toolclub/dsh-agent-team-gui

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Give DeepSeek Harness a reusable team: one Agent plans, another implements, and a third reviews.

Save the team once, choose a model for each member, and reuse it across projects and conversations. Follow the plan, member outputs, retries, and provider-reported Token usage in one Run Center. This is an unofficial community plugin for the DeepSeek Harness Web profile.

Watch the 80-second UI guide · Install v1.3.0 · Run your first team · Example recipe · Share a workflow

Screenshot-based UI guide with example data and Chinese synthetic narration. Displayed task results, timings, and Tokens are not a live-run benchmark. Sources and captions.

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Why this plugin

A team is a reusable product object, not a one-off dispatch form. Create it once in Settings → Teams, then use it across projects and conversations.

Capability	User outcome
One model and tool policy per member	Combine a planner, implementer, reviewer, or specialist without forcing one route on everyone
Dynamic workflow planning by default	The active conversation's model assigns focused work and dependencies from the current request
Team / Solo / Inherited modes	Choose a durable conversation override, a project default, or a one-message exception without ambiguous switches
Bounded DAG, retries, quality gate, background work	Long work is observable, cancellable, finite, and restart-safe
Official provider Token usage	See input, cache-read, cache-write, and output Tokens with full/partial/unavailable coverage—never invented prices
Versions, recipes, and definition backup	Reproduce a team, share it without credentials, preview impact, and remap model routes before applying

Install

Plugin release	DSH target	Upgrade guidance
1.3.0	>=0.1.5-rc.1 <0.1.6-0	Recommended; selectable on-demand delegation and consistent mode boundaries
1.2.0	>=0.1.5-rc.1 <0.1.6-0	Failure diagnosis and bounded lead-driven continuation
1.1.1	>=0.1.5-rc.1 <0.1.6-0	Earlier workflow fixes; retries still replay the assignment
1.1.0	>=0.1.5-rc.1 <0.1.6-0	Initial 0.1.5 compatibility; upgrade the plugin to 1.3.0
1.0.1	Verified with 0.1.1-rc.2	Previous integration; upgrade both DSH and the plugin together

The walkthrough has English subtitles and Chinese subtitles. Load the SRT alongside the existing video in a compatible player; GitHub does not attach it automatically.

Upgrading DSH from 0.1.1? Use plugin v1.3.0 for DSH 0.1.5. This release fixes source.subscribe during plugin loading, migrates reconnect and Session APIs, and keeps the existing team definitions and run store. Restart DSH and refresh the browser after upgrading. The CLI may report 0.1.5-rc.1 while its compatible internal packages resolve to 0.1.5-rc.2.

Requirements: a working DeepSeek Harness Web profile, at least one configured provider/model, Node.js >=22.19.0 <23 or >=24.0.0, and pnpm. Declared DSH compatibility is >=0.1.5-rc.1 <0.1.6-0; the v1.3.0 release was verified against DSH 0.1.5-rc.1.

Recommended: install the compiled release package. It includes the built Host and client files, so installation does not run this plugin's Git prepare build or require its allowBuilds entry.

dsh plugin --profile web add -w https://github.com/toolclub/dsh-agent-team-gui/releases/download/v1.3.0/dsh-agent-team-gui-1.3.0.tgz
dsh --profile web

Stop and restart an already-running DSH Web process after installing or upgrading. Then open Settings → Teams. If a plugin marketplace chooses Git installation and fails, use the direct release command above; see installation troubleshooting.

Release notes and checksum · Git/source installation

[!TIP] If dsh is not on PATH, use the launcher that starts your working Harness installation. With npm, replace dsh with npx @deepseek-ai/dsh@0.1.5-rc.1; from a source checkout, replace it with pnpm --dir /absolute/path/to/deepseek-harness dsh. Keep the same launcher for installation and startup. New to Harness? Start with its official setup guide.

Verify that both the dsh-agent-team-gui bundle and the agent-team-gui configuration row are present:

dsh --profile web --dump-config

Run your first team

Use the included full-stack delivery recipe, with a planner, implementation engineer, and reviewer. You can bind all three to the same working model for the first run; multiple providers are optional.

