dsh-wildmon

dsh-wildmon

Your real work is the tall grass — turns, tools and errors rustle it; wild critters pop out, you throw balls, you fill the dex.

Write code and the forge stirs; read docs and shadows cross the archive; ship errors daily — congratulations, the rare species of Glitch Ridge only trust your kind. And one legendary answers nothing but a deep-night error.

中文 | English

野生的 绒电鼠 Volttuft 出现了！◈ 少见 · 常野原
(A wild Volttuft appeared! Uncommon · Field)

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球 ×9 —— /mon throw to throw · /mon run to retreat

30 seconds to the grass

dsh plugin --profile web add github:swaylq/dsh-wildmon
# restart dsh, then in any session:
/mon start

Pick one of three starter-trio critters, take 8 balls, then just work. Every turn, message, tool call and error has a chance to rustle the grass; the longer nothing shows, the higher the odds (a pity mechanic). /mon to check — a wild one waits 10 minutes; /mon throw to catch, and rarer species are harder, every miss improves your next throw, but it may also bolt.

Fill the 28-slot dex, walk with a team of six: your first six catches auto-join, slot 1's aura raises its home habitat's encounter rate ×1.5, rearrange with /mon swap. Shinies exist, at 1/64.

Habitats: how you work decides who you meet

Plus the starter trio (the two you didn't pick roam the field) and three legendaries: one surfaces every 250 turns; one only answers a deep-night error; the last only visits collectors who completed the first 25 slots. The dex offers only rumors about them.

Ball economy: 8 to start, +1 per finished turn (cap 30), and catching a species you already own trades the catch back for 2 balls — duplicate encounters are never a loss.

Why this exists

The DSH pet lane is busy: twenty-plus desk pets are state mirrors (agent thinks, pet does a thinking animation), and dsh-digipet added raising (one pet eats your work and evolves).

Collecting was still an empty slot: no encounters, no catching, no "looking forward to the next error because the dex wants it." As of 2026-08, searching the dsh-plugin topic (2,800+ repos) and all four curated awesome lists for pokemon / pokedex / catching / gacha returns zero hits. dsh-wildmon fills that slot — the complete collect-em-all loop (encounter → catch → dex → team) mounted on your actual workflow.

It complements digipet rather than replacing it: digipet is depth with one creature, wildmon is breadth across many. Both install side by side (different command, different save file). If /mon collides with another plugin, override config.command in your profile patch.

Commands

How it works

The whole plugin is four event taps and one slash command; the taps only roll dice:

On top: +0.8% per quiet event (capped at +25%), lead's home habitat ×1.5, and at night a 70% roll swaps in the night pool. Catch odds = rarity base (65% / 45% / 28% / 12%) + 12% per prior miss, capped at 95%; after a miss the wild one may flee at a rarity-scaled rate. Every number lives as a named constant at the top of core.js.

The save lives at $DSH_HOME/wildmon/state.json, written the way the official JSON storage backend writes: temp file + fsync + atomic rename, throttled to one write per 1.5 s no matter how busy the agent is.

The invariant that matters: model-visible means logged — and this plugin simply shows the model nothing. No tool registration (tool schemas are a per-request token tax), no agent.inject(), no session events. The whole game lives in command result cards and contributes zero bytes to every model request.

Trust stance

• Reads: only its own save file. Never your code, never conversation content — the listeners use only what kind of thing happened; message and tool payloads never touch the save.
• Writes: only $DSH_HOME/wildmon/state.json.
• Network: none.
• Model-visible surface: none. Zero token cost; KV cache untouched.
• Randomness: affects the game only. The listeners never veto, rewrite or delay real work (all hooks are notification-mode events).
• Blast radius: every listener is wrapped in try/catch and the command handler has its own catch — a collapsing grassland cannot land on your work.

Known limits

• One dex per DSH home; all profiles, sessions and subagents on the machine share (and rustle) the same grass — feature and limit at once.
• Concurrent dsh processes: last writer wins, same single-process stance as the official JSON backend.
• Encounters don't notify you (the price of a zero model-visible surface) — you check with /mon; the wild ones wait 10 minutes and misses land in the story log.
• Tool routing is a name-regex heuristic; oddly named third-party tools count as field.
• The night window is machine-local 00:00–05:59; travel across time zones and the nocturnals jet-lag with you.
• Rates and thresholds are not configurable: changed numbers would leave the dex and the save with no common language.

Verification record

Verified for real on dsh 0.1.0-rc.6 (macOS, web profile):

1. Installed with dsh plugin --profile web add <this repo>; the wildmon layer shows in --dump-config;
2. dsh web boots clean;
3. In a real browser, /mon start picks a partner and the send-off card renders (monospace, newlines kept);
4. Six plain messages without an API key — every model request fails, but inbox/claimed and agent/error are real events: the save recorded messages:6, mishaps:6, and with pity at 10 the 6th round really spawned a Shardtoad (error event → glitch ridge, matching the table);
5. /mon throw missed once (the card showed the throw-bonus note), caught on the second — party 2/6, dex 2/28, balls ×6 = 8 − 2 throws; the save reconciles line by line with the observed events;
6. Observed caveat: on rc.6, MISSING_CREDENTIAL failure rounds do not fire agent/turn-stopping, so the per-turn ball refill wasn't observable on a keyless machine (it needs turns that complete); that path is covered by unit tests;
7. 61 unit/integration tests (node --test) covering pure logic, rendering, the store and a fake-ctx integration.

Homage and boundaries

The design pays homage to the collect-em-all genre's traditions (grass encounters, the three-shake catch, a dex, a starter trio, an electric rodent, shinies). Pokémon is a trademark of Nintendo / Creatures / Game Freak; this project is not affiliated with them in any way. All 28 species names, ASCII art and text are original; no official names, characters or assets appear. The ball is just a ball that wobbles — that belongs to everyone who loves collecting things.

License

MIT