dsh-skill-cockpit

v0.6.10 — runs end-to-end on a real desktop install. 7/7 self-test suites · 351 assertions, all green. Published as dsh-skill-cockpit; npm latest = 0.6.10. (The bare name dsh-skill-panel belongs to a different author.)

A skill cockpit for DSH (DeepSeek Harness): one page in the app-level navigation that shows every skill the machine actually exposes, says why a skill is missing, and lets you toggle a single skill without editing anything but its entry-file name.

npm i dsh-skill-cockpit          # or install it as a DSH bundle via the plugin manager

Restart DSH after installing; the page sits in the left nav between Plugins and Schedule.

中文说明

What it does

• One page in the application-level nav. It takes the official sidebar.panellist seat with order: 5 — between the shipped Plugins row (0) and the shipped Schedule row (10) — plus the whole page in the layout's main keyed slot. Both seats are registered through the framework's slots service, the same extension point the shipped pages use.
• All six skill-root kinds, not just one. DSH resolves skills from project-dsh, project-agents, custom, user-dsh, user-agents, and bundled. Scanning only ~/.dsh/skills under-reports what a session can actually see.
• It answers "why is this skill not there?" A malformed frontmatter block makes the runtime drop a skill silently. The cockpit reports the concrete reason (dropped:no-frontmatter, dropped:unclosed, dropped:bad-yaml, dropped:missing-fields, dropped:bad-name), plus a missing root, a shadowed entry, or an explicit error — instead of showing nothing.
• It also answers "is anything using this skill?" The session logs record every skill invocation as a tool-call block (name: "skill", argument arguments.name), and the cockpit reads them and counts. 0.6.9 fixed a detector that only recognised an older skill-invocation shape — which made every count read zero; re-scanning 113 existing sessions surfaced real usage (e.g. ui-design ×8, git-workflow ×4). Counts live in <dshHome>/dsh-skill-cockpit/usage.json (skill names, counts, timestamps only — never message text).
• "Loads, but earns nothing" checks. Four kinds of technically-valid skill that a model will still never pick: shadowed (a duplicate name loses to a higher-priority root), short-description (too short to choose between), dir-name-mismatch (bundle folder contradicts the frontmatter name), empty-body (a heuristic, measured in file bytes and labelled as such).
• Toggling = renaming the entry file only. Enable/disable flips SKILL.md ⇄ SKILL.md.disabled. There is no sidecar state file, so there is exactly one source of truth: the filename. Project-level skill roots are always read-only.
• Honest about what it cannot do. DSH's skill provider contract is additive: ctx.skills.registerProvider(() => provider) contributes entries, and there is no hook to wrap or exclude another provider's output. So skills that live in the filesystem are disabled by renaming (above), while skills supplied by another provider — bundled or third-party — cannot be disabled by this panel at all. Those rows say so instead of showing a switch that silently does nothing.
• No @deepseek-ai/dsh* peer dependency at all. The host half declares inject = [] and the client half declares only slots, so the plugin is not subject to DSH's compatibility-exemption gate and does not touch the credentials surface.

The four pages

The panel is one page in the nav with four views along the top:

View	What it is for
列表	every skill in one place, grouped into cards: name, source-root tag, functional tags, description, size, per-skill switch, 「看正文」 to read its entry file
分组	a board you arrange yourself — drag a card from the left pane into a group on the right; six built-in functional groups (文档办公 · 代码工程 · 设计视觉 · 写作沟通 · 研究资料 · 元技能) plus your own, renameable and deletable
用量	per-skill invocation counts aggregated from session logs, so you can see which installed skills have never been used
问题	「loads but earns nothing」 and 「why is this skill missing」 diagnostics, one row per finding

Two behaviours worth stating explicitly, because both are places where a naive panel lies to you:

• A group header carries one tri-state switch. On = every member enabled, off = every member disabled, half = mixed. Clicking it renames the entry files one by one; a fully disabled group greys out, so an off group is visible without reading a count.
• Groups and assignments live in this browser (localStorage), not on disk. Arranging skills writes nothing. The only disk write in the whole plugin remains the entry-file rename.