1. Download the recipe JSON. Open Settings → Teams → Recipes & data and choose Choose recipe file.
2. Map the placeholder routes to your configured provider/model routes, review the preview, and choose Create a copy → Import reviewed recipe. In Member library, confirm each member's exact model and tool access.
3. For this first walkthrough, set Team usage → Host dispatches first, Dispatch policy → Run assigned work, and member selection to All members, then save. The supplied recipe otherwise uses Smart/adaptive selection.
4. Select an empty scratch project, choose the imported team beside the composer, select Select team for this conversation, and send the ready-to-copy task: build and test a small to-do list.
5. Open Team runs to inspect the plan, outputs, review, and actual Token coverage. Check the delivered files and test results before treating the task as complete.

Full walkthrough, expected results, and troubleshooting →

Create your own team

In Settings → Teams → Member library, save each member's role, model, optional fallback, and tool policy. In Settings → Teams, add those members and choose activation, member selection, and execution options. Leave Fixed order off for dynamic planning, or enable it for a fixed serial sequence. Choose Team, Solo, or Inherited beside the composer to control the current conversation.

UI example with demonstration data.

How orchestration works

flowchart TD
    U[User message] --> M{Effective mode and one-shot choice}
    M -->|Solo or Manual| L[Lead handles request directly]
    M -->|On demand| J{Lead decides whether delegation helps}
    J -->|No| L
    J -->|Missing information| A[Ask user]
    J -->|Yes: dispatch_to_squad| D[Validate and admit one initial dispatch]
    M -->|Host dispatch or Force Team next| D
    D --> P[Use explicit plan or invoke bounded planner]
    P -->|Smart skip| L
    P --> W[Dependency-ready members, failure policy, optional quality gate]
    W --> R[Persist results, diagnosis and reported usage]
    R --> L
    R -->|Lead reviews unfinished work| C[Bounded continue_squad_run]
    C -->|Reuse successes, shared budget, one continuation| W

New editor drafts and built-in templates default to Lead decides when to delegate. Selecting a team makes it available; simple answers create no planning child or team run. Saved/imported choices and legacy missing-field defaults remain unchanged. Full flow and edge-case contract. Host background runs finish in Run Center; model-initiated tool dispatch waits for its result.

After dispatch, when no explicit assignments/order are supplied and no fixed order exists, the plugin uses the active conversation's provider/model route in a bounded, tool-free planner child. It receives the member roles and returns structured assignments plus an acyclic dependency graph. It does not turn one member into a replacement for the whole team. A bad, cyclic, or unavailable plan falls back to deterministic role-scoped assignments.

Ready DAG nodes run up to maxConcurrency. Dependants receive only bounded structured handoffs; full member output remains in durable run history. A fixed member order is an explicit serial override and bypasses DAG planning.

Activation and selection

• Run assigned work requires execution once dispatch has been chosen; it does not force on-demand delegation.
• Smart lets the bounded planner skip unsuitable/trivial work.
• Manual blocks ordinary automatic/model dispatch; explicitly choose Force Team next or a manual Run Center action.
• All members assigns each configured member exactly once.
• Adaptive lets Smart planning select the smallest useful non-empty subset.

Conversation modes

• Team is an explicit durable team selection for this conversation.
• Solo is an explicit durable opt-out, even when the project has a default team.
• Inherited removes the conversation override and follows the project default when one exists.
• Next message is a separate crash-safe one-shot Team or Solo choice, consumed exactly once.

These states remain interactive after page refresh, cold Host startup, and live reconnect. An empty or temporarily unavailable catalog never silently deletes a saved selection.

Safety bounds

• Planner, member, reviewer, and repair prompts put the exclusive role and no-delegation contract before a bounded excerpt of user content.
• Delegated sessions cannot dispatch another team. Detected DSH subagent tools—including renamed registrations—are denied inside team children.
• One durable claim binds automatic and model-tool dispatch to the latest human message, so repeated tool calls cannot create hundreds of duplicate teams.
• Member timeout, concurrency, retry-once, soft team Token budget, and quality rounds are finite.
• A retry creates a linked immutable run and replays the original normalized assignments, order, and DAG; it does not silently ask the model to invent a different workflow.

