dsh-mcp-settings

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An installable DeepSeek Harness bundle containing the three plugins that manage MCP servers from Web Settings.

The bundle inserts these rows into a compatible Web profile. The profile must not already mount another settings-driven MCP manager or MCP Settings UI. Existing mcp.servers user settings are not removed.

Requirements

• A matching DeepSeek Harness development build whose web profile already supplies the DSH peer packages listed in package.json.
• That Harness build must emit the mcp-client/status event; this event is not yet on the public Harness default branch.
• Node.js ^22.19.0 || >=24.
• pnpm 10 or newer when installing directly from GitHub.

Install from GitHub

DSH plugins are distributed as bundles. dsh plugin add installs this package into a profile and appends its dsh.bundle layer to the profile manifest; no separate enable script is required.

dsh plugin --profile web add github:aka-danielZhang/dsh-mcp-settings

This command installs the bundle only. It does not install or upgrade the Harness-owned peer packages, so point it at a matching Web profile as described above.

Git installs run this repository's prepare script to create lib/. pnpm blocks dependency build scripts until the profile grants permission. If the first install reports an ignored build, add the exact package key it prints to ~/.dsh/profiles/web/pnpm-workspace.yaml and repeat the command:

allowBuilds:
  "dsh-mcp-settings@https://codeload.github.com/aka-danielZhang/dsh-mcp-settings/tar.gz/<commit-sha>": true

This permission allows package code to run during installation. Pin a commit when installing code you do not control:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:aka-danielZhang/dsh-mcp-settings#<commit-sha>

Restart dsh --profile web after installation. Open Settings > MCP; the existing mcp.servers list remains available.

Verify the composed rows:

dsh --profile web --dump-config

The output should contain dsh-mcp-settings-manager, dsh-mcp-settings-inventory, and dsh-mcp-settings-ui.

Install a local checkout

git clone https://github.com/aka-danielZhang/dsh-mcp-settings.git
cd dsh-mcp-settings
dsh plugin --profile web add file:.

The package scripts are optional shortcuts when dsh is installed globally:

pnpm run plugin:add
pnpm run plugin:dump
pnpm run plugin:remove

The documented DSH CLI remains the authoritative installation path; the scripts do not edit profile files directly.

Configure MCP servers

Use Settings > MCP. The manager reads the same mcp.servers settings namespace as the in-box implementation. Credentials stay in the Harness credential service: HTTP entries use authorizationCredentialRef to build a Bearer authorization header, while stdio entries use envCredentialRefs to map target environment names to credential references, so keys never enter the MCP settings document. Reference names follow the portable environment-variable form [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*.

When authorizationCredentialRef is present, its resolved Bearer value is authoritative and replaces any case variant of an Authorization entry in headers. A credentials/updated event restarts only servers that use the changed reference, so rotations reach the next process or connection without editing MCP settings.

The UI supports stdio and Streamable HTTP servers, Form and JSON editing, credential references, direct enable/disable, and live status/tool counts. An enabled server is queried immediately after save and every two seconds until connected or 60 seconds elapse.

Remove

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-mcp-settings

Restart the Web profile. The bundle rows disappear while user settings remain intact.

Develop

The typecheck and test setup follows the DSH out-of-tree plugin convention: keep a Harness checkout in the sibling directory ../deepseek-harness.

git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.git ../deepseek-harness
cd ../deepseek-harness && pnpm install
cd ../dsh-mcp-settings
pnpm install
pnpm run typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm run bundle
pnpm run smoke

For live development, install the local checkout into the Web profile once, keep dsh web running, and run the bundle watcher in another terminal:

pnpm run plugin:add
pnpm run dev:web

dsh web always mounts the client HMR receiver. The watcher rebuilds this out-of-tree package's Host and Client bundles; the running Host observes the changed bundle revision and reloads the browser plugin without a page refresh. Harness's root pnpm run dev:web only watches in-tree packages/*/* client plugins and does not replace this package-local watcher.

prepare uses the self-contained tsdown.config.ts and tsconfig.prepare.json, so a consumer installing from GitHub does not need the sibling Harness checkout. Type checking and tests do require it.

GitHub CI verifies the consumer-side install, bundle, JavaScript syntax, and packed distribution without a Harness checkout. The full typecheck and test suite intentionally runs against a matching sibling Harness development tree because the required mcp-client/status event has not yet landed on the public Harness default branch.

Compatibility

This bundle replaces extension points present in the current DeepSeek Harness release-candidate line and deliberately reuses the in-box @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client. DSH is pre-release software; update the peer ranges, Typert descriptor, and bundle patch together when those extension points change.

Origin and license

The implementation was migrated from the MIT-licensed MCP manager, MCP inventory, and MCP Settings packages in DeepSeek Harness. See LICENSE.