dsh-thesis

The costliest failure in thesis writing is not word count—it is discovering the direction was wrong and rewriting entire chapters. dsh-thesis changes not the act of writing but the ten minutes before it: it interrogates your school template, advisor requirements, plagiarism threshold, and deadline into a falsifiable intent specification, then advances through nine stages (topic, proposal, literature, design, implementation, testing, writing, compliance, defense) with full audit trails and a hard user sign-off at every gate.

The plugin exposes 21 tools and 11 methodology skill packs: thesis_ingest parses docx, xlsx, pdf, and md materials into structured summaries, thesis_intake runs a one-question-at-a-time state machine with checkpoint resumption so no answer is ever lost, thesis_lit_search walks a real fallback chain from Semantic Scholar through Crossref so every citation carries a genuine DOI enforced by a zero-fabrication cache, thesis_build ships a built-in zero-dependency docx generator that works without pandoc, and the defense_code suite breaks an AI-written system into modules you can walk through point by point on defense day. Originality scanning is a local deterministic estimate with no paid-system dependency; reports are fully reproducible and challengeable.

Built for undergraduate and master's students who already have a school template, experimental data, and code, and need a finished draft that survives plagiarism checks and oral defense. Also suitable for advisors who want to audit stage compliance across students. It will not conjure a thesis from a blank page; it amplifies the work you are already doing and carries it to a defensible finish.