dsh-ssh-remote

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SSH remote workspaces for DeepSeek Harness: let the agent connect to remote hosts over SSH, browse/read/write remote files, run remote commands, open remote terminals, and show connection status with colored dots in the sidebar — in the spirit of Codex Remote.

> Status: the Web UI, SSH directory picker, persisted remote workspaces, > transparent SFTP filesystem routing, and OpenSSH command/terminal routing > are implemented end to end.

Features

• SSH connection management: ssh2 connection pool (one per host),

keepalive, exponential-backoff auto-reconnect, connection state machine.

• Remote file operations: SFTP implementation of the FileSystem twelve

primitives (read/write/edit/list/stat) with DSH FS_* error-code alignment.

• Remote commands: ssh_remote exec runs a shell command on the host.
• Codex-style SSH discovery: concrete Host aliases are collected from

~/.ssh/config (including Include files), then effective HostName/User/ Port/IdentityFile/ProxyJump/ProxyCommand values are resolved with ssh -G.

• OpenSSH-owned configuration: the Web panel is read-only and never

duplicates SSH credentials into DSH settings. Edit ~/.ssh/config, then press Refresh.

• Native Add Workspace flow: choose an SSH alias, browse its directories,

and open one as a normal Harness workspace.

• Transparent workspace routing: read/write/edit and other filesystem

calls use SFTP; bash and terminal processes use the system OpenSSH client. Local workspaces keep using the original local providers.

• Connection status dots: green = connected, amber = connecting/

reconnecting, red = disconnected/error.

• Multiple hosts: workspace records persist to

$DSH_HOME/ssh-remote-workspaces.json.

Install

Requires Node 22+, pnpm, DSH 0.1.0-rc.x.

# Option A: npm (once published)
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-ssh-remote

# Option B: GitHub (no publish needed)
dsh plugin --profile web add 'github:CrazyShout/dsh-ssh-remote'

Restart dsh web afterwards.

Usage

In the Web UI:

1. Click Add Workspace. 2. Choose an SSH alias discovered from ~/.ssh/config. 3. Browse to a remote directory and click Open this folder. 4. Start a session in the resulting workspace. Use Full access so the local OpenSSH process can reach the remote host.

Harness still stores a local workspace path. The plugin creates a small local anchor under $DSH_HOME/ssh-workspace-anchors/ and persists its exact mapping in $DSH_HOME/ssh-workspace-anchors.json. Only that anchor and its descendants are routed to the corresponding ssh://alias/path; unrelated local paths are never intercepted.

The lower-level ssh_remote tool remains available for explicit operations:

The agent drives remote hosts through the ssh_remote tool:

ssh_remote { action: "add",    uri: "ssh://user@gpu-server:22/home/user/exp" }
ssh_remote { action: "connect", id: "<id>" }
ssh_remote { action: "exec",    id: "<id>", command: "nvidia-smi" }
ssh_remote { action: "read",    id: "<id>", path: "train.py" }
ssh_remote { action: "write",   id: "<id>", path: "notes.txt", content: "..." }
ssh_remote { action: "list" }

path accepts a remote absolute path (/home/user/exp/a.py) or a workspace-relative path (a.py).

Authentication

• Prefers the local ssh-agent (SSH_AUTH_SOCK).
• Tries effective IdentityFile entries returned by OpenSSH in order.
• ProxyJump (including multiple hops) and ProxyCommand streams are opened

by the system OpenSSH client, keeping its Include/wildcard/Match semantics.

• The remote must enable the sftp subsystem

(Subsystem sftp internal-sftp).

SSH configuration

Add a concrete alias to ~/.ssh/config, verify ssh devbox, then refresh the SSH Remote plugin panel:

Host devbox
  HostName devbox.example.com
  User you
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
  ProxyJump bastion

Register a workspace with the alias, not duplicated connection fields:

ssh_remote { action: "add", uri: "ssh://devbox/home/you/project" }

Older ssh-remote.hosts entries remain a read-only compatibility fallback, but new configuration should live only in OpenSSH config.

Routing and security boundary

• File traffic is handled by SFTP; commands and terminals are launched through

the system ssh executable, so SSH aliases, Include, Match, ProxyJump, agent forwarding, and host-key policy stay owned by OpenSSH.

• Routing is exact and boundary-aware: an anchor /a/project matches itself

and /a/project/..., but never /a/project-copy.

• Creating a workspace does not copy or mount the remote tree locally. The

local anchor contains no remote source files.

Roadmap

• DSH Credentials integration and configurable remote-path read policies.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm run build   # tsc for host + client
pnpm test

lib/ is committed to git so a git install never ships without built code.

License

MIT