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dsh-better-sidebar-lite

a simple plugin to improve web UX/UI for "Deepseek Harness (dsh)"

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7
Language
TypeScript
Created
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 30, 2026
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Introduction

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;TLDR

Add a sidebar to the right side of the workspace screen with usefull tabs:

  • Explorer
  • Git
  • Skills
  • Tools

How to install

dsh plugin add dsh-better-sidebar-lite@1.0.0-rs.1 --profile web

⚠️ WARNING: Make sure to install Deepseek Harness version 0.1.0-rc.7 or higher...

What is does ? (1.0.0-rs.1)

Add a sidebar to the right side of the workspace screen. This area will contain tabs displaying various pieces of information, including:

  • Dock: A right-docked sidebar occupying the frame's right details column, with native drag resize. Open/close it with the Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+B shortcut or the toggle button in the left sidebar footer; your open/closed preference is persisted.
  • Editor: Modal editors support viewing the content of objects — a file viewer (raw content or unified-diff side-by-side view) and a tool-detail card, rendered over the whole sidebar.
  • Explorer:
    • Display the workspace folder tree, with directories lazy-loaded on demand.
    • Open any file in the modal editor by double-clicking or pressing Enter.
    • Full keyboard navigation: arrow keys, Home/End, Enter/Space, and * to expand one level.
    • Automatically track changes in the workspace (stamp polling + session-dirty debounce), with a manual refresh and empty/error states (no workspace, deleted root, load failure).
  • Git:
    • Status view with four sections — Staged, Conflicts, Changes, Untracked — each with counts.
    • Stage/unstage per row, discard changes per file or discard all.
    • Create commits (message via stdin; commit staged files or explicit paths).
    • Commit history (newest-first, paginated "Load more") with a commit detail view listing the changed files.
    • Per-file diff of a commit; double-click a file row to open a side-by-side diff view in the modal editor.
    • Automatically track changes, with not-a-repo / git-missing error states.
  • Skills:
    • Will display a list of skills that the current agent (preset) has loaded/will load into.
    • View the list of skills of the current session along with their status (enable / disable)
    • View the content of skills
    • View the reference files that skills use
  • Tools:
    • Tool catalog from the host tool registry.
    • Category tags (builtin / mcp / agent) with a filter bar.
    • Double-click a tool to open a tool-detail modal (category + MCP server + parameters).
  • Tabs are registered through an extensible tab registry, exposed as ctx.betterSidebar.
  • Synchronize the light/dark mode of your Deepseek Harness profile (dsh theme tokens / body[data-ds-dark-theme]).
  • Allows for custom configurations through the settings from the Deepseek Harness configuration interface (explorer poll/debounce, git poll/debounce/timeout, skills poll, view-file dialog width).
  • English and 繁體中文 locales built in.

The author's vision and future direction.

  • Develop additional suitable features while maintaining the original philosophy of "simplicity and effectiveness".
  • Share additional plugins, system prompts, and other skills suitable for the Deepseek Harness system.
  • Support and contribute to the Deepseek Harness community.
  • Complete the challenge set for myself: 365 days (and beyond) of partnership with Deepseek Harness.

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