Rust Academy — a DeepSeek Harness plugin

A DSH Web UI plugin that adds a Rust Academy entry to the left sidebar. Click it and the main column opens a self-contained Rust course.

What it gives you

• 20 lessons across 7 stages — from fn main to ownership, traits, async and lifetimes. Each lesson has a goal, short explanations, runnable code, and a hands-on exercise with a hint and a worked solution.
• Progress tracking — mark lessons complete; the header shows done / 20 and a progress bar. Stored in the browser's localStorage.
• Cheatsheet tab — the syntax you reach for most: Cargo, bindings, control flow, ownership, collections, iterators, traits, concurrency, testing.
• Ask in chat — copies a ready-made tutor prompt for the current lesson and switches to the Conversation panel, so the agent can teach that lesson against your own Rust project.

How it is wired

Slot	Registration
sidebar.panellist	id: rust-academy, order: 20, localized label
main	key: rust-academy

The Host half (index.js) is a no-op: the panel needs no Host capability. Styles use only --dsw-alias-* theme tokens, so light and dark themes follow the Harness automatically. The in-panel text is registered in the Client locale service under the rust-academy namespace, and the display metadata lives in locale/en.json with the artwork in icon.svg.

Requirements

• DeepSeek Harness (Desktop or dsh web) with a Web GUI.
• No build step, no dependencies: the Client module is plain JavaScript loaded through the Harness module loader.

Install

Clone this repository somewhere on disk, then install the directory as a bundle into your Harness profile:

git clone https://github.com/ramanasai/dsh-rust-academy.git

Then, from a Harness session (the Plugin Manager needs Full access or approval):

plugin_manager install_bundle target=/absolute/path/to/dsh-rust-academy

The bundle is linked from the checkout, so editing client.js changes the source the profile uses; reinstall or reload the page to pick up a new module generation. The sidebar icon appears under the global panel icons, and the panel opens in the main column.

Files

File	Purpose
package.json	Bundle manifest: patch, Client module, locale and icon exports
cordis.patch.yml	Inserts the rust-academy row into the profile
index.js	Host half (empty apply)
client.js	The sidebar icon and the full course panel
locale/en.json	Plugin Manager title and description
icon.svg	Original crab artwork for the plugin inventory

License

MIT — see LICENSE.