dsh-claude-compat

Reuse your entire Claude Code setup in DSH — zero migration. skills, commands, rules, agents, hooks, MCP — install and they just work. Nothing to reconfigure.

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The 10-second pitch

You've already built up a solid .claude/ in Claude Code — skills, slash commands, rules, agents, hooks, MCP servers. Moving to DSH (DeepSeek Harness) shouldn't mean rebuilding all of it.

dsh-claude-compat is that bridge. It carries your .claude/ directories verbatim into DSH — everything works immediately. Install once, and both sides share one config: change it in one place, it updates in both.

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-claude-compat@latest
dsh web

Done. Your skills show up in the / menu, rules inject into every new session, and you can invoke agents with /agent-name — all inside DSH, exactly like Claude Code.

Or let DSH install it itself (recommended): copy this line to DSH — it reads the skill, installs, and verifies:

Read https://github.com/biedongbin/dsh-claude-compat/blob/main/.claude/skills/install-dsh-compat/SKILL.md and install the dsh-claude-compat plugin following its steps.

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What it brings over — at a glance

| Your Claude Code asset | Becomes in DSH | How to use it | |---|---|---| | skills/**/SKILL.md | DSH skill (lazy-loaded) | /skill-name, the skill tool, and the model-visible catalog | | commands/*.md | DSH skill (user-invocable) | /command-name in the slash menu | | rules/*.md | message-stream injection (same channel Claude uses) | auto-applies to every new session | | agents/*.md | delegation-shim skill | invoke /agent-name with its persona | | .claude/settings.json hooks | Pre/PostToolUse + UserPromptSubmit bridged | commands, permissions, blocks behave as before | | <root>/.mcp.json | dsh-mcp-client instances | stdio / streamable-http auto-translated | | ~/.claude/plugins | DSH skill (managed via /cc-plugin) | installed plugin skills work too |

Both the project .claude/ and the user-level ~/.claude/ are read. Same-name entries dedupe by fixed priority: project .claude > DSH native > ~/.claude — a project skill always wins over other copies, and a user skill never overrides a DSH-native one. CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md are handled by DSH's built-in dsh-agent-instructions — this plugin never touches them.

What it does (implementation detail)

| .claude/ path | Mechanism | Behavior | |---|---|---| | skills/**/SKILL.md | DSH skill provider | Name + description in the model-visible catalog; body loads on demand via the skill tool. New skills appear on the next catalog reconcile — no restart. | | commands/*.md | DSH skill provider | Same, plus user-invocable: /command-name works in the slash menu. | | rules/*.md | Message-stream injection | Rules are concatenated, wrapped in a <system-reminder> envelope, and prepended as a user-role message at the front of the message array once per session — the same channel Claude Code uses (prependUserContext), which models follow reliably. | | agents/*.md | DSH skill provider (delegation shim) | DSH has no markdown subagent format, so each agent file becomes a skill whose body leads with an explicit "delegate with this persona" instruction. Model- and user-invocable, so /agent-name works. Same-name agents dedupe by rank like skills. | | .claude/settings.json → hooks | Tool/prompt hooks | Claude Code hooks subset bridged onto DSH's tools/pre-execute (PreToolUse), tools/post-execute (PostToolUse) and agent/pre-step (UserPromptSubmit) waterfalls. Commands run via /bin/sh -c with a Claude-style JSON payload on stdin; exit code 2 denies/blocks, hookSpecificOutput overrides are honored, timeouts allow through with a warning. | | <projectRoot>/.mcp.json | MCP servers | Claude Code-format MCP server definitions are translated to dsh-mcp-client plugin instances at DSH startup from the launch workspace: command → stdio, url → streamable-http. Malformed entries or a missing @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client degrade to a warning, never a crash. | | ~/.claude/plugins (installed plugins) | DSH skill provider | Installed Claude Code plugin-marketplace plugins contribute their skills/commands/agents (via each install's .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest, or a directory scan when manifest-less) at rank 750 — the long tail: project .claude, DSH native, and ~/.claude all win collisions. Plugin MCP servers (mcpServers in the manifest) mount only when enablePluginMcp is opted in — mounting third-party MCP servers is a bigger trust step than listing skills. |

