DS Bot’s changelog entry dated October 29, 2026, lists private bots, Office-document operations, approval-gated proposals, and a control to stop all group work in version 0.2.4. The project describes DS Bot as an independent community plugin for DeepSeek Harness, not an official DeepSeek product.
What DS Bot 0.2.4 adds
The project’s changelog lists four main changes: bots can be marked private, bots can work with Office files, proposed skills and AGENTS.md changes require user approval, and users can stop all work in a group.
A private bot keeps its folder, memory, and chats inaccessible to other bots unless the user approves sharing. The changelog also says a deleted private bot remains protected until the user releases it entry by entry. These controls give users a way to limit what a bot team can share.
Which Office tasks work on web and desktop?
The project README describes operations for .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx files. DSH Web supports inspecting, checking, and editing them. Creating files from scratch and rendering pages requires the DS Bot desktop app or DSH Desktop.
| Office task | Documented mode |
| Inspect document structure | DSH Web |
| Check Office files | DSH Web |
| Edit Office files | DSH Web |
| Create a file from scratch | DS Bot desktop app or DSH Desktop |
| Render pages | DS Bot desktop app or DSH Desktop |
If you mainly need to review or edit existing files, the project lists those tasks for DSH Web. For creating documents from scratch or rendering pages, choose a desktop setup.
Set up the web version and understand file access
The current project README lists Node.js 22.19 or later and pnpm as prerequisites for DSH Web. Its example command invokes DSH 0.2.1-rc.4:
npx @deepseek-ai/dsh@0.2.1-rc.4 plugin --profile web add ds-bot
For the plugin route, install DeepSeek Harness and configure at least one model first; DS Bot uses the models configured in DSH. The separate DS Bot desktop app bundles DSH, so it does not require a separate installation.
The README says bot and session data are stored in bot/ and sessions/ folders under the DSH home directory, which defaults to ~/.dsh. It also warns that bots can read and write files and run commands when asked. For Docker setups, the project recommends limiting mounted directories because those files are accessible to the bots.
