dsh-backstory
Explains code lines by tracing what they do and why they exist using Git history and agent session logs.
Install
No clear install command was found in the current repository evidence.
Plugin Overview & Capabilities
AI-assisted organization based on the public repository snapshot. The content must be grounded in source evidence and does not replace compatibility or security verification.
Key Capabilities
- Grounds code explanations in Git commits, commit trailers, and agent session provenance
- Provides a /backstory command and backstory / backstory_remember tool interfaces
- Maintains a drift-resilient ledger using line content hashes in .dsh/backstory.jsonl
- Integrates with Git via a prepare-commit-msg hook to embed DSH metadata trailers
- Caches line explanations incrementally in .dsh/backstory-notes.jsonl to reduce LLM calls
- Automatically scrubs common secrets and credentials before persisting prompts
- Offers dual operation as a DeepSeek Harness Cordis plugin and a standalone MCP server
Useful For
- Understanding the historical motivation and technical rationale behind unfamiliar code lines
- Tracking which agent session turn and user prompt authored specific code changes
- Reviewing Git commits and diffs with pre-cached, content-addressed line summaries
- Auditing agent-generated code modifications across collaborative multi-developer repositories
Who It Fits
- Developers navigating unfamiliar codebases
- Engineers using DeepSeek Harness or MCP-compatible coding assistants
- Teams auditing AI-assisted code contributions and historical lineage
Documented Limitations
- Whole-file reads in the backstory tool are bounded to 400 lines
- Secret redaction is based on regex pattern matching and is not an absolute security guarantee
- Live session provenance is exclusive to the DeepSeek Harness runtime and unavailable in standalone MCP mode outside the ledger
DSH Compatibility
Version-specific runtime evidence collected by DSH Plugin. A missing result means we have not tested that combination yet.
Security Signals
Objective signals discovered from package metadata and source inspection. These are not a guarantee that a plugin is safe.
package.json declares 1 runtime, 2 development, 3 peer, and 0 optional dependencies.
package.json declares DSH bundle metadata.
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT.
A root package.json was captured and can be inspected by the registry.
Public GitHub source metadata is available for this registry snapshot.
Source & Registry Notes
Public provenance, Registry classification, and the latest source check for this entry, kept separate from runtime verification.
- Source repository
- MeghanBao/dsh-backstory
- Registry source
- GitHub · dsh-plugin topic
- Registry classification
- Plugin
- Source checked
- 280c0d7 · 2026-09-13
This project is independently indexed from public source information. DSH Plugin is not affiliated with DeepSeek or the plugin author. Always check the author repository before installation.
Repository Activity
- GitHub stars
- 2GitHub stars
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit
- 2026-08-29
- Last release
- No release detected
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