Why another board — and why it should live in git

If delivery state lives only in Slack threads and a SaaS board nobody opens, humans and coding agents drift. Who owns the card? What does "done" mean? What shipped this week?

dsh-delivery-board keeps stages, owners, handoffs, soft WIP hints, a weekly Markdown client report, and a local kanban + calendar Timeline in one in-repo file (delivery.json by default). Views are projections of that same state — reviewable in PRs, offline-friendly, and intentionally not a Jira/Linear replacement.

This post is about v0.2.0: the board now runs as a standalone CLI. You do not need DeepSeek Harness (dsh) installed. (The optional DSH plugin path still works unchanged.)

Distinct from the earlier Dev.to post that introduced the project mainly as a DSH plugin. Here the headline is: CLI-first, works alone.

30-second standalone quickstart

npx github:jerryxff26-alt/dsh-delivery-board init '{"customer":"ACME","template":"governance"}' npx github:jerryxff26-alt/dsh-delivery-board card '{"title":"API integration","stage":"analyze","owner":"Ada"}' npx github:jerryxff26-alt/dsh-delivery-board open # loopback board + Timeline; Ctrl+C to stop npx github:jerryxff26-alt/dsh-delivery-board weekly

If/when the package is on the npm registry under dsh-delivery-board, the same commands work as npx dsh-delivery-board …. Until then, the GitHub install string above is the reliable path.

What you get

Stage pipeline + cards — owner, due date, acceptance criteria, Definition of Done
Handoff audit — stage moves record who handed what to whom
Weekly Markdown report — pipeline snapshot, shipped this week, handoffs, open/resolved risks, optional next bets
Soft WIP limits — warn when a stage is over; never hard-block
Local editable board — drag-and-drop on 127.0.0.1, saves back to the same file
Timeline view — calendar-axis bars per card (created → handoffs → shipped/archived), due markers, light/dark
Offline HTML snapshot — single read-only file teammates can open without the CLI

Optional: DeepSeek Harness plugin

Same domain model, skill-backed /delivery workflow for agent-led planning and moves:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:jerryxff26-alt/dsh-delivery-board

Tested with DSH 0.2.1-rc.2 (also compatible with 0.2.0-rc.2). No runtime dependencies.

Compared to alternatives (short)

Need	This project	Typical SaaS kanban	Markdown checklists alone
Lives in the git repo	Yes (`delivery.json`)	Usually remote	Yes, but unstructured
Handoff audit + weekly client report	Built-in	Custom fields / exports	Manual
Local editable UI + Timeline	Loopback board	Full web app	No
Works with AI coding agents	CLI for any shell; optional DSH skill	Often API / MCP	Prompt-only