work-charter-dsh

When agents in DeepSeek Harness tackle consequential, multi-session, or interruption-sensitive work, an open-ended initial request rarely carries enough structure to keep outcomes, authority, and recovery in check. work-charter-dsh adds a lightweight governance layer to DSH that turns an ambiguous ask into an explicit, recoverable contract: intended outcome and non-goals, approved authority boundaries, a single active writer, required evidence and acceptance criteria, pause and resume conditions, and revalidation checkpoints. The contract internally separates information into four tiers—Confirmed Contract, Necessary Guardrails, Working Proposal, and Assumptions/Open Decisions—so implementation details do not silently harden into permanent requirements.

The plugin supports progressively stronger coordination from L0 (no active Charter) through L4 (Orchestrator-Planner-Executor for governed multi-phase work). Each higher level adds coordination and recovery protection without granting any filesystem, shell, network, installation, or publication permission. On the DSH side, it integrates through a strict Host state machine, five model tools, session-log-persisted context, and an additive read-only browser overlay. Cross-session coordination is delegated to the session-coordinator-dsh runtime dependency, and any missing or uncertain coordination state fails closed rather than being treated as permission to continue.

It is designed for teams and individuals running authority-sensitive tasks, multi-agent collaboration, long-cycle interruption recovery, or scenarios requiring separation of independent assessment from execution inside DSH. Routine single-pass work stays at L0 and incurs no Charter overhead.