Run Center and Token usage

Every execution is written before planning starts. The Run Center exposes foreground/background state, live phase, elapsed time, child IDs, complete outputs, bounded handoffs, stop, linked whole or member retry, export, filters, and retention-safe clear.

If a DSH child settles with stopReason: "error" after delivering non-empty plain text, the member counts as Completed instead of losing a valid long-form deliverable. The stop reason remains recorded and Run Center shows a protocol-delivery warning. Empty output, rejected runs, cleanup failures, timeouts, and other non-completed reasons such as max-tokens remain failures.

Each member handoff summary keeps up to 16,000 characters by default. A team may set handoffSummaryMaxChars from 1,000 to 32,000. Complete raw output remains durable in Run Center; dependency and lead prompts retain separate aggregate bounds so one long artifact cannot make model context unbounded.

The plugin reuses DSH's official tokenUsage projection and keeps four buckets:

• uncached input;
• cache read;
• cache write;
• output.

Planner, member, review, and repair usage remain separately attributable. Coverage is explicitly full, partial, or unavailable at run and retry-attempt level. Before a provider reports a sample, the UI says Metering… instead of showing a false zero. Tokens are not money; the plugin does not guess prices that Harness providers do not publish through a stable pricing contract.

Quality gate and background runs

An optional quality gate names one reviewer, one repair owner, explicit criteria, and 0..2 repair rounds. A rejection can rerun only that repair owner, followed by the named reviewer. It cannot create arbitrary agents or recurse.

Foreground runs finish before the lead Agent synthesizes bounded handoffs. Background runs return a short acknowledgement and stay visible in the plugin Run Center; when the official DSH Jobs service is present, the same run is also registered there with a shared cancel hook. Without that optional service, the plugin falls back to process-local background execution; a Host restart then reconciles unfinished durable state as Interrupted rather than pretending it completed.

Versions, recipes, and definition backup

• Each saved team version includes immutable snapshots of all referenced member definitions.
• Restore is preview-first and warns when a shared member would change another team.
• Recipes contain one team and its members, never provider credentials. Import supports Copy or Merge, conflict preview, and separate primary/fallback route remapping.
• Definition backup exports agents and teams. Import is preview-first with Merge or Replace; replace reports deletions, dangling mode/default cleanup, and affected teams before confirmation.
• Multi-table writes are serialized and use compensating rollback on validation, cancellation, or storage failure. Readers see either the previous or committed definition graph, not a half-import.
• Remote recipe URLs are disabled in v0.5. Import a reviewed local JSON file; this intentionally avoids exposing an unprotected server-side fetch/SSRF surface.

Start with the credential-free full-stack delivery recipe, preview it, and remap its your-provider / your-model placeholders to routes configured in your own DSH profile.

Definition exports include member system prompts and model route names. Run exports additionally include the user task and member outputs. Review those files before sharing them.

Settings reference

Member

Field	Meaning
Name and role prompt	Durable identity and exclusive instructions for this member
Primary provider/model	Existing DSH route; credentials stay in DSH
Fallback provider/model	Optional paired route for retry-once
maxTokens	Hard per-attempt output ceiling sent to the provider
Tool allow/deny	Least-privilege visibility for registered DSH tools; recursive team/subagent tools remain denied

Team

Field	Meaning
Members and collaboration note	Reusable member definitions plus team-level coordination guidance
Fixed order	Complete serial permutation; leave off for dynamic assignments and DAG dependencies
Execution/context	Serial or bounded parallel; spawn, fork, or serial-only chain
Activation/selection	Always, Smart, or Manual; all members or adaptive subset
Response	Foreground synthesis or observable background run
Planner	Current/recent/full context and a bounded planner Token ceiling
Resilience	Continue, stop, or retry-once; member timeout and fallback route
Limits	Maximum concurrency and a soft provider-reported team Token budget
Handoff summary	Per-member summary ceiling in characters; blank uses 16,000, configurable from 1,000–32,000
Quality	Named reviewer, repair owner, criteria, and at most two repair rounds

Host configuration

The Web bundle inserts one unique Host row; it relies on the Web profile's existing storage, Connection RPC, models, sessions, and browser module services.

