grunmin/dsh-acp-enhanced

dsh-acp-enhanced

An enhanced Agent Client Protocol (ACP) server for DeepSeek Harness (dsh), built for ACP editors like Zed. It is a drop-in replacement for the official @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp bridge: the official bridge only streams plain text, this one exposes the Web GUI’s capabilities — streaming, telemetry, model/permission control, session management, MCP — over the ACP wire.

Features

Output & telemetry

• Block + reasoning streaming: text blocks and the model’s thinking arrive live (agent_message_chunk / agent_thought_chunk); cancelled/retried attempts never leak torn output
• Full telemetry: context usage ring plus cache hit rate / TPS / input-output-reasoning tokens / tool timing / turn counts (usage_update._meta carries the full breakdown)

Model & permissions

• Model switching: live provider/model catalog dropdown (ACP grouped-select wire shape)
• Reasoning effort: reasoning_effort dropdown — only when the routed model exposes selectable efforts
• Permission presets: read-only / workspace-write / full-access session modes
• Approval: native allow-once / reject-once prompts per tool call

Zed deep integration

• Tool cards: expand to see each call’s full arguments and result preview (rawInput / rawOutput), with per-kind icons
• Zed files & terminal: zed_read_text_file / zed_write_text_file / zed_terminal put file edits into Zed’s “edited files” area (diff + accept/reject) and commands into a real Zed terminal
• Native form questions: ask_user_question → elicitation/create form, click an option, no typing
• Plan panel: plan mode toggle → “planning” status bar in Zed

Sessions

• Resume & archive: session/load restores past threads (full replay); session/list / session/delete manage the thread archive (titled, sorted by last activity); live title updates

Commands

• Slash commands: typing / reveals the command list (available_commands_update): /status shows the route and telemetry, /model lists or switches the model (listings render as monospace code blocks — readable at a glance), everything else (/compact /goal /permission /plan…) runs straight through the harness command registry — all executed without a model turn; unresolved slashes fall through to the model (the /skill-name skill gesture)

MCP

• MCP servers: session/new mcpServers mount any MCP server (stdio + streamable HTTP); tools join as mcp__<server>__<tool>; a failing server never takes the session down

Preview

After picking dsh-acp-enhanced in Zed’s AI Agent panel:

Quick start

This package follows the official dsh plugin conventions (it declares dsh.bundle), so installation matches any official bundle: one command — auto-initializes the profile, installs the package, appends the bundle layer; no profile YAML to write.

Install (2 steps)

Step 1 — install (from the npm registry; no source checkout needed):

dsh plugin --profile acp-enhanced add dsh-acp-enhanced

When hacking on the code, use link: to a local checkout instead (live edits): dsh plugin --profile acp-enhanced add "link:/absolute/path/to/dsh-acp-enhanced"

Step 2 — register in Zed (under agent_servers in ~/.config/zed/settings.json; Zed spawns agents with a minimal PATH, so use the shipped launcher scripts/dsh-acp-zed.sh, which locates node/dsh itself)

The launcher ships with the package. Its absolute path depends on how you installed in Step 1:

• npm install (default): $HOME/.dsh/profiles/acp-enhanced/node_modules/dsh-acp-enhanced/scripts/dsh-acp-zed.sh — replace $HOME with your home directory (e.g. /Users/you); Zed does not expand ~ or env vars, so write the full literal path.
• link: dev install: <your checkout>/scripts/dsh-acp-zed.sh.

Most common: DeepSeek official API (the default route)

{
  // ...your existing settings...
  "agent_servers": {
    "dsh-acp-enhanced": {
      "type": "custom",
      "command": "/bin/bash",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/dsh-acp-enhanced/scripts/dsh-acp-zed.sh"],
      "env": {
        "DSH_ACP_PROVIDER": "deepseek-official",  // the official provider id
        "DSH_ACP_MODEL": "deepseek-v4-flash"      // the official model id
      }
    }
  }
}

Both env vars match the shipped patch’s defaults, so they can be omitted entirely — writing them out just makes the route explicit. The API key does not have to live in Zed: store it in ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml (DEEPSEEK_API_KEY) and the dsh credentials service resolves it; the launcher also falls back to a running dsh web process’s key.

