askds - DeepSeek R1-powered test debugger

askds is a test debugger that helps diagnose test failures using DeepSeek R1. It runs your tests, analyzes failures, and suggests fixes.

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Installation

Make sure you have yek installed:

npm install -g askds

Basic Usage

Run tests with AI analysis:

export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="your-api-key"
askds npm test

Configuration

Set these environment variables to customize behavior:

| Variable | Description | Default | | ------------------ | ---------------- | ------- | | DEEPSEEK_API_KEY | Required API key | - |

Command line options:

| Flag | Description | Default | | ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | | --test-file-pattern | Glob pattern for test files | **/*.test.ts | | --source-file-pattern | Glob pattern for source files | src/**/*.ts | | --serialize | Repository serialization cmd | yek | | --debug | Enable debug mode | false | | --hide-ui | Hide UI | false | | --system-prompt | Custom system prompt file | - | | --timeout | Timeout for AI response | 120 | | --run | Run this command. when using run [test-command-and-args...] is ignored | false |

How It Works

1. Runs your test command
2. Analyzes failures + repo content using Deepseek R1
3. Prints the solution/suggestion

Examples

Basic Test Analysis

askai npm test

Experimental Fixing

askds --fix npm test

--fix uses DeepSeek R1 to fix the code by calling it again with original code and the fix returned from the first call.