🎨 dsh-media-skills

Give DeepSeek Harness eyes — and a brush. Read images in any chat, generate new ones, all with free models.

DeepSeek Harness is brilliant at reasoning — but a text-only model can't see the image you just dragged into the chat. This bundle fixes that with two free skills, a free vision model route, and a vision engine failover chain:

• 📎 Paste to read — paste, drag, or pick an image in any session; the free vision model turns it into text your current model understands. (Native on v0.1.6 / v0.1.1; on rc.7 / rc.8 via the bundled core patches — see docs/HARNESS_PATCH_EN.md.)
• 👁️ vision-review — analyze images and screenshots, catch UI visual bugs, detect watermarks, turn images into text.
• 🎨 media-tools — generate illustrations, avatars, backgrounds and banners with a free, watermark-free model.
• 🔀 Engine failover — GLM-4V-Flash (free) → DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (same key as your agent, higher quality) → SiliconFlow Qwen3-VL → SenseNova → Google Gemini (AI Studio) → any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with ModLens-style structured evidence output.

No hardcoded keys, no paid API, no file saving, no session switching.

Why · Quick start · See it in action · Usage · Keys & privacy · FAQ · Examples

English · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · 日本語 · 한국어 · Español · Deutsch · Português · Русский

🤔 Why

Most DSH vision plugins only read images — and many push you through a shared third-party endpoint. dsh-media-skills takes a different stance:

Why bring your own free key instead of a built-in anonymous endpoint? Privacy and reliability. Your images go only to the provider you choose, under your account and your rate limits — no shared third-party service in the middle.

New-version adaptation: on DeepSeek Harness v0.1.6, image attachments are native and this bundle installs as a standard runtime plugin — no core patches, no settings writes; you add or pick model routes yourself in Settings → Models. On v0.1.1-rc.1 / rc.2, the deepseek-official route ships DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp natively — paste-image transcription and the vision model route pick it up automatically with the key your agent already uses (zero extra keys). rc.7 / rc.8 apply the bundled patches (see HARNESS_PATCH, historical).

✨ What you get

⚡ Quick start

Install from the DSH Plugin Manager (github:MJorgin/dsh-media-skills) or the CLI:

dsh plugin --profile <name> add github:MJorgin/dsh-media-skills

1. Keys:

   • v0.1.6: no keys needed to install — the two skills register at runtime. Skill keys (GLM_API_KEY, SILICONFLOW_API_KEY, optional GEMINI_API_KEY) go in ~/.dsh/secrets/media-tools.env (see Keys & privacy); native model routes are yours to configure in Settings → Models.
   • v0.1.1-rc.1+: zero extra keys — paste reading and the vision route run on your agent's existing DEEPSEEK_API_KEY (DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp).
   • rc.7 / rc.8 (or to add the free engines): Zhipu — open.bigmodel.cn → API Keys (glm-4v-flash is free); SiliconFlow — siliconflow.cn → API Keys (Kolors is free); (optional) Google Gemini — aistudio.google.com → Get API key; joins the vision failover chain automatically

2. Add them in the Web GUI (Settings → Models), or use the credentials file:

   # ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml (chmod 600)
   GLM_API_KEY: <your key>

3. Restart dsh web, then hard-refresh (Cmd+Shift+R).

Verify: the skills vision-review and media-tools show up in the skill list (on v0.1.6 add the vision route yourself in Settings → Models; on ≤ v0.1.1 the model selector shows 智谱 GLM-4V-Flash（视觉）). If your Harness build supports paste-image reading, the input bar also has a 📎 Add image button — paste an image in any session and it arrives as a text description.

Full walkthrough and troubleshooting: docs/SETUP_VISION_EN.md.

📸 See it in action

Paste an image in a text-only session → the free vision model describes it → your model answers. The same bundle also generates new images on demand.

How it works in one picture:

🚀 Usage

Three ways to read images:

Descriptions follow your message language (Chinese message → Chinese description; English message → English description; no text → Chinese).

