
dsh-md-notes
DSH third-party plugin (bundle): MD Notes Manager
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Overview
A note-taking plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH). It provides a full MD notes manager and MD notes editor, letting you quickly capture conversation content into notes. Notes can be maintained by syncing to a Git repository.
Who it's for: DSH web users who want local, file-based notes (no database, no cloud) — capture a conversation into a note with one click, keep editing the .md anywhere, and back up / sync with a Git repository.
Current features:
- Sidebar notes entry → full-screen notes manager: per-workspace note list (grouped, collapsible), markdown edit/preview, save, delete (in-page confirm), create with one click.
- Note search: a search box in the manager's top bar scans every workspace — titles and bodies (space-separated keywords, AND, case-insensitive); results are grouped by workspace with highlighted matched lines, and clicking a hit opens the note in the editor on that line with the keyword selected.
- Assistant-message action (next to copy) → pick or create a note and append that conversation (user question + answer) to it instantly — the text is captured from the conversation itself, so there's no waiting; section labels are localized (reasoning is not captured — only the final answer).
- Reference notes in chat (
@): type@to pick notes (cross-workspace included); on send the plugin's backend injects each note's content into the model context, so the model can cite it without being asked to read files. - Git sync (optional, URL-driven): shared repo mode (one repo for all workspaces, per-workspace folders) or own repos mode (per workspace: URL + branch + subpath). Push = mirror-sync (deletions included), Update = pull with three-way conflict confirmation, auto-pull on open, merge-remote-and-retry. Each workspace shows a Git sync card in the manager: "Synced" / "N unpushed" status, plus a hint when the remote has new commits.
- Note write mutex: writes to the same note are locked across sessions — the sidebar entry, picker and manager stay in sync until the write finishes.
- Settings panel (dsh Settings → MD Notes): mode, repo URL/branch/subpath, auto-pull, commit author — with dsh-styled form controls.
- Theme & i18n: token-based colors (light/dark), UI copy follows dsh's language (Chinese / English), error messages localized.
- Update notifications: a yellow "Update available" tag appears when a newer npm version exists.
On the roadmap (see docs/TODO.md): visual Git conflict rendering & resolution, note capability enhancements (TOC / wiki links & backlinks), and interaction UX polish (dirty-editor reminders, save shortcut, etc.).
Compatibility
dsh iterates fast and provides no backward compatibility, so a fixed dsh version only matches fixed plugin versions. Verified combinations are listed below (full adaptation history in docs/compatibility.md):
| Plugin version | dsh version | Verified on |
|---|---|---|
| 0.12.0 | 0.1.3-alpha.2 | 2026-09-07 |
| 0.11.0 | 0.1.3-alpha.2 | 2026-09-07 |
| 0.10.1 | 0.1.3-alpha.2 | 2026-09-07 |
The plugin is not pinned to a specific mainline commit; pin the plugin version at install time if you need a fixed combination (e.g. dsh plugin --profile web add [email protected]). Runtime dependencies (@deepseek-ai/*, react) are declared as optional peer dependencies and resolve from the dsh installation.
Install / Uninstall
Prerequisites: dsh CLI installed, target profile is web.
Install from npm (recommended):
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-md-notesThen restart dsh web (bundle layer and client package metadata are cached in the process; a restart is required for changes to take effect).
Upgrade:
dsh plugin --profile web update dsh-md-notesA restart of dsh web is required for it to take effect.
Uninstall:
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-md-notesFor development/debugging from source: run dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-md-notesfrom the parent directory of the plugin project.
Quick start
- Install the plugin (above), restart dsh web.
- Create a note: click the notes entry at the bottom of the sidebar (above Settings) → click + on a workspace row → in the dialog enter a title (default "Untitled note ") and an optional file name → type in the editor → Save.
- Capture a conversation: below any assistant answer, click the notes icon (next to copy) → pick a target note (or create one on the spot) → Write to note. The user question + answer are appended to the note as a " -- " section.
