DSH Skills Manager

Manage local and project skills, install from GitHub, preview updates and restore backups

简体中文 · Changelog · Apache-2.0

DSH Skills Manager is a community-maintained DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin, not an official DeepSeek AI product.

This README describes 1.2.23. Released changes are in the changelog.

Features

Bring skills from your computer and projects into DSH without switching between Agent folders.

• Unified multi-view management: Browse Global Skills, Project Skills, Discover, and Trash in unified tabs with instant search, status filtering, and collapsible source groups.
• Broad ecosystem support: Full coverage for 20+ tools and CLI environments including DSH, Shared Agent, Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Windsurf, Qoder, and Trae without touching third-party files.
• Categorization and drag & drop: Create category folders inside sources, drag skill rows (⋮⋮) to organize and order them, batch assign skills, and toggle entire categories with a single switch. Category metadata is saved without moving files.
• Public markets & repositories: Integrated Discover hub to explore trending skills from ClawHub and skills.sh, or subscribe to public GitHub repositories with incremental diff inspection and backups.
• Create and flexible import: Create skills or import ZIP archives, folders, and SKILL.md files directly into your global user root or a registered workspace.
• Wide reading experience: 760px responsive detail modal with monospace syntax styling, vertical resizing, and a one-click "Copy body" action.
• Trash & safe rollback: Soft delete protects skills from accidental loss, allowing complete restoration with provenance and update history preserved.
• Custom source folders: Point an external agent source at another folder from the panel without moving any file. DSH and Shared Agent stay configured by the host.

Screenshots

Global skills:

Project skills:

Skill repositories & discover:

Screenshots show core feature views for global skills, project skills, and skill discovery. Lossless WebP.

Installation

Requires a working DeepSeek Harness installation. The commands below use the web profile; replace it with yours if needed.

Supported plugin installation sources are the npm registry, a locally built .tgz package, and GitHub. GitHub and npm both include a ready-to-run lib. After changing source, run the build before committing.

Ask an agent to install it

Send this to an agent that can use your local terminal:

Install the latest @michengai/dsh-skills-manager into my DSH web profile using the official npm registry. Confirm installation and explain how to reload DSH.

Install manually

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
dsh plugin --profile web add @michengai/dsh-skills-manager@latest --registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/

Restart DSH, refresh the page, and open Settings → Skills. To update, select Check for updates or run the installation command again.

• Plugin 1.2.23 is tested with DeepSeek Harness 0.2.0-rc.1, 0.2.0-rc.2, 0.2.1-rc.1, 0.2.1-rc.2, 0.2.1-rc.3.
• Host compatibility: Full DeepSeek Harness 0.2.x line (>=0.2.0-rc.1 <0.3.0-0), forwards-compatible with subsequent 0.2.x releases, alphas, and RCs without requiring routine plugin version bumps. Legacy versions and breaking changes in the 0.3.0 generation are rejected by the version gate. If you still use a 0.1.x host, install plugin 1.1.23 instead of @latest.
• Reverse proxy deployment: Supports hosting DSH behind prefix-stripping reverse proxies (e.g. /app/dsh/). API and update endpoints resolve against the page base URI (document.baseURI).

Plugin Configuration & Toggles

The plugin follows standard DSH bundle configuration conventions. Options are located at:

Sidebar → Plugins → Click Skills Manager (the host's plugins.bundle.config slot).

Two native switches are available:

1. Sidebar Entry (sidebarEntry)

• Default: Disabled (false)
• Description: Displays a persistent Skills navigation icon directly under Plugins in the host's left primary sidebar.
• Effect:
  • When enabled, clicking the sidebar icon opens the Skills Manager directly in the primary workspace with a 960px centered container (matching host plugin manager conventions). This eliminates vertical scrolling constraints in narrow settings dialogs;
  • When disabled, unregisters the sidebar entry cleanly;
  • The standard Settings → Skills view remains active either way, and state is synchronized live across both entry points.

2. Online Updates (onlineUpdate / updater)

• Default: Enabled (true)
• Description: Controls whether the plugin checks for and installs updates from npm.
• Effect:
  • Dynamic UI Sync: Disabling the toggle hides the Check for updates button in the header immediately without requiring a full page reload;
  • Endpoint Guard: When disabled, the update API route returns HTTP 403 for all check and install requests, preventing unreviewed updates;
  • Host / Platform Lock: For curated plugin indexes (such as VibeDev) or restricted enterprise environments, this can be locked directly via Cordis configuration (bundle patch) without needing UI interaction:

    updater: false # or onlineUpdate: false
    

    Once configured, the built-in updater is disabled at startup and the update action stays hidden.

