Foreword

The community ecosystem of DeepSeek Harness (DSH) emphasizes “everything is a plugin”; the community directory is an independent site with no official affiliation to DeepSeek/Huafan. dsh-model-garden is a static profile plugin for the DSH Web UI (dsh web).

It provides a table-based model selector to handle the difficulty of searching, sorting, and filtering local models when there are many of them, and to address the issues of not seeing prices, context windows, real-time task costs, and session cost breakdowns.

What is this

Below is an overview of its two main components:

  • Client: client.js, registers the conversation.input.model slot (priority -1, shadowing the native seat) and renders the model selector.
  • Host: index.js, provides three same-domain JSON routes on the harness webServer service.

Repository URL:

https://github.com/mrdevlorx/dsh-model-garden

License: MIT

Runtime Requirements: package.json declares a requirement for Node >=22

Runtime Dependencies: The host requires a web stack (the webServer service); it remains inert in the minimal/TUI profile and does not block startup.

Core Features

Model List

  • Instant search for model names and descriptions.
  • Sort by name, context, or price; third click restores the view grouped by provider.
  • Bookmark models and toggle to show only favorites; bookmarks are saved in localStorage.
  • Determine local providers based on the baseURL of the real endpoint and filter local models.
  • Provider groups are collapsible; collapse state is saved per provider.
  • Automatically refresh the model catalog while the selector is mounted, with a default interval of 5 minutes and configurable.

Pricing and Context Windows

  • Use models.dev pricing, displaying input/output prices per 1M tokens; prices are cached for 24 hours.
  • Local models remain unpriced.
  • Subscription routes are resolved to pay-as-you-go reference prices via PROVIDER_ALIASES.
  • Read context windows from the host llm service and fall back to models.dev when necessary.

Cost and Inference Settings

  • Always display real-time per-task usage and cost (in / out / cache) when the panel is open.
  • Hovering over approximate costs opens session cost details, supporting copying the summary or exporting sorted CSVs.
  • Provides an inference strength selector for models supporting inference-level settings; always start from the strongest inference level when selecting a model.
  • Detail tooltips show description, price, context window, max output, and inference strength.
  • Uses harness tokens to adapt to light and dark themes.

Installation and Usage

  1. Install using the DSH plugin CLI:
dsh plugin --profile <profile> add dsh-model-garden

  1. Restart the DSH server after installation and perform a hard browser refresh (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R).

  2. Verify that the host routes are available:

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3080/model-garden/catalog | head -c 200

This step checks that /model-garden/catalog returns JSON data, not HTML.

Typical Usage

Host Endpoints

The host provides the following same-domain JSON routes:

GET /model-garden/cost?session=<sessionId>
GET /model-garden/cost-history?session=<sessionId>&limit=<n>
GET /model-garden/catalog
  • /model-garden/cost: For getting session-related usage/cost data.
  • /model-garden/cost-history: For getting session cost details; the number of steps can be limited via limit.
  • /model-garden/catalog: For getting the model catalog; it is automatically refreshed while the selector is mounted.

Upgrading from Manual Installation

If you previously installed the old model-garden dependency manually, do two steps first:

  1. Remove the old model-garden dependency.

  2. Delete the manual - insert: line from the profile’s cordis.patch.yml.

After that, install using the plugin CLI command above to avoid duplicate plugin mounting.

Manual Installation

If you are not using the plugin CLI but managing the profile with npm:

  1. Add the dependency.

  2. List dsh-model-garden in dsh.profile.bundles in the profile’s package.json.

  3. Reinstall and restart the DSH server.

Use Cases and Notes

Suitable for users who use multiple providers, local models, and subscription routes in the DSH Web UI and want to see prices, context windows, real-time costs, and session cost details when selecting models.

Notes before installation:

  • The plugin runs with the current dsh process permissions; please check the source code and license before installing.
  • The host requires a web stack; the plugin remains inert in the minimal/TUI profile.
  • package.json declares a requirement for Node >=22.
  • Local models remain unpriced; the reference price for subscription routes depends on PROVIDER_ALIASES resolution.

Conclusion

The value of dsh-model-garden lies in extending the model selection in the DSH Web UI from “selectable” to “filterable, sortable, and cost-visible”. It does not change the plugin-based runtime of DSH, but simply provides a set of model selection interfaces on the web side that are searchable, sortable, and capable of tracking costs.

Repository URL:

https://github.com/mrdevlorx/dsh-model-garden