dsh-session-search

A find bar for the conversation transcript in DSH: a search button in the conversation session header opens a floating panel that scans the loaded conversation, lists matches, and jumps to a hit with it highlighted. Ctrl+F / Cmd+F does the same.

Scope is the whole transcript — user messages, assistant replies, tool calls and their results, system prompts, commands and injected context — because a model's tool output and the injected prompt are routinely what you want to find again. The one exclusion is the model's reasoning: it is a long private scratchpad, usually folded away, and hits inside it would bury the real ones. Reasoning shares the assistant-step kind with the answer and is told apart by data-chat-group-part, so a kind filter alone is not enough.

Requirements

DSH	0.2.1-rc.2 (developed and tested against it)
@deepseek-ai/cordis	~4.0.5
Mode	Web UI (web or desktop profile) — there is no CLI surface

Earlier DSH releases are untested. The plugin mounts into the slot conversation.session.header.utilities; a release that renames or removes that slot leaves the button unrendered.

Install

dsh plugin --profile <your-profile> add github:minhaoli/dsh-session-search

The package declares dsh.bundle.patch, so the row is appended to dsh.profile.bundles and the loader mounts it on the next start. Reload the page once after installing — the client half is served as a separate module.

Manual install:

# ~/.dsh/profiles/<profile>/cordis.patch.yml
- insert:
    - id: session-search
      name: 'dsh-session-search'

How it works

The package has two halves and the bundle patch mounts both:

• lib/index.js — the host half. It exports an empty apply() and registers no route, service or watcher, because search runs entirely in the browser. It exists only