dsh-skill-recursive

Recursive SKILL.md discovery for DeepSeek Harness. The built-in provider reads one directory level per skill root; this plugin adds skills stored in nested folders.

.dsh/skills/
├── flat-skill/SKILL.md            ← built-in provider
└── obsidian-skills/               ← container folder
    ├── defuddle/SKILL.md          ← this plugin
    └── json-canvas/SKILL.md       ← this plugin

Install

The plugin is a normal DSH bundle and works in both the Desktop app (desktop profile) and a browser-hosted harness (web profile). A profile only loads what is installed in it.

Desktop app

Use the in-app plugin manager, or ask a Harness session to install it:

plugin_manager action=install_bundle target=github:DanielEstrada971102/dsh-skill-recursive#v0.2.0

Web profile

dsh plugin --profile web add github:DanielEstrada971102/dsh-skill-recursive#v0.2.0

Local clone

git clone https://github.com/DanielEstrada971102/dsh-skill-recursive.git
dsh plugin --profile <profile> add link:<absolute path to the clone>

Restart the host after installing or updating a bundle.

Configure

Open Settings → Plugins → Recursive Skill Discovery. The bundle's page renders the configuration form; changes are saved by DSH and applied without restarting.

Field	Default	Meaning
minDepth	2	First directory depth (relative to a root) that may hold a skill.
maxDepth	8	Deepest directory depth scanned.
watch	true	Watch roots and invalidate the catalog on change.
debounceMs	200	Debounce for watcher invalidations.
pollIntervalMs	2000	Fallback polling interval.
includeProjectRoots	true	Scan project .dsh/skills and .agents/skills.
includeUserRoots	true	Scan user-level skill roots.
followSymlinks	false	Follow symlinked directories (loop-guarded).
extraRoots	[]	Additional roots; use absolute paths.
ignoreDirs	[".system","node_modules",".git"]	Directory names never descended into.

The profile patch still works for deployment defaults:

- insert:
    - id: skill-recursive
      name: dsh-skill-recursive
      config:
        maxDepth: 6
        extraRoots:
          - C:/shared/skills

What it does

• Roots — project .dsh/skills and .agents/skills (nearest .git ancestor of the session cwd), $DSH_HOME/skills (default ~/.dsh/skills), $DSH_AGENTS_HOME/skills (default ~/.agents/skills), plus any extraRoots.
• Recursive scan — walks each root to maxDepth, skipping ignoreDirs.
• Depth guard — contributes only nested bundles at depth 2 or deeper, so the built-in provider keeps ownership of flat skills.
• Precedence — nested candidates rank one step below the matching flat root, so a same-name flat skill wins.
• Frontmatter — reads name, description, optional whenToUse, disable-model-invocation, and user-invocable; invalid files are logged and skipped.
• Hot refresh — watches roots and invalidates the skill catalog; falls back to polling where recursive watching is unavailable.

Compatibility

• Tested with DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.5 and Node.js 20+.
• The settings form is rendered by the same Web client in both the Desktop and Web profiles.
• Uses DSH's @deepseek-ai/schemastery for the settings schema; no other runtime dependency.

Notes

• Depth-1 ownership — this plugin supplements skill-filesystem; if that provider is disabled, flat skills are not discovered by this plugin alone.
• Direct filesystem reads — skill files are read with node:fs from the host process, matching the built-in provider.
• Frontmatter subset — plain/quoted scalars, block scalars (|, >), and booleans are supported; arbitrary nested YAML is not forwarded.
• Watchers — one watcher is kept per distinct root path for the process lifetime.

License

MIT