Nine tabs, one agent: a full research lab inside dsh

What it does

Mimir is a dsh-mimir plugin for DeepSeek Harness that turns the dsh web UI into a nine-view research workbench. It covers the full lifecycle: an Overleaf-style LaTeX editor with compile-to-preview, arXiv and web literature search with AI relevance scoring, experiment metric charts, figure management, one-click group-meeting slide decks, GPU fleet probing and remote SSH job submission, a humanized research journal with auto-captured idea evolution, and a CCF conference deadline countdown. Every view refreshes live over SSE as the agent writes, so the UI stays in sync with backend state without manual reloads.

The interesting bit

Instead of treating the agent as a chatbot that dumps text into a sidebar, Mimir gives the agent actual UI primitives—slash commands like /paper-compile and tools like server_submit_job that mutate the same state the human sees. The agent and the user are essentially sharing a single research IDE, which is a more honest model of “AI copilot” than most.

Key highlights

• Nine integrated views: Overview, Paper, Library, Experiments, Figures, Meetings, Servers, Ledger, and Venues.
• Native agent tools for literature search, LaTeX compilation, figure extraction, meeting-deck generation, and remote GPU job orchestration.
• SSE live refresh pushes agent edits to the browser in real time.
• Eleven bundled research skills (literature review, novelty check, rebuttal, bilingual polish) to bootstrap workflow-aware agents.
• A community-maintained standalone Electron edition (Mimir-Desktop) exists if you prefer not to run dsh.

Caveats

• Requires the dsh CLI and a DEEPSEEK_API_KEY; it is fundamentally a plugin, not a standalone service.
• LaTeX compilation depends on an external engine such as Tectonic; the plugin probes for it but does not bundle it.
• Version compatibility is strict—recent Mimir releases need matching dsh alpha versions, and the plugin store can lag behind npm publishes.

Verdict

Researchers already running DeepSeek Harness should treat this as the missing UI layer for their agent. If you are not in the dsh ecosystem, the standalone desktop fork is worth watching, but the tight agent integration is where the value lies.