dsh-factory turns the ordinary DSH Session workflow into a durable local task factory. People can capture work from New Session, models can build dependency graphs directly, and a lease-elected scheduler runs eligible nodes through native DSH Agents without introducing a second Agent loop, tool registry, or conversation store.

Why Factory?

How it fits

flowchart LR
  Human[Human or model] --> Intake[New Session + Factory tools]
  Intake --> Graph[(Task and flow graph)]
  Graph --> Scheduler[Lease-elected scheduler]
  Scheduler --> Lanes[Serialized checkout lanes]
  Lanes --> Agents[DSH Agents]
  Agents --> Sessions[(Durable Sessions)]
  Sessions --> Triage[Triage + artifacts]
  Sessions --> Graph

Factory is a control plane over DSH, not a replacement for it. Factory SQLite owns projects, tasks, flows, schedules, runs, and review state. DSH remains authoritative for Agent execution, model-visible messages, pending prompt order, tools, attachments, Sessions, and worktree safety.

The workflow

1. Capture — send normally to create a live Session, choose Run later for a draft task, or place the prompt into a new or existing flow.
2. Compose — add searchable dependencies, parallel branches, joins, finalizers, labels, priorities, schedules, and model overrides.
3. Run — the scheduler claims ready work, resolves a safe checkout lane, starts a DSH Agent, and logs the assignment with dependency and mutation-ledger context.
4. Collaborate — Queue and Steer post through the Agent inbox; pending rows stay editable and reorderable until claimed.
5. Finish — a missing report receives one logged next-step reminder; factory_finish is followed by one concise user-facing result and settles only after the Session log is flushed.
6. Review — Triage preserves each terminal occurrence, including recurring runs, receipts, summaries, failures, and .artifacts/ media.

Packages

Install

Monotykamary DSH flavor

Factory ships in the custom Web profile beside Fabric and Fovea:

npm install --global @monotykamary/dsh@latest
dsh --profile web

Add to another compatible profile

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-factory@latest

Restart the selected profile after installation. Factory appears as an additive Sidebar application and stores its SQLite database under the DSH home.

git clone https://github.com/monotykamary/dsh-factory.git
cd dsh-factory
pnpm install
pnpm run check
pnpm run install:local -- --profile web --skip-build

Safety model

A checkout is one serialized writer lane. Factory never force-removes a worktree, never deletes dirty work, and never releases a lane while shared presence reports a live Session. It refuses primary and unmanaged checkout removal. Publishing remains an explicit task, and cleanup cannot rewrite a flow outcome.

Recurring tasks return to Scheduled after every occurrence and retain each success or failure in Triage. Scheduler takeover recovers only scheduler-owned dispatches, so observation of an external Session cannot create a duplicate run.

Browser experience

Work shows Emerging work first and then graph-ordered flows. Task detail combines properties, dependencies, schedule, model selection, run output, discussion, mutation receipts, and review media. Linked Sessions can be settled or archived; cancelled tasks that never acquired a Session can be permanently deleted after explicit acknowledgement. Relationship rails move from neutral pending nodes to a blue running spinner, green completion check, or red abrupt-failure cross.

Pasted images reuse the DSH attachment gallery and fullscreen lightbox. Task detail and exact-run Triage discover images and videos in the owning checkout's .artifacts/ directory and open one keyboard-accessible carousel without copying media into Factory state.

Development

Requirements: Node.js ^22.19.0 || >=24 and pnpm 11.

pnpm install
pnpm run check

pnpm run check also packs all eight packages and installs them with standard npm, without legacy peer mode. Browser-facing changes additionally run pnpm run test:e2e against an assembled Factory Web profile. Local captures belong under .artifacts/screenshots/ and are excluded from Git and npm.

See docs/architecture.md for durable authority, intake, metadata, scheduling, execution, Triage, cleanup, and browser-state ownership.