Better Dsh — Dashr

Dashr (/ˈdæʃ.ɚ/) makes your native dsh ready for serious coding. It's a plugin — not a fork — so you keep the official runtime and marketplace, and gain a lighter, higher-capacity way to work.

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Why

1. Make your native dsh ready for serious coding — keep the official DeepSeek Harness, add the pieces that turn it into a real development environment.
2. Light context injection, maximal capacity — state lives in the kernel instead of the chat window, so long tasks stop paying token costs to re-derive what already exists. A cognition-frictionless setup.

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✨ Features

• 🐍 Session-persistent IPython kernel — better than the native one-shot REPL engine: one kernel per session, where variables, imports, and definitions survive across turns. Context as variables.
• 🔗 Unified scheme:// addressing — one intuitive interface to runtime resources: skill://, ctx://, agent://, dvc://, dsh:// (plus http(s)://).
• 🧰 Wired-in IDE — LSP diagnostics on write/edit, AST codemods (ast_edit / ast_grep), and hash-anchored edit / undo_last_edit with write previews.
• 🤝 Agent swarm as resources — sub-agents, workflows, and Ralph loops are first-class calls inside a cell (subagent, workflow, ralph, send_message).
• 💾 Snapshots — full-namespace dill snapshots save and restore kernel state across restarts.
• 🛡️ Self-managed kernel environment — the runtime provisions its own CPython 3.11 venv (ipykernel + dill); no blind trust in a host python3.

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⚡ Quick Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pgmi-builds/better-dsh/main/install.sh | bash

Or via npm:

dsh plugin --profile web add --config.auto-install-peers=false @pgmi-builds/better-dsh@latest

Code inside a cell runs with the permissions of the local user running dsh — run Dashr where you trust the agent's code execution (or inside a container).

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📚 Inspiration & Attribution

Dashr is an open-source plugin for DeepSeek Harness (dsh) (MIT). It stands on the shoulders of earlier open-source work:

• BetaEdit (dsh-better-edit, by Rianico) — the hash-anchored read → edit → undo_last_edit editing model. Dashr adopts this toolchain (itself a lineage of pi-hashline-edit → pi-hashline-edit-lsz → dsh-better-edit) with attribution, and re-wires it natively.
• omp-agent (oh-my-pi, by Can Bölük) — the dvc:// device framework and its ast_edit / ast_grep / browser / lsp devices, adopted under its MIT license.
• Prime Agent (Prime Intellect) — the Context as Variables paradigm that shapes the persistent-kernel model.

All upstream dependencies carry their original MIT licenses, recorded in the source tree.

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📄 License

MIT. See LICENSE.