dsh-preset-kit

Publish agent presets into a DeepSeek Harness home: copy installs refreshed on every boot, owner tracking, and clean uninstall.

Why

dsh treats presets as local files: a preset is a directory under $DSH_HOME/.agent-presets/<id>/ holding agent.cordis.yml (+ optional preset.yml). Bundles cannot add preset roots — composeProfile replaces the agent-presets row's roots with the shipped root at the top overlay — so a plugin that ships a preset has to write into the user root itself.

This kit is that shared piece: publish, conflict rules, ownership records, and uninstall, so every preset-carrying plugin does not reinvent it.

Hot reload vs. boot refresh

• dsh-agent-presets re-reads its roots on every list()/resolve(), so a preset that appears in the user root is visible immediately — no restart.
• dsh's preset scanner does not follow symlinks (readdir file types + isDirectory()), so the default mode is copy. Republish on every plugin boot (the natural apply() cadence) to refresh the copied preset from its source — upgrading the plugin and restarting dsh updates the preset.
• symlink mode exists for tooling that consumes the user root itself, but a symlinked preset is invisible to dsh.

API

import { publishPresetSync } from 'dsh-preset-kit'

// In a Cordis plugin apply():
const undo = publishPresetSync({
  id: 'minimal-web',                    // /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/
  dir: new URL('./presets/minimal-web/', import.meta.url).pathname,
  owner: 'dsh-minimal-web',             // your package name
})
ctx.effect(() => undo, 'preset-publish')

Async variants for scripts: publishPreset, unpublishPreset, listPublished. dshHome defaults to $DSH_HOME, then ~/.dsh.

Ownership rules

• Publishing into an id already published by the same owner replaces it.
• Publishing into an id published by a different owner throws.
• Publishing into a preset directory the user authored by hand (no publisher record) throws — never overwrite a person's work.
• unpublishPreset removes only its own publication; the undo function is safe to run after a manual rm.

Records live in $DSH_HOME/.agent-presets/.publishers/<id>.json.