dsh-time-context

dsh-time-context

Temporal grounding for DSH models. Every prompt assembly receives a dynamic runtime-context block with the exact current local time (date, clock, weekday, timezone, day-part) and the timestamp, day relation and recency gap of the user's previous message — including messages from earlier sessions and from before an app restart. A stable system-prompt section teaches the model to resolve relative time words ("last night", "this morning", "a while ago") against those facts instead of guessing.

Why a plugin, not a skill

A skill only works when the model remembers to invoke it, and an LLM has no clock of its own. This plugin registers into the native systemPrompt.context() / systemPrompt.section() registries, so the facts arrive automatically with every request, rendered inside the harness's own runtime-context snapshot (which supersedes older snapshots — no duplication).

Ground truth

• agent/inbox/inserted — live user messages entering an agent inbox.
• api-session/activity(sessionId, updatedAt) — durable user-message timestamps.
• Ledger at ~/.dsh/time-context/state.json survives restarts, so a morning session knows the last chat was last night.

Commands

• /time — print the exact block currently injected into prompts.

Install

Already wired into the desktop profile (dsh.profile.bundles). After cloning or editing, restart DSH Desktop so the bundle row loads.