Best DSH Plugins in 2026: the essential eight

Eight plugins, chosen because each one closes a gap that almost every DSH user hits, and because each has been maintained through the preview churn rather than abandoned at its first release.

Archify

The fastest way to make an agent’s output reviewable. Architecture and sequence diagrams arrive as self-contained HTML you can commit, so the artifact outlives the session. It is a skill rather than a runtime extension, which makes it unusually upgrade-tolerant.

Ouroboros

An agent operating system built on one rule: the agent does not get to declare success. Interview gates, staged evaluation and a budgeted evolution loop make it the right choice when a regression would be expensive.

Modlens

Vision for models that cannot see, delivered as structured JSON evidence rather than a prose description. Text with coordinates and layout regions means the model can cite exactly what it looked at.

DSH Context

Every long session eventually raises the question of what is in the window. Context gives you composition, growth over time, and a log of compaction events, which turns context tuning from guesswork into measurement.

Modsearch

Free web search with no key and no signup, returning structured results with citations preserved. It is the single highest-value install for anyone running a model without native browsing.

GenUI

Turns replies into interface: charts, forms, quizzes and 3D scenes rendered inline, with interactions flowing back to the model. It changes what a conversation can produce.

Better Sidebar

Replaces the default sidebar with an extensible one and registers pages from other plugins. Files, terminal, Git and subagents sit beside the conversation instead of behind it.

Mnemon

Persistent memory that survives the session boundary, with an LLM supervision step deciding what is worth writing. A single binary, no service to run.

How we choose

We weight capability gain first, then maintenance signal: recent commits, a declared license, and a dshTarget that tracks a current preview release. Star counts are context, never the deciding factor. Every pick is re-checked when the listing is refreshed, and a plugin that stops tracking the runtime is replaced rather than left in place.