dsh-windows-native
I run DeepSeek Harness straight on
Windows — no WSL, just PowerShell. Every WSL & Windows Interop plugin on the
dsh-plugin list assumes you're bridging out
from WSL, so none of them help here. Meanwhile the agent kept doing the same handful
of things wrong: chaining commands with && (PowerShell 5.1 doesn't have it), printing
Chinese text that comes back as mojibake, quietly creating a junction that Windows then
refuses and nobody notices. This plugin just tells it up front so it stops guessing.
It's a system-prompt injection, nothing fancier. Copy-pasted the structure from
dsh-wsl-env since that plugin already
does the WSL side of the same idea well.
What it tells the agent
- PowerShell has no
&& / || — use ;, or A; if ($?) { B }
- The console usually isn't UTF-8, so Chinese/non-ASCII output can get mangled even
though the actual data is fine — don't trust what you see printed
- Don't feed multi-line non-ASCII text through an inline heredoc or
-c "..." — write
it to a file first, then run the file
.bat file contents have to stay ASCII (cmd.exe pre-scans them and can corrupt
UTF-8/GBK before anything runs — filenames are fine, the script body isn't)- A junction or symlink can fail silently without admin rights / Developer Mode — check
it actually exists after creating it, don't just trust the exit code
- A file open in Word/Excel/WPS throws a plain PermissionError on write. That's not
corruption, don't force-retry the same filename
- Killing the outer process (a task runner, a job wrapper) doesn't free the port if the
real node/python process underneath is still alive — you end up hitting a stale
server and think your fix didn't work. Find the real PID and kill that
- If you need a Scheduled Task to run something invisibly,
-WindowStyle Hidden still
flashes a console window for a moment. Launch it through pythonw.exe with
CREATE_NO_WINDOW instead
None of this is theoretical — every line above is something that actually went wrong
on this machine at some point.
Install
dsh plugin add dsh-windows-native
Config
when: windows # inject only on native win32 (default), or "always"
order: 15
extraNotes: "" # your own notes, appended after the built-in list
Status
Early, and the list is exactly as long as my own scar tissue — not a survey of every
Windows footgun that exists. If you hit something this plugin should have warned you
about, open a PR with the actual failure you saw, not a guess at what might go wrong.
