dsh-novel-solo

A single-author novel-writing plugin for DeepSeek Harness: a subagent concurrency setting plus a complete novel-creation preset (persona). It is tuned for quantized small models — the tool catalog is slimmed and output behavior hardened — so you can run a full-length novel pipeline locally.

Features

• GUI setting: a "Subagent count (1-12)" card under Settings → Plugins, with built-in zh/en i18n.
• Full creation preset: ships the novel-solo preset with a self-driven persona that follows a fixed pipeline — 叙事方法 (narrative method) → 核心世界观 (core worldview) → 名词索引 (noun index) → 大纲 (outline) → 章节目录 (chapter list) → 人物档案 (character files) → chapter-by-chapter writing → per-chapter review → final whole-book review & assembly.
• Quantized-safe protocol: plain CJK + common punctuation only, no JSON, no escapes, avoids fragile tokens; minimal tool calls, one at a time.
• Review loop: every chapter is reviewed (green/yellow/red) across 7 dimensions (setting / character / catalog / narrative / text rules / AI-cliché / plot logic); each report is written to a markdown file; when all chapters pass, a whole-book review runs and the book is assembled.
• No AI clichés: judges AI-flavor across six dimensions (sentence templates / stock vocabulary / emotion telling / structural sameness / diluted information / character distortion), distinguishing narrator-level repetition from character-level consistency; shared by writing and review.
• Slimmed catalog: hard-disables whole tool rows (shell / jobs / skills / goals / web) inside the preset to shrink the tool schema.
• Versioned writing: each chapter is 第N章-章节名字-vX.md; full-chapter rewrites first copy to v(X+1) and never overwrite older drafts.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add "dsh-novel-solo"
dsh web

Then open Settings → Plugins; the dsh-novel-solo "Subagent count" card appears.

On first launch the plugin idempotently deploys the preset from template/ to <dshHome>/.agent-presets/novel-solo/ (skips if the target already exists — it never overwrites your edited preset).

Host compatibility

Since 0.1.5, the preset persona uses the @deepseek-ai/dsh-persona config key prefix (the text key used by 0.1.2-rc.1 was removed). This template therefore targets DSH 0.1.5-rc.2 and later.

Each host home keeps its own .agent-presets/novel-solo/agent.cordis.yml. Homes provisioned by older hosts (e.g. 0.1.2-rc.1) keep their text: copy and still work when you switch back; a fresh home provisions the prefix: template. To hand-upgrade an older home, rename the persona row's text: to prefix: (the complete / includeRuntimeContext keys are unchanged).

How the subagent count takes effect

DSH's agent/request waterfall only lets a plugin rewrite LLM routing/config — it cannot inject or rewrite system/messages — so "GUI → model prompt" dynamic injection cannot go through the request waterfall. This plugin uses a two-stage wiring instead:

1. On save, N is written to ~/.dsh/.dsh-novel-solo-data/agent-count.json (the single source of truth).
2. The persona's sync anchor 并发上限 N=<number> is rewritten in place (by default in the deployed preset ~/.dsh/.agent-presets/novel-solo/agent.cordis.yml). The persona then decides: N=1 the main agent does everything itself; N>1 writing/review tasks are delegated to subagents while the main agent only dispatches and silently waits.

Note: the persona is loaded each time a preset session starts. A GUI change edits files, so running sessions pick up the new N only after a restart / new session.

Preset at a glance

template/agent.cordis.yml (deployed to ~/.dsh/.agent-presets/novel-solo/agent.cordis.yml) includes:

Tool slimming

The preset hard-disables these rows via disabled: true: tool-bash, tool-jobs, skill-filesystem, tool-skill, tool-goal, plan-mode, subagent_codex, subagent_claude_code, workflow-worker-thread, tool-workflow, tool-ralph, tool-todo, tool-web. It keeps tool-fs (read/write/edit), tool-fs-search (glob/grep), str-replace-editor (view/create/str_replace/insert), tool-pwsh (filesystem management only: rename/delete files & folders), subagent/subagent_fork, list_agents, etc.

It also ships a preset-scoped vendored plugin (active only for sessions mounting the novel-solo preset):

• template/plugins/llm-tool-choice-pin/index.mjs — pins toolChoice to auto for the llama provider so retained tools like edit stay callable (avoids per-request tool decisions under small models).

File structure

lib/index.js        node half: registers the dsh-novel-solo settings namespace (settings service), file store + persona-anchor sync + preset deploy
lib/client.js       browser half: registers the settings.plugin.item card (key=dsh-novel-solo), renders the 1-12 selector
cordis.patch.yml    inserted into the web profile on install
template/           the novel-solo preset (agent.cordis.yml + preset.yml + vendored plugin), shipped with the package
package.json        dsh.client metadata so the plugin is recognizable by the plugin market/manifest

Environment variables

Test environment

This plugin was tested end-to-end with a local model:

• Runtime: llama.cpp (llama-b10615-bin-win-cuda-13.3-x64)
• Model: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-IQ4_XS.gguf
• Context: ctx=65536, reasoning on
• Hardware: laptop RTX 4060 8GB + 32GB RAM + AMD 7840H CPU
• Measured on a ~10k-char novel: 22 token/s, 98% cache hit; 78.8k input / 36.9k output / 2.3M cache; 22 turns / 63 steps, 1h03m42s total

Key server flags (llama-server):

llama-server.exe -m <https://github.com/Tkingxiao/dsh-novel-solo/blob/HEAD/model.gguf> --no-mmproj --load-mode none --n-cpu-moe 30 -c 65536 -ngl 999 -t 12 -b 1024 -ub 512 -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 -fa on --fit off --no-warmup --poll 0 --temp 0.85 --top-k 20 --top-p 0.95 --min-p 0.05 --repeat-penalty 1.35 --presence-penalty 0.2 --frequency-penalty 0.2 --dry-multiplier 0.8 --dry-base 1.75 --jinja --reasoning on --reasoning-effort medium --reasoning-budget 2048 --reasoning-format deepseek --reasoning-preserve --cont-batching -np 1 --alias "qwen3.6-novel-nsfw-reason" --port 8090 --host 127.0.0.1 --ui --keep -1 --cache-ram 4096 --ctx-checkpoints 64

References

This plugin's design is inspired by sailoumili/novel-writer.

License

MIT License

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