dsh-rescue

DeepSeek Harness plugins are declared as bundle patch layers in a profile manifest and load in strict order at boot with fail-loud semantics — a single broken third-party bundle refuses the entire profile. After a version upgrade, inter-plugin conflicts are a realistic risk, and at that point the GUI simply will not open, leaving no in-app interface to triage the problem. dsh-rescue is the escape route for exactly that dead end.

Its mechanism is deliberately simple: it operates outside the plugin stack and edits the profile manifest directly, stripping every third-party bundle layer (in-box core layers are always kept) so DSH can boot on a pure core and self-repair. Once the fix is done, a single exit command restores the original stack. The process is transactional — a backup and state file are written before the manifest is touched, and a failed rewrite rolls back cleanly. Reconciliation on exit ensures that any plugin you manually removed during the rescue window stays removed rather than being resurrected into an unresolvable layer. It runs on plain Node with zero dependencies and works fully offline.

If you maintain multiple third-party DSH plugins, follow version upgrades closely, or work in offline environments, dsh-rescue is a quiet safety net: it changes no plugin configuration, introduces no extra runtime, and simply gives you one reliable path back to a working desktop when everything else has failed.