DSH Archive Manager is a community-maintained DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin, not an official DeepSeek AI product.

What you can do

Put inactive conversations away and find them again when needed, keeping everyday task lists tidy.

• Archive conversations: put away one chat or all unarchived chats in a workspace.
• Find past work: search titles, filter by project, and sort by time or title.
• Restore tasks: restore one chat, selected chats, a project group, or all archives.
• Clean up records: permanently delete unwanted archived conversations after confirmation.

Screenshots

Archive a chat from the sidebar session menu:

Find, restore, and clean up chats in Settings → Archived sessions:

Prerequisites

• A working DeepSeek Harness Web installation with dsh available in your terminal.
• Supported DSH versions: 0.1.0-rc.8, 0.1.1-rc.2, 0.1.2-rc.1, 0.1.5-rc.1, 0.1.5-rc.2, 0.1.6-alpha.1, and 0.1.6-alpha.2. Other versions are not currently supported.
• Node.js matching ^22.19.0 || >=24.0.0. Source installation also requires pnpm.

Installation

Examples use the web profile. Replace it with the profile you actually use.

Ask an agent to install it

Send this prompt to an agent that can run terminal commands on your computer:

Install the latest @michengai/dsh-archive-manager into my local DSH web profile using the official npm registry. Check the plugin configuration afterward, then explain how to reload DSH and open archived session management.

Install manually

Run in PowerShell:

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

dsh plugin --profile web add @michengai/dsh-archive-manager@latest --registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/

Restart DSH Web, then hard-refresh your browser with Ctrl+Shift+R. Open Settings → Archived sessions to get started.

Usage

The page opens on Archived, with Unarchived on the right. Switching tabs clears selections; changing search or project filters preserves them. Check the hidden selection count before applying bulk actions, or clear your selection first.

Restore all / Delete all remain on the Archived tab and apply to archived sessions across all projects, regardless of filters. Unarchived excludes subagents and blank placeholders and supports sorting by update time or title.

Settings and sidebar batch archive/restore call the single-session APIs serially: official ctx.workspaces.archiveSession on every supported host, official ctx.workspaces.unarchiveSession on DSH 0.1.6+, and this plugin's workspaceRegistry.unarchiveSession on older hosts.

View and continue archived conversations

Available starting with 0.1.40:

• Open session: open the native DSH session to view messages, attachments, and tool details. Continue chatting while keeping the session archived.
• Restore and open: unarchive the session and open it to resume work.

Updates

Click Check for updates in the archive management page header. DSH CLI or Desktop environments with automatic update support can update directly; other environments provide a manual command for the current profile. You can also rerun the installation command above.

FAQ

Why is the entry missing after installation?

Restart DSH Web and hard-refresh your browser. Make sure you installed into the profile you are using. If the entry is still missing, run:

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

dsh --profile web --dump-config

The configuration should include workspace-archive-manager and ui-workspace-archive-manager. On DSH 0.1.6+, official ui-settings-unarchive-sessions should be disabled: true so Settings keeps only this plugin's Archived sessions page. If you previously set the official ui-workspace to disabled: true in your profile's cordis.patch.yml, remove that disabling override and restart.

How is archiving different from deletion?

Archiving puts a conversation away so you can restore it later. Permanent deletion cannot be undone and may also remove that session's attachments. It does not delete your project working directory. Deletion requires confirmation.

Can I use it with Codex UI?

Yes. Codex UI keeps its sidebar appearance and interactions. Archive management remains available in Settings → Archived sessions.

For other problems, open an issue with your DSH and plugin versions, reproduction steps, and error details.

Install from source

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

git clone https://github.com/MichengAI/dsh-archive-manager.git
Set-Location .\dsh-archive-manager
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm build
dsh plugin --profile web add .

DSH product ecosystem

For a desktop workbench, download DSH Codex Desktop. Existing DeepSeek Harness installations can add plugins as needed by following each project's README. Below are 11 first-party plugins; consult the corresponding desktop release notes and bundled catalog for what that version includes.

License

Licensed under Apache License 2.0.