dsh-unsloth-hands

The flagship online model behind DeepSeek Harness is powerful, but routing repetitive, token-cheap jobs through it — batch rewrites, name translations, string munging, short summaries — is simply wasteful. Even trickier: most flagship models are text-only, so image analysis, OCR, and multi-image comparison are out of reach entirely. dsh-unsloth-hands fills that gap. It gives your online main model a pair of local hands, delegating high-frequency, low-stakes work to a model already loaded in Unsloth Desktop on your machine, while the online model stays in charge of decisions and final review.

The plugin registers two tools on the harness. unsloth_run sends a text prompt to the local model for batch rewrites, translations, extraction, and short summarization, returning the full result in a single round trip over the OpenAI-compatible chat-completions endpoint. unsloth_vision handles vision tasks with three built-in prompt templates — analyze (eight-section structured report), ocr (character-exact transcription), and compare (joint reasoning over two to four images) — and accepts images from local file paths, data or HTTP URLs, or conversation attachments. Before every call the plugin probes /v1/models so a missing server surfaces as a clear, actionable message rather than a generic network failure. Authentication uses a Bearer token from Unsloth Settings, and live config overrides let you adjust behavior without restarting the harness.

It is aimed at anyone already running DeepSeek Harness for daily development or content work who also has Unsloth Desktop loaded with a local model, even on a modest Mac or a small GPU box. The plugin is a pure HTTP client: it never starts, configures, or stops Unsloth, bundles no model files, and modifies no files in either DeepSeek Harness or Unsloth. Install it, create an API key in the Unsloth app, add three lines of YAML to your profile, and your online model gains the ability to quietly reach out to a local inference engine whenever a task is better done close to the metal.