- Reference a note: type
@in the chat input to pick a note (cross-workspace included); on send the note's content enters the model context automatically.
Note files live in each workspace's .dsh-notes/ directory (<workspace>/.dsh-notes); you can open and edit them directly with any editor. Git sync is optional — point the plugin at a repo URL and it keeps notes in sync (shared repo or per-workspace repo).
For everything the plugin can do — the notes manager, capturing conversations, Git sync (shared / per-workspace repos), pushing/updating, conflict handling, and the settings panel — see the User Guide.
Configuration
All options are plugin Config keys, overridable in the profile's cordis.patch.yml (a patch replaces the whole config of the row):
- id: md-notes
config:
gitMode: 'off' # 'off' | 'shared' | 'own'
gitAutoPull: true # pull remote before opening a noteThe HTTP API prefix is fixed at /plugins/md-notes (the browser frontend hardcodes the same constant, so it is intentionally not configurable).
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
gitMode | 'off' | Git sync mode: 'off' off / 'shared' shared repo / 'own' per-workspace repos. |
gitAutoPull | true | Pull the remote before opening a note. |
checkUpdate | true | Let the backend query registry.npmjs.org for a newer plugin version; false keeps it fully offline. |
There are no environment variables and no secrets in this plugin's configuration.
Permissions & data
- Filesystem: reads and writes notes as plain
.mdfiles (plus ameta.jsonsidecar) under each workspace's.dsh-notesdirectory (notes are workspace-bound); git operations touch only the plugin-managed clones under$DSH_HOME/md-notes-repos/. - Network: a loopback HTTP API (
POST <route>, browser ↔ local dsh server) and the icon served from the same origin; the only other outbound call is the optional npm update check (registry.npmjs.org, fully off withcheckUpdate: false). No telemetry, no other external calls. - Credentials: none collected or transmitted.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| Changes don't appear after install/upgrade | Restart dsh web — bundle layer and client metadata are cached in the process. |
| Icon looks stale | Hard-refresh the page; the icon is served with no-cache and reflects assets/dsh-md-notes.svg on every request. |
| Plugin doesn't load | Verify the layer: dsh --profile web --dump-config and look for the md-notes row. |
Installed from git and add failed | pnpm ≥10 blocks build scripts by default; add the printed package key under allowBuilds in the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml, then re-run add. |
| Notes can't be created/saved | Make sure the workspace's .dsh-notes points to an existing writable directory (create a workspace in the dsh sidebar first). |
| Something feels slow | Grab request timings with the browser probe in docs/debug.md — tells queueing vs server time in seconds. |
Rollback: dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-md-notes restores the previous state (notes files are untouched).
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
Repository structure
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
src/ | Source code (Node backend + browser frontend) |
src/host/ | Notes domain (notes.ts) + Git (git.ts) + HTTP layer (http.ts) + context injection (context-inject.ts) + write mutex (keyed-lock.ts) |
src/client/ | Browser frontend: entry (index.ts) + feature modules under features/ (one directory per feature; when one outgrows a single file it splits out feature-private components/ and hooks/ subdirectories — see NotesManager/ for the pattern, docs/architecture.md) |
src/client/features/locales/ | zh/en UI dictionaries (dsh locale namespace md-notes) |
assets/ | Plugin icon (SVG source + PNG) |
docs/ | Docs: usage.md/usage.zh.md (user guide), features.md (functional), architecture.md, context.md (@ references), git.md (Git sync), ai-conflict.md (AI conflict resolution), state.md / write-lock.md (state & write-mutex design), manager-redesign.md (manager redesign), search.md (note search design), debug.md (performance), compatibility.md / compatibility.zh.md (dsh ↔ plugin version compatibility matrix, en/zh), TODO.md |
scripts/ | Dev tooling (e.g. link-deps.mjs) |
lib/ | Build output (gitignored; what npm publishes) |
License & security
Licensed under the MIT License (see LICENSE).
Security issues: please report them privately via the repository's Security Advisory rather than a public issue, so they can be addressed before disclosure.