dsh-sd-capacity

Right-sizing storage for video-surveillance and security-camera deployments is deceptively simple to scope but surprisingly fiddly to execute. A single miscalculated retention window or bitrate assumption can quietly leave a recording system short of space, or conversely waste budget on capacity that will never be used. dsh-sd-capacity removes the guesswork: hand it the parameters you care about and it returns a precise, detailed capacity breakdown right in your session.

Under the hood the plugin is a pure Node.js implementation with no network calls, no external services, and no telemetry. After installation it registers a tool named sd_capacity that you invoke in-conversation; the calculation runs locally on your machine, making it a natural fit for air-gapped facilities, on-prem security stacks, and any environment where outbound traffic is restricted.

The tool is aimed at security-system administrators who need quick what-if numbers, integrators quoting storage line items to clients, and platform engineers iterating on retention or resolution specifications. In all of those roles it replaces a spreadsheet ritual with a single, repeatable call that returns a structured, auditable result you can drop straight into a project plan.