Usage Guide

Action	How to do it
Find skills	Switch between Global Skills and Project Skills tabs, expand/collapse source groups, or use the search bar and status filters.
Inspect content	Click View details on any skill row to read SKILL.md content and diagnostics in a 760px wide resizable dialog, with one-click Copy body.
Toggle invocation	Toggle the switch on the right side of a skill row to enable or disable it for DSH without editing third-party files.
Change an external source folder	Click Source folders… in the header or select Change skills folder on the source row, type or browse to a folder, and save. Restore default returns to the configured default. Only where this plugin reads changes; no files move and external sources stay read-only.
Organize categories	Click New category within a source, then drag the grab handle (⋮⋮) to reorder or move skills across categories. Toggling a category turns all its member skills on or off.
Create & import	Click Create skill or Import skill in the header. Select destination scope (User directory or a registered workspace project) and path.
Discover & install	Open the Discover tab to browse trending ClawHub skills or search the skills.sh catalog, or click Add repository to subscribe to a public GitHub repo.
Update repository skills	Click Refresh, inspect file diffs with Review update, and confirm to update with an automated backup.
Roll back updates	Click Restore previous version on skills with backup history, preview changes, and confirm rollback.
Recover deletions	Open Trash to restore accidentally deleted DSH skills with their original locations preserved.

Four Main Tabs

1. Global Skills
   • Manage cross-project skills stored across all detected agent home directories on your machine.
   • Categorize and toggle skills by source; same-name precedence automatically highlights shadowed copies.
2. Project Skills
   • Select any registered workspace from the dropdown to manage its project-level skills (<project>/.dsh/skills, etc.).
   • Scans and searches only the selected workspace; project copies take precedence over global counterparts.
3. Discover
   • Public Catalogs: Direct integration with ClawHub and skills.sh to find and install popular community skills;
   • GitHub Repositories: Subscribe to public repositories, scan skill lists, preview diffs, and install copies with local edit protections.
4. Trash
   • Soft-delete buffer for DSH and Shared Agent skills, preserving provenance and install destinations.
   • Deleted skills can be restored anytime with a single click.

Skill Naming & Frontmatter Requirements

The DeepSeek Harness loader enforces strict identifier policies:

• Format constraint: Host loaders require skill names to strictly match lowercase ASCII alphanumeric characters and hyphens (kebab-case, e.g. my-tool).
• Non-ASCII & Chinese skill folders: Your skill directory name can remain in Chinese (e.g. 文案排版/), provided you specify a valid English name in SKILL.md frontmatter:

  ---
  name: copy-formatting-helper
  description: Helper for multi-platform article formatting
  ---
  
  # Skill instructions...
  

• Diagnostics: Skills lacking an English name are flagged with clear in-app diagnostics explaining that the host loader cannot invoke them, with options to safely disable or clean up records.

Repository & Installation Boundaries

• The header Check for updates updates the plugin itself; repository Refresh checks subscribed skill contents without replacing local files.
• Repository installation can target user DSH skills, Shared Agent (~/.agents/skills, overridable via DSH_AGENTS_HOME), or <project>/.dsh/skills for registered workspaces. Unsafe paths and external agent roots (Codex, Claude) are locked against writes.
• 32 MiB archive limit; downloading subdirectories still fetches the full archive.
• Local edits are detected and require explicit confirmation before overwriting; backup history is preserved for rollback.

Supported Agent directories

~ means your home directory; <project> is the project root of a registered workspace. These are default paths; configured environment variables take precedence. An environment variable overrides the agent's main home root directory, and the plugin scans the skills folder under it (i.e., <ENV_PATH>/skills).

