dsh-workspace-folders

Native-feeling folder organization for the DeepSeek Harness (DSH) web sidebar.

DSH's left sidebar lists every Workspace as a flat section. This plugin adds the missing organizational layer — user-created folders for Workspaces, nested Session folders inside each Workspace, and per-row icons — while keeping the shipped sidebar interactions (drag, rename, pin, archive, search, view options) intact.

The folder layer is display-only: it never renames a Workspace or a Session, never moves a Session between Workspaces, and never touches a directory on disk. It only rearranges the sidebar. Session folders are durable (dsh-session-keeper's host-side storage).

Features

Workspace folders (display-only)

• Create, rename, delete, collapse and re-order folders from the sidebar itself.
• File a Workspace by dragging its row onto a folder row, or through the row's … → Move to folder… menu.
• Drop a folder on the middle of another folder to nest it; drop it on the top/bottom edge to re-order siblings. Drag a Workspace onto Unfiled to take it out of a folder.
• Deleting a folder only deletes the grouping: subfolders move up, member Workspaces return to Unfiled. No Workspace, Session or file is removed.
• With no folders, the list renders exactly like the shipped browser.

Session folders (per Workspace, durable)

Every Workspace keeps its own nested category tree: drag Sessions in, create a Session inside a category, collapse/rename, pin, archive with the three-state filter, and a recoverable delete bin. Data lives in the Host storage domain (survives reloads, cache clears and restarts).

Icons

• Every Workspace row shows a quiet default dot; clicking it opens the icon picker.
• 40 icons from the host's own icon set plus 48 common emoji; "Reset to default" clears the icon.
• Display folders can carry their own icon as well.
• No new dependency, no network request, no image decoding. The catalog renders only while the picker is open; an idle sidebar costs one map lookup per row.

Kept from the shipped browser

Search, grouping modes (Workspace / Workspace tree / flat), manual and recency ordering, pinned Sessions, archive filtering, Workspace and Session row menus.

Requirements

• DSH >= 0.2.1-rc.1 < 0.3.0 (built and tested on 0.2.1-rc.5, desktop and web profile).
• Node.js >= 24.9 is only needed to build from source; the published bundle ships prebuilt lib/.

Install

From npm (once published):

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-workspace-folders

From GitHub:

dsh plugin --profile web add github:Larrtroffen/dsh-workspace-folders

Then refresh the web UI (or restart DSH Desktop). The plugin appears as dsh-workspace-folders in the plugin manager; disable or remove it to restore the shipped browser.

How to use

Action	How
New top-level folder	View-options menu (sliders icon) → New folder, or the + New folder row at the end of the list
New subfolder	Folder row … → New subfolder
Rename	Double-click the folder name, or … → Rename
File a Workspace	Drag the Workspace row onto a folder; or Workspace … → Move to folder…
Unfile	Drag the Workspace onto Unfiled; or … → Move to folder… → Unfiled
Nest / re-order folders	Drag a folder to another folder's middle (nest) or top/bottom edge (re-order); or … → Move to…
Collapse / expand	Click the folder row (collapsed shows the Workspace count)
Delete a folder	Folder … → Delete folder (grouping only)
Set an icon	Click the row's leading dot/icon, or … → Set icon…

Session folders keep the interactions from dsh-session-keeper: drag a Session onto a category, … → Move to category…, create a Session inside a category, pin/archive/delete with undo.

Data and privacy

Data	Location
Workspace folders, folder assignments, expansion, icons (this plugin's display layer)	Browser localStorage under dsh.session-categories.view.v2
Session folders / assignments / recycle bin	DSH Host storage domain session_categories (<DSH_HOME>/storages/)

Nothing is uploaded anywhere. The display layer is intentionally browser-local: clearing the site's storage resets the Workspace folder layout (Session folders are unaffected).

Compatibility

• The plugin replaces the sidebar's sidebar.workspaces region, so it cannot run together with another plugin that replaces the same region (e.g. dsh-better-workspace, dsh-workspace-categories). Remove one of them.

• With dsh-claude-style installed, its sidebar patches fight the replacement browser. Set these in that plugin's config for the best result:

  workspaceView: false    # claude-style's Active/Archived header switch; this plugin's view menu
                          # already provides the same three-state archive filter
  searchStyle: icon       # keeps the search affordance in the sidebar header
  

• Other sidebar plugins that only decorate rows through slots, and themes that only style the frame, keep working.

Build from source

npm install --legacy-peer-deps
npm run build
node scripts/inline-css.mjs
node scripts/verify-build.cjs
node scripts/verify-typert-manifest.mjs

lib/ is committed so consumers never need a build step. The Host half is prebuilt Node ESM; tsdown.host.config.ts rebuilds it when the Host source changes.

Known limitations

• Workspace folders only appear in the grouped views (By Workspace / Workspace tree); the flat list and search results stay flat.
• The display folder layer (and icons) are browser-local, not Host-persisted.
• Preview DSH releases do not promise plugin API stability; upgrade the plugin together with DSH.

License and credits

MIT. This project is a fork of dsh-session-keeper by WSNMM3 (MIT), which itself derives from ht719/dsh-session-categories (MIT). The display-only Workspace folder layer, folder rows, drag-and-drop, icon picker and session-row indentation were added by this fork. See LICENSE and FORK-NOTES.md.