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$ dsh plugin --profile web add github:Ruiming-cn/dsh-ask-in-sidebarPlugin Overview & Capabilities
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Key Capabilities
- Text selection popover in assistant responses with an 'Ask in Sidebar' action
- Ephemeral sidebar panel displaying referenced text, streamed LLM responses, and collapsible thinking steps
- Multi-turn follow-up queries within the active sidebar session
- Uses snapshot of current main conversation LLM message history without mutating primary chat state
- Safe Markdown rendering for answers with support for code blocks, tables, links, and formatting
- Automatic cleanup of in-memory snapshots upon closing the sidebar panel
Useful For
- Asking clarifying questions on specific terms or code explanations without disrupting main agent workflow
- Deep diving into specific steps in an assistant's response in a dedicated side panel
- Exploring alternative solutions or quick Q&A while maintaining existing chat context
Who It Fits
- DeepSeek Harness Web UI users looking for non-destructive follow-up Q&A on assistant responses
- Developers needing quick side discussions on specific code snippets without cluttering main session history
Documented Limitations
- Markdown renderer is a lightweight implementation without full extended syntax (nested tables, footnotes, etc.)
- Does not provide tools to the sidebar model; cannot invoke host tools or modify workspace files
- Large main conversations result in larger sidebar prompt payloads due to history snapshot reuse
- In-memory snapshots are lost on host restart; follow-ups fall back to the newest conversation snapshot
- Browser panel relies on current Web UI DOM conventions (data-chat-flow-kind='assistant-step')
DSH Compatibility
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Security Signals
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package.json declares 0 runtime, 0 development, 5 peer, and 0 optional dependencies.
package.json declares DSH bundle metadata.
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT.
A root package.json was captured and can be inspected by the registry.
Public GitHub source metadata is available for this registry snapshot.
Source & Registry Notes
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- Source repository
- Ruiming-cn/dsh-ask-in-sidebar
- Registry source
- GitHub · dsh-plugin topic
- Registry classification
- Plugin
- Source checked
- 26880d6 · 2026-08-31
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Repository Activity
- GitHub stars
- 1GitHub stars
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit
- 2026-08-31
- Last release
- 2026-08-30
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