dsh-workspace-recent-sort

Repository: https://github.com/easychen/dsh-workspace-recent-sort

DeepSeek Harness sidebar plugin with three related behaviors:

1. WorkSpace groups follow “Last updated” — a Workspace with a newer conversation rises to the top of the sidebar.
2. Compact Workspace conversations — an expanded Workspace shows only its newest conversation; hovering reveals the next few with an animation.
3. Scroll back after a reorder — when the automatic ordering moves groups, the sidebar scrolls the currently selected conversation back into view.

The ordering and compact-display behaviors have switches in Settings → 工作区 / Workspaces.

The problem

DSH's native Order by → Last updated sorts Sessions inside each Workspace. Workspace groups themselves always render in the Host's durable workspaceIds order (the order produced by dragging folders). A Workspace with a brand-new conversation therefore stays wherever it was manually placed.

This plugin leaves that durable order untouched. It only changes the browser projection while, and only while, both of these are selected:

• Group by = WorkSpace (按工作区)
• Order by = Last updated (最近更新)

Behavior

Recent ordering

• Workspace groups are ordered by the newest updatedAt among their real conversations, newest first. Archived conversations still count; a visible archived row is a real conversation.
• Provisional blank Sessions (the "New Session" placeholder) and hidden subagent children do not count as conversation activity.
• Workspaces with no loaded conversation fall to the bottom. Ties keep the Host's relative order, so the result is deterministic.
• Switching to Manual order (手动排序), Workspace Tree (按工作区树), or the flat list restores the native order immediately.
• No Host state is written: the durable Workspace order is unchanged, no Session is moved, and there is no network request. Workspace drag commits are suppressed while Last updated is active, because a durable reorder would be invisible under the recency projection; switch to Manual to arrange folders.
• The plugin only wraps the sidebar's registered WorkspaceBrowser. The Workspace picker, search results, session rows, archive filters, pins, and session drag behavior remain native.

Compact conversations

• In Group by → WorkSpace, an expanded Workspace shows only its newest conversation row by default.
• Hovering the Workspace header or its visible row animates the next three conversations into view (the newest conversation plus three more; a provisional New Session row stays visible when present). Moving away collapses them again.
• The currently selected conversation stays visible even when it is not the newest one, and the 展开其余 xx 个会话 / Show remaining … conversations button stays hidden until the Workspace is hovered or keyboard-focused.
• Keyboard focus inside a Workspace expands all of its rendered rows. Clicking 展开其余 xx 个会话 / Show remaining … conversations raises the native watermark for that Workspace; once more than six rows are rendered, hovering reveals all of them.
• Collapsed Workspaces, Workspace Tree mode, and the flat list keep their native behavior.

Scroll to the selected conversation

After any Workspace reorder changes the group order — the automatic recent ordering, a sort-mode switch, or a manual workspace drag — the plugin scrolls the sidebar so the currently selected conversation is visible. If the row is already visible, block: "nearest" leaves the scroll position alone.

Settings

Settings → 工作区 / Workspaces provides two switches:

Switch	Default	Effect
按最近更新排序工作区	On	Enable the recent-ordering projection.
工作区对话简约显示	On	Enable the one-row compact display and hover reveal.

Settings are browser-local (dsh.workspace-recent-sort.settings.v1 in localStorage), so different browsers can use different preferences. Toggles apply immediately without a reload.

Install

Install the bundle from GitHub into the Web profile:

dsh plugin --profile web add https://github.com/easychen/dsh-workspace-recent-sort.git

The package declares dsh.bundle.patch, so it installs as an active profile bundle. Restart dsh web if requested and refresh the Web page.

For local development, link the checkout instead:

cd ~/.dsh/profiles/web
pnpm add link:/absolute/path/to/dsh-workspace-recent-sort

Then make sure dsh-workspace-recent-sort is present in dsh.profile.bundles in the profile's package.json.

To remove it:

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-workspace-recent-sort

The Plugins page / bundle installer offers the same install and removal operations.

Compatibility

Built against DSH 0.2.1-rc.2. The native View-options menu has no public extension slot for group ordering, so the plugin uses the sidebar registration's own component seam: it replaces entry.component with a wrapper that preserves the entry's store, injected services, locale, and child-slot authorization. Compact mode is CSS scoped under a data attribute and targets structural data-row-key attributes rather than hashed class names. If the sidebar shape is not recognized, the plugin leaves the native component untouched rather than failing application boot.

Development

node --test test/sort.test.mjs
npm pack --dry-run

The browser bundle is hand-written against the DSH module loader, so no build step is required.