ox-alpha-dsh

DSH Desktop ships with an OpenRouter adapter, yet its built-in catalog does not list Ox Alpha—an anonymous model with a 1,048,576-token context window and tool-calling support. Wiring it in by hand means filling in protocol type, context window, reasoning format, and compatibility flags one field at a time. ox-alpha-dsh writes the route and model definition through DSH's official settings seam in a single step; paste your API key and the model is ready in the picker, no manual configuration required.

Beyond installing one model, the plugin ships a full Model Hub toolkit. Custom models decouple the wire-ID from the display name, and aliases auto-generate sibling routes. Custom providers speak any of three protocols: OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, or Anthropic Messages. model_discover searches OpenRouter's public catalog and flags free models; model_status reports routes, key presence, context, vision, and reasoning state in one pass. A standout feature is Model Pool: aggregate multiple API keys for the same provider into one unified model, with automatic failover on 429, quota exhaustion, timeout, or 5xx, bounded retries, and exponential backoff. Keys live only in the DSH credential store behind reference names—config files and logs never see the plaintext. Install is idempotent and removal is surgical, so existing user configuration is never clobbered.

It is built for DSH Desktop users who want frictionless access to Ox Alpha or other anonymous OpenRouter models, and for developers who manage several API keys, need lightweight failover, or want to plug a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible gateway into the DSH workflow. The plugin relies on the harness-bundled llm-pi-ai adapter, requires no extra dependencies, and is released under the MIT license.