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Problem

The README described a v1 product and never named DeepSeek Harness above the acknowledgements. Two consequences:

  • It did not match the shipping app. It advertised "task cards," which no longer exist in the v2 code, while omitting every feature that actually distinguishes v2: Automations, the bundled Office skills, the bundled uv toolchain, the native shell, and v1 migration.
  • It sat out its own category. The DSH desktop space is crowded and most entries are launchers for developers who already run DSH. PawWork's position — assembling DSH into a product for people who do not know what DSH is — was never stated, and the term "DeepSeek Harness" appeared only in the acknowledgements.

Verifying the rendered site turned up three more stale facts, all fixed here: the free-model count was hardcoded to 7 while the catalog serves 6; the model showcase listed two models (DeepSeek V4 Flash Free, North Mini Code Free) that models.dev does not serve; and the plan was called "OpenCode Zen" rather than its actual name, OpenCode Free.

Review also caught a claim about a competitor: the comparison marked Claude Desktop (Cowork) as not handling Office files, but Anthropic's documentation says Cowork produces spreadsheets and slides, including Excel files with VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, and multiple tabs. That cell is now Yes in both READMEs and on the site. The pricing cell is unchanged — the help center states Cowork is available on paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) and not on Free.

Review also caught a claim about a competitor: the comparison marked Claude Desktop (Cowork) as not handling Office files, but Anthropic's documentation says Cowork produces spreadsheets and slides, including Excel files with VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, and multiple tabs. That cell is now Yes in both READMEs and on the site. The pricing cell is unchanged — the help center states Cowork is available on paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) and not on Free.

Changes

README.md / README_CN.md — rewritten around the position rather than a feature list:

  • A "What Makes PawWork Different" section contrasting PawWork with the common DSH desktop wrapper on intended user, first launch, interface, Office files, scheduled work, and packaging. The comparison is labeled as a generalization and does not rank other projects.
  • Automations, the Office skills, and the bundled Python toolchain documented as first-class capabilities.
  • The task-cards claim removed.
  • A "What's Inside" section mapping runtime, native shell, product layer, and skills to their paths, for contributors.
  • FAQ extended with the DSH relationship, plugin compatibility, scheduling, and BYOK — kept in Q&A form, which is what answer engines cite.

site/ — title and desc carry the DSH positioning; the free-model count moved out of Home.astro into the copy dictionary and corrected to 6; the model list replaced with the six models the OpenCode Free routes actually resolve, under their catalog display names; "OpenCode Zen" corrected throughout.

site/public/llms.txt — rewritten. It still claimed task cards and said nothing about how PawWork differs from other DSH desktop apps, which is the question an answer engine is most likely to be asked. It now states that difference and describes the runtime accurately.

Brand images — the cover was generic 3D SaaS filler and the OG card was plain text on white; neither carried any mark of the product. Both are redrawn around the character the app icon already establishes.

  • Character. The whale girl is drawn to her established design rather than reinvented: blue gradient hair with a thin ahoge, whale-fin ears, hair ribbon, maid outfit with the blue whale printed on the apron, and the tail emerging at waist height from behind the skirt — not on her head, and not oversized. Proportions are a young adult, not chibi. PawWork's one original contribution to the character is the oversized orange paw gloves, and they are given the space to read as the focal point.
  • Palette. Sampled from icons/source/icon.png rather than invented — #1C3061, #4A6AA2, #F8F3ED ground, with #F45D1A reserved exclusively for the gloves. Nothing else on the canvas is warm, so the gloves stay the only accent.
  • Typography. Set in Bricolage Grotesque at 800/700, instanced from the site's own variable woff2, so the images use the same display face as the h1 and wordmark they advertise. The OG card's copy is now a hierarchy ending in No terminal. No API key. No paid plan. rather than a flat feature line.
  • Localization. README_CN.md gets its own cover: the wordmark stays PawWork (the brand name is not localized) while the tagline is set in PingFang SC Semibold to match the site's zh-CN h1.
  • Formats. Covers ship as WebP (1600x1000, 159 KB each) — GitHub renders it and it halves the byte count at DSSIM 0.005. The OG card deliberately stays PNG (1200x630, 201 KB): WeChat share cards do not render WebP, a large share of PawWork's audience is Chinese-speaking, and an OG image is fetched once per URL and cached, so its size is on nobody's critical path.

