dsh-noema

Why DSH Noema

DSH Noema connects DeepSeek Harness with Noema — a local-first, non-vector memory system for coding agents — so an Agent keeps durable knowledge across sessions instead of starting every conversation from zero.

🧠 Durable Recall

Memories persist as inspectable Markdown files under NOEMA_ROOT (default ~/.agent-memory/). noema_recall loads relevant context at the start of a session; noema_search, noema_browse, noema_catalog, and noema_recall_graph cover lookup, exploration, and auditing.

📥 Import From Other Tools

noema_import reads the memory files of ten other AI coding tools — Codex, Claude Code, opencode, Cursor, Grok, WorkBuddy, Antigravity, Trae, Qoder, Hermes — splits them into sections, and saves each as a durable memory. A content-keyed ledger deduplicates across runs and across tools that share files.

🛠️ Settings-Page Management

The Noema Memory settings page configures the server command, memory root, budgets, idle/call timeouts, and the guidance section — and a Manage memories card searches, browses, adds, reviews, and deletes stored memories directly.

🩺 Keep-Alive

The memory server stays up: idle timeout defaults to never, and a keep-alive loop restarts the noema-mcp child in the background when it crashes or exits, with a configurable check interval and restart backoff.

🔍 Smart Entity Extraction

Noema's extraction engine combines jieba word segmentation with high-precision signals — English proper nouns, CJK names and technical terms, quoted topics, and repetition — with stopword and path filters, so the PageIndex topic catalog stays clean.

⚡ Hot Reload

After the first boot, the plugin never needs a restart again: pnpm run build hot-reloads the host plugin through Cordis HMR, and ppnpm run build:client hot-swaps the browser bundle over the client-hmr SSE channel.

Install into DSH

dsh plugin --profile web add @zseven-w/dsh-noema@latest
dsh web

Or, for local development straight from the source tree:

dsh plugin --profile web add link:/path/to/dsh-noema
dsh web

The link: protocol symlinks the profile dependency to this repository, so rebuilds are visible immediately and Cordis HMR can watch the compiled output.

The plugin bundles the noema-mcp binary through per-platform optional npm packages. To build it yourself instead, run cargo build --release -p noema-mcp inside the bundled noema submodule, or point the Server command setting at any noema-mcp build.

Memory Tools

The model-facing tools mirror the Noema MCP surface:

Each tool returns a uniform envelope { ok, tool, text } where text carries the full server output.

Import memories from other tools

• The source argument selects one tool, or omit it to run every source enabled in settings.
• The path argument selects the workspace root for project-scoped files (defaults to the session workspace; workspace files only load when the Import workspace files setting is on).
• Imports are deduplicated through a ledger at $DSH_HOME/storages/dsh-noema-imports.json, keyed by file path + section content — when several tools share one project AGENTS.md, each section is imported exactly once. force: true re-imports everything.
• The settings page exposes per-source checkboxes, an import-on-startup toggle, a file-size cap, and an Import now button with a last-run summary.

Settings

Open Settings → Noema Memory:

The status card shows server health with restart/stop actions, and the import section manages the nine memory sources.

Hot reload

DSH's HMR machinery is fully usable once the plugin has been loaded once:

• Host plugin — enable the Cordis HMR entry in the profile patch with its watch root pointed at this package's lib/ output, and keep the link: dependency. Run pnpm run build and the running DSH reloads the plugin entry automatically (the Noema server child is restarted by the reload) — no server restart.

  # ~/.dsh/profiles/<profile>/cordis.patch.yml
  - id: hmr
    disabled: false
    config:
      root:
        - /path/to/dsh-noema/lib
  

• Client bundle — ppnpm run build:client rewrites lib/client.js; the client-hmr node half stat-polls every graph bundle (default 500ms) and broadcasts a rebuilt frame over the /plugins/events SSE channel, and the browser hot-swaps the module without a page refresh.

• Settings — every change made on the Noema Memory settings page applies live through the settings service.

The one thing hot-reload cannot do is load a plugin that was never in the booted tree: the running composition neither watches the profile patch layer (the web app does not wire watchUserPatches) nor exposes a loader mutation API (the plugin inventory RPC is read-only). A fresh plugin therefore needs exactly one server restart, after which the loop above is fully hot.

Develop

pnpm install
pnpm run build     # host tsc + client tsdown bundle
pnpm test          # build + node --test tests/

The e2e test runs against noema/target/debug/noema-mcp when present (it is skipped otherwise).

Ecosystem

• DSH Android — a live Android emulator or USB device inside the conversation, driven entirely through adb
• DSH Crew — dispatch work to DSH agents from Claude Code / Codex
• DSH iOS — a live iOS Simulator and a USB-connected iPhone, inside the conversation
• DSH OpenPencil — inspect and edit .op design documents inside a conversation

License

MIT