Skill to DSH

Use when a local SKILL.md bundle must become an installable DSH or Cordis SkillProvider package and the result must be version-pinned…

Context cost
1k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
12 files · 30.8 kB7 scripts among them — read before you run
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Use when a local SKILL.md bundle must become an installable DSH or Cordis SkillProvider package and the result must be version-pinned, resource-safe, tarball-tested, and verified through a real Loader.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

productivity

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, and here they are in full: the front matter loads with every session, and the body below it loads when the skill triggers. The other files in the bundle are listed further down.

SKILL.md2.0 kB
--- name: skill-to-dsh ---
6# Skill to DSH
7
8Inspect one absolute local Skill path, confirm the target DSH API and source checkout, then generate an equivalent Provider package. Keep architecture, scope, and provenance decisions with the agent; use bundled programs only for deterministic inspection, scaffolding, and validation.
9
10## Required sequence
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121. Confirm sourceSkillPath, outputDir, packageName, explicit dshApiVersion, and provenance: accept the deterministic local default only after confirming it, or require explicit upstream provenance with URL plus revision or content hash.
132. Inspect without importing or executing scripts. Reject unsupported entries, symlinks, special files, absolute or parent resource references, missing targets, invalid frontmatter, and an existing output.
143. Keep source Skill name, npm packageName, Cordis pluginName, and Provider providerName distinct. v0.1 creates only an equivalent Provider; do not lift instructions into Tool, Context, State, Policy, or Workflow.
154. Run inspect, scaffold, build, npm pack, isolated tarball install, source typecheck, real Loader, parity, and disposal validation. Missing source or a failed Loader is a failed run, not a Direct-Skill fallback.
165. Report package path, lock, provenance, license publishability, every check, and failed diagnostics.
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18Read references/dsh-skill-provider.md for exact Provider fields and Loader composition. Use assets/plugin-template only through the scaffold wrapper.
19
20## Stop conditions
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22Stop before generation on invalid input, unknown requested API, unsafe path, unknown package name, existing output, or an unconfirmed provenance choice. Stop after v0.1 parity is established; capability lifting, feedback loops, self-hosting, benchmark selection, and stopping experiments belong to v0.2.
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This is the whole of SKILL.md. Install the skill to get it and everything beside it.
In the file
SKILL.md270 words
Files12
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈60
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
965
on trigger
The instruction body and 11 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
0.51%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 5% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

1k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Small enough to keep loaded permanently without thinking about it.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md, shown in full above.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

12 files, 30.8 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 7 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to.

  • SKILL.md2.0 kB
  • agents/openai.yaml0.2 kB
  • references/dsh-skill-provider.md0.9 kB
  • scripts/inspect-skill.mjs0.8 kB
  • scripts/runtime.mjs19.8 kB
  • scripts/scaffold-plugin.mjs2.2 kB
  • scripts/validate-plugin.mjs0.8 kB
  • assets/plugin-template/package.json0.7 kB
  • assets/plugin-template/tsconfig.json0.3 kB
  • assets/plugin-template/src/index.ts1.5 kB
  • assets/plugin-template/tests/loader-composition.spec.ts0.6 kB
  • assets/plugin-template/tests/provider.spec.ts1.0 kB
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 7 scripts beside the text, so the bundle is 12 files you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Skill to DSH · 1k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/skill-to-dsh/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/skill-to-dsh" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/skill-to-dsh ] || { mv .claude/skills/skill-to-dsh "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/skill-to-dsh" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/skill-to-dsh"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add pastbullet/skill-to-dsh

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/skill-to-dsh/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/skill-to-dsh/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/skill-to-dsh" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/skill-to-dsh ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/skill-to-dsh "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/skill-to-dsh" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/skill-to-dsh" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/skill-to-dsh/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencepastbullet/skill-to-dsh

Versions

Its author publishes no version number, so there is nothing here to pin to: what you install is the folder as it stands today. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

Pinning

Nothing to pin to: this skill carries no version number of its own. What you install is what the folder holds on the day you install it.

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