dsh-plugin-kit field test

Third-party evidence for the kit's generality claim: dsh-plugin-kit verify run against three community DSH plugin repositories with three different distribution shapes. Each repository was shallow-cloned and given a minimal dsh-plugin-kit.yml written only from its public structure — no source changes.

Samples

Repository	Distribution shape	Key characteristics
omdsh-dev/dsh-session-health	npm bundle (classic)	dsh.bundle.patch + cordis.patch.yml (- insert:); TypeScript source with committed build output; prepack build script
coppynight/dsh-doctor	repository-plugin	package in .dsh-plugin/ with dsh.entry; no cordis.patch.yml at the root
lhh010/dsh-bash-encoding	profile snippet	no dsh manifest field; cordis.example.yml fragment; source-only (TypeScript)

Results

Repository	Checks	Result
dsh-session-health	7	6 passed; the default pack-dry-run failed on the cold-checkout prepack (dependencies not installed) and passed with args: [--ignore-scripts]
dsh-doctor	5	5 passed
dsh-bash-encoding	3	3 passed

14/15 checks green across all three foreign shapes; the single failure was environmental (missing dependencies on a fresh clone), not a kit defect, and is now covered by the args option.

Fixes the field test produced

• parse / json / file-exists now accept both the shorthand (- json: x.json) and the object form (- json: { file: x.json }) — the object form silently failed before this test.
• pack-dry-run accepts args (e.g. [--ignore-scripts]) for packages whose lifecycle scripts need dependencies.

Notes

• The .dsh-plugin repository-plugin format works through config path mapping alone (file: .dsh-plugin/package.json); no code changes needed.
• Modern Node (22.18+) type-strips .ts entries, so node-check performs syntax checking for TypeScript entry files (types are not checked).
• Recipes for all three shapes live in dsh-plugin-kit/README.md.