Your AI team, managed by talking to the boss

What it does

DS Bot is a plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) that turns the harness into a stable of persistent bots. Each bot is a DSH session with its own model choice, its own memory of your preferences, and a details page where you manage both. A default “main bot” called Chief acts as your chief of staff: it manages the other bots and group chats, and walks you through setup the first time you open the plugin.

The interesting bit

Group chats have an admin bot that answers you by default and delegates to other bots, so you’re not paying for every member to chime in on every message. You can @ a bot directly or reference another chat as context. The README’s honest about the design debt too: it credits a whole list of prior projects for the ideas (memory format, @mention relays, handoff notes, SQLite chat search) while noting none of their code is included.

Key highlights

• Long-lived bots with persistent memory, manageable via UI or just by telling the bot
• Main bot (Chief) with high rights to manage bots and group chats
• Group chats with an admin bot that relays work to specialist bots
• Token usage tracked by time, bot, and model
• All data stays local in ~/.dsh; runs on your own model quota

Caveats

• It’s a v0.1 preview riding on DSH 0.2.1-alpha.1 — expect churn
• Bots read/write files and run commands; the README tells you to check important actions yourself
• Not an official DeepSeek product, despite the name

Verdict

Worth a look if you already run DeepSeek Harness and want multi-agent teamwork without the orchestration-framework ceremony. If you’re not in the DSH ecosystem, this is a plugin, not a standalone app — move along.