- id: agent-team-gui
  name: dsh-agent-team-gui
  config:
    defaultProvider: spawn
    defaultExecutionMode: serial
    defaultContextMode: spawn
    historyMaxRuns: 0
    historyMaxAgeDays: 0
    versionMaxPerSquad: 0

Field	Default	Meaning
defaultProvider	spawn	Registered DSH subagent provider
defaultExecutionMode	serial	Effective mode when a team omits it
defaultContextMode	spawn	Effective context when a team omits it
historyMaxRuns	0	Count retention; 0 disables automatic run deletion
historyMaxAgeDays	0	Age retention in days; 0 disables automatic run deletion
versionMaxPerSquad	0	Version retention per team; 0 disables automatic version deletion

If you override the row in a profile patch, restate every needed field: DSH patch rows replace the complete config object rather than deep-merging it. chain is valid only for serial execution. Retention is deliberately opt-in: upgrading to v0.5 does not silently delete existing run history or team versions. Set a positive limit only when automatic cleanup is the behavior you want.

Other installation paths

Git source installation

Use this alternative when you intend to build from source:

dsh plugin --profile web add -w github:toolclub/dsh-agent-team-gui#v1.3.0

Git dependencies run this repository's prepare build. On pnpm 10+, authorize only the exact package key pnpm prints under allowBuilds in the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml, then repeat the same pinned command. The key can include the resolved revision; copy the actual key from the error. This grants that dependency permission to execute build scripts. The compiled release path above avoids this step.

Exact commit

Resolve and review a full commit SHA, then use the same allowBuilds rule as the tagged Git install:

dsh plugin --profile web add -w github:toolclub/dsh-agent-team-gui#<full-commit-sha>

This is the most reproducible source install. The release CI performs the same fresh-profile check against the exact pushed revision.

Local checkout

From this repository:

pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm run preflight
dsh plugin --profile web add -w .

preflight type-checks Host, Client, and tests; runs Host/rendered Client suites; builds from a clean output directory; audits the tarball and secrets; and boots an isolated temporary DSH Web profile.

Compiled tarball

mkdir -p dist
pnpm pack --pack-destination dist
dsh plugin --profile web add -w ./dist/dsh-agent-team-gui-1.3.0.tgz

The package audit verifies runtime/declaration closure, examples, governance files, screenshots, source maps, external dependency declarations, no absolute paths, no symlinks, and no known credential patterns.

Ask a terminal-capable Agent

You can send this single instruction inside DeepSeek Harness:

Follow the installation and security notes in https://github.com/toolclub/dsh-agent-team-gui. Install the compiled v1.3.0 Release tarball into the Web profile, restart Web, verify the composed configuration, and report the installed version and installation source.

Model tool and public service

dispatch_to_squad remains available for explicit/manual model-driven use. It accepts a team ID or unique case-insensitive name, a task, optional assignments/order, and execution/context overrides where the saved team permits them. Its model-facing result is bounded; the complete canonical run is durable and available through the Run Center/export.

The package also exports AgentTeamService, record/result types, Zod schemas, and the in-process definition/dispatch/version/recipe/run APIs. Treat those APIs as developer-preview surfaces while DSH itself is pre-stable.

Security and privacy

• Plugin RPC uses /api/agentTeamGui behind DSH's browser-session cookie authentication and Host/Origin checks. Requests and results are validated; there is no separate unauthenticated channel.
• Provider credentials are never copied into plugin records, recipes, examples, logs, or exports.
• Durable local storage does contain team role prompts, selected route names, conversation/project identifiers, user tasks, run outputs, errors, and Token usage. Protect the DSH home directory.
• Use least-privilege member tools. A model may perform any action that its allowed DSH tools permit.
• URL recipe fetching is disabled. Installation scripts are the only extra machine-code authority; review and pin Git dependencies or use a compiled tarball.
• Report vulnerabilities privately using SECURITY.md, not a public issue containing credentials or private prompts.

