dsh-plugin-skill-manager

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A DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin that adds a Skills tab to the web UI conversation view ring (next to Chat and Trajectory). It lists every available skill with a live search box and a per-skill enable / disable switch, plus a bulk enable-all / disable-all toggle.

Disabling a skill writes disable-model-invocation: true into the skill's SKILL.md frontmatter, so the model-facing skill catalog drops it while the user-facing surface keeps it — the skill stays visible in the list and can be re-enabled at any time.

Features

• 🗂️ Skills tab registered into the conversation.view slot, alongside Chat and Trajectory
• 🔍 Search box filtering by skill name or description
• 🔘 Bulk switch: enable or disable every visible skill at once

How it works

The plugin ships two halves in one npm package:

Half	Entry	What it does
Host	lib/index.js	Registers POST /api/skill-manager/toggle on the DSH web server, locates the skill's SKILL.md on disk (project roots first, then user roots), and rewrites its frontmatter
Client	lib/client.js	Registers the Skills conversation-view tab, renders the list from the skill.list RPC, and calls the host route on toggle

Disabling one skill (enabled: false) adds:

disable-model-invocation: true

to the skill frontmatter. The filesystem skill provider watches the skill roots, so the catalog invalidates automatically after the write — no restart needed for the catalog itself (a restart is required after installing or updating the plugin).

Installation

Requires a DSH profile (the example uses the web profile):

# from the plugin checkout, install into the profile
dsh plugin --profile web add file:./dsh-plugin-skill-manager

# or directly with pnpm
pnpm --dir "$HOME/.dsh/profiles/web" add file:./dsh-plugin-skill-manager

Then add the package to the profile's bundle layers. dsh.profile.bundles in ~/.dsh/profiles/web/package.json should include:

{
  "dsh": {
    "profile": {
      "bundles": [
        "@deepseek-ai/dsh-base",
        "@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-app",
        "dsh-plugin-marketplace",
        "dsh-plugin-skill-manager"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Finally restart DSH and refresh the web UI. A Skills tab appears next to Chat and Trajectory.

Note: file: dependencies are copied into the pnpm store. After editing the plugin sources, re-run pnpm --dir "$HOME/.dsh/profiles/web" remove dsh-plugin-skill-manager && pnpm --dir "$HOME/.dsh/profiles/web" add --force file:./dsh-plugin-skill-manager and restart DSH.

Uninstall

pnpm --dir "$HOME/.dsh/profiles/web" remove dsh-plugin-skill-manager

Remove dsh-plugin-skill-manager from dsh.profile.bundles in ~/.dsh/profiles/web/package.json, then restart DSH. Skills disabled by the plugin keep their frontmatter; re-enable them with the plugin, or delete the disable-model-invocation line manually.

Development

# syntax-check both halves
node --check lib/index.js
node --check lib/client.js

# verify the composed profile tree includes the plugin
dsh --profile web --dump-config | grep -A2 skill-manager

Package layout

dsh-plugin-skill-manager/
├── package.json        # dsh.bundle.patch + dsh.client declarations
├── cordis.patch.yml    # loader row mounting the host plugin
└── lib/
    ├── index.js        # host half: /api/skill-manager/toggle route
    └── client.js       # client half: Skills tab (__ModuleLoader__ bundle)

License

MIT