The same directories are also read from the user-level ~/.claude/ (skills, commands, rules, agents, and ~/.claude/settings.json hooks). Same-name skills/commands/rules/agents are deduped with a fixed priority:

project .claude > DSH native (.dsh) > ~/.claude

• Project .claude entries carry rank 50; DSH's own skills — project .dsh roots, .agents roots, and bundled skills (ranks 100–600, BUNDLED_SKILL_RANK) — sit in between; ~/.claude entries rank 700. So a project skill always overrides the DSH-native and user copies, and a user skill never overrides a DSH-native one.
• Rule files with the same basename in ~/.claude/rules are skipped when the project already provides one.

CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md are not touched — DSH's built-in dsh-agent-instructions already handles those.

Built-in commands

Installing this plugin adds three management skills to the catalog:

| Command | What it does | |---|---| | /cc-plugin | Full Claude Code plugin management: list, install <name>[@marketplace], uninstall, enable, disable, update [name], search <term>, marketplace list\|add\|remove\|update. One-shot syntax /cc-plugin <name>@<marketplace> installs directly. Engine: the claude CLI when available, otherwise a built-in fallback (direct JSON + git, with timestamped backups of every file it touches). All state stays in Claude-native locations (~/.claude/plugins, ~/.claude/settings.json enabledPlugins) so Claude Code and DSH read the same truth. | | /reload-cc-plugins | Hot-reload the skill catalog: drop cached provider lists and notify observers so newly installed/removed skills appear in the current session — no restart, no new session. | | /reload-skills | Alias of /reload-cc-plugins. | | /cc-export | Export DSH-native skills (.dsh/skills) into Claude Code .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md with frontmatter preserved. list / export [--overwrite] [--target]. | | /cc-resume | List Claude Code conversation sessions for the current project (~/.claude/projects/) and import any of them into DSH with full user/assistant/tool history. Imported sessions appear in the DSH session list titled cc: <preview> and resume like native ones. list / import <sessionId> / --limit-turns N for huge sessions. |

Typical loop: /cc-plugin install ralph-loop@claude-plugins-official → /reload-cc-plugins → new skills visible immediately. Plugin-shipped MCP servers still require a DSH restart (process-lifetime mount).

Requirements

• DSH with a profile (e.g. web)
• A project using Claude Code conventions: .claude/skills/, .claude/commands/, .claude/rules/, .claude/agents/, .claude/settings.json, and a project-root .mcp.json (all optional; ~/.claude/ equivalents are also picked up)
• pnpm on PATH — dsh plugin is a thin pnpm forwarder

Install / Update

One command — the package declares dsh.bundle, so DSH activates it automatically (no manual cordis.patch.yml editing). Install or update to the latest release:

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-claude-compat@latest

Or from GitHub:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:biedongbin/dsh-claude-compat

Restart DSH (dsh web). Done — skills show up in /, rules are injected into every new session.

Configuration

| Option | Default | Description | |---|---|---| | enableSkills | true | Register the .claude/skills + .claude/commands + .claude/agents provider (project and ~/.claude) | | enableRules | true | Inject project + ~/.claude rules/*.md into the message stream | | enableMcp | true | Translate <projectRoot>/.mcp.json into mounted MCP server plugins | | mcpFailOnStartupError | false | Forward to dsh-mcp-client: fail plugin startup when an MCP server fails to connect | | enableHooks | true | Run .claude/settings.json hooks (Pre/PostToolUse, UserPromptSubmit) | | hooksTimeoutMs | 60000 | Per-hook run timeout (UserPromptSubmit capped at 10s regardless) | | enableAgents | true | Surface .claude/agents/*.md as delegation-shim skills | | rulesMaxBytes | 65536 | Hard cap on total injected project rules text | | userRulesMaxBytes | 65536 | Hard cap on total injected ~/.claude/rules text | | projectRootMarkers | [".git"] | Ancestor markers for project-root discovery | | skillRank | 50 | Provider rank for project .claude skills (wins every DSH-native collision) | | skillSource | project-claude | Source tag for project catalog entries | | userSkillRank | 700 | Provider rank for ~/.claude skills (loses to DSH-native 600) | | userSkillSource | user-claude | Source tag for ~/.claude catalog entries | | userClaudeDir | ~/.claude | User-level .claude directory (~ expands to the home dir) | | enablePlugins | true | Surface skills/commands/agents from installed Claude Code plugins (~/.claude/plugins) | | pluginSkillRank | 750 | Provider rank for plugin content (the long tail — everything else wins) | | pluginSkillSource | claude-plugin | Source tag for plugin catalog entries | | pluginsRoot | ~/.claude/plugins | Plugin-marketplace root (installed_plugins.json + cache/) | | enablePluginMcp | false | Mount plugin-declared MCP servers (opt-in; requires enablePlugins and enableMcp) | | enablePluginManager | true | Register the /cc-plugin, /reload-cc-plugins, /reload-skills management skills | | pluginManagerRank | 40 | Rank for the built-in management skills (top of the catalog) |

