DSH Conversation Exporter

DSH Conversation Exporter adds an Export Chat action to DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Web. It downloads the current conversation as a clean Markdown file containing the human-authored messages and final assistant answers, ready for reading, notes, Git, or handoff to another AI assistant.

Export Chat vs. Session Log

Export Chat is an additive action; it does not replace or modify DSH's official Session Log export.

	Export Chat	Official Session Log
Purpose	Reading and AI handoff	Debugging, recovery, and replay
Contents	Human messages and final assistant answers	Raw events, chunks, tool activity, metadata, and attachments
Format	One Markdown file	ZIP of JSONL artifacts and media

Use Export Chat when you want the conversation. Use Session Log when you need a lossless record of how DSH produced it.

Install and activate

For DSH installations run through npx @deepseek-ai/dsh, add the plugin to the web profile:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-conversation-exporter

Adding the package to the web profile activates its host and browser components. If DSH Web is already running, stop it and restart it so the profile is recomposed:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web

Use

1. Open a conversation in DSH Web.
2. Select Export Chat in the current session header, beside Session Log.
3. Your browser downloads dsh-conversation-<session-id>.md.

The export preserves message Markdown, omits DSH internals such as reasoning, tool calls and results, runtime metadata, paths, and token accounting, and marks an unanswered turn with > Response incomplete.. Image-only human messages are retained as [Image omitted].

Privacy

Exporting is local-only. The plugin reads the selected DSH session through the local DSH runtime and returns the Markdown to the same local Web application. It has no upload, cloud storage, telemetry, or analytics path. The repository contains only hand-written, sanitized test conversations.

V0.1 limitations

• Exports the current session only, in Markdown only.
• Keeps human-authored text and the final assistant answer; attachments, images, reasoning, tool activity, injected context, subagent logs, and intermediate responses are omitted.
• Preserves Markdown verbatim. Unbalanced fences can affect the preview of later sections, and literal ## Human or ## Assistant text can resemble transcript boundaries.
• An image-only human message is represented by [Image omitted]; image data is not embedded.

Compatibility

DSH is developer-preview software and its plugin APIs may change. V0.1 was validated with @deepseek-ai/dsh@0.1.0-rc.6; a later DSH version may require an exporter update.

Development

Requires Node.js 20 or newer.

To install the plugin from a local checkout for contributor or development testing:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh plugin --profile web add .

Run the project verification locally:

npm run verify

This runs the complete test suite, JavaScript syntax checks, and an npm package dry-run.

Licensed under the MIT License.