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-bridgeThat'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-bridgeVerify 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/Bashtools) are the model's business to adapt; DSH exposes its own equivalents. - The watcher is
fs.watch-based; on network filesystems setwatch: false.
License
MIT