chenxiachan/thoughtdag

**AI conversations that branch on an infinite canvas.**
Each exchange becomes a node. **Wires are the context.**
Explore a side question, connect useful paths, and choose what the model sees next.
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New in 0.5 · ThoughtDAG × Jev
**Bring relevant past conversations into the question you are asking now.**
- **Find earlier work.** The local index searches supported agent sessions and ThoughtDAG canvases. Topic dossiers collect decisions and open questions with links back to their sources.
- **Select what belongs.** The optional **Jev decision layer** helps identify topics and rank relevant excerpts. Your chosen language model develops the answer.
- **Check what comes back.** With recall enabled, the context panel lists the dossiers and excerpts added to a request. Inspect their sources or exclude individual items before continuing.
In a small relevance-selection pilot, Jev's median was **391 ms** versus **24,813 ms** for our GLM adapter. These are selection-stage timings, not end-to-end search or answer times.
What the timing measures
Six runs per engine over the same 14 synthetic excerpts. Median selection latency: **391 ms** for Jev-1.13 and **24,813 ms** for the GLM-5.3-Flash adapter with default reasoning. These are different inference paths, not a controlled ranking of model speed. Retrieval and answer generation are excluded; this does not measure whole-product speed or accuracy gains.
Without a decision model, recall falls back to rules. The **System 1 / System 2-style split** describes software roles here: quick relevance decisions, then answer and dossier generation. It is not a claim about human cognition.
Set up history and recall · Configure Jev
Find past context from the command line
Remember a file, a phrase or a URL, but not the session? Search local conversations and jump to the matching turn, without opening the desktop app.
For regular use: npm install -g thoughtdag. Run thoughtdag setup mcp to expose read-only history tools to your agent. Retrieve the relevant turns rather than replaying a whole session. CLI guide →
Inside DeepSeek Harness
Switch between chat and ThoughtDAG's graph inside the harness. Choose the context on the canvas; the harness runs the next turn.
In the DeepSeek Harness desktop app (0.2.0-rc.2 or later): open **Plugins**, search for dsh-thoughtdag, install it, and restart Harness. A release published within the last 24 hours needs its version named, dsh-thoughtdag@ (pnpm holds back such versions by default). For the web profile, from the command line:
The plugin bundles the canvas and memory layer. Requires Node 22.19+ (22.x) or 24+, and DeepSeek Harness 0.1.2-rc.1 or later. Plugin guide →
The desktop app
Read a document beside your conversation, branch from a passage, and connect the paths you want to explore together. Use your own model connection.
Or download for macOS, Windows or Linux, connect a model and open the example canvas.
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The one rule
> **Wires are the context.** Connect conversation paths to use them in the next question. Disconnect a path without deleting the work.
Branch from a detail, explore it separately, then connect the useful parts to a later question. The graph changes the model's input, not just the layout.
**Preview what the model will receive before sending.** Wires select the conversation paths; explicit references and enabled recall can add material alongside them. Context guide →
In action
✂️ Change the context, keep the exploration