Install
Inside DeepSeek Harness, with dsh-market
dsh plugin --profile web add dshmarket
Or from the command line
dsh plugin --profile web add @huanghai-lab/dsh-custom-instructions
Installing runs third-party code with your own permissions — it can read your files, use your credentials and reach the network. Review the source first, and pin a commit (github:owner/repo#sha) when you can.
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A safe instruction manager for DSH Web: edit the global AGENTS.md, reuse templates, preview Markdown, restore history, and block silent overwrites when another window or program changes the data.
It is a portable, recoverable, conflict-safe workspace for global instructions rather than a bare rules textarea.
Stable v0.5.0 supports DSH
0.1.2-alpha.1and has passed a tagged-source build, isolated plugin-tarball installation, and real browser E2E.
DSH
0.1.1-rc.2users must pin plugin v0.4.0; older DSH installations should remain on v0.3.0.
Quick start
Requirements: Node.js ^22.19.0 || >=24.0.0, pnpm, and DSH 0.1.2-alpha.1.
dsh plugin --profile web add @huanghai-lab/dsh-custom-instructions
dsh web
Restart the Web profile, then open Settings → Custom instructions.
To pin the stable release explicitly:
dsh plugin --profile web add @huanghai-lab/dsh-custom-instructions@0.5.0

The UI follows the DSH locale and falls back to English. A Chinese screenshot is available at docs/assets/settings-zh.png.
Features
| Feature | Current behavior |
|---|---|
| Global instructions | Save, discard draft, undo last save, edit/Markdown preview; 65 KiB limit |
| Browser draft | Stored in sessionStorage per DSH profile; cleared after save or explicit discard |
| Conflict protection | Every mutation checks a disk-derived revision; conflicts preserve the draft |
| Templates | Unicode names, independent edit/preview/save, activate, and confirmed delete; up to 50 |
| History | Snapshot before every replacement, expandable preview and confirmed restore; newest 100 |
| Import/export | Current content, templates, history, and active state; strict validation and rollback |
| Project instruction overview | Read-only project AGENTS.md status for registered workspaces |
| Accessibility | Keyboard save, focus restoration, ARIA, native dialogs/file picker, responsive layout |
Markdown previews use DSH's official MarkdownText; the plugin does not ship another Markdown parser.
Data safety
- The plugin writes only
$DSH_HOME/AGENTS.mdand its siblinginstructions/data. Project instructions remain read-only. - Every mutation supplies a SHA-256
revisionderived from actual disk content. A multi-window or external edit returns409instead of being overwritten. - Mutations are serialized inside the DSH process. Files are written to a same-directory temporary file, read back for verification, and then replaced.
- Before replacing global content, the previous value is written to
AGENTS.md.bakand history. Undo is offered only when the backup truly exists. - Imports are fully validated before execution. A failed write restores the pre-import snapshot; the latest snapshot is retained as
instructions/import-rollback.json. - Each content item is limited to 65 KiB. Imports allow at most 50 templates, 100 history entries, and a 16 MiB request body.
- This plugin adds no product telemetry and does not change DSH's own telemetry setting.
Exports, backups, history, and rollback bundles may contain private instructions or paths. Treat them as sensitive and do not paste them into public issues without redaction.
Storage layout
$DSH_HOME/
├── AGENTS.md
├── AGENTS.md.bak
└── instructions/
├── active.json
├── import-rollback.json
├── templates/
└── history/
Template filenames use Node's native Base64URL encoding. Display names are never appended directly to filesystem paths.
Upgrades and version selection
dsh plugin --profile web add @huanghai-lab/dsh-custom-instructions@0.5.0
Export once before upgrading from v0.3.0. v0.5.0 reads v0.3 ASCII template files and numeric history IDs; a legacy template migrates to the encoded filename on its first successful write. v0.3 exports and bundles without a format field are parsed as v0.3 data.
If DSH is still 0.1.1-rc.2, pin plugin v0.4.0:
dsh plugin --profile web add @huanghai-lab/dsh-custom-instructions@0.4.0
Import behavior
- Same-name templates are updated; extra local templates are kept. A merged total above 50 is rejected.
- History is merged by ID and trimmed to the newest 100 entries.
- Current content and active state are imported. The active template must exist after merging.
- One invalid field, template, or history entry rejects the entire import.
- Exports contain saved data only, not an unsaved browser draft.
Troubleshooting
“Custom instructions” is missing
Confirm that the package is installed into the web profile, then restart DSH:
dsh plugin --profile web why @huanghai-lab/dsh-custom-instructions
dsh web
The page reports a revision conflict
Choose Copy draft, then Load latest, merge manually, and save again. Repeated clicks do not bypass the protection.
The page cannot load or write
Check the displayed storage path, $DSH_HOME permissions, and DSH logs. The host distinguishes 400, 404, 409, 413, and 500; the client also reports network, empty-response, and non-JSON failures.
The plugin stopped loading after a DSH upgrade
Stable v0.5.0 guarantees compatibility only with 0.1.2-alpha.1. It removes the client runtime deleted by that release, supports the new Markdown labels and browser-authentication APIs, and has completed isolated installation against the official tagged source build. DSH 0.1.1-rc.2 users should install plugin v0.4.0.
Compatibility
| Plugin | DSH | Node.js | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
v0.5.0 (latest) |
0.1.2-alpha.1 |
`^22.19.0 | |
| v0.4.0 | 0.1.1-rc.2 |
`^22.19.0 | |
| v0.3.0 | 0.1.0-rc.6 |
`^22.19.0 |
Development and verification
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm build
pnpm compat:dsh /path/to/deepseek-harness
pnpm typecheck:dsh-source /path/to/deepseek-harness
pnpm e2e -- /path/to/deepseek-harness
First run the locked install and build in the official dsh-v0.1.2-alpha.1 source checkout. pnpm e2e -- <source-directory> uses that build and the current plugin tarball, creates an isolated DSH_HOME and workspace under the OS temporary directory, then exercises one-time login, save, preview, templates, history, import/export, and both locales in the real GUI. It never touches the user's real AGENTS.md.
pnpm compat:dsh checks the DSH source directory for the client Context, Markdown, settings, workspace, and Web route interfaces used by this plugin. CI runs it against the official dsh-v0.1.2-alpha.1 tag.
CI runs locked install, typecheck, tests, build, and committed-lib freshness on Node 24 for Ubuntu and Windows. Ubuntu also builds the official alpha tag, typechecks against its declarations, and runs isolated browser E2E. Once upstream npm packages are installable, the npm installation path must still be rechecked against the published artifacts.
Community
Use the issue templates for reproducible bugs, and Discussions for usage notes and ideas. Report vulnerabilities privately as described in SECURITY.md.
If the plugin genuinely helps, a Star, a concrete use case, or a reproducible report all help the project improve.
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