dsh-skills-bridge

Bring your Claude Code skills into DeepSeek Harness — zero migration, one plugin.

Real session, dsh v0.1.0-rc.8: the agent lists its skill catalog — pdf-report arrives from claude-bridge (this plugin) with its original ~/.claude/skills/ path, while using-superpowers comes from the native filesystem provider.

If you maintain a ~/.claude/skills/ directory, you already own a skill library. This plugin mounts it into DeepSeek Harness as a first-class SkillProvider — every SKILL.md is discovered, its frontmatter is normalized to the DSH format, and the model can invoke it exactly like a native skill.

~/.claude/skills/pdf-report/SKILL.md     ─┐
~/.claude/skills/tiktok-bio-scraper/...   ├─►  dsh-skills-bridge  ─►  ctx.skills  ─►  agent
~/.agents/skills/using-superpowers/       ─┘        (provider: claude-bridge)

Why

DeepSeek Harness has an elegant skill system (ctx.skills), but its ecosystem is one week old. Claude Code's skill ecosystem is huge — hundreds of community skills, and every power user has a personal ~/.claude/skills folder. This bridge lets DSH inherit that entire library on day one.

What it handles

Claude Code frontmatter	Mapped to	Notes
name, description	same	required, same semantics
when_to_use / when-to-use	whenToUse	routing guidance for the model
disable-model-invocation	invocation.modelInvocable: false	user-only skills
user-invocable	invocation.userInvocable	command-surface control
allowed-tools, license, custom keys	preserved in metadata	never dropped

• Conflict policy — bridge skills register at rank 250: project-local DSH skills (100/200) still win on name collisions; user-level defaults (400/500) yield to the bridge.
• Hot reload — optional filesystem watcher invalidates the catalog when you edit a skill.
• Zero dependencies — pure node:fs, no npm runtime deps.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-skills-bridge

That's it — the bundle's patch layer self-registers. Restart your profile and the skills from ~/.claude/skills and ~/.agents/skills appear in the catalog (source: claude-bridge).

Configuration

Override via your profile's cordis.patch.yml:

- id: skills-bridge
  name: dsh-skills-bridge
  config:
    skillDirs: []              # extra dirs to scan (in addition to defaults)
    includeDefaultRoots: true  # ~/.claude/skills + ~/.agents/skills
    watch: true                # hot-reload on file changes
    providerName: claude-bridge

Verify it works

Ask the agent: "list every skill in your catalog and its provider source". Skills bridged from Claude Code show claude-bridge as provider and their original ~/.claude/skills/... path.

Limitations

• Flat frontmatter only (the subset real-world SKILL.md files use); deeply nested YAML is skipped with a warning, matching native provider behavior.
• Skill bodies are passed through verbatim — tool references inside a skill body (e.g. Claude Code's Read/Bash tools) are the model's business to adapt; DSH exposes its own equivalents.
• The watcher is fs.watch-based; on network filesystems set watch: false.

License

MIT