DeepSeek Harness Skills

The DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is DeepSeek AI's open-source agent harness — a Cordis-based plugin system that ships its own set of skills/plugins. Unlike the cross-vendor skills in the rest of this collection, dsh skills are tightly coupled to the dsh runtime and won't run unmodified in Claude Code or OpenCode.

The site's existing DeepSeek Harness coverage carries the install, provider-setup, and TUI configuration guides. This page is the skills index that cross-links to that coverage so dsh plugin content lives next to the rest of the collection.

When to use

• You're running dsh as your agent runtime and want the canonical plugin index
• You maintain a dsh plugin and want it discoverable from the broader skills collection
• You want a single reference for "what skills exist in dsh and where do they live"

When not to use

• You're not on dsh — the dsh skills are runtime-specific. For cross-vendor skills, see the rest of this collection.
• You want Anthropic-style SKILL.md portability — dsh plugins are Cordis plugins, not agentskills.io skills (yet)

How it works

dsh plugins live in the dsh install and are activated by the harness on relevant triggers. The plugin manifest and per-plugin code is in the dsh source tree (the npm package is @deepseek-ai/dsh; verify the source repo from the package metadata before installing). The site's existing guides cover how to install dsh and configure providers; the plugin list itself is what dsh ships — check dsh plugin list after install.

Install

dsh plugin install <plugin-name>

For TUI and provider configuration, see the existing DeepSeek Harness TUI guide and Providers & Keys guide.

Full plugin source

Plugin manifests and code live in the installed @deepseek-ai/dsh package and the upstream source repo (verify the canonical repo URL from the package metadata before installing). Embedded copy omitted at launch — dsh plugins are runtime-coupled and the canonical source is the right reference. Verify each plugin's license before redistribution; dsh core is open-source but individual plugin licenses vary.

Verify it yourself

Quick static check — dsh plugins may legitimately make network calls (the harness is a coding agent); confirm the endpoints are DeepSeek-controlled and not third-party. Bounded allowed-tools is a positive signal.

Two-model review — paste each plugin's manifest + code into two different models with the Vetting Guide prompt. dsh plugins are the highest-capability skills in the collection (full shell, file, network in a coding-agent runtime) and deserve the most scrutiny.

Review transparency

Related

• DeepSeek Harness — Getting Started
• DeepSeek Harness — TUI
• DeepSeek Harness — Providers & Keys
• Skills Collection Overview
• Vetting Guide