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A shell prompt mismatch increased latency in DSH

A post published on August 17, 2026 reports that different prompts in two DSH shell tools triggered a 3.5-second timeout; a change reduced one command's time from 3,600 ms to 158 ms.

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Source: Post relata divergência no prompt do shell que atrasa comandos no DSH (x.com). Text prepared with AI from this source.

What happened and what to do

In a post dated August 17, 2026, the author reports that terminal-bash and tool-bash-persistent in DSH used different prompt strings, triggering a 3.5-second timeout. According to the post, changing the prompt constant reduced one command's latency from 3,600 ms to 158 ms.

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