Also just say:

• “Look at this image / check this screenshot for visual bugs” → vision-review
• “Generate an image of …” → media-tools

🔑 Keys & privacy

Keys are never stored in this repo. Skill scripts read, in order: environment variables → ~/.dsh/secrets/media-tools.env → ~/.codex/secrets/media-tools.env (legacy fallback). The vision model route reads GLM_API_KEY from DSH's credential store (≤ v0.1.1; on v0.1.6 routes are yours to configure in Settings → Models).

Where to get the keys (all free): Zhipu — open.bigmodel.cn → API Keys (glm-4v-flash). SiliconFlow — siliconflow.cn → API Keys (Kolors). Google (optional, joins the vision failover chain automatically) — aistudio.google.com → Get API key.

# ~/.dsh/secrets/media-tools.env (chmod 600, one KEY=value per line)
GLM_API_KEY=...
SILICONFLOW_API_KEY=...
GEMINI_API_KEY=...   # optional

Your images are sent only to the provider you configure — never to this repo, never to a shared anonymous endpoint.

Privacy note on Gemini: Google's free-tier key comes with data-use terms — requests may be used to improve Google products. For sensitive images (IDs, internal docs, customer data), prefer the direct domestic engines (Zhipu / SiliconFlow).

❓ FAQ

Does paste-image reading require a DeepSeek Harness core patch? The auto-describe pipeline lives in the Harness core — native on v0.1.6 / v0.1.1, api-proxy image-admission logic on rc.7 / rc.8 (see docs/HARNESS_PATCH_EN.md). This bundle ships the skills (plus the vision model route on ≤ v0.1.1) — the vision model works on any DSH build, but paste-image reading requires a Harness build with that core support.

Why not just use a built-in free endpoint with no key at all? We prefer to let you own the route: your images go to the provider you pick, under your rate limits, with no shared middleman. The keys are free and take about two minutes to create.

Is media-tools really free? Yes — SiliconFlow Kolors is free and watermark-free. If a model is temporarily disabled, the skill lists available models and you can switch.

🎁 Examples

Sample material to try instantly — 6 AI-generated images with their prompts, plus a purpose-built vision test card (title, buttons, bar-chart values) for checking reading accuracy:

→ examples/README.md

🗺️ Layout

dsh-media-skills/
├── package.json           # dsh.bundle manifest
├── cordis.patch.yml       # plugin layer
├── index.js               # registers the two skills via the DSH v0.1.6 provider lifecycle
├── skills/
│   ├── vision-review/     # image reading
│   └── media-tools/       # image generation
├── examples/              # sample images + vision test card
├── docs/
│   ├── screenshots/       # demo mockup & how-it-works diagram
│   ├── SETUP_VISION_EN.md # detailed setup guide (English)
│   ├── SETUP_VISION.md    # 详细配置指南（中文）
│   ├── HARNESS_PATCH_EN.md# core patch notes (English)
│   ├── HARNESS_PATCH.md   # 本体补丁说明（中文）
│   ├── COMPARE_MODLENS.md # 与 ModLens 的对比/共存（中文）
│   └── lang/              # READMEs in 9 languages
├── scripts/make-banner.py # regenerates docs/social-preview.png
└── docs/social-preview.png

🧩 Using ModLens alongside?

Both this bundle and ModLens give text-only models vision. Installed together they do not conflict: ModLens intercepts pastes first (path → modlens_read_image tool), and this bundle's api-proxy fallback handles anything it doesn't take over. See docs/COMPARE_MODLENS.md (中文) for the full comparison, the paste routing order, and how to point ModLens at the same free Zhipu endpoint.

🤝 Join the DSH plugin ecosystem

DeepSeek Harness developer preview is still in its testing phase for Harness developers; core plugins and base APIs will keep iterating. We look forward to exploring the upper limits of intelligence together with developers worldwide, on top of open-source, open, reusable, and composable infrastructure.

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This repo is tagged dsh-plugin and listed in the awesome-dsh-plugin curated list. PRs, issues and translations are welcome.

📄 License

MIT