dsh-session-fork

dsh-session-fork

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Sub agents and parallel development never quite deliver in today's agent apps. This project manages dsh's native, discrete sessions the way git manages branches: fork gives conversations inheritance, while squash and rebase give them merging — a major upgrade to the parallel-development and prompt-management experience on dsh.

This is a plugin for DeepSeek Harness; it cannot run standalone.

Version 0.4.0 supports dsh 0.2.1-rc.2. It replaces the previous dsh 0.1.2-rc.1 compatibility line; upgrade dsh before upgrading this plugin.

For compatibility development, build a sibling ../deepseek-harness checkout and run bun run test:harness. Set DSH_HARNESS_DIR to use another checkout. The check uses an isolated copy linked to the actual harness packages and checks V4 messages, historical merges, and both Host and Client types.

Pain points it solves

• Efficient solo parallel development: the branch model mirrors how real programmers collaborate. While developing in parallel, every agent holds its own snapshot of the repo — you trade a strictly linear development history for resolving conflicts at merge time.
• Clean context management: the main branch (e.g. main) stays your secretary and dispatcher. Research and coding tasks are delegated to child branches; when a task is done, only its compressed context is reported back to the main branch.
• Hardened session management: the branch model upgrades dsh's native fork and cross-session messaging experience.

Quick start

Install (requires a web-app-based dsh profile):

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-session-fork

After that, just let your agent use the plugin freely — every command also ships as an agent-callable tool!

Core features

• branch operations give every session a name, an ancestry, and an index — manageable through commands.
• fork hardens the native experience and provides the ancestry primitive.
• squash and rebase offer two forms of cross-branch merging.
• send_message_by_branch strengthens communication between sessions.
• The branch tab provides visual management of branches.

Join us

What we want to build next:

• Branch-scoped project memory. Existing long-term memory models are project-grained, which is a disaster for the branch model: memory leaks across branches and pollutes context. Branch-grained memory management is the road to a more robust model.
• Ongoing maintenance. Open Issues — there are plenty of long-term improvements and bugs waiting.

We take an open stance on AI collaboration: feel free to use AI to contribute code, write commit messages, and draft PRs. But we expect you to own your code — review it yourself, and treat AI as your tool in communication rather than letting it talk to us on your behalf.

License

MIT