/deepseek-chat

name: deepseek-chat
description: One-shot chat completion against DeepSeek's `deepseek-chat` model. Use for non-reasoning tasks such as summarization, extraction or quick classification. Reads DEEPSEEK_API_KEY; returns status:degraded when the key is missing or the API is unreachable.
argument-hint: "--prompt <text> [--system <text>] [--model deepseek-chat] [--temperature 0.7] [--max-tokens 1024] [--format table|json] [--alert-on-error]"
allowed-tools: Bash

Wraps DeepSeek's chat/completions endpoint in the same subprocess-invocation shape as the other `ruflo-*-harness` skills (see ruflo-metaharness's `harness-score` for the reference). No library import on ruflo's boot path.

When to use

• You want a cheap, fast completion from a non-reasoning model.
• The task fits in a single request/response — no multi-turn context.
• You want the raw content back as JSON so downstream tooling can consume it.
• For reasoning-heavy tasks (proofs, multi-step planning, hard debugging),

use `deepseek-reason` instead — same plugin, different model.

Data handling

The prompt and any `--system` text are sent over the network to `api.deepseek.com`, a third party. Do not put secrets, credentials, personal data or proprietary code you are not allowed to share into them. The API key is read from `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` in your shell only; never paste it into a prompt, a file or a command line.

Algorithm

Implementation: [`scripts/chat.mjs`](../../scripts/chat.mjs).

1. Read `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` from env. If missing, emit `{ status: 'degraded', reason: 'DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is not set', ... }` and exit 0 (ADR-150-style graceful degradation). 2. POST to `https://api.deepseek.com/v1/chat/completions` with `{ model, messages, temperature?, max_tokens? }`. 60s hard timeout. 3. Extract `choices[0].message.content` and usage counters. 4. `--format table` prints only the content (for piping); `--format json` (default) returns the full envelope. 5. `--alert-on-error` exits 1 on any degraded/error status (CI-friendly).

Example

node plugins/ruflo-deepseek-harness/scripts/chat.mjs \
  --prompt "In one sentence: what is HNSW?" \
  --temperature 0.2

Sample output:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "model": "deepseek-chat",
  "content": "HNSW is a graph-based approximate nearest neighbor …",
  "finishReason": "stop",
  "usage": { "promptTokens": 12, "completionTokens": 34, "totalTokens": 46 }
}