dsh-lab

My DeepSeek Harness (DSH) extension lab — reusable plugins, Agent presets, and supporting research.

⚠️ Early experimental extensions. Everything here is under active, unrestrained experimentation: APIs will break, behavior will change, and quality varies wildly between packages and presets. Use at your own risk — read the source before installing anything into a profile that holds your credentials, and pin exact plugin versions if you depend on any of it.

Why

Skills shape agent behavior through text; plugins add deterministic tools, UI, and runtime behavior; presets compose those capabilities into purpose-built agents. This lab keeps those layers together when they need to evolve together, while preserving clear artifact boundaries between plugins and presets.

Packages

Package	Status	What
packages/dsh-quota-bar	🌱 v0.1.x · spec #1 (done) · v0.2 settings #6	GLM Coding Plan quota card in the sidebar footer: 5h/weekly/tools windows + reset times in a theme-native card. Host-side fetch (credentials-service key resolution) over a loopback route; parser unit-tested. Port of proven pi-config statusline logic.
packages/dsh-grilling-card	🌱 v0.1 · spec #2 (implemented, dogfooding)	Rich grilling/interview question card: recommended answers, one-click accept, round-at-a-time, frontier meter, recorded-round transcript view. Dual-face (host grill_round tool + composer-takeover card); round-trip, wire-legality, and MCP-elicitation tests.
packages/dsh-ask-card	🌱 early · dogfooding	Richer transcript view for stock ask_user_question: stock already shows the question and recorded answer, while this plugin also shows all offered options, recommendations, selections, custom answers, multi-select state, and status context. Expanded cards use more vertical space than stock; collapsed behavior stays stock-like.
packages/dsh-glossary	📋 spec #3	Context glossary surfaces: term sidebar, chatbox autocomplete, avoid-list flagging with suggestions.
packages/dsh-wayfinder-map	📋 spec #4	Decision-ticket map with blocking edges (wayfinder visualization).
packages/dsh-frontier	📋 spec #5 (blocked by #4)	Deterministic implement-spec orchestrator: ticket graph, frontier computation, approval-gated destructive ops.

Spec status: #1 is implemented and closed (grilled → prototyped → shipped 2026-08-22). #2 is implemented (grilled → prototyped → built 2026-08-23, dogfooding). #3–#5 are rough seeds from the 2026-08-22 planning session, labeled needs-triage — each needs a grilling round before it's ready-for-agent for implementation.

Presets

Custom Agent presets live under presets/, one immediate child directory per preset id. Presets are source-controlled compositions, not npm packages, and must not contain API keys, tokens, passwords, or other secrets. Host/profile credentials stay outside the preset and are resolved at runtime.

The first scaffold is presets/writing: a deliberately small writing-focused Agent composition with file/search, web, questions, and preset-local Skills, but no shell, coding workflows, or subagents.

presets/standard-lean is a snapshot copy of the shipped standard preset with Plan mode, Workflow, and Ralph removed and a compact complete: true persona as the whole system prompt; see its README for the upgrade-drift caveat.

Install (once packages publish)

dsh plugin --profile web add @s2p2/<package>

Then restart dsh web.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm build
# dogfood: link a package into your web profile
dsh plugin --profile web add ../dsh-lab/packages/dsh-quota-bar

For preset development, point a DSH Agent preset root at this checkout's presets/ directory, or copy an individual preset into $DSH_HOME/.agent-presets/. Keep the Git checkout as the source of truth.

Note: pnpm 11+ gates freshly published packages behind minimumReleaseAge (24h default). For your own freshly-published packages set minimumReleaseAge: 0 in the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml (see dsh-web-ui#71).

Releases run through changesets: pnpm changeset in package-changing PRs, merge the auto-maintained "Version Packages" PR, and the Release workflow bumps versions, writes CHANGELOGs, and tags. npm publishing flips on (pnpm changeset publish + NPM_TOKEN) when the first package ships. Presets are not part of the Changesets/npm release flow.

Layout

packages/<dsh-*>   one npm package per reusable plugin
presets/<id>/      one filesystem Agent preset per immediate child directory
docs/research/     primary-source research notes feeding the specs
CONTEXT.md         domain glossary for the lab's contexts
shared/            code shared across plugins (planned)
.dsh/              dogfooding: skills + profile bits for working on this repo (planned)