dsh-commands

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Filesystem slash-command discovery for DeepSeek Harness UIs.

This plugin registers one slash command per Markdown file under <dshHome>/commands, mirroring the user-root layout of the skill discovery in @deepseek-ai/dsh-skill-filesystem. The filename stem is the command name, the YAML frontmatter supplies the description, and the body is the instruction executed when the command runs. A host watcher keeps registrations in sync with the directory: adding, editing, or deleting a command file updates the registry without a restart, and the registry's own commands/change event refreshes live discovery UIs.

It is a plugin for the DeepSeek Harness command registry (ctx.commands, @deepseek-ai/dsh-commands).

Install

From npm:

dsh plugin add @etby-studio/dsh-commands

Developing locally (the build output lib/ is gitignored; build it first after cloning):

pnpm run build
dsh plugin add /path/to/dsh-commands

The package declares dsh.bundle.patch (cordis.patch.yml), so dsh plugin add installs it as a profile layer and that layer inserts the plugin row itself — no manual cordis.patch.yml edit. Do not also add the row to $DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>/cordis.patch.yml: a second insert of the same id is a duplicate Loader entry.

dsh plugin add refuses packages without dsh.bundle, and DSH loads a bundle only when every @deepseek-ai/dsh-* peer range matches the runtime version, so this release targets dsh 0.2.0-rc.2 (peers ^0.2.0-rc.2).

After boot, any *.md file in <dshHome>/commands becomes a slash command (dshHome defaults to $DSH_HOME or ~/.dsh).

Command file format

Each command is one Markdown file; the filename stem (without .md) is the command name, lowercased ASCII with letters, digits, _, or -, matching parseCommand():

---
description: Execute the plan
---

## Steps

1. Review the plan
2. Create a task list

• description (required) — shown in command discovery UI.
• Body — the instruction submitted to the model when the command runs.

Invalid files (missing frontmatter, empty description, invalid name, empty body) are skipped with a warning and never registered.

Execution

The handler never implicitly submits to the model. On /name [args] it reads the current body and steers one user message to the receiving agent:

• Typed arguments append after a blank line (/go <description> → body + blank line + <description>).
• A $ARGUMENTS placeholder in the body is substituted with the arguments instead.

The body is re-read at every execution, so file edits take effect without a restart.

Conflicts

File commands are low priority: when a plugin has already registered the same name, the file is skipped with a warning and the programmatic registration wins (no backfill while it lives).

Watcher

Existing roots are watched with Chokidar (realpathed anchor, depth: 1, awaitWriteFinish stability). A missing root is probed from the nearest existing ancestor with fs.watchFile, so creating ~/.dsh/commands later still attaches. Root deletion unregisters everything and reverses to the probe; recreation rescans. commands/change is emitted by the registry itself.

Config

Field	Default	Meaning
dshHome	$DSH_HOME or ~/.dsh	Config root; scans commands under it.
commandDirs	[]	Extra command roots scanned after <dshHome>/commands.
watch	true	Watch command roots for registry updates.
watchUsePolling	false	Use Chokidar polling instead of native events.
watchStabilityThresholdMs	200	Stable-write window for Chokidar events.
watchPollIntervalMs	100	Polling/stability and missing-path probe interval.
watchFollowSymlinks	true	Follow symbolic links while watching roots.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm run build     # tsc → lib/
pnpm run typecheck
pnpm run test      # 30 tests: discovery, watcher, real Loader composition

@deepseek-ai/* packages are peer dependencies resolved from the dsh installation at runtime; the tests run against the published npm releases (currently dsh 0.2.0-rc.2).

License

MIT