Switching from DeepSeek Harness复制锚点链接

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Summary复制锚点链接

This page helps you move from stock DeepSeek Harness to Delorun without losing your chats. Stock DeepSeek Harness keeps your chats, workspaces, profiles and settings in a folder called ~/.dsh. Delorun keeps its own home, ~/.delorun, and copies what you choose from ~/.dsh into it. The copy only reads ~/.dsh. Nothing in it changes, so stock DeepSeek Harness keeps working exactly as before, and you can go back at any time.

You need Delorun installed (Install and first run) and, to copy a key or install plugins, a terminal.

Contents复制锚点链接

• Import your home
• What carries over
• What is held back
• Workspaces and chats that stay behind
• What stays behind
• Chats from the DeepSeek website
• Plugins after the import
• A home that already has chats
• What changes when you switch
• Ask less (like DeepSeek Harness)
• Going back
• Next
• For the technically curious

Import your home复制锚点链接

The first delorun setup asks "Copy your DeepSeek Harness chats, attachments and workspace list? They are only read, and nothing in them changes." when ~/.dsh is a folder, not a link, and your Delorun home has no chats yet. It shows what it would copy first, the answer starts on no, and it copies nothing until you answer yes. Setup copies only your chats, attachments and workspace list.

Run the import yourself to copy the rest:

delorun import-home --dry-run      # show what would be copied, write nothing
delorun import-home                # show it, ask, then copy
delorun import-home --from /path/to/another/dsh-home
delorun import-home --profile work  # import into the CLI profile work

The import asks before it copies anything, so it needs a terminal; without one, nothing is imported.

delorun import-home first asks about your chats, attachments and workspace list. Then it asks about each of these on its own, and copies one only if you answer yes: your profiles, your settings, your AGENTS.md instructions, your skills and your DeepSeek key. Each of them can change what Delorun runs or what the agent is told, so the import shows it before it asks: the exact settings that would land, and the first lines of your instructions.

Stop DeepSeek Harness and Delorun before you import. If a file in ~/.dsh changes while the import copies it, the import stops, and your Delorun home is left as it was. If your computer stops during an import, the next start of Delorun removes the part it had copied.

What carries over复制锚点链接

• Chats. Every chat, with every saved version of it, copied exactly. Delorun opens them as DeepSeek Harness does. Chats an older DeepSeek Harness stored without compression stay behind.
• Workspaces. Your workspace list, so your chats appear under the same folders.
• Attachments. The images and files your chats refer to.
• Profiles, when you say so. Each profile keeps its name, its plugin list and its plain settings. Delorun adds its own bundle, @delorun/bundle-local, to each profile so Delorun's privacy defaults apply, and the profile's first start also adds @delorun/bundle-studio, Delorun's studio additions. Start one with delorun --profile <name>. A stock profile with the same name as a profile your Delorun home already has, such as default, stays behind, because the import never replaces one.
• Settings, when you say so. Your home patch cordis.patch.yml and older settings.yaml settings, when your Delorun home has none of its own.
• Instructions and skills, when you say so. Your AGENTS.md and your skills. Every chat reads the instructions, and a skill can tell the agent what to do, so read them before you say yes.
• Your DeepSeek key, when you say so. The import lists your stored keys by name, never showing a value, and offers only the DeepSeek key, which it copies into Delorun's credentials file, which only you can read. Add other keys again in Delorun.

A chat that ran with full access in DeepSeek Harness opens in Delorun on Workspace Write, the safer preset, until you turn on full access for its workspace in Delorun: pick Full access in the chat, choose "Allow for this chat" on an approval card that asks for it, or use Settings → Safety → Permissions, or delorun workspace full-access <folder> on.

The import never runs anything from ~/.dsh.

What is held back复制锚点链接

Only settings that change how Delorun looks and which model it uses by default carry over: your theme and fonts, how chats and the composer show things, your language, and your default model by name. Everything else in your settings and profile patches is held back, even when you say yes to settings or profiles, because a setting can run code, send your requests or your key to another address, or switch off a protection. The preview lists each held-back setting with the reason, and the import writes them to a file under ~/.delorun/archive/stock-import/ that nothing reads. Copy what you trust from there into your own settings yourself.

A profile's plugin installed from a path, a link, a git address or a URL is not carried; add it again yourself if you trust it. The import also leaves the profile's lockfile, its version exemptions and the install scripts it approved behind.

