dsh-plugin-git-status

A DeepSeek Harness plugin that shows the git status of the current workspace. It is read-only: it never creates, modifies, or deletes any file.

• Git status panel — a small chip in the composer tool row, to the left of the model selector. It shows the branch name, a clean/dirty summary, and a manual refresh button. When the working tree has changes, the change count is clickable and expands into a grouped file list (conflicted / staged / unstaged / untracked) with porcelain status codes and rename origins. The panel refreshes every 30 seconds and hides entirely when the workspace is not a git repository.
• git_status model tool — callable through the normal tool pipeline. Returns structured JSON with the branch, commits ahead/behind upstream, grouped change counts, the file list, and the most recent commit. It accepts an optional cwd; when omitted it inspects the current session workspace.

Screenshots

Clean workspace — the chip shows the branch and a green "✓ clean" summary:

Workspace with changes — the change count is a clickable text that opens the grouped file list:

Workspace with changes, file list expanded — grouped by conflicted / staged / unstaged / untracked; each row shows the porcelain status code, the path, and the original path for renames:

Supported Harness version

0.2.0-rc.2 (the plugin peer-depends on the same @deepseek-ai/* package versions, cordis ^4.0.4 and schemastery ^3.18.4). For older Harness releases use plugin 0.5.0 (0.1.2-alpha.4), 0.4.0 (0.1.1-rc.1) or 0.3.0 (0.1.0-rc.7).

Install

dsh plugin --profile <name> add dsh-plugin-git-status

If the CLI is not installed globally:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile <name> add dsh-plugin-git-status

Replace <name> with your profile name (e.g. web). Restart the Harness process after installing, then hard-refresh the browser page.

For a reproducible install, pin a commit (replace the example with the real commit SHA):

dsh plugin --profile <name> add github:<owner>/dsh-plugin-git-status#0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef

Configuration

The panel auto-refresh cadence is configurable at runtime from the browser: open the Plugins panel, select the dsh-plugin-git-status bundle, and use the Git status form on its page (refreshIntervalMs). The field is a volatile Host configuration value: a save is written to the profile's configuration document and committed into the running plugin, so the panel picks the new cadence up without a page reload. On a deployment whose profile does not expose plugin configuration, the form is not rendered at all.

It can also be set through the plugin's Cordis row. Add a config block for the dsh-plugin-git-status row in your profile's cordis.patch.yml:

- id: dsh-plugin-git-status
  name: dsh-plugin-git-status
  config:
    refreshIntervalMs: 60000

• refreshIntervalMs — milliseconds between automatic refreshes (default 30000, upper bound 3600000). Set it to 0 to disable auto-refresh entirely; the panel then only updates on the manual refresh button or when the workspace changes.
• Auto-refresh is also paused while the browser tab is hidden, and resumes (with an immediate refresh) when the tab becomes visible again.

Update / remove

Use the CLI's update and remove commands:

dsh plugin --profile <name> remove dsh-plugin-git-status
dsh plugin --profile <name> add dsh-plugin-git-status

Data storage

The plugin stores nothing. Git status is computed on demand by running read-only git status / git log commands in the inspected directory.

Known limitations

• The panel is session-scoped and reflects the active session's workspace. If the session has no workspace directory, the panel is not shown.
• Paths with two or more consecutive spaces are read from git status -z, so they are preserved exactly.
• The panel does not offer inline file operations; it only reports status.

Changelog

Notable changes per release are documented in CHANGELOG.md.

Development

npm install
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build

npm run build emits lib/index.js (Host), lib/typert.js (Remote descriptor) and lib/client.js (browser bundle). npm test covers the pure git parser, the Host half on a real Cordis context, the browser half's slot and Remote wiring, and the Typert wire contract — the last one runs the real typert-loader validator and Typert registry, so a codec that loses its create() factory fails here instead of at plugin mount.