A dual workbench for DSH: native right sidebar + self-drawn bottom panel, with the ctx.betterSidebar service open to every plugin

🗂️ File Management Lazy-loading tree, git status colors, live directory watch, global search, drag-and-drop upload, multi-select batch actions, dual-source "Open with" menu.	🌿 Git Source Control (Merge / Staged / Changes groups, message box with Generate, branch + sync footer) plus a this-session AI-changes lens, with a read-only commit graph (lanes, branch and tag badges, branch filter, commit details) in one tab.
📝 Editable Editor & Previews An editable CodeMirror (the stock preview is read-only), Markdown + Mermaid + floating outline, sandboxed HTML preview, .jsonl record cards, paged preview for huge files, streaming transfers with no size caps.	🧩 Tasks Live subagent topology (workflow graph / tree modes) + background task list: exit codes, live output, force-kill.
💬 Side Chat (beta) Codex-style side threads: inherit the full parent context and run independently, realtime push, visible & revocable queue, per-thread model selection, one-click promotion to a top-level session.	🖥️ Bottom Workbench A self-drawn bottom panel that coexists with the native right sidebar: drag-to-split panes, multiple terminal tabs, per-session persisted layout.

Also: 📂 the sidebar_open tool lets the model open the sidebar itself · ⚡ ~325KB core at startup, heavy chunks load on demand · 🌏 i18n follows DSH · 📱 narrow screens switch to a full-width drawer

Switch to Git Graph at the top of the Git panel for commit nodes, forks and merge edges across local branches, remote-tracking branches and HEAD. The branch selector only filters history — it never checks out or fetches; each commit is one line (lane edges + ref pills + subject), hover shows the author and short hash, and selecting one opens its full message and diff in the bottom pane. History loads in pages; reference changes during pagination prompt a refresh; reads are bounded (200 commits per page, offset 10,000, 1,000 branches) and report an explicit error past a limit. Lightweight and annotated tags appear on commits in the graph, rows and details use neutral tag pills, and tag changes invalidate pagination. Tag decorations keep the first 5,000 tags by ref name, further bounded by an 8 MiB complete-line output prefix; excess tags are omitted without failing the graph.

With the dsh-context plugin installed, three places offer a one-click jump into that conversation's Context view: an agent node's detail card on the Tasks page, a background job's output window (the job's real owner session — never merely the session its row was watched under), and the session header. The entries appear only while dsh-context's Context page is actually registered: a deployment without it (or with that page hidden) shows no control at all, and while one jump is in flight every entry point is disabled. A failed jump is reported once, in a dismissible alert at the frame's bottom edge; nothing is polled while idle.

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-better-sidebar@latest

Then hard-refresh the browser (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R). Requires DSH 0.2.2-rc.1+.

Compatibility warning — match the plugin to the host line. As of 2026-11-04, DSH's npm latest is 0.2.1-rc.5 and next is 0.2.2-rc.1. v0.30.0 requires DSH 0.2.2-rc.1+; hosts on the 0.2.1 line (0.2.1-rc.1 ~ rc.5, i.e. today's latest) must pin [email protected] — v0.29.0 was never published to npm. DSH 0.2.1-alpha.5 users must pin [email protected], and hosts still on 0.2.0-rc.2 must pin [email protected]. A 0.x caret never spans a minor version, so one plugin build cannot serve two host lines. The marketplace installer picks the plugin's latest regardless of host version, so an old host gets a version-rejection error — upgrade the host or pin the version explicitly. The two packages' latest tags are independent.

Install the dsh-better-sidebar plugin (a sidebar workbench for DSH):
1. Confirm DSH is 0.2.2-rc.1 or newer, then run dsh plugin --profile web add [email protected]
2. Remind me to hard-refresh the browser (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R) afterwards
If something fails, check the FAQ table in https://github.com/omdsh-dev/DSH-better-sidebar README first.

v0.30.1 — settings nav icon fix

• The "Side card" row in Settings no longer shows two icons. The plugin used to paint its own glyph over the shell's fallback gear with a CSS mask; the shell now wraps the nav icon in a container and exposes a per-section icon slot. The row contributes its icon through that slot, and the stale marker + CSS apparatus is gone — along with a document-wide DOM observer.

