DS4 Control

A macOS menu bar pane for DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 via `dwarfstar` (opens in a new tab).

It launches, supervises, and monitors a local ds4 server, lets you pick V4.1 Flash, V4 Pro (0813), or V4 Flash (0731) with up to 1M context, and shows resource use.

Launch Pi, Claude Code or [BYOC](https://github.com/antirez/ds4/blob/main/docs/CLIENTS.md) (Bring Your Own CLI) for local agentic coding.

Signed with a live Apple Developer ID & notarized by Apple

Quick Install

Features

• Start / stop / monitor the local ds4-server child process — spawn, stderr readiness detection, health polling, graceful stop, and crash detection.
• Pro / Flash selector with a RAM feasibility checks.
• Model downloads via a built-in native parallel downloader, with a live progress bar and resume across restarts.
• Mini resource widgets: unified memory, GPU, power, and CPU, sampled on a timer.
• Launch Chat to talk to the model.
• Launch Claude Code or Pi to plan, write, maintain or refactor code.
• 1M Context configurable in settings.
• Launch on macOS Startup

What it is not:

• No model search or registry browsing.
• No embedded inference — all inference is delegated to ds4-server.

Dev quick start

antirez/ds4 (opens in a new tab) is vendored as a git submodule at external/ds4:

Requirements

• Apple Silicon
• You don't pre-download the model — DS4 Control downloads it for you with a built-in parallel downloader, resumable across restarts.
• Auth (optional): the model repository is public, so no token is required for normal use.
• RAM — see below.

RAM feasibility

DeepSeek V4 is memory-hungry so DS4 Control gates feasibility before launching.