- search providers (exa/perplexity/deepseek): map the parsed response INSIDE the parse try, so a well-formed body of the wrong shape surfaces as WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR instead of escaping as a raw TypeError; a WebError the mapper throws on purpose is re-thrown untouched - web-fetch-local: validate numeric limits at plugin construction (positive finite caps; non-negative integer maxRedirects) rather than constructing a provider with nonsensical values - web-fetch-local: enforce the redirect budget BEFORE resolving each hop, so maxRedirects:N follows exactly N redirects and an over-limit hop reports "exceeded the maximum" rather than misdiagnosing a cross-origin block - drop the stale dsh-tool-web/search and /fetch path aliases (the package no longer declares those subpath exports) - strip trailing EOF blank lines flagged by git diff --check Each fix carries a regression test.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-deepseek
A DeepSeek-backed WebSearchProvider for the harness web capability seam (ctx.web). It calls DeepSeek's Anthropic-compatible Messages API (POST {baseURL}/messages) with the native web_search_20250305 server tool enabled, and maps the structured web_search_tool_result blocks DeepSeek returns into the seam's normalized WebSearchResult.
This is an implementation package: it registers a provider into ctx.web, it does not own the key and it does not register a model-facing tool. Like @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek, it is a function/namespace plugin (inject: ['web']). The Anthropic wire shape is a provider-private detail — it does not make this provider depend on ctx.llm.
How it differs from a dedicated search endpoint
Exa and Perplexity expose dedicated search endpoints; DeepSeek does not. Instead this provider issues a full Messages model call carrying the web_search server tool, so one search costs a complete model turn in latency and tokens — heavier than a pure retrieval endpoint. DeepSeek runs the search server-side and returns structured web_search_tool_result blocks; the provider parses those blocks and never scrapes URLs out of model prose.
Strict mode: if the response carries no web_search_tool_result block (native search did not trigger), the provider throws WebError WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR rather than degrading to prose-scraping — honest and debuggable.
It reuses $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY (no new secret) but not $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL: the search endpoint is the Anthropic-compatible base (https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic/v1), distinct from the chat-completions base (https://api.deepseek.com) the LLM adapter uses.
Config
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
apiKey |
$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY |
DeepSeek API key. Empty/absent → provider status() reports missing-credential. Sent as both x-api-key and Authorization: Bearer (official vs Anthropic-compatible proxy). |
baseURL |
https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic/v1 |
Anthropic-compatible endpoint base; /messages is appended. Use a separate env var such as $DEEPSEEK_SEARCH_BASE_URL when overriding it; do not reuse $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL, which belongs to the chat-completions LLM adapter. An unparseable value makes status() report misconfigured. |
model |
deepseek-v4-flash |
Anthropic-format model name. |
apiVersion |
2023-06-01 |
anthropic-version header value. |
maxTokens |
4096 |
Upper bound on generated tokens for the Messages request. |
maxUses |
5 |
Maximum web_search server-tool uses per request. |
- id: web-search-deepseek
name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-deepseek'
config:
apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_SEARCH_BASE_URL
Mapping
DeepSeek returns no provider-generated answer surface this provider trusts as content, so content is omitted. sources[] is built from the web_search_result items inside web_search_tool_result blocks: url ← url, title ← title, publishedAt ← page_age. The per-source snippet lives separately in a text block's citations[] (a cited_text keyed by url), so the provider joins the two — a result with no citation excerpt simply has no snippet. Results are deduped by url (a maxUses > 1 request can surface the same URL across searches). DeepSeek's web_search has no result-count knob (only maxUses), so maxResults is enforced by the seam (truncating sources[] and setting truncated). Provider failures surface as WebError WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR; an aborted request surfaces as WEB_ABORTED.