Supercharging DeepSeek Harness: Bringing Claude Pro/Max with One-Click Google/Gmail OAuth Login and Real-Time Quota Tracking

ofek v — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:01:15 +0000

1. Introduction: The Subscription Dilemma in Modern Agent Frameworks

DeepSeek Harness (DSH) has quickly established itself as one of the most capable, modular agent orchestration environments. Built on an extensible Cordis architecture where every feature â€” from persistence and sandboxing to tools and UI components â€” is a hot-pluggable plugin, DSH allows developers to assemble tailored autonomous coding environments.

However, many AI developers face a common friction point: how do you use your existing Claude subscription in DSH?

Millions of developers subscribe to Claude Pro or Claude Max directly through claude.ai. These subscriptions include substantial usage allowances, but they authenticate via browser OAuth rather than raw developer console API keys. Previously, attempting to use Claude in DSH meant:

Being forced to open a terminal, run claude login, and hope local files were parsed correctly.
Manually dumping tokens and editing YAML configuration files.
Dealing with silent token expiry without any visual feedback.
If you originally signed up with "Continue with Google" (Gmail), there was no native UI in DSH Settings to authenticate.

To eliminate this friction once and for all, I built and open-sourced dsh-claude-oauth â€” a complete, production-grade DSH plugin that provides a native Claude Settings section with one-click Google / Gmail sign-in, auto-refreshing tokens, live model discovery, and real-time subscription quota tracking.

2. Visual Walkthrough: How It Looks in DSH

Here is the native Settings interface that dsh-claude-oauth contributes to DeepSeek Harness:

What You See in Settings

Dedicated Navigation Entry: Positioned at order 13 in the Settings sidebar, sitting cleanly alongside Antigravity (Google Gemini) and OpenAI Codex.
Account Status Card: When authenticated, displays your linked Google/Gmail address, subscription tier pill (CLAUDE MAX or CLAUDE PRO), and active connection status.
Live Subscription Quota Bars: Shows real-time utilization for both the 5-Hour and 7-Day subscription windows with live countdown timers until reset.
Active Model Catalog: Displays available models (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet) verified live from Anthropic's API.

3. Architecture Deep-Dive: How It Works

Under the hood, dsh-claude-oauth is divided into two cooperative halves: a Host plugin running in Node.js and a Web Client plugin running in the browser.

3.1 The PKCE Loopback Flow & The Windows IPv6 Pitfall

When you click "Sign in with Google / Gmail":

The client opens a tab pointing to /api/anthropic-oauth/login.
The host generates a cryptographically random 32-byte PKCE code verifier and computes its SHA-256 code challenge (S256), along with a random CSRF state token.
The host binds an ephemeral HTTP callback listener on localhost:0.

Here is a critical engineering detail: Windows localhost resolution.
On modern Windows systems, localhost often resolves to IPv6 ::1 before IPv4 127.0.0.1. A server that only binds to 127.0.0.1 will result in ECONNREFUSED when the browser redirects back to http://localhost:<port>/callback.

dsh-claude-oauth implements a dual-stack listener that binds both IPv4 and IPv6 on the identical ephemeral port:

server4 = http.createServer(handler)
await new Promise((res) => server4.listen(0, '127.0.0.1', res))
resolvedPort = server4.address().port

try {
  server6 = http.createServer(handler)
  await new Promise((res) => server6.listen(resolvedPort, '::1', res))
} catch {}

The user is redirected to https://claude.ai/oauth/authorize.
On the Claude sign-in screen, the user chooses "Continue with Google" and selects their Gmail account.
Once authorized, Anthropic redirects back to http://localhost:<port>/callback?code=...&state=....
The loopback server verifies the state, exchanges the authorization code for tokens via https://claude.ai/v1/oauth/token, and queries https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/profile to retrieve the user's Gmail address and subscription tier.

3.2 Multi-Store Credential Synchronization

To prevent isolated silos, dsh-claude-oauth synchronizes credentials across all relevant stores upon authentication:

~/.claude/.credentials.json: Writes the claudeAiOauth session (access token, refresh token, expiry, scopes, email). This ensures the official Claude Code CLI also recognizes the login!
~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml: Mounts ANTHROPIC_OAUTH_TOKEN and CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN into the native DSH credential resolution seam.
~/.dsh/settings.yaml: Automatically declares llm-pi-ai.providers.anthropic with the live discovered model list.
~/.dsh/plugins/subscriptions/auth.json: Syncs with the multi-provider subscriptions store so other plugins stay updated.

3.3 Real-Time Unified Rate Limit Probing

Anthropic attaches its unified subscription rate-limit headers only to inference responses (POST /v1/messages), never to catalog endpoints (/v1/models).

To provide live 5-hour and 7-day usage readouts without burning quota, dsh-claude-oauth executes an ultra-cheap max_tokens: 1 probe using Claude 3.5 Haiku:

const res = await fetch('https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: await claudeCodeHeaders(accessToken, OAUTH_DISCOVERY_BETAS),
  body: JSON.stringify({
    model: 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001',
    max_tokens: 1,
    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'hi' }]
  })
})

From this single-token response, it extracts:

anthropic-ratelimit-unified-5h-utilization
anthropic-ratelimit-unified-5h-reset
anthropic-ratelimit-unified-7d-utilization
anthropic-ratelimit-unified-7d-reset

These values are cached with a 60-second TTL and rendered into smooth, color-coded progress bars (green below 70%, amber 70â€“89%, red 90%+).

4. How to Install and Use

Step 1: Install the Plugin

Run this command from your terminal:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:grloper/dsh-claude-oauth

Step 2: Open Settings & Sign In

Start DSH Web: dsh web
Click the gear icon in the lower-left corner to open Settings.
Click on Claude (Anthropic).
Click "Sign in with Google / Gmail".
Select your Google/Gmail account and click Authorize.
The browser confirms success; return to DSH and see your account and quota live!

Step 3: Start Coding with Claude

Open any session and select Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Claude 3.7 Sonnet from the composer model picker.

To make Claude your default agent model across all sessions, set it in ~/.dsh/settings.yaml:

agent-default-model:
  provider: anthropic
  model: claude-sonnet-4-5

5. Conclusion & Open Source Repository

DeepSeek Harness provides an outstanding foundation for autonomous AI coding. With dsh-claude-oauth, utilizing your existing Claude Pro or Max subscription with Google/Gmail login is now as frictionless as a single click.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/grloper/dsh-claude-oauth
License: MIT
Contributions: Pull requests, feature suggestions, and bug reports are warmly welcomed!

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