v0.30.0 — DSH 0.2.2 support, side-chat images, clickable quote chips

• DSH 0.2.2-rc.1 is the new baseline (all 14 peer floors move to ^0.2.2-rc.1). The host replaced the installable model-selection ref with an agent-owned AgentModel, so a side-chat thread's model switch now goes through agent.model.select() — recorded once in the log and applied to the next step. A 0.x caret never spans a minor: DSH 0.2.1 hosts (today's npm latest) keep pinning plugin v0.28.2.
• Side Chat takes images: paste a screenshot or pick PNG / JPEG / WebP / GIF, preview or remove before sending, or send images alone; the preview survives a reload and a cold restore.
• Quote chips are clickable: a passage selected with "Add to conversation" lands as a chip that jumps back to the source file and flashes the quoted lines, with a nonce so a second click jumps again; if the reference record cannot be persisted the plugin falls back to the previous built-in chip instead of landing a dead one.
• Drafts survive the host-owned close paths: closing a native sidebar tab or quitting the desktop app keeps the unsaved draft and offers it back when the same file is reopened — the host exposes no cancellable close hook, so this is backup-and-restore rather than a prompt.
• Reliability: a side-chat seed built from a compacted parent no longer persists an unreadable session log; page CSS zoom is no longer misread as a page transform; the bottom workbench terminal no longer paints black; container workspaces show every child repository in the Git panel; the installers refuse a profile whose @deepseek-ai/dsh-* copies are a mixed version pair and print the repair command.

v0.29.0 — GenUI in side chats

• Adds the opt-in registerSidechatSurfaceAdapter service for GenUI 0.15.0. Settled assistant replies can render interactive components, with actions and state kept in the owning child thread.
• Uninstalled consumers, streaming replies and unsupported fences retain the existing Markdown view. The 0.28.2 cold-session read fix remains included.
• Provider contribution: @sunxiuguo, #1033.

ctx.betterSidebar offers two extension points to every plugin — registerTab / registerFileViewer; the built-in 6 tabs + 4 viewers use the very same API. The GitHub topic dsh-better-sidebar already lists 30+ ecosystem plugins; the full integration guide is at docs/external-plugin-guide.md.

import type {} from 'dsh-better-sidebar'  // triggers the ctx.betterSidebar type merge
export const inject = ['betterSidebar']
export function apply(ctx: Context) {
  ctx.effect(() => ctx.betterSidebar.registerTab({
    id: 'my-plugin:db', title: 'Database', component: ({ scope }) => <DbView sessionId={scope.sessionId} />,
  }))
}

Ecosystem catalog (28 tab plugins · 4 viewer plugins · 4 enhancements)

📑 Tab plugins (sidebar pages)

