What it is

Mimir is a single npm package (dsh-mimir) that plugs into dsh and gives you:

• Eight-view web workbench (sidebar toggle → overlay, dark/light, 中/EN): Overview pipeline & stats · Paper Overleaf-style LaTeX studio (edit → compile → PDF preview, one-click AI fix) · Library arXiv + web search, AI relevance scoring, fullscreen PDF reader · Experiments metric charts, one-click paper figures · Figures upload/organize/insert into the paper · Meetings one-click group-meeting PPT (real paper figures + optional AI illustrations) · Servers GPU fleet probes + remote jobs · Ledger growth-record timeline + one-click progress report
• Agent tools & slash commands: /research-idea /research-plan /research-review /paper-write /paper-compile, plus arxiv_search, web_search, wiki_note, figure_save, latex_compile, meeting_deck
• Nine bundled research skills (literature review, novelty check, experiment planning, citation audit, rebuttal…) that teach the agent the workflow — no setup needed

Overview	Paper	Library	Experiments

Figures	Meetings	Servers	Ledger

▶ Full MP4 demo (22 MB)

Quickstart

Prerequisites: Node.js ≥ 22, the dsh CLI (npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh), and a DEEPSEEK_API_KEY for agent sessions.

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-mimir@latest   # installs and self-activates
dsh web                                          # then open http://127.0.0.1:3080

Got an old version (e.g. 0.11.x/0.12.x)? dsh's plugin store uses pnpm, which holds back freshly published releases by default. Pin the exact version instead: dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-mimir && dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-mimir@0.14.1

Click Mimir in the sidebar footer. The wiki persists at ~/.dsh/storages/research_wiki.json; artifacts land under ./.research.

Optional capabilities:

• Paper compilation — install a LaTeX engine (brew install tectonic is easiest), or set latex.engine to a binary path
• Web search — the sxng CLI ships with the package; give it a SearXNG server with one command (Docker-free, local venv):

  bash scripts/setup-web-search.sh
  

• Zotero — set zotero.apiKey / zotero.userId in the plugin config (keys at zotero.org/settings/keys)

Configuration

All keys are optional; set them in the profile's cordis.patch.yml (full commented example: examples/mimir-agent/cordis.yml).

Key	Default	Meaning
workspaceDir	.research	Research workspace root (artifacts, backups)
latex.engine	auto	latexmk / tectonic probe, or absolute binary path
search.command	auto	Web search: auto uses sxng from PATH or the bundled copy
reviewer.maxRounds	3	Per-project review-round budget
backup.enabled / intervalMinutes / keep	true / 60 / 24	Scheduled wiki snapshots
skills.enabled	true	Register the nine bundled research skills

Troubleshooting

• Plugin not found — dsh resolves plugin names from the profile directory; install with dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-mimir@latest, not from your cwd.
• LaTeX engine not found — brew install tectonic, or point latex.engine at an absolute path. First tectonic compile downloads packages; raise latex.timeoutMs if it times out.
• arXiv fails — export HTTPS_PROXY before starting dsh when behind a proxy.
• Web search unavailable — run bash scripts/setup-web-search.sh (local SearXNG), or sxng init against your own instance, then restart dsh.

Changelog

• Unreleased (dev) — Ledger view (成长时间线 + 进展报告) by @EriXPsy (#115); SearXNG web search by @hkwuks (#114); bundled sxng-cli + one-command SearXNG setup; Meetings AI illustrations; self-activating dsh.bundle
• 0.13.0 — figure-by-figure meeting decks from real paper PDFs, meeting_deck agent tool, academic-Group-meeting-skills pipeline integration
• 0.12.0 — Meetings tab (group-meeting PPT), research-meeting-deck skill
• 0.11.0 — single-package install: the workbench ships inside dsh-mimir itself
• 0.10.0 — venue templates (CVPR/NeurIPS/ACL/IEEE/ACM…), custom kit upload, format-to-venue
• 0.9.0 — per-project literature, AI relevance scoring, figure rename/caption + figure_organize, fullscreen PDF reader
• 0.8.x — bundled research skills; collapsible subscriptions & project list
• 0.7.0 — Zotero integration; Linear-style visual overhaul
• Earlier — arXiv subscriptions, paper snapshots (diff/revert), metric→figure generation, related-work drafts, job writeback

Contributing

Branch off main (feature/<name> / fix/<name>), keep pnpm run build && pnpm test && pnpm run typecheck green, and open a PR — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Please merge PRs with a merge commit (not squash) so contributor authorship shows up on the contributors graph.

Contributors so far: @EriXPsy (Ledger view) · @hkwuks (SearXNG web search, sxng CLI)

Community

Questions, ideas, or show-and-tell — join the WeChat group (QR updated when it expires):

Acknowledgments

• Workflow inspiration: ARIS / Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
• Built on the DeepSeek Harness plugin platform

License

MIT