CONTRIBUTING.md — repository layout table, per-platform packaging commands, the pnpm-only constraint, and a note that test covers both the Vitest suite and the resources/dsh Node tests.

Verification

  • pnpm --filter @pawwork/site build passes; both / and /zh-CN/ render.
  • Verified in a running browser against the dev server, not just the HTML: the new positioning copy, the corrected count of 6, the six real model names, and "or connect your own provider in settings" all render as intended.
  • The free-model count was confirmed against the live models.dev/api.json catalog using the same predicate as opencode-free.cjs: 5 models on the opencode route plus 1 on opencode-responses, 0 unroutable.
  • All three images confirmed as valid files at their stated dimensions, with legible correctly spelled type (composited deterministically rather than model-rendered), and checked by eye against the app icon for character consistency. Both covers were checked as GitHub actually renders them, not only locally.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added clearer product information about PawWork’s desktop AI agent experience, built-in free models, automations, Office Skills, and provider configuration.
    • Updated the model picker with six current model options and localized model counts.
    • Added documentation covering scheduling, compatibility, downloads, source builds, and frequently asked questions.
    • Added Chinese-language documentation updates and refreshed its cover image.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the website and machine-readable product descriptions to reflect current capabilities, comparisons, architecture, and acknowledgements.
    • Expanded contributor guidance for development, packaging, testing, and verification.

@Astro-Han Astro-Han added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Sep 1, 2026
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PawWork documentation now presents the product as a DeepSeek Harness desktop agent. Contributor guidance, build instructions, website model listings, localization, Automations, and runtime descriptions were updated.

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PawWork product refresh

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Product positioning and capabilities
README.md, README_CN.md, site/public/llms.txt
Updated PawWork positioning, comparisons, Automations, model behavior, plugin support, FAQs, and acknowledgements in English and Chinese content.
Runtime structure and build guidance
CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, README_CN.md
Documented the DSH runtime, Electron shell, product plugins, Office skills, pnpm build commands, packaging responsibilities, test coverage, and repository layout.
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site/src/components/Home.astro, site/src/i18n.ts
Updated the six-model picker, localized model count, comparison label, and English and Chinese website copy.

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68-68: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the model-list footer with runtime behavior.

README.md and README_CN.md state that the free-model catalog refreshes from models.dev at runtime and can change without an app update. These footer strings say the list updates only with PawWork releases. Replace both strings with the runtime-refresh and fallback behavior, or remove the release-only claim.

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In `@site/src/i18n.ts` at line 68, Update both model-list footer entries
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 41-44: Update the Claude Cowork comparison in README.md lines
41-44 and mirror the corrected availability and Office-file claims in
README_CN.md lines 41-44: show Free and Pro availability and Office-file
support. In site/src/i18n.ts lines 75-78, replace c.r4cl with the corrected
pricing text and add a dedicated Claude Office-files localization value instead
of reusing no.

Apply the same fix in `@README.md` at line 41.

Apply the same fix in `@README_CN.md` at line 41.

Apply the same fix in `@site/src/i18n.ts` at line 75.

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Comment thread README.md Outdated
The README described a v1 product and never named DeepSeek Harness above
the acknowledgements, so it neither matched the shipping app nor competed
for the search traffic of the crowded DSH desktop space.

