dsh-thread


Thread's deep-integration plugin for DeepSeek Harness — session memory with lineage for coding agents, using the base's native channels end to end.

What it does

• Lossless capture — subscribes to session/event; the full event stream

lands in dual SQLite databases with stable origins (idempotent append).

• Structural delivery, three triggers — a first-turn anchor (project identity

+ behavior contract + status card), a re-anchor after every compaction, and a cross-agent state delta at every turn boundary. No per-turn card noise.

• Native query tool — query_session_memory registered through

ctx.tools.register into the model's tool schema, with filesystem-style navigation ls / cd / cat / grep. The embedded MCP server remains as a fallback channel.

• Behavior-contract skill — a thread skill is registered into the base's

skill catalog ("need details → call the tool") and injected at anchors, so the model does not rely on memory to know it has memory.

• Output recognition — write/edit tools on markdown documents register

knowledge_assets with lineage edges on write; /thread-reg ast covers explicit registration.

• Explicit decision & preference channels — decisions are recorded through

/thread-reg dec (user, --supersedes <id> for chain evolution) or the model's record_decision tool (the behavior contract instructs the model to call it when the user settles a decision or it commits to one). Preferences and lessons are recorded through /thread-reg fdb (auto-classified as correction when phrased as "don't"). Natural-language extraction of decisions/preferences is off — zero text-heuristic false positives; the lossless event stream remains the backstop for anything unrecorded. (Goal detection from short imperative messages and completion detection stay on, guarded against pasted/multi-line text.)

• Closing sediment + inbox — closing words sediment in-progress goals into

todos; /thread-cfm is the single pending-work inbox: todos (t#id) and candidates (c#id) in one view — do completes/promotes (candidates accept a corrected text), cnl discards, cnl all clears both. The status card surfaces the top candidates so they cannot pile up silently.

• Behavior notes (1.0, stated plainly) — candidates are not produced

automatically: natural-language extraction of decisions/preferences is off, so c# entries only ever hold pre-existing rows until the post-release extraction layer arrives; todos are produced actively (closing sediment + goal-completion self-healing). Decisions never expire on their own — close out time-bound ones with --supersedes. Goal completion detection is conservative (≥4 non-ASCII / ≥8 pure-ASCII overlap; short English goals are missed rather than mis-judged — abandon them with /thread-rev gol). See the Thread README "Honest boundaries" section for the full list.

• Resource cleanup — /thread-rev <ast|dec|fdb|gol> <ids|all> revokes

registrations: decisions/preferences/assets are deleted (the event stream keeps the text), goals are abandoned through the state machine with their todos self-healed.

• Session isolation — /thread-iso / /thread-uniso, and

/thread-pub <ast|dec|fdb|gol> <ids|all> shares rows produced while isolated.

• Optional active compaction — with THREAD_AUTO_COMPACT=1 the plugin

monitors token pressure at turn boundaries and triggers compactNow silently; state re-anchors after every compaction either way.

• Dev probe, inert by default — the package ships a batch0-probe module

used for contract smoke-testing during development; it is inert unless THREAD_B0_PROBE=1 is set, so normal sessions are unaffected.

Supported dsh versions

• Verified: dsh 0.1.1-rc.2 (current; the dsh CLI and its SDK packages

ship version-locked). 0.1.0-rc.6 also works (the earlier dogfood baseline) but is not recommended.

• The plugin pins its SDK peers to ^0.1.1-rc.2

(dsh-tools/dsh-agent/dsh-session/dsh-user-questions); within the 0.1.x train, upgrades are expected to be compatible and are verified by an isolated contract probe plus the CI compat matrix (.github/workflows/ci.yml) before this table is updated.

• No promise is made for future major releases (0.2+); each new dsh release is

evaluated and the matrix extended before support is claimed.

Install

dsh plugin add dsh-thread

All dsh plugins must be referenced in a profile's bundles to take effect. In ~/.dsh/profiles/<your-profile>/package.json:

{
  "name": "dsh-profile-my",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {},
  "dsh": {
    "profile": {
      "bundles": [
        "@deepseek-ai/dsh-base",
        "@deepseek-ai/dsh-headless",
        "dsh-thread"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Zero configuration beyond that: @thread-memory/core + better-sqlite3 resolve as dependencies; capture and injection start as soon as the plugin is activated.

> Note (native module): if the plugin fails to start with > "Could not locate the bindings file", pnpm 10 ignored the better-sqlite3 > build script during install. Fix with one command in the profile directory: > > ``sh > cd ~/.dsh/profiles/<your-profile> > pnpm rebuild better-sqlite3 > ` > > This is a pnpm 10 onlyBuiltDependencies` policy, not a plugin bug.

Configuration

Commands

Registered as real dsh commands — visible in the command palette, /-completable, and executed directly (no model round-trip). The same lines also work as plain messages where no command UI exists. One grammar, six commands:

| Command | Effect | |---|---| | /thread-reg <ast\|dec\|fdb\|gol> | List that resource's rows (ids for rev/supersede) | | /thread-reg <ast\|dec\|fdb\|gol> <text> | Register: ast = path (directories expand recursively, cap 50) · dec = decision (active immediately; --supersedes <id> evolves the chain) · fdb = preference/lesson (auto-classified by "don't" phrasing) · gol = goal | | /thread-rev <ast\|dec\|fdb\|gol> | List that resource's rows | | /thread-rev <ast\|dec\|fdb\|gol> <ids\|all> | Revoke: dec/fdb/ast are deleted (event stream keeps the text) · gol is abandoned (state machine + todos self-heal) | | /thread-cfm | Pending-work inbox: todos (t#id) + candidates (c#id) | | /thread-cfm do <id> [text] | t# complete a todo · c# promote a candidate to an active decision (optional corrected text) | | /thread-cfm cnl <id> / cnl all | Discard one item / clear the inbox | | /thread-iso / /thread-uniso | Silence / restore a session | | /thread-pub | List isolated rows (all resources, ids for sharing) | | /thread-pub <ast\|dec\|fdb\|gol> <ids\|all> | Share isolated rows |

MCP fallback

The package ships an embedded MCP server (bin: dsh-thread) exposing the same query_session_memory contract over MCP for bases and setups where native tool registration is unavailable. See the Thread Memory Protocol.

Repository relationship

This repository hosts the dsh deep-integration plugin. The base-agnostic kernel (@thread-memory/core) and the Qoder adapter live in the main Thread repository.

License

MIT