Better Dsh — Dashr

Dashr (/ˈdæʃ.ɚ/) makes your native dsh ready for serious coding.

Why

• $(\text{Tools} \times \text{URL schemas})^{\text{REPL}}$ - a concise, cognitively frictionless setup delivering maximal capacity.
• Universal Tools - read, write, grep, glob.
• URL schemas - skill://, ctx://, agent://, dvc://, dsh://, an intuitive, unified interface for runtime resources.
• Persistent REPL Kernel - IPython (compared with the native ephemeral TS REPL).
• (30+ tools × 5 schemas) ^ REPL free composition = <∞>
• Context as Variables - full session transcripts are accessible as variables, even cross compactions.
• Full Context Revive — full-namespace dill snapshots save and restore kernel state across restarts.

One eval call — the formula made concrete:

{ "cell": "
  scout = await agent('agent://ralph', 'graph-analyze this codebase; scout the breaking points to add tests')
  ui    = await read('dvc://browser/127.0.0.1:3080')   # the live web UI as a device
  me    = await read('ctx://transcript')               # this session, as a variable
", "description": "one cell: agents × devices × session" }

✨ Other Features

• Agent swarm as resources — sub-agents, workflows, and Ralph loops are first-class calls (subagent, workflow, ralph, message).
• KeepRecency context compactions - preserve recent relevancy. Resets the default 80% compaction threshold to 50% as "usable" context max.
• A simplistic global LLM-endpoint failover, absent in the native build (a safeguard for long-range, unattended tasks).
• keeps the system prompt to ~3–4K tokens.
• dvc://browser - browser use ready.
• All host plane wired — you do not even see any difference from your dsh UI; it just silently fuels up the dsh base.
• iOS PWA Ready - minor UI twists that make it a decent PWA for iOS Add to Home Screen.

Recommended Companion Plugin(s)

• dsh-better-sidebar
• corti multi-agent memory plugin

⚡ Quick Install

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

📚 Inspiration & Attribution

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

• BetterEdit (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.

📄 License

MIT. See LICENSE.