dsh-rewind

August 16, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Claude Code-style /rewind for DSH Web, with git-aware file restore and vault recovery.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-rewind --registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

Restart DSH Web afterwards.

Commands

/rewind

  • Bare /rewind + Enter opens a popup listing the latest user messages; pick one to rewind.
  • /rewind <n> rewinds directly. 1 is the latest user message.
  • Rewind means: restore to before that user message was sent. The selected message is removed from the conversation and its original text is put back into the composer.

Scopes:

CommandConversationFiles
/rewind <n>revertedreverted
/rewind <n> --conversationreverteduntouched
/rewind <n> --codeuntouchedreverted

/unrewind

Pure bare command (no arguments). It undoes the latest /rewind and hard-overwrites the conversation from that rewind's vault backup. The recovery anchor is displayed as the original user prompt, not as a special marker.

File restore

  • A git snapshot (HEAD + uncommitted changes via git stash create) is taken before every real user message.

  • /rewind restores files to that snapshot with git reset --hard + git stash apply.

  • If a workspace is not a git repository (or has no commits yet), the plugin automatically runs:

    git init
git add -A
git -c user.name=dsh-rewind -c user.email=dsh-rewind@local commit --allow-empty -m "dsh-rewind baseline"

    before taking the first snapshot. Existing git repositories are never touched.

Limitations

  • Snapshots are keyed by user message, not by individual tool call.
  • The whole repository working tree is restored, including changes made outside DSH tools.
  • The snapshot does not include untracked files; newly created untracked files may remain after a rewind.
  • The workspace must be a git repository with at least one commit for file restore to work. The automatic baseline setup covers this for normal workspaces.

Model context

Rewind/unrewind cutover nodes are empty-content assistant/message replacement events. DSH's deriveEventMessage skips empty assistant messages, so no /rewind, /unrewind, vault-path, or marker text ever enters the model context.

Development

cd <plugin-source-dir>
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-rewind
dsh plugin --profile web add file:<plugin-source-dir>

License

MIT