Optional: pin the panel’s default config options (all still changeable in the panel):

"dsh-acp-enhanced": {
  // ...the type/command/args/env above...
  "default_config_options": {
    "model": "deepseek-official/deepseek-v4-flash",
    "plan_mode": false,
    "reasoning_effort": "high"
  },
  "favorite_config_option_values": {
    "model": ["deepseek-official/deepseek-v4-flash", "deepseek-official/deepseek-v4-pro"]
  }
}

Extended: route through an OpenAI-Responses gateway (e.g. a company model gateway)

Same install path; only the env values change to the provider/model the gateway exposes plus the key env var it requires:

"dsh-acp-enhanced": {
  "type": "custom",
  "command": "/bin/bash",
  "args": ["/absolute/path/to/dsh-acp-enhanced/scripts/dsh-acp-zed.sh"],
  "env": {
    "DSH_ACP_PROVIDER": "<gateway-provider-id>",  // provider id exposed by the gateway
    "DSH_ACP_MODEL": "<gateway-model-id>",         // model id exposed by the gateway
    "<KEY_ENV_NAME>": "<key>"                      // the key env var the gateway reads
  }
}

<KEY_ENV_NAME> can also be omitted and the key stored in ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml instead.

Zed hot-reloads settings. Open the AI Agent panel (Cmd+Shift+A) → pick dsh-acp-enhanced in the agent selector → send your first message: replies stream in real time, the status bar shows context usage, the panel exposes Model / Permission preset / Plan mode options plus three modes, and the thread archive lists and resumes past sessions.

Verify locally (no Zed needed):

node scripts/acp-client.mjs                    # official default route, no env; expect ALL CHECKS PASSED
DSH_ACP_PROVIDER=... DSH_ACP_MODEL=... node scripts/acp-client.mjs   # only for a custom route

Optional: route web_search through the same gateway

If the gateway implements the OpenAI Responses web_search server tool, you can route search through it too (reusing the same credential). Install the sub-package and append two blocks to the profile’s cordis.patch.yml:

dsh plugin --profile acp-enhanced add dsh-web-search-openrouter

- id: web
  config:
    searchProvider: openai-responses   # the search provider id this sub-package registers on ctx.web (fixed value)

- insert:
    - id: web-search-openrouter
      name: 'dsh-web-search-openrouter'
      config:
        enabled: true
        baseURL: http://<gateway-host>:<port>/v1
        model: <your-model-id>
        apiKeyEnv: <KEY_ENV_NAME>

⚠️ searchProvider must be exactly openai-responses — the search provider id dsh-web-search-openrouter registers on ctx.web. It is not your gateway’s LLM provider id (the one you put in DSH_ACP_PROVIDER above). The web plugin matches it exactly, so a wrong value produces no error at config time and only fails at the first search with WEB_PROVIDER_CONFIGURED_MISSING.

Troubleshooting

Development

node scripts/acp-client.mjs           # end-to-end smoke (needs an API key)
node scripts/acp-client-tools.mjs     # client-tool tests (mocks Zed fs/terminal/elicitation/plan)
node scripts/acp-mcp-test.mjs         # MCP mount test (no model calls)
node scripts/acp-smoke-keyless.mjs    # keyless boot smoke (CI)
node scripts/acp-resume-test.mjs      # session resume test

Known limitations

Baseline prompts only (no image/audio attachments), no additionalDirectories, text streams at block granularity, one in-flight prompt per session. MCP supports stdio and streamable HTTP (legacy SSE / acp transports are not advertised). session/close / session/fork / session/resume are not implemented (capabilities undeclared, compliant clients will not call them); session/delete removes the persisted directory directly because dsh persistence has no official delete API.