connector/dsh/ is the DeepSeek Harness (dsh) flavor of this package, providing an automated Cordis plugin and connector bundle for DeepSeek Harness (CLI, TUI, and Web UI).

Bundle contents

A single biomcp stdio MCP server (pinned biomcp@1.4.0, 120 s connection timeout, automatic China npm mirror detection via Intl.DateTimeFormat or env) plus four bundled skills and the bioresearcher-dr-worker subagent prompt:

Bundled	Not bundled
bioresearcher-deep-research	bioresearcher-onboard
bioresearcher-plot-making
bioresearcher-pubmed-weekly
bioresearcher-python-setup-uv

bioresearcher-onboard is excluded on purpose: its purpose — installing and registering the biomcp server in harness configs — is performed automatically by the plugin's apply hook on startup.

The bundled skill list is defined in connector/dsh/skill-bundle.json.

Architecture & runtime behavior

The plugin entry point (index.js) is an ESM module exporting a Cordis plugin:

export const name = "bioresearcher";
export const inject = ["tools", "skills"];
export async function apply(ctx, config) { ... }

When booted in a dsh profile (e.g. web, headless, tui), the plugin performs:

Automatic MCP Server Registration: Dynamically mounts @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client with serverName: "biomcp", launching npx -y -p biomcp@1.4.0 biomcp over stdio with timeout 120000 ms. DeepSeek Harness automatically registers the tools under the mcp__biomcp__<tool> namespace (e.g. mcp__biomcp__article_search).
Dynamic Skills Discovery: Reads the packaged skills/ directory and registers bundled skills on ctx.skills.register(...) with source: "bioresearcher" and resourceBase pointing to the local skill directory so relative paths in instructions resolve cleanly.
Subagent Worker Provisioning: If an agent roster service (ctx.agents) is present, registers bioresearcher-dr-worker with the specialized prompt (with ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} replaced by the installed plugin root). If absent, bioresearcher-deep-research transparently uses generic subagent delegation (Tier B) or sequential execution (Tier C).

Build

node scripts/ci/build-connector-dsh.mjs            # dist/
node scripts/ci/build-connector-dsh.mjs --out DIR

Stages dist/bioresearcher/ (root directory inside the tarball) and writes a reproducible dist/bioresearcher-connector_dsh-v<VERSION>.tar.gz (GNU tar --sort=name --mtime=@0 --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner piped through gzip -n -9). CI runs this build script as a gate (.github/workflows/ci.yml), and the release workflow attaches the tarball to every GitHub release.

Version policy

connector-meta.json and package.json version must equal the repo VERSION (Series 1, manifest-governed via scripts/ci/version-coupling.json and enforced by scripts/ci/check-drift.mjs). Release PRs bump them in unison with VERSION.

Installation & usage

Users can install the release archive through either of two methods:

Method A: Profile plugin installation (Recommended)

Install the package bundle directly into the target profile (e.g. web, headless, or custom profile):

dsh plugin --profile web add /path/to/bioresearcher-connector_dsh-v<VERSION>.tar.gz

dsh installs the package into the profile environment and automatically mounts the bundled cordis.patch.yml.

Method B: Standalone overlay patch

Extract the archive and load it directly via an overlay patch specifying the local package root:

tar -xzf bioresearcher-connector_dsh-v<VERSION>.tar.gz
dsh --profile web --patch <(echo "- insert: [{ id: bioresearcher, name: $(pwd)/bioresearcher/index.js }]")

Or add the entry to $DSH_HOME/cordis.patch.yml (~/.dsh/cordis.patch.yml) to enable it across all profiles on the machine.