HTTP routes (host half, local origin only)

Method	Path	What
GET	/__dsh-skill-panel/ping	identity, version, route list, writable roots
GET	/__dsh-skill-panel/skills?cwd=…	the full scan report (cwd fixes the project-level roots)
GET	/__dsh-skill-panel/body?path=…&cwd=…	one entry file's text (whitelist-only, size-capped)
GET	/__dsh-skill-panel/undeclared?q=…	search the "not installed" index (read-only)
GET	/__dsh-skill-panel/usage	{ ok, skills:[{name,count,lastAt}], scanned, skipped, sessions, updatedAt }
GET	/__dsh-skill-panel/checks?cwd=…	{ ok, checks:[{kind,skill,detail}], summary, thresholds, note }
POST	/__dsh-skill-panel/toggle	{ filePath, disable, cwd, plan? } → entry-file rename

/usage writes exactly one file, <dshHome>/dsh-skill-cockpit/usage.json, and only ever stores skill names, invocation counts and timestamps. The scan is incremental: a session log whose (size, mtime) is unchanged is skipped, so the second call on this machine took 21 ms against a 104-session history. Requests carrying a foreign Origin are refused with 403.

Security: two refusals, both enforced by the host half

The panel is a local web surface, so the routes do not trust their caller. Two refusals are part of the contract, and each one has a negative test in the suite:

• /body is whitelist-only. It answers only for entry files that the /skills report listed; any other path — an arbitrary file, the plugin's own data file, a path that merely exists — is refused with 403 and no content, so the route cannot be turned into a file reader. (Before 0.3.1 it read any path it was given; found by review, not by an incident.)
• /toggle only ever writes inside the two user-level write roots. The target must sit inside ~/.dsh/skills or ~/.agents/skills; project-level roots are read-only even when the report lists the file, because a path derived from a session's cwd must never become a write.

cwd is optional on both routes (0.3.2): this panel is also a standalone page that has no session at all. Without it the report simply has no project-level roots, so those entries are refused while every user-level one still works — and a cwd that does not resolve is ignored rather than trusted, so it cannot be used to slip past the write-root gate.

Requests carrying a foreign Origin are refused with 403.

Why some skills cannot be disabled

A skill can reach a session down two different roads, and only one of them ends at a file:

• File-backed (user-dsh, user-agents, custom, project roots, a bundled directory): the entry is a real SKILL.md or x.md, so the cockpit can park it by renaming the entry file.
• Provider-backed: DSH's contract is ctx.skills.registerProvider(() => provider) — additive by design. A provider contributes its own list(); there is no hook to wrap, filter or exclude another provider's output. Nothing this panel does can make such a skill disappear.

That asymmetry is not a missing feature, it is the host API's shape, so the panel states it plainly: a provider-supplied row renders 本面板无法禁用（属 … provider） where the switch would otherwise sit. A switch that silently did nothing would be worse than no switch.

Screenshots

Being retaken against v0.6.8 and will be committed to docs/screenshots/:

File	View	Status
list.png	列表 — grouped cards, per-skill switches, source tags	pending
groups.png	分组 — drag-and-drop board, tri-state group switches, greyed-off group	pending
usage.png	用量 — per-skill invocation counts	pending
problems.png	问题 — why-invisible diagnostics	pending

This README ships without images on purpose: no placeholder logos and no screenshots of an older UI. When they land they go in the table above, first one right under the title.

Install

npm install dsh-skill-cockpit

The published version is 0.2.3 today; 0.6.7 is pending release. To run the current source instead, clone and link the working tree:

// ~/.dsh/profiles/<profile>/package.json
{
  "dependencies": { "dsh-skill-cockpit": "link:/path/to/dsh-skill-cockpit" },
  "dsh": { "profile": { "bundles": ["…", "dsh-skill-cockpit"] } }
}

Then restart DSH. The entry appears in the left navigation as Skills.

Development

node test/run-all.mjs      # 6 suites: data layer · toggle loop · host routes · client · usage · checks

Pure ESM JavaScript, no build step — lib/*.js runs as-is.

Layout

Path	What
lib/index.js	host half: local HTTP routes (/__dsh-skill-panel/*)
lib/client.js	client half: the whole UI (classic script, React.createElement)
lib/roots.js · lib/scan.js · lib/frontmatter.js	six-root enumeration, scan, YAML frontmatter
lib/toggle.js	the only entry-file writer: 8 guards, rename only
lib/usage.js	session-log reader → invocation counts (multi-frame zstd, incremental)
lib/checks.js	pure functions: the four "loads but earns nothing" diagnostics
lib/undeclared.js	"referenced but not installed" index
test/	self-tests (no framework)

License

MIT