Compatibility and limitations

Dependency and repair chains have a separate 12,000-character serialized JSON budget; quality review chains have 32,000 characters. These are independent of the per-member stored summary limit. Chains reserve member identities, share space across deliveries, and report chainTruncated and omittedHandoffs. Full outputs remain in Run Center. Review rounds use the reviewer's configured maxTokens, with 2,048 only as the default when unset.

retry-once now diagnoses failures before retrying. Explicit billing exhaustion, cancellation, or an exhausted configured budget stops recovery. A tool-free system coordinator on the lead's model route assesses failure evidence and prior progress. Only a supported transient failure is retried in place; structural changes are proposed to the lead, not silently executed.

The lead can call continue_squad_run after a failed/partial run settles, referencing its run id and chain revision. The first release allows one continuation per execution chain. It reuses independent successful tasks and reruns affected descendants, retains both plans/results, and shares the original configured soft Token budget. Duplicate submissions return the accepted result; changed wording does not reset admission. Same-message initial dispatch remains limited to one. Run Center manual retry remains a separate explicit replay initiated by the user.

Continuation keeps one task node per existing member. Split remaining work into ordered steps; adding multiple independent nodes for the same member or a new team is not supported yet. See execution chains and recovery for the contract and limits.

For DSH 0.1.5, global deny entries are filtered against the global registry while scoped allows remain intact. An execution guard also blocks recognized delegation tools and explicit member denies on marked in-process children. DSH has no universal delegation capability tag: custom tools with unrelated schemas and arbitrary external programs are not an OS-level sandbox boundary.

• Web profile only; there is no headless Settings UI. The exported Host service can still be used by another in-process plugin that supplies the required services.
• Declared compatibility is DSH >=0.1.5-rc.1 <0.1.6-0; CI currently verifies DSH 0.1.5-rc.1. DSH and this plugin are both pre-stable, so pin versions.
• Old v0.4 durable definitions and v1 exports remain readable/importable. Editing them must satisfy the safer v0.5 new-write limits. A legacy run without a stored plan cannot be faithfully retried and is rejected with an explanation.
• Provider Token projections are optional. Partial/unavailable coverage is expected and explicit.
• A soft team Token budget prevents later scheduling; it cannot stop an already-running provider at the exact threshold. Per-member maxTokens is the hard provider bound.
• DSH currently offers no supported registration seam for custom durable squad/* Session event types. The plugin uses its durable run store, standard child sessions/tool events, Jobs, and logs.
• Model-tool trigger mode is best-effort because DSH exposes no toolChoice control. Guaranteed normal-send mode is Host-driven and durable-message-idempotent.

Verification and project health

pnpm run typecheck
pnpm run test
pnpm run build
pnpm run audit:pack
pnpm run smoke:install
pnpm run smoke:browser

CI runs Node 22.19 and Node 24, a fresh DSH 0.1.5-rc.1 Web profile, browser keyboard/accessibility/reconnect journeys, exact Git revision installation, and the community plugin doctor. The detailed product contract and evidence matrix live in docs/v0.5-product-spec.md and docs/v0.5-acceptance.md.

Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md, the Code of Conduct, and SECURITY.md. The concise Chinese tutorial 从零开发一个 DeepSeek Harness 插件 explains apply, Service plugins, profile/bundle wiring, local verification, and GitHub installation using official Harness references.

Issues should include the exact DSH/plugin versions and a sanitized minimal reproduction. Pull requests should add focused regression evidence and keep compatibility, bounded execution, accessibility, privacy, and package closure in scope.

If this workflow helps, a GitHub Star makes it easier for other DSH users to discover. Real recipes, screenshots, and honest bug reports help even more.

Uninstall

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-agent-team-gui

Removing the package does not automatically delete durable plugin tables in the configured DSH storage backend.

License

Released under the MIT License.