Research plugins, inside Settings

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A curated market for research plugins: a Research plugins page in the Settings sidebar, listing hand-picked plugins for literature search, reference management, writing and review — with an Install button that writes straight into the profile you are running.

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-research

Restart dsh web, then open Settings → Research plugins.

dsh-research.com

The catalog behind the panel lives at dsh-research.com — the same list, in a browser, at /plugins. Each entry says what the plugin does and where it stops, and there is a walkthrough that goes from an empty machine to a finished talk. The site is generated from one JSON file; the panel fetches that same file, so the two can never drift apart.

Why this exists

The official market already installs anything in the community registry, and does it well. What it cannot do is tell a researcher which of its eleven hundred plugins are theirs. That is the part this does.

What an install actually does

The panel runs dsh plugin --profile <your profile> add <package> for you — the same command you would type. Four things fence it:

| | | |---|---| | Allowlist | The browser may ask for any package name; only a package this catalog lists is ever spawned. The catalog is a static file we publish. | | Same-origin | A state-changing route reachable from any page would let a site you visited install into your profile. | | One at a time | Two concurrent dsh plugin add runs race on one package.json and can leave a profile half-written. | | Your profile, not a guess | The target comes from the --profile this host booted, so running a test profile never mutates your real one. |

Set allowInstall: false to keep the panel read-only.

Configuration

The bundle inserts one row (id: research-market). Override it from your profile's cordis.patch.yml (a patch replaces the whole config, so restate every key you keep):

- id: research-market
  config:
    catalogUrl: https://dsh-research.com/v1/market.json
    profile: web            # defaults to the profile this host booted
    allowInstall: true
    cacheSeconds: 900
    timeoutMs: 8000

catalogUrl accepts any endpoint answering the DSH Community Market provider contract. Point it at your own and the panel lists yours instead.

Notes

• The panel's list and the one at dsh-research.com/plugins are the same list, built from the same market.json. Nothing reaches it unread: installing someone else's package from a button we drew makes us the first place their bug gets reported.
• The process layer is adapted from dsh-market (MIT), which worked out that ctx.shell cannot write to a profile, that a macOS app launched from the Dock has no Homebrew on PATH, that pnpm v10 hangs without a TTY unless CI is set, and that Windows dsh is a .cmd shim.
• A newly installed plugin needs a restart before it loads; the row says so.

License

MIT