- State the position directly: PawWork assembles a DSH runtime into a
  product for people who do not know what DSH is, versus the common
  wrapper aimed at developers who already run it.
- Document the features that actually differentiate the v2 app and were
  missing entirely: Automations, the bundled Office skills and uv
  toolchain, the native shell, and v1 migration.
- Drop the task-cards claim, which no longer exists in the code.
- Add a "What's Inside" section mapping the runtime, shell, product
  layer, and skills to their paths.
- Correct the site: the free-model count was hardcoded to 7 but the
  models.dev catalog currently serves 6, and the plan is named OpenCode
  Free, not OpenCode Zen. The count now lives in the copy dictionary.
- Give CONTRIBUTING a repository layout table, packaging commands, and
  the pnpm-only constraint.
…osition

The model showcase listed "DeepSeek V4 Flash Free" and "North Mini Code
Free", neither of which the models.dev catalog serves, and showed five
rows beside a count of six. It now lists the six models the OpenCode Free
routes actually resolve, using their catalog display names.

llms.txt still claimed task cards, a feature the v2 code does not have,
and said nothing about how PawWork differs from the other DSH desktop
apps — the single question an answer engine is most likely to be asked
about it. It now states that difference, documents Automations and the
bundled Office skills, and describes the runtime accurately.
The old cover was generic 3D SaaS filler — glass panels, fake UI window
fragments, a light background that matched neither the site nor GitHub
dark mode — and the OG card was plain text on white. Neither carried any
mark of what PawWork actually is.

Both are now one illustration family: a whale wearing orange paw gloves,
working on a document. The whale is the DeepSeek Harness runtime
underneath; the glove is the PawWork product layer that lets it do the
work, drawn as worn equipment rather than markings so the two layers read
apart. The paw pads reuse the app icon's shape language.

Palette is the site's own: #1a1714 ground, #ff6a26 on the gloves as the
only saturated color, #f3ede4 for type and pads. Cover is 1600x1000
(201 KB), OG is 1200x630 (59 KB), both well under the size budget.

Generated with codex imagegen, then composited deterministically so the
type is real text rather than model-rendered glyphs.
…p icon

The previous pass drew a literal whale, which was wrong: the app icon at
packages/desktop-electron/icons/source/icon.png already establishes an
anthropomorphic whale girl, and the cover has to be recognizably the same
character or the brand reads as two unrelated things.

Both images now depict her as the icon does — deep blue gradient hair,
whale-fluke ahoge, whale-fin ears, frilled maid headdress and outfit, and
PawWork's own addition of orange paw gloves with cream pads. She is
working through documents rather than posing, which is what the front
page of a productivity tool should show.

Palette is sampled from the icon rather than invented: #1C3061 deep blue,
#4A6AA2 mid blue, #F45D1A orange on the gloves as the only accent, and an
#F8F3ED cream ground that sits with both the icon and the site's light
theme.

Quantized to 256 colors without dithering, which is visually lossless on
flat cel-shaded art: the cover drops 1.27 MB to 394 KB and the OG card
661 KB to 294 KB. Alt text now describes the illustration.
The cover is 1600x1000 flat cel-shaded art, which WebP encodes far more
efficiently than PNG: 394 KB drops to 151 KB at q92, a 62% saving, with a
DSSIM of 0.005 against the PNG — no visible difference on inspection.
GitHub has rendered WebP in Markdown for years, so nothing regresses.

The OG card deliberately stays PNG. It is fetched by social crawlers
rather than by GitHub, and WeChat's share cards do not render WebP while
LinkedIn has historically had trouble with it. A meaningful share of
PawWork's audience is Chinese-speaking, so a silently imageless share
preview costs more than the 200 KB the conversion would save. The OG
image is fetched once per URL and cached by the platform, so its size is
not on any user's critical path.
Three corrections against the app icon, which is the authoritative
character reference:

The whale tail was drawn as a fluke standing out of the top of her head.
In the icon these are three separate features — a thin ordinary ahoge on
her head, whale-fin ears at her temples, and a large forked tail rising
from behind her body. The tail now rises behind her with clear separation
from her head, and the ahoge is hair rather than a fluke.

The paw gloves were too small. Everything about this character except the
gloves comes from the existing DeepSeek whale-girl design; the gloves are
what makes her PawWork's, so they have to carry that weight. One glove is
now raised and roughly head-sized in the foreground, the way the icon
frames it, while the other works the spreadsheet.

