DSH 0.1.7 to 0.2.1-alpha.1: Web Terminal, MCP (Oct 9, 2026)

From 0.1.7 to the 0.2.0 Candidates: Scheduled Tasks, a Web Sidebar Terminal, MCP Resources — and an Experimental Claude Code Mods Layer.

DSH v0.1.6-alpha.2: Plugins Page Lands (Sep 18, 2026) closed this site’s release coverage on September 18. The weeks that followed were dense: seven releases published between 2026-09-22 and 2026-10-03, every one flagged Pre-release — the 0.1.7 series from its alphas to rc.2, the first two 0.2.0 release candidates, and v0.2.1-alpha.1 opening the next series — plus a bare maintenance tag on the 0.1.5 branch with no release entry.

The 0.1.7 series: terminal, archives, MCP resources, scheduled tasks

v0.1.7-rc.1 (2026-09-23) describes itself as aggregating the main user- and developer-facing changes since v0.1.5-rc.3. Its New Features:

Terminals in the Web sidebar, with multiple tabs, shell selection, and recovery after page refreshes.
Archived-session management with pinning, filters and restoration, confirming affected tasks before archiving a running session.
MCP support for discovering and reading resources and using URI templates; once a built-in profile configures an MCP server, shared resource tools become available.
A plugin compatibility check against the running DSH version during installation and startup, which explains refusals and allows exact-version exemptions.

v0.1.7-rc.2 (2026-09-24) adds scheduled tasks — reminders can be created and managed with their run history, tasks survive app restarts, and they can repeat as often as once a minute — plus a resumable Desktop onboarding that introduces available credit and helps choose intended use and how much work detail to show, and the ability to view, search, customize and reset keyboard shortcuts on Web and Desktop with current bindings shown in the sidebar.

The two alphas that opened the series on September 22 carry the groundwork: alpha.1 brings sidebar session pinning, archiving, filtering and restoring from search results — including a stop-and-archive confirmation that lists the affected rounds, subagents, tasks and reminders of a running session — collapsible process groups for thinking and tool calls, new settings groups, and an experimental speech-transcription plugin that downloads its recognition model locally before first use, with failure causes, source and recovery guidance on download errors. alpha.2 stabilizes scroll-following, unifies code-block styles with copy and wrap, preserves line breaks when re-editing queued messages, adds find-your-teammates and contact-the-Lead guidance to Agent Team members’ initial task, and picks the best accessible npm registry on a first plugin install when no source is configured — manual selection and private sources remain.

The 0.2.0 candidates

v0.2.0-rc.1 (2026-09-28) aggregates changes since v0.1.7-rc.2 and is dominated by experience polish and fixes — live animations and spacing for in-progress and completed turns, more reliable automatic re-upload when an image expires, desktop update prompts that spell out version, download and retry, and untitled history sessions unified under one label. v0.2.0-rc.2 (2026-09-29) carries the headline: the dsh command is bundled with the macOS and Windows Desktop build for plugin management, without requiring a separate Node or pnpm installation, installed through a “Manage dsh command” menu bar item. Its fixes list includes duplicate shell names in the new-terminal menu, plan reviews failing to open after switching sessions, and persistent PowerShell misreading command endings when a completion status carries trailing spaces.

v0.2.1-alpha.1: the Claude Code Mods question

v0.2.1-alpha.1 (2026-10-03) opens the next series with an experimental Claude Code Mods compatibility layer — and the notes are unusually explicit about scope: the main goal at this stage is to verify that the Claude Code Mods API’s capabilities are broadly a subset of what DeepSeek Harness plugins can do, rather than to offer users complete, practical compatibility. Alongside: a “Let Agent create a plugin” entry on the plugins page that opens Creator mode while preserving the draft and starts only after the request is sent; unsent initial prompts for new sessions, with file, folder and session references preserved when restoring drafts or moving them between workspaces; YAML frontmatter rendered as a readable field list in Markdown previews; --public-url for the Web address shown to users, opened in the browser and supplied to the model, including reverse-proxy URLs with a path prefix; and composer statistics split into separate activity and usage extension entries — plugins replacing the former stats row must update their registered IDs.

The tag with no notes

dsh-v0.1.5-rc.3 (2026-09-22) is a bare maintenance tag on the 0.1.5 branch with no release entry — the releases API returns 404 for it and the releases list omits it; the /releases/tag/ URL renders the tag view, whose message carries only the automatic merge-commit summary. It sits in the window as a fact of the channel, not a feature release.

Channel status

Every listed release in the window keeps the Pre-release flag. The channel has shipped no stable build to date. Live repo metadata stays in this site’s build-time snapshot and stats page — this article cites no point-in-time star counts.

The 0.1.7 series: terminal, archives, MCP resources, scheduled tasks

The 0.2.0 candidates

v0.2.1-alpha.1: the Claude Code Mods question

The tag with no notes

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