dsh-windows-native

I run DeepSeek Harness straight on Windows — no WSL, just PowerShell. Every WSL & Windows Interop plugin on the dsh-plugin list assumes you're bridging out from WSL, so none of them help here. Meanwhile the agent kept doing the same handful of things wrong: chaining commands with && (PowerShell 5.1 doesn't have it), printing Chinese text that comes back as mojibake, quietly creating a junction that Windows then refuses and nobody notices. This plugin just tells it up front so it stops guessing.

It's a system-prompt injection, nothing fancier. Copy-pasted the structure from dsh-wsl-env since that plugin already does the WSL side of the same idea well.

What it tells the agent

• PowerShell has no && / || — use ;, or A; if ($?) { B }
• The console usually isn't UTF-8, so Chinese/non-ASCII output can get mangled even though the actual data is fine — don't trust what you see printed
• Don't feed multi-line non-ASCII text through an inline heredoc or -c "..." — write it to a file first, then run the file
• .bat file contents have to stay ASCII (cmd.exe pre-scans them and can corrupt UTF-8/GBK before anything runs — filenames are fine, the script body isn't)
• A junction or symlink can fail silently without admin rights / Developer Mode — check it actually exists after creating it, don't just trust the exit code
• A file open in Word/Excel/WPS throws a plain PermissionError on write. That's not corruption, don't force-retry the same filename
• Killing the outer process (a task runner, a job wrapper) doesn't free the port if the real node/python process underneath is still alive — you end up hitting a stale server and think your fix didn't work. Find the real PID and kill that
• If you need a Scheduled Task to run something invisibly, -WindowStyle Hidden still flashes a console window for a moment. Launch it through pythonw.exe with CREATE_NO_WINDOW instead

None of this is theoretical — every line above is something that actually went wrong on this machine at some point.

Install

dsh plugin add dsh-windows-native

Config

when: windows   # inject only on native win32 (default), or "always"
order: 15
extraNotes: ""   # your own notes, appended after the built-in list

Status

Early, and the list is exactly as long as my own scar tissue — not a survey of every Windows footgun that exists. If you hit something this plugin should have warned you about, open a PR with the actual failure you saw, not a guess at what might go wrong.