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Compatibility

Surface	Status
Harness	DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1-rc.2 (compat declared for 0.1.1-rc.2)
Node	^22.19.0 || >=24.0.0
Engines	Any OpenAI-compatible images endpoint; presets for OpenAI Images (gpt-image-1) and Zhipu CogView (cogview-3-flash)
Surfaces	Host image_generate tool + web result card + Plugins settings tab

What you get

dsh-draw gives the harness one unified image_generate tool with standard parameters (prompt/size/count/quality/style/engine) that are translated per engine:

• Multi-engine routing — a config-driven chain (OpenAI Images, Zhipu CogView, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) walked top-down with health-aware fallback: consecutive failures push an engine into cooldown, and the next healthy engine serves the call.
• Durable results — generated images are saved as workspace attachments (content-addressed, under the harness's attachment policy) and returned as canonical file references.
• Quota accounting — per-session caps on generation calls and image bytes, folded from the durable session log and enforced before engine spend and before storage.
• Credentials as references — engine API keys are environment-variable names resolved per call through the official ctx.credentials seam; literal keys are never stored in configuration and never logged.
• Web surfaces — an in-conversation result card (images, engine, quota, one-click regenerate) and a Plugins settings tab (engine chain, credential status, probes, quota limits).

model                           harness
  │ image_generate {prompt, ...} ──▶ validate ──▶ quota check ──▶ router
  │                                  openai ──(fail)──▶ cogview ──▶ images
  │ ◀── canonical JSON + image blocks (durable attachment refs)
  │                       └── draw/generated session event (quota + audit)

Quick start

# 1. install the bundle into your profile
dsh plugin --profile web add "github:PerryLink/dsh-draw#main"

# or from npm (published releases)
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-draw

# 2. provide the engine keys as credential references (environment variables)
#    OPENAI_API_KEY and/or ZHIPU_API_KEY — never in the profile patch

# 3. restart and verify the row
dsh --profile web --dump-config | grep -A2 'id: dsh-draw'

Then ask the agent to draw:

> Draw a 1536x1024 landscape of a lighthouse at dusk, vivid style.

Install & uninstall

• git channel (latest main): dsh plugin --profile web add "github:PerryLink/dsh-draw#main" — the prepare script builds with production dependencies only.
• npm channel (published releases): dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-draw.
• tarball channel: pnpm pack in this repo, then dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-draw-<version>.tgz.
• uninstall: dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-draw (or remove the row from the profile patch).

If pnpm reports ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS for this package (esbuild's harmless platform-binary validation), add allowBuilds: { esbuild: true } to your pnpm-workspace.yaml — the dsh CLI prints the exact snippet.

Configuration

All tunables are Schemastery Config fields (changeable from cordis.yml). An id-targeted override replaces the whole row — restate every key you need. cordis.patch.yml documents each key inline.

Key	Default	Meaning
engines	OpenAI + CogView presets	Ordered engine chain, walked top-down with fallback; each entry: id, baseUrl (no credentials), model, apiKeyRef (env-var name), provider (openai/replicate/fal, default openai), enabled, sizeMap, qualitySupported, styleSupported, responseFormat (b64_json/url), imageMediaType
defaultEngine	openai	Engine id the router prefers; must name a configured engine
requestTimeoutMs	120000	Per-generation HTTP timeout (1000..600000)
maxImagesPerCall	4	Cap on images one call may produce (1..10)
maxPromptLength	4000	Prompt length cap in characters (1..32000)
maxGenerationsPerSession	200	Per-session generation-call cap (1..100000)
maxBytesPerSession	209715200	Per-session image-byte cap (1048576..4294967296)
failureThreshold	2	Consecutive failures before an engine enters cooldown (1..10)
cooldownMs	60000	Engine cooldown after the threshold trips (1000..3600000)

Example override in your profile patch:

- insert:
    - id: dsh-draw
      name: dsh-draw
      config:
        defaultEngine: cogview
        maxImagesPerCall: 2

Tools & surfaces

Surface	Notes
image_generate	Standard parameters; returns canonical JSON (engine/model/size, image references, quota, fallback flag, attempts) plus image content blocks
Result card (tool.call.toolview, key image_generate)	Images, engine/quota line, one-click regenerate (full drawer path: quota + routing + audit)
Settings tab (Plugins → Image generation)	Engine chain, credential status, set/remove API keys (credential references), connectivity probes, quota limits

Permissions & data

• Permissions: the plugin makes outbound HTTPS calls to the configured engine endpoints only; every other surface is read-only. The settings tab's only writes are credential set/remove calls on the official ctx.credentials seam.
• Data: generated images are saved through the official attachment store under the harness's own attachment policy. Quota usage is folded from the draw/generated session events, plus the in-memory fallback ledger on hosts that cannot log those events — nothing else is stored.
• Session log: the draw/generated event records engine, model, standardized request, byte totals, and attachment ids — the audit facts, never the API keys. The event is appended only when the host knows the type or honors the ignorable envelope (probed at mount); on rc.6/rc.7 hosts the payload goes to the in-memory fallback ledger instead, so generating images can no longer make a session refuse to reopen.

Security boundaries

• Credential references, never literals. apiKeyRef names an environment variable; a baseUrl embedding credentials fails the load loudly.
• Sanitized display. URLs, probe notes, and error text are redacted (userinfo passwords, credential query values, bearer tokens, JWTs) before any display or log.
• Quota before spend. Generation and byte caps are checked before engine calls and before attachment storage; exhausted sessions fail fast without spending engine credits.
• Fail loud, fall back deliberately. Malformed responses surface as structured errors; a failing engine is skipped after its cooldown threshold, and a fully exhausted chain returns the complete attempt record instead of pretending success.

