dsh-context: A Context Insight Panel Plugin for DeepSeek Harness
bowenliang123/dsh-context
A DSH plugin adding a Context Insight panel to the web UI, visualizing what the model's context window is made of and how it evolves.
Make the DeepSeek Harness context window visible with live composition, history, and compaction events.
dsh plugin --profile web add github:bowenliang123/dsh-context- Category
- UI & Experience
- Platform
- DSH-Plugin
- Author
- bowenliang123
- Distribution
- Plugin
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dsh-context Repo Summary
dsh-context is a DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin for context insight dashboards, maintained by bowenliang123 under the Apache-2.0 license. It answers the core question: "What is the model's context window actually made of, and how does it evolve?" The plugin adds a Context tab to the web UI, providing a live, visual breakdown of context composition, per-request history, compactions, prunes, injections, and model switches. Installation is a single command with no build step or restart required, and it works in any session.
What core features does the dsh-context DSH plugin support?
The plugin offers five visualization modules: Context stats (session overview with turns, steps, compaction/prune recycled amounts, injection counts, model switches, and estimated total tokens compared to provider-reported actuals); Current composition (a six-color stacked bar scaled against the model's full context window, with a gray track for remaining headroom, breaking down system prompt, tool schemas, user messages, injected context, assistant replies, and tool results, plus the top-5 most expensive tool schemas); History (one stacked bar per model request, with Turn/Step granularity toggle, horizontal scrolling, hover tooltips, click-to-pin full breakdown, and ✂ markers for compaction/pruning); Context events (every compaction, tool-output prune, skill/plugin injection, and model switch with token delta, turn/step attribution, and timestamp); and Messages (the exact model-visible message list, newest first, with per-message token cost).
How do I install dsh-context?
Run the following command from any DeepSeek Harness installation:
dsh plugin --profile web add github:bowenliang123/dsh-context
Then start the web UI with dsh web, open any session, and click the Context tab. No build step or restart is needed.
How does dsh-context help diagnose context bloat?
When a conversation starts degrading, the Current composition panel quickly reveals which part consumed the budget—for example, an oversized tool schema or excessive injected content. The History panel shows how the window grows and gets compacted: the README demonstrates a real session that grew to ~563k tokens across 48 turns, then a single compaction recycled −535.5k, and the conversation continued from a fresh, small window. This turns context management from a black box into a diagnosable process.
What about dsh-context's release process and license?
Releases are cut by tagging (git tag vX.Y.Z), and a GitHub Actions workflow automatically builds, tests, and publishes the package to npm via npm Trusted Publishing (OIDC), with no long-lived token and provenance included. The project is licensed under Apache-2.0, last updated in 2026-08, and currently has 46 stars.