Notes

• Skill naming: DSH requires kebab-case skill names. Nested skill directories are flattened (gitnexus/gitnexus-guide → gitnexus-gitnexus-guide); invalid frontmatter names fall back to the directory name.
• MCP lifecycle: .mcp.json is read once at DSH startup from the launch workspace — not per session — and each server mounts for the process lifetime. Restart DSH to pick up edits.
• Hooks scope: a deliberately small subset of Claude Code hooks: PreToolUse / PostToolUse / UserPromptSubmit. Matchers support exact names, * wildcards, and | alternation; commands run with stdin carrying the Claude-style JSON payload. Exit code 2 = deny (Pre) / block (Post); other non-zero exits and timeouts allow through with a warning.
• Rules granularity: rules are read per new session (cached per session cwd). Editing a rule mid-session takes effect in the next session.
• Rules content: rules are injected verbatim as instructions to the model. Only commit rules you want the model to follow — same trust level as CLAUDE.md.
• Catalog snapshot timing: the skill catalog is snapshotted when a session is created. Skills installed or edited mid-session surface after /reload-cc-plugins (hot reload) or in the next session.

Troubleshooting

Known limitation: /cc-resume via the skill tool

In some DSH runtime configurations the skill tool resolves in an agent-scoped layer where globally registered providers are not visible — the invocation returns skill "cc-resume" is unknown or no longer available even though the catalog lists it. This is a DSH runtime layering behavior, not a plugin bug. The skill body only instructs the model to run the CLI, which is always available:

node node_modules/dsh-claude-compat/scripts/cc-resume.mjs list
node node_modules/dsh-claude-compat/scripts/cc-resume.mjs import <sessionId>

DSH won't start back up after a restart / port 3080 stuck. Old process still holding the port (symptom: EADDRINUSE in logs). Use the bundled restart script — it waits for a clean stop, falls back to SIGKILL, and verifies the port before reporting success:

npx dsh-claude-compat-restart        # bin alias (installed with the package)
bash node_modules/dsh-claude-compat/scripts/dsh-restart.sh   # direct
bash scripts/dsh-restart.sh --no-patch   # skip the prompt patch, restart only

The script also re-applies the idempotent dsh-terminal-bash prompt patch, which npx/npm updates silently revert. DSH_RESTART_PORT overrides the port (default 3080).

Installed a plugin via /cc-plugin but its skills don't show. Run /reload-cc-plugins. Still missing → restart DSH (plugin-shipped MCP servers always need a restart).

/cc-resume import fails on compression. The importer needs the zstd binary (macOS: brew install zstd; most Linux images ship it).

/cc-plugin reports "claude CLI unavailable". The fallback engine handles install/enable/disable; for marketplace add/update, install Claude Code (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code) or manage marketplaces from Claude Code directly.

Release notes

• Changelog (简体中文) — release history from 0.1.0 to the latest version.

Acknowledgments

• Linux.do — community
• Claude Code — the .claude/ conventions this plugin bridges
• DeepSeek Harness — the runtime this plugin extends

License

MIT

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