dsh-free-search
Free and multi-engine web search provider for DeepSeek Harness with automatic fallback and web settings UI.
Install
$ dsh plugin --profile web add /path/to/dsh-free-searchPlugin Overview & Capabilities
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Key Capabilities
- Supports over 20 search providers including keyless free engines (Bing, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, Exa, Tavily) and optional key-based services
- Provides smart language and time-based auto-routing with multi-tier failure-aware fallback and engine cooldowns
- Offers advanced tooling including advanced_search with time filtering, multi_search cross-validation, platform_search, and video_search
- Features a one-call research tool with candidate reranking, body fetching, and citation formatting
- Includes chat command `/free-search-engine` and a web settings configuration interface with live engine testing and LRU caching
- Applies untrusted-content boundaries to protect against prompt-injection risks from search results
Useful For
- Enabling web search in DeepSeek Harness without an official DeepSeek API key or when using third-party model gateways
- Cross-referencing search results across multiple engines simultaneously to verify technical facts or news
- Searching specific platforms such as GitHub, V2EX, Reddit, Hacker News, npm, and Stack Overflow directly through AI agents
- Conducting automated in-depth web research with structured source citation and document extraction
Who It Fits
- DeepSeek Harness users seeking reliable, zero-cost web search alternatives
- Developers running DSH through custom gateways or non-official model providers
- Researchers and power users requiring multi-source verification and advanced web fetching capabilities
Documented Limitations
- Accessing certain search engines like DuckDuckGo may require configuring Node.js environment proxies depending on network conditions
- web_fetch lacks built-in SSRF protection and can access local network endpoints if prompted
- Multi Search mode and parallel multi-engine queries accelerate quota usage for metered/paid providers
- SQLite-based document caching in research mode requires Node >= 22.13 (or --experimental-sqlite flag on earlier Node 22 versions) to avoid falling back to no-op
DSH Compatibility
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Security Signals
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package.json declares 1 runtime, 2 development, 8 peer, and 0 optional dependencies.
package.json declares DSH bundle metadata.
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT.
A root package.json was captured and can be inspected by the registry.
Public GitHub source metadata is available for this registry snapshot.
Source & Registry Notes
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- Source repository
- DDDMUC/dsh-free-search
- Registry source
- GitHub · dsh-plugin topic
- Registry classification
- Plugin
- Source checked
- 2282889 · 2026-10-15
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Repository Activity
- GitHub stars
- 427GitHub stars
- Forks
- 30
- Open issues
- 3
- Last commit
- 2026-10-14
- Last release
- 2026-10-14
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