DeepSeek Harness plugin

dsh-tool-hackernews

Hacker News tool suite (hn_top_stories, hn_search, hn_item) for DeepSeek Harness agents

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Repository
tanf1ng/dsh-tool-hackernews
Latest update
Aug 14, 2026
Category
Tools & Capabilities
GitHub stars
1
Format
plugin
Catalog evidence
Upstream dsh.bundle evidence
Evidence path
package.json#dsh.bundle
Checked against
0.1.0-rc.8
Upstream check date
2026-08-20

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Install

Start with a prompt that asks an agent to review the GitHub repository and source. Switch to the command if you want to install it yourself.

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GitHub: https://github.com/tanf1ng/dsh-tool-hackernews
Plugin: dsh-tool-hackernews
Author: tanf1ng

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dsh-tool-hackernews

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Hacker News tool suite for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) agents: hn_top_stories, hn_search, and hn_item. Built on the free Algolia HN search APIno API key required.

Tools

ToolArgsBehavior
hn_top_storieslimit (optional, 1–30)The current Hacker News front page: titles, links, scores, comment counts, authors, relative times.
hn_searchquery (required), tag (story/comment/poll/ask_hn/show_hn), since_hours (1–8760), limit (1–30)Keyword search over HN, optionally restricted to a tag or to the last N hours.
hn_itemid (required), max_comments (0–100)One story with a bounded top-level comment tree (HTML stripped, depth-indented) so context stays safe.

All three tools are read-only and concurrency-safe, so DSH may schedule sibling calls in parallel. Each request carries the deployment's cooperative timeout budget and forwards the caller's AbortSignal.

Install

DSH plugins install into a profile via dsh plugin (pnpm under the hood). From this GitHub repository:

dsh plugin --profile <name> add "github:tanf1ng/dsh-tool-hackernews"

Or from a local checkout with pnpm:

pnpm install
pnpm build
# then in the profile that should load it:
dsh plugin --profile <name> add "file:../../dsh-tool-hackernews"

Enable the plugin in the profile's cordis.patch.yml (or a product bundle):

- id: tool-hackernews
  name: dsh-tool-hackernews

Config

All keys optional:

KeyDefaultMeaning
registerTopStoriestrueRegister hn_top_stories.
registerSearchtrueRegister hn_search.
registerItemtrueRegister hn_item.
topStoriesLimit10Default result bound for hn_top_stories.
searchLimit8Default result bound for hn_search.
maxComments20Default comment bound for hn_item.
fetchTimeoutMs15000Per-request timeout budget (ms).

Development

pnpm install
pnpm build     # tsc -> lib/
pnpm test      # smoke test against a stub fetch (no network needed)

The package follows the official DSH tool-plugin pattern: a Cordis plugin (name / inject / Config / apply) that registers defineTool definitions on ctx.tools, with full parameter schemas, canonical output schemas, text renderers, and presentCall UI cards.

License

MIT