Source	Global directory	Environment variable	Project directory
DSH	~/.dsh/skills	DSH_HOME	<project>/.dsh/skills
Shared Agent	~/.agents/skills	DSH_AGENTS_HOME	<project>/.agents/skills
CC Switch	~/.cc-switch/skills	—	—
Codex	~/.codex/skills	DSH_CODEX_HOME	<project>/.codex/skills
Claude Code	~/.claude/skills	DSH_CLAUDE_HOME	<project>/.claude/skills
Gemini	~/.gemini/skills	DSH_GEMINI_HOME	<project>/.gemini/skills
OpenCode	~/.config/opencode/skills	DSH_OPENCODE_HOME	<project>/.opencode/skills
Cursor	~/.cursor/skills	DSH_CURSOR_HOME	<project>/.cursor/skills
Copilot	~/.copilot/skills	DSH_COPILOT_HOME	<project>/.github/skills
Windsurf	~/.codeium/windsurf/skills~/.windsurf/skills	DSH_WINDSURF_HOMEDSH_WINDSURF_USER_HOME	<project>/.windsurf/skills
Trae	~/.trae/skills	DSH_TRAE_HOME	<project>/.trae/skills
Trae CN	~/.trae-cn/skills	DSH_TRAE_CN_HOME	<project>/.trae-cn/skills
OpenClaw / Clawdbot	~/.openclaw/skills~/.clawdbot/skills	DSH_OPENCLAW_HOMEDSH_CLAWDBOT_HOME

Ordinary project-root <project>/skills directories are not scanned, so repository release resources are not exposed as Agent skills. OpenClaw / Clawdbot support is limited to the user-level sources above. Qoder CN CLI project skills use <project>/.qoder/skills and appear as Qoder. Qoder CN IDE uses the Lingma directories. Missing external source directories are not shown. External agent sources (CC Switch, Codex, Claude Code and others) can be pointed at another folder from the source row; the change takes effect immediately. Overrides are stored in ~/.dsh/skills-manager/roots.json and take precedence over DSH_<AGENT>_HOME; editing that file by hand requires restarting DSH. DSH and Shared Agent are the host's scan paths and are not offered here — use DSH_HOME / DSH_AGENTS_HOME to relocate them. The folder must already exist and must not overlap another source; when a custom folder disappears, the source stays listed so you can restore the default.

Custom sources (agents outside the list)

An agent that is not in the table above does not need to wait for a release: open Source folders, choose Add source and point it at the agent's skills folder. Custom sources behave like built-in external sources — read-only, nothing moved or modified — and support grouping, drag-and-drop organisation, and source-level plus category-level toggles. The display name defaults to the folder name and can be overridden.

When an agent keeps a separate skills folder per sub-profile (multiple accounts or workspaces), point at the product folder and choose Scan subfolders: the plugin looks two levels down for every skills folder containing SKILL.md and lists them as candidates named product / subfolder, each with its skill count, so you can register them in one go. Scanning only produces candidates and never registers anything by itself; candidates overlapping an existing source are flagged and cannot be added.

Registrations live in the customSources section of roots.json, alongside the folder overrides. Removing a registration only deletes that record — the skill files on disk are left untouched. Up to 32 custom sources are supported.

DSH product ecosystem

For a desktop workbench, download DSH Codex Desktop. Existing DeepSeek Harness installations can add plugins as needed by following each project's README. Below are 11 first-party plugins; consult the corresponding desktop release notes and bundled catalog for what that version includes.

Plugin	What you can do
Codex UI	Organize projects and conversations, search tasks, and navigate chat turns
Agency Agents	Choose and summon specialists for your task
Skills Manager	Manage local and project skills; install, update and roll back repository skills
Archive Manager	Search, restore, or clean up archived conversations
IM Connect	Send tasks and receive replies through messaging platforms
Automation	Schedule tasks and review each run
BTW	Ask side questions without interrupting the main task
Simplify	Use /simplify to improve code within your Git changes
PUA	Guide the Agent to try new approaches after failures, investigate causes, and verify results before completion
Code Review	Use /review to request an independent Agent code review and receive the report in the current conversation
Codex Pet

Feedback and contributions

Open an issue for bugs or suggestions. Include your DSH and plugin versions, reproduction steps, and a full screenshot for UI issues.

Source code lives in src and uses strict TypeScript while retaining the existing plugin architecture. Run npm run typecheck for type checks, npm run build to generate runtime files, and npm run verify for the full regression and package checks. GitHub and npm both include a ready-to-run lib. After changing source, run the build before committing. Packing still checks types and builds the JavaScript files required by the npm package. CI runs full verification on Node.js 22.19.0 and 24, and code changes also trigger the supported-host compatibility matrix. Contributions are welcome.

To test a source checkout, install dependencies using the pinned pnpm version, run npm run verify, then run npm pack. Install the resulting .tgz with dsh plugin --profile web add <package.tgz>, restart DSH and refresh the page. Do not use --ignore-scripts when packing: it skips the build hook.

License

Apache License 2.0