Workspaces and chats that stay behind复制锚点链接

The preview lists every workspace with its folder. A workspace in a folder that holds your settings and keys stays behind with its chats: the root of your disk, your home folder itself, a hidden folder in it such as .ssh or .config, and the DeepSeek Harness or Delorun home. A chat stays behind when it works outside its workspace's folder, or when it stopped in the middle of a turn, because continuing it would offer its unfinished tool calls for retry; finish or close it in DeepSeek Harness, then import again.

Before you say yes to profiles, settings or instructions, the import shows the whole text that would land, a page at a time. For skills it lists every file, and shows a skill's instructions when you ask.

What stays behind复制锚点链接

The preview lists each item that is not copied, with the reason:

• logs, caches, installed runtimes and installed plugin packages, which are created again;
• the desktop app's own profile, desktop;
• the profile's change history, which starts fresh in Delorun, and live-share links;
• tool output a chat set aside, which stays in ~/.dsh, and the installation's anonymous identifier;
• .env, which may hold keys: copy what you need by hand;
• permissions you granted to tools, and scheduled follow-ups, which Delorun asks for again;
• symbolic links, pipes, other mounted drives, files with more than one hard link, and names DeepSeek Harness does not write, which are never followed or copied;
• attachments whose content does not match the name they are stored under;
• chats written by a newer DeepSeek Harness than your Delorun reads, chats stored without compression, and documents too large or that this version cannot read;
• anything the import does not recognise.

Chats from the DeepSeek website复制锚点链接

The import above copies chats from ~/.dsh. Chats you had on chat.deepseek.com are a separate source: export them from the website and load the file with the optional chat import plugin, as described in Import your DeepSeek website chats.

Plugins after the import复制锚点链接

Installed plugin packages are not copied. The preview lists every plugin and bundle of each profile as carried, to install, added or not carried. For each profile with something to install, run the command the import prints, for example:

delorun plugin --profile web install

The install runs pnpm, as DeepSeek Harness does. A plugin's install script runs only after you approve it, because the approvals you gave in DeepSeek Harness are not carried. A plugin that DeepSeek Harness retired is listed as not carried.

A home that already has chats复制锚点链接

The import refuses a Delorun home that already holds chats, so you never mix two histories by accident. Run it again with --merge to add your stock chats beside them. A chat or file that is already in your Delorun home with the same content is skipped; one with the same name and different content stops the import, which never overwrites anything.

The import copies at most 4 GiB unless you give a larger limit in bytes, such as --max-size 8589934592 for 8 GiB.

What changes when you switch复制锚点链接

Your chats and workspaces look as they did, and your plugins work as they did in DeepSeek Harness once you install them. A few things behave differently in Delorun's studio:

• Where Delorun runs. delorun runs Delorun in the background and opens the studio; delorun stop stops it (Daily use).
• Your home. Delorun keeps its own home, ~/.delorun, and never writes ~/.dsh (Your Delorun home).
• What commands can reach. Commands the model runs cannot write, or read, Delorun's home, and every new workspace starts on Workspace Write (What Delorun protects).
• Consents. With setup's default Ask me first, Delorun asks before the model writes instruction files or schedules work, holds a new MCP server that runs a command until you allow it, and asks once before a workspace gets full access (Consents).
• web_fetch. It does not fetch addresses on your own computer or network (The web_fetch guard).
• Data sharing. DeepSeek's session-log upload is off until you turn it on in Settings → Safety → Privacy.
• Updates. Delorun checks for a newer release once a day, shows what an update would change before you confirm, and can go back (Updates).
• The look. Delorun's theme, sidebar, chat states and settings layout.

Delorun and stock DeepSeek Harness lists every difference and what Delorun does not include, and the parity checklist lists each changed default with its evidence.

Ask less (like DeepSeek Harness)复制锚点链接

Each of these returns one difference to DeepSeek Harness's behaviour, and you can change it back at any time:

Some differences have no switch: commands the model runs never write into Delorun's home, web_fetch always refuses local addresses, and Delorun checks every release it runs.

Going back复制锚点链接

~/.dsh is untouched, so stock DeepSeek Harness works as it did before the import. Chats you start in Delorun stay in your Delorun home; delorun export writes chats and workspaces as files that another home imports with delorun import.

Next复制锚点链接

• Start Delorun: Daily use.
• See the model providers: Model providers.
• Bring chats from the DeepSeek website too: Import your DeepSeek website chats.
• Know what Delorun changes from stock: Delorun and stock DeepSeek Harness.
• If something went wrong: Archives, imports and the trash.

For the technically curious复制锚点链接

The delorun/docs/contracts/c08-archive-and-trash.md defines exactly what the import copies, holds back and refuses, and the parity checklist lists each default Delorun changes, with its evidence.