dsh-review-skills

Engineering-discipline skill pack for DeepSeek Harness — five battle-tested procedures delivered as a bundled skill provider: code review, simplification, plan-then-execute, test-first, and conflict resolution.

Overview

dsh-review-skills packages the discipline that senior engineers apply by habit into model-visible skills. Once installed, the harness discovers five SKILL.md bundles through the standard ctx.skills registry and can invoke them when a task matches.

The skills

Skill	When to use
code-review	Before merging: review a diff for correctness, test coverage, edge cases, needless complexity, and security. Produces severity-ranked findings.
simplify	After a change lands: find and remove accidental complexity — clearer names, fewer layers, less code that does the same thing.
plan-then-execute	Before implementing anything non-trivial: write a plan, get it accepted, then execute it.
test-first	TDD discipline: red → green → refactor, with honest tests and no fake green.
resolve-conflict	When a merge or rebase hits conflicts: understand both sides, resolve deliberately, verify.

Who is it for?

• Solo developers who want a senior-engineer checklist without hiring one.
• Teams that want consistent review and planning standards across sessions.
• Anyone building on the dsh skill system who wants a reference-quality skill pack to copy.

Compatibility

• Built and verified against @deepseek-ai/dsh@0.1.0-rc.6 / @deepseek-ai/cordis@^4.0.1 / @deepseek-ai/dsh-skill@^0.1.0-rc.6.
• Last verified: 2026-08-14.
• Requires a dsh composition that mounts the ctx.skills service (the dsh-base bundle ships it).
• dsh is in developer preview; the skill frontmatter contract (name / description / whenToUse / invocation flags) may evolve. The included unit tests pin the format this pack targets.

Install / Uninstall

Install into a dsh profile (local checkout):

cd /path/to/deepseek-harness
pnpm dsh plugin --profile web add /path/to/dsh-review-skills