She was too sober. The previous brief over-corrected against mascot
posing and flattened her into realistic proportions and a closed, stern
expression, which lost the icon's charm. She now matches the icon: large
bright eyes, an open smile, round face, slightly chibi proportions —
cheerful about the work rather than posing for the viewer.

The desk now shows actual work: a checklist spreadsheet and two chart
reports. Cover 143 KB WebP (DSSIM 0.007), OG 197 KB PNG (DSSIM 0.002).
Working from the character's reference art rather than from the app icon
alone surfaced several defining features the earlier passes had dropped:

- The whale-fin ears are a major silhouette feature, about as long as her
  cheek, not the small nubs previously drawn.
- Her apron carries a small blue whale with a water spout — a signature
  detail that was missing entirely.
- Her hair runs a strong gradient from deep blue roots to markedly
  lighter tips; it had been rendered nearly uniform.
- A pale blue ribbon bow sits in her hair on one side.

The tail is also placed correctly for the first time. It emerges at waist
height from behind her skirt, at a moderate size with a fluke about a
head wide. Both earlier attempts were wrong in opposite directions: one
grew it out of her head, the other made it a thick column dominating the
frame after I told it the tail should be the largest element after her
hair.

Her design is drawn in the app icon's flat, thick-outlined language
rather than the reference art's fine anime rendering, so the cover, the
OG card, and the icon remain one visual family, with the orange gloves —
PawWork's own contribution to an otherwise established character — kept
as the strongest shape after her face.

Cover 142 KB WebP (DSSIM 0.005), OG 124 KB PNG (DSSIM 0.002).
I had asked for "fine pale gold decorative embroidery along the skirt
hem," copied from the character's finely-rendered reference art. It was a
bad instruction for two reasons.

It fought the style. This illustration is flat vector with thick outlines
and simplified shapes; ornamental embroidery belongs to detailed
rendering and at this level of simplification it only read as scribbly
noise, landing at the tail root and beside the dress ribbon rather than
on the hem.

More importantly it stole the orange. Orange is reserved for the paw
gloves, and their being the only saturated element is what makes them the
focal point. Amber scrollwork elsewhere on her body diluted exactly the
thing the gloves are there to do.

Those areas are now clean flat blue, and the gloves are the only orange
on the character. Applied as a masked local edit: 0.03% of pixels differ
from the previous version, so nothing else moved.
Two problems, both from earlier instructions of mine.

She read as a toddler. I had asked for "slightly chibi proportions, round
soft face, small rounded chin," which produced a spherical head, eyes
covering most of the face, and almost no neck. Neither the app icon nor
her reference art is that infantile. Her face is now an oval with a
defined chin, the eyes take a smaller share of it, and the neck and
shoulders read as a teenager rather than a small child. Everything else
about her design is unchanged.

The type was set in Avenir Next, which is not the product's font. The
site sets all display type in Bricolage Grotesque at weight 700-800 with
about -0.035em tracking, so the images were in a different typeface from
the site they advertise. Both are now set in Bricolage Grotesque,
instanced from the site's own variable woff2 at weights 800 and 700, with
matching tight negative tracking.

The OG card also said "Open-source desktop AI agent for macOS and
Windows" — a category description that claims nothing. It now carries the
site's own hierarchy: the headline, then "No terminal. No API key. No
paid plan.", then the domain. Verified readable scaled to 500px wide.
Both READMEs shared one cover whose tagline reads "Real work, done on
your desktop", so the first thing a Chinese reader saw was an English
claim. The site already translates this line on its zh-CN page.

README_CN now uses its own cover carrying that page's wording, 真能干活,
跑在你电脑上. The illustration is untouched and byte-identical in
treatment; only the type layer was recomposed, so the two covers stay one
image. The wordmark stays PawWork in Bricolage Grotesque at the same size
and position, since the brand name is not localized; the tagline is set
in PingFang SC Semibold to match the site's CJK fallback.
Anthropic's Cowork documentation states it produces spreadsheets and slides,
including Excel files with VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, and multiple tabs.
Marking that cell 'No' was wrong about a competitor in a public comparison.

The pricing cell is left as is: the help center states Cowork is available on
paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) and not on the Free plan.
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