Known limitations

• Image models only. No video, audio, or edit endpoints; no vision understanding.
• Engine compatibility. Three vocabularies are supported through the provider seam: openai (the POST /images/generations shape), replicate (prediction create + poll), and fal (the fal.run queue). Provider-specific extras beyond prompt/size/count (e.g. seed, scheduler) are out of scope.
• Cost awareness is structural. The plugin counts calls and bytes but does not know engine pricing — pair with dsh-budget for cost governance.
• Quota durability on rc.6/rc.7. On hosts whose session log cannot carry draw/generated (static event whitelist, no ignorable envelope), quota stays exact for the live session from the in-memory fallback ledger but resets on restart; durable accounting resumes on hosts with a plugin event surface.

Development

pnpm install        # node ^22.19 || >=24
pnpm run typecheck  # tsc: src + tests against the local harness checkout
pnpm run typecheck:ci  # tsc against the published 0.1.1-rc.2 faces (no paths)
pnpm test           # vitest: 107 tests, 16 test files (scripted transport, real Context/Session/ToolRuntime)
pnpm run build      # tsc declarations + tsdown bundles (lib/)
pnpm run verify:self-contained  # dependency specs resolve from the registry
pnpm run verify:artifacts       # host ESM face + typert manifest + browser bundle + config files
pnpm pack           # the published tarball

Topics

dsh, dsh-plugin, deepseek-harness, deepseek, cordis, image-generation, openai-images, cogview, zhipu, text-to-image

Contributors

• @PerryLink — creator and maintainer: engine router, drawer, quota accounting, Typert wire vocabulary, browser half, and the five-language docs.
• @Mohei-Muun — reported the draw/generated session-log unload bug on rc.7 hosts (#2), which led to the adaptive event gate.

PerryLink DSH Plugin Family

This project is one of the 33 DeepSeek Harness plugins maintained by PerryLink. If this one helps you, the others likely will too:

Plugin	One-liner
dsh-dsh-auto-review	Second-model auto-review on the approval chain, fail-closed by default
dsh-dsh-background-agents	Durable background child agents with a Web UI sidebar, messaging and interrupt
dsh-dsh-budget	Cost governance for DeepSeek Harness: budgets, carbon, and latency in one panel.
dsh-dsh-checkpoint-rewind	Claude Code /rewind-equivalent: snapshots, session forks, one-shot restore
dsh-dsh-claude-move	Migrate Claude Code sessions, memory, skills and CLAUDE.md into DSH
dsh-dsh-click	Cross-platform native desktop control for DeepSeek Harness — Windows first.
dsh-dsh-composer-history	Terminal-style input history for the web composer: arrows, Ctrl+R search
dsh-dsh-data-quality	Dataset quality checks and citation cross-checks (the optional numeric bridge consumed here)
dsh-dsh-defend	Prompt-injection, jailbreak, and secret-leak defense for DeepSeek Harness.
dsh-dsh-doublecheck	Engineering-discipline guard: requirements grill, test gates, adversary review
dsh-dsh-fast	Read-only performance diagnostics for DeepSeek Harness.
dsh-dsh-fund-research	Deterministic research reports for Chinese public mutual funds
dsh-dsh-github	GitHub PR/issues integration for DSH, every write gated by approval
dsh-dsh-industry-research	Industry research orchestration that seals its deliverables through this plugin's ctx.researchReport.assemble
dsh-dsh-library	Local document knowledge base for DeepSeek Harness.
dsh-dsh-local-ai	Local-model (Ollama) integration for DeepSeek Harness.
dsh-dsh-lsp-actions	LSP diagnostics, formatting, completion, code actions and rename over language servers
dsh-dsh-mask	PII masking middleware: anonymize at the model boundary, restore at the display layer
dsh-dsh-mcp-panel	Read-only MCP runtime panel: /mcp command + Settings tab with status, tools and errors
dsh-dsh-memento	Approval-gated cross-session memory: ctx.memory seam + SQLite + memory tool
dsh-dsh-observe	OpenTelemetry and Langfuse observability exporter for DeepSeek Harness.
dsh-dsh-output-styles	Claude Code outputStyles-equivalent runtime style switching
dsh-dsh-permission-rules	Claude Code-style declarative allow/deny/ask permission rules with audit
dsh-dsh-plugin-guide	Plugin-development knowledge base as an on-demand agent skill
dsh-dsh-research-report	Verifiable research-report engine: content-addressed evidence ledger and sealed versions
dsh-dsh-score	Multi-dimensional quality scoring for DeepSeek Harness plugins.
dsh-dsh-session-pin	Pin sessions in the Web sidebar with durable ordering
dsh-dsh-session-sync	Cross-device session sync for DeepSeek Harness — a dedicated git mirror of your session store.
dsh-dsh-skill-pack-security	Security-audit skill pack: secret scan, dependency and supply-chain review
dsh-dsh-talk	Voice-first session loop for DeepSeek Harness: talk to it, hear it answer.
dsh-dsh-test-drive	Isolated install-and-smoke test drives for DeepSeek Harness plugins.
dsh-dsh-translate	Vendor parameter translation and deterministic JSON repair for DeepSeek Harness.

License

Apache License 2.0 © 2026 dsh-draw contributors