dsh-skills-nexus

DSH's dsh plugin add path requires a dsh.bundle.patch to activate a repo as a profile layer, which leaves pure content repos containing only SKILL.md, references, and scripts unable to join directly. dsh-skills-nexus fills that gap: it is a one-time universal skill adapter that clones any GitHub repo with a SKILL.md to a local directory and exposes it through symlinks in DSH's official skills root, where the built-in filesystem provider automatically discovers, watches, and serves it — no custom provider or runtime scanning required.

Before registering, nexus inspects the repo structure intelligently: a plain SKILL.md repo is registered as-is; a repo that also carries a plugin wrapper prompts the user to ignore the wrapper; a pure DSH plugin is redirected to the standard plugin add flow; collection repos with nested SKILL.md files support per-subdirectory installation via --subdir, with a confirmation prompt when a single install would yield more than 20 skills. Version pinning accepts #branch, #tag, or #commit-sha ref specifications — branch-pinned entries fast-forward on update, while tag and commit pins are immutable fixed points that never silently drift. On Windows, nexus uses directory junctions so no Developer Mode or admin privileges are needed.

This plugin suits skill authors who maintain pure SKILL.md content repositories on GitHub and DSH users who want to pull in community skill repos without writing any Cordis wrapper code. The skill repo stays untouched — zero plugin code, zero package.json — while nexus handles all cloning, symlinking, and lifecycle management behind the scenes.