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A working glossary of DeepSeek Harness terms: plugin, bundle, profile, service, capability seam, turn, step, round, human command, Ralph loop, and more.

Run DeepSeek Harness headless with dsh --profile headless, understand exit codes and SIGTERM behavior, and script one-shot agent tasks for CI pipelines.

How slash commands and hooks work in DeepSeek-Harness, the extension points hooks listen on, and bridge plugins that reuse Claude Code and Codex hooks.json.

Configure MCP servers in DeepSeek-Harness with dsh-mcp-client — transport options, tool naming rules, reconnection behavior, and the official memory example.

The three DeepSeek Harness sandbox modes, their platform backends, how permission presets pair sandboxing with approval, and where full access is default.

A complete map of all 12 DeepSeek Harness (dsh) plugin categories, with plugin counts, representative picks, and links — 800+ plugins as of August 2026.

How to export a Config schema from a DeepSeek-Harness plugin, set values through cordis.patch.yml, and why a patch's config field replaces rather than merges.

A troubleshooting table for DeepSeek Harness plugin install failures: pnpm not found, the allowBuilds block, missing lib/ output, and which one you hit.

A 10-point checklist for vetting a DeepSeek Harness plugin before dsh plugin add: what allowBuilds grants, what to read in the patch file, what to pin.

How DeepSeek Harness profiles and bundles fit together, where they live on disk, how dsh.profile.bundles stays in sync, and when to run more than one profile.

Install and use the DeepSeek-Harness Python SDK to run the agent programmatically — platform requirements, a minimal example, and its relation to the TS SDK.

Install DeepSeek Harness with npx, open the Web UI at 127.0.0.1:3080, add an API key, choose a workspace, and run your first dsh agent task from scratch.