value instead of blanking it.

Preview

Package layout

Prerequisites

• DeepSeek Harness (dsh) — the plugin runs inside a dsh profile.
• A DeepSeek API key — the balance is read from the DeepSeek API, so every user needs their own key.

Installation

📌 About this repository: this repo is the plugin's only distribution
source — the official deepseek-harness
repository does not ship the billing plugin. It was briefly integrated into
this user's fork, which has since been reverted to the official commit
(141eb6fef8); this repo no longer depends on any fork.

Installation (published to npm, one command)

The three packages are published to npm under the @rayadesu scope. Install
the bundle plus the two plugin packages in one command (the bundle declares the
two plugin packages as peer dependencies, which pnpm does not auto-install into
the profile, so they must be named explicitly):

dsh plugin --profile web add @rayadesu/dsh-billing @rayadesu/dsh-llm-billing @rayadesu/dsh-client-ui-billing

Manual rows (only when you do not want the bundle):

# ~/.dsh/profiles/web/cordis.patch.yml
- insert:
    - id: llm-billing
      name: '@rayadesu/dsh-llm-billing'
    - id: ui-billing
      name: '@rayadesu/dsh-client-ui-billing'

Dependency notes

The two plugin packages declare the DeepSeek Harness packages they build on
(@deepseek-ai/cordis, @deepseek-ai/dsh-credentials, @deepseek-ai/dsh-session,
and the client runtime packages) as peerDependencies at ^0.1.0-rc.8. A dsh
profile does not auto-install peers, so these are provided by the dsh
installation itself through the profiles/node_modules fallback rather than
fetched from the registry — no extra packages to install, and no registry token
needed on the installing machine.

Configure your DeepSeek API key

Either fill it in on the web "Models" page (writes DEEPSEEK_API_KEY into ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml), or export it:

export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-...

Restart

dsh web

Configuration

Both packages ship sane defaults; everything below is optional.

Host (llm-billing)

How session spend is computed

• Each assistant/message event reports three billed token buckets: cache-hit input, cache-miss input (uncached input + cache writes), and output (including reasoning).
• Each message is priced at the peak/off-peak rate of its own Beijing-time hour, the three buckets are billed separately (缓存命中 ¥X · 未命中输入 ¥Y · 输出 ¥Z), then summed per model. Peak windows apply weekdays (Monday–Friday) only; weekends are always off-peak.
• Today's spend aggregates every session's events on the current Beijing-time calendar day with the same pricing rules; event dates are also assigned in Beijing time.
• Models without a rate row are not priced (the built-in catalog currently has the three V4 rows: V4 Flash, V4 Pro, and V4 Flash Vision Exp). Rates follow the DeepSeek pricing effective August 17; the weekend-off-peak rule (weekends billed at off-peak prices all day) follows the adjustment effective August 23.

Known limitations

• Priced rows only — the session and today spends only price models that have a billing.models row.
• On-demand read — today's spend reads every session's full event log on each refresh, so cost grows with total log size.
• Balance does not follow automatically — the balance stays a manual snapshot (no polling); spending from another client does not move the shown value until a refresh or browser reload.
• Estimate, not a promise — the session spend prices tokens at official rates; the provider's actual billing prevails.

License

MIT