dsh-claude-mem

A DeepSeek Harness plugin that integrates claude-mem: query persisted cross-session memory, inject per-project context at session start, save manual memories, and drive session summarization — all through a local claude-mem worker's HTTP API.

It registers the model-facing tools mem_search, mem_timeline, mem_get_observations, mem_save, and mem_context, the mem-search skill, and the lifecycle hooks (agent/session-start context injection, optional tools/post-execute ingestion, optional agent/turn-stopping summarization). It is a single self-contained package with no monorepo-only dependencies.

Install

One-liner with npx (no global install — npx fetches the dsh launcher and
dsh plugin forwards add to pnpm in the target profile):

npx -y @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile demo add @bleed00/dsh-claude-mem

If you already have dsh on PATH, the same command without npx:

dsh plugin --profile demo add @bleed00/dsh-claude-mem

npm (recommended — ships prebuilt lib/, no build permission needed):

npx -y @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile demo add @bleed00/dsh-claude-mem

GitHub (sources; runs a prepare build on first install):

npx -y @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile demo add github:Bleed00/dsh-claude-mem

A GitHub install fetches sources, not build output, so pnpm runs this package's prepare script to build from src/. pnpm ≥10 refuses to run a git dependency's prepare until it is allowlisted; the first add fails and points at the fix — copy the exact package key pnpm printed into the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml:

allowBuilds:
  '@bleed00/dsh-claude-mem': true

then re-run the add. Treat that allowance as permission to run this package's code at install time; pin a commit for reproducible installs:

dsh plugin --profile demo add github:Bleed00/dsh-claude-mem#<sha>

Local checkout:

dsh plugin --profile demo add ./dsh-claude-mem

Requirements

• A DeepSeek Harness installation with dsh on PATH.
• The claude-mem worker already running on its default port (http://127.0.0.1:37700). Override with the baseUrl config or the DSH_MEM_BASE_URL environment variable.

Config

Field	Default	Description
baseUrl	http://127.0.0.1:<37700 + uid % 100>	Worker base URL.
timeoutMs	30000	Per-request timeout (ms).
dedupe	true	Collapse duplicate observations in query results (content fingerprint, never identity).
platformSource	unset	Optional platform filter; omitted = search all memory.
project	unset	Project name; defaults to the session cwd basename.
injectContext	true	Inject session-start context.
ingest	false	Save observed tool results as memories.
summarize	false	Summarize sessions on turn stop.
toolFilter.names	read, write, edit, bash	Tools observed when ingest is true.

Platform scoping is a signal, never a restriction: default requests are unfiltered, and platformSource only adds an opt-in filter.

Duplicate handling

The worker can persist the same observation many times (a boilerplate "session
initiated" record, or a re-run tool result) — identical content, different id.
With dedupe: true (the default), query results collapse those copies: an
observation's content fingerprint is built from title + subtitle +
text + narrative + facts (normalized), so two entries that merely share a
generated title but differ in narrative are kept. The first copy (lowest id)
is retained. Structured results (mem_get_observations) are deduplicated by
fingerprint; rendered index/text results are deduplicated by exact rendered
row. Set dedupe: false to see the raw, unfiltered results.

Example override in the profile's cordis.patch.yml

- id: claude-mem
  config:
    baseUrl: http://127.0.0.1:37700
    platformSource: dsh
    ingest: true
    summarize: true

Tools

Tool	Purpose
mem_search	Search memory; returns an index (ids, titles, types).
mem_timeline	Get context around one observation.
mem_get_observations	Fetch full details for ids.
mem_save	Save one manual memory.
mem_context	Render the worker's session-start context text.

The mem-search skill teaches the model the search → filter → fetch workflow that keeps token usage low.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm run build   # tsc + tsdown → lib/index.js
pnpm test

The package targets Node ≥ 20.12, TypeScript 6.0, and is authored against the @deepseek-ai/* framework packages (cordis, schemastery, dsh-tools, dsh-llm, dsh-skill, dsh-agent).

License

Apache-2.0 © Bleed00