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 <profile>/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 https://www.voidtools.com/ (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 Everything.exe -startup and retries.

Tools

everything_search

Results are ranked like the GUI file tree: exact name match, then prefix, then substring; shorter paths first; alphabetical tie-break. Each hit is { path, name, isDir } (folders are excluded — they are found via path prefixes anyway).

everything_status

No parameters. Returns backend, esPath, reachable, optional error/detail, and a human-readable hint.

Design rules

• Never falls back to a slow recursive directory walk. If Everything is missing or not running, the tool returns a structured error telling the agent to use glob/grep instead.
• Queries are literal substrings by default; Everything's own search syntax is passed through when the query contains * or ?.
• Output is lossless JSON (no undefined values), so results pass dsh-tools validation.

Development

git clone https://github.com/Argonaut790/dsh-everything-search.git
cd dsh-everything-search
pnpm install            # pulls @deepseek-ai/dsh-tools for type-checking/imports
node .test-tmp/run-test.mjs   # standalone smoke test against the real es.exe

To use a local checkout instead of the published repo:

dsh plugin --profile web add link:/absolute/path/to/dsh-everything-search

License

Apache-2.0