Plugin	⭐	Description
ChenRuoT/dsh-sidebar-qa		Select-to-ask side page: Codex-style side questions / Claude Code /btw
fuhefei/dsh-sentinel		Condition-driven wake-up system: file / command / HTTP / process / webhook watchers that wake an agent; dock + sidebar branch + global dashboard
Fisfzy/ego-browser		Agent browser: i18n-aware local browser tab (auto-registers a sidebar page when better-sidebar is present, falls back to a floating observer)
jiuge2467/dsh-studio		Full-stack workbench: multi-source MCP visual debugging hub, visual thinking engine
Iwctwbh/dsh-flowglass		Flowglass: realtime session flow visualization (messages / tool groups / subagent branches)
FeatherHunter/dsh-mattpocock-skills-deck		Gamified mattpocock/skills task system: fog-of-war map, task bar progression
GULI-lab/DSH-element-source		Click any UI element to jump to its Vue / React / Svelte / Angular source and feed it into the session
Lzh3070/dsh-file-review-tab		File review page: line-level red/green diff + undo + deep links into chat lines
yq04/dsh-git-remotes		Git remotes page: branches / upstreams / ahead-behind, fetch with prune, ff-only pull, confirmed push
ztyhehe/dsh-better-sidebar-svn		SVN source-control page: status / diff / log / commit / update / revert / conflict resolution, symmetric to the built-in Git panel
Melody-max114/dsh-excel-panel		Excel editing page: xlsx preview / edit, live formula evaluation, merged cells, save back to the original file
v587d/dsh-anysearch-refs		AnySearch result reference cards: query, source digest, keyword highlights
Lukeknow0/dsh-markdown-link-preview		Markdown artifact link preview: click same-origin .md outputs in chat to read them in the sidebar
mlosun/dsh-docs-panel		Global docs panel: portable Markdown notes readable from any workspace
tylina/dsh-tylina		Typst document tool: WYSIWYG typesetting for papers, reports, exams, resumes, charts, posters, sheet music, and PPTX-exported slides
lnyuqian/dsh-skill-sidebar		Skills panel: scans local skill directories, short action phrases + one-click copy + pinning
g-yixuan/dsh-sidenote		Codex-style side chat + selection-anchored annotations (lightweight consumer plugin)
OMSociety/dsh-ssh-tunnel		Multi-host SSH tunnels + SSH manager page
OMSociety/dsh-git-forge		GitHub / Gitea accounts, project authorization and push policies
YesSanSan/dsh-conversation-outline		Conversation outline page: turn-structured view, one-click jump, LLM one-line titles
Wulabalabo/dsh-sidebar-Explorer-Plus		File manager page: upload / move / delete / rename / new folder (write operations)
yq04/dsh-turn-review		Turn review: review agent changes turn by turn
Ghz114514/dsh-refpics		Pinterest-style reference-image search: masonry flow, sidebar board, download & Eagle favorites
yzlin499/dsh-yzlin499-easy-plugins		Handy utility bundle (friendly to bare-bones DSH)
dong-victor/dsh-better-sidebar-starter		Run-configuration page: IDEA-style Run/Debug configs — one-click start, history, WebSocket live logs, parallel instances
baosfeng/my-dsh-plugins		Personal plugin collection (dsh-file-activity): sidebar file-activity page — read / create / modify history and stats
Hoemr/dsh-better-overleaf		Overleaf tab: CDP browser login, project switching, local git mirror with two-way sync
Andor-Z/dsh-turn-outline		Turn-trace page: folds the session by user turns, click any step to jump back to its chat position; zero LLM, read-only

🖼️ Viewer plugins (file viewers)

Plugin	⭐	Description
HuanLinOTO/dsh-plugin-better-sidebar-plugin-office		Office trio preview (.docx / .xlsx / .pptx), shipped as a separate slim bundle
HuanLinOTO/dsh-plugin-better-sidebar-plugin-audio		Audio preview: zoomable waveform player + realtime spectrum, HTTP Range streaming route, scrubbable at any size
zemul/dsh-video-preview		Inline video preview: .mp4 / .webm / .mov / .mkv / .avi with HTTP Range seeking
dong-victor/dsh-better-sidebar-jupyter		Runnable .ipynb notebook view: lazy Python kernel, streaming output, save-back

🧰 Enhancements & tools

Plugin	⭐	Description
eg-bole/dsh-better-sidebar-icons		VSCode-style file / folder icon theme (vscode-icons port, pure DOM overlay, zero intrusion)
dong-victor/dsh-better-sidebar-terminal-plus		Terminal enhancements: bundled Nerd Font icons, fixed xterm icon rendering, stable terminal cwd
Max-Null/dsh-sidebar-preview-select		Preview selection boost: select text in the sidebar preview → floating "send to session"
Hoemr/dsh-quicklook		QuickLook-style Space preview: press Space on the active file tab for full-size image / PDF / text

📣 List your plugin: tag your repo with the dsh-better-sidebar topic to appear on the topic page; then PR a PluginEntry into src/client/plugins-tabs.ts / plugins-viewers.ts to join the in-app recommended catalog.

pnpm install      # @deepseek-ai/* devDependencies are published, resolves directly
pnpm typecheck && pnpm lint && pnpm build && pnpm test
make check        # aggregate gate (matches CI)
make mount        # real-mount smoke: build + pack → pnpm test:mount

QQ group: 577011007

• Code changes go through PRs: develop on a feat/* / fix/* branch → gh pr create; run pnpm typecheck && pnpm build && pnpm test (or make check) before submitting
• List an ecosystem plugin: tag your repo with dsh-better-sidebar + PR an entry into src/client/plugins-tabs.ts / plugins-viewers.ts
• Repository rules: AGENTS.md

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• dsh-TUI: Claude Code-style fullscreen terminal plugin — pixel-whale header, streaming thoughts, context progress bar + TPS gauge
• dshfind plugin store: third-party plugin market — public repos under the dsh-plugin topic, synced daily
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