dsh-codex-web-search-mcp

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Wire codex-web-search-mcp — a model-independent OpenAI Codex / Grok web-search & deep-research MCP server (standalone Rust binary) — into DeepSeek Harness (dsh) as a one-click plugin.

After installing and restarting dsh web, three tools appear as native dsh MCP tools:

Unlike the typical Claude Code / Cursor MCP wiring, this plugin is independent of any model vendor — search goes through the Codex search endpoint, so switching to Gemini / OpenRouter / local models changes nothing.

Prerequisites

The plugin relies on these npm packages to distribute cross-platform binaries:

• @dhicoc/dsh-codex-web-search-mcp: this dsh plugin;
• codex-web-search-mcp: the cross-platform command and its platform binary dependencies;
• @dhicoc/codex-web-search-mcp-*: prebuilt per-platform binaries.

You don't have to install any of these manually — dsh plugin resolves and installs them automatically. The binary distribution sources live in dhicoc/codex-web-search-mcp.

Install

From npm (recommended)

dsh plugin --profile web add @dhicoc/dsh-codex-web-search-mcp
dsh web          # restart (web bundles have no HMR; a restart is required)

Verify:

dsh --profile web --dump-config

You should see mcp-codex-web-search with serverName: codex-web-search and command: codex-web-search-mcp.

If your default npm mirror returns 404 Not Found, it usually hasn't synced the package yet; retry against the official registry:

dsh plugin --profile web add @dhicoc/dsh-codex-web-search-mcp --registry=https://registry.npmjs.org

From GitHub (dev / pre-release)

dsh plugin --profile web add github:dhicoc/dsh-codex-web-search-mcp
dsh web

Credentials (pick one)

1. Recommended: run codex login (OAuth writes ~/.codex/auth.json); the server reads it automatically.
2. No auth.json: set CODEX_ACCESS_TOKEN (optionally CODEX_ACCOUNT_ID) and uncomment the env: block in cordis.patch.yml to reference them with !!js process.env.* so secrets never touch disk.

Without valid credentials the three tools return a clear error message instead of crashing.

Uninstall

dsh plugin --profile web remove @dhicoc/dsh-codex-web-search-mcp

Fallback: native dsh MCP config (no plugin)

dsh's built-in @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client already reads .mcp.json / ~/.dsh/mcp.json. To get the same effect without the plugin, add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "codex-web-search": {
      "command": "codex-web-search-mcp"
    }
  }
}

or append to ~/.dsh/profiles/web/cordis.patch.yml:

- insert:
    - id: mcp-codex-web-search
      name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client'
      config:
        serverName: codex-web-search
        transport: stdio
        command: codex-web-search-mcp

How it works

• This repo is a config-only Cordis bundle: cordis.patch.yml reuses dsh's built-in @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client and, with one line of config, instantiates it as a stdio server pointing at the codex-web-search-mcp binary (serverName: codex-web-search).
• The codex-web-search-mcp dependency pulls the matching prebuilt platform binary through optionalDependencies and exposes a bin/codex-web-search-mcp command (a lightweight JS shim that locates and spawns the installed binary at runtime — no postinstall, sidestepping the pnpm allowBuilds gate).

License

MIT (same as upstream codex-web-search-mcp).