dsh-everything-search

Instant filename search for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) agents, backed by voidtools Everything. Registers two host-side agent tools:

• everything_search — whole-index filename queries in milliseconds (reads the NTFS MFT index, never a slow recursive directory walk), with optional path scoping, node_modules/.git noise filtering, and exact/prefix/substring ranking.
• everything_status — reports whether the Everything backend is usable, where es.exe was found, and what to do if it is not.

⚠️ Windows-only. Everything indexes NTFS volumes on Windows; on other platforms the tools return a clear error telling the agent to fall back to the regular glob/grep tools.

Install

Requires pnpm and a DSH profile.

# into the web profile (the default GUI profile)
dsh plugin --profile web add github:Argonaut790/dsh-everything-search

# or into the desktop profile
dsh plugin --profile desktop add github:Argonaut790/dsh-everything-search

If pnpm add is blocked from running the package's build scripts, add the exact key pnpm printed under allowBuilds in /pnpm-workspace.yaml, then re-run.

Backend requirements

The tools shell out to es.exe (the Everything command-line interface). It is discovered from, in order:

1. the EVERYTHING_ES environment variable,
2. ~/.dsh/bin/everything/es.exe (the portable Everything layout used by DSH Desktop),
3. Program Files / Program Files (x86) / %LOCALAPPDATA% Everything installs,
4. es.exe on PATH.

Install Everything from (or run the portable copy under ~/.dsh/bin/everything). Everything must be running (it stays in the tray); if it is installed but not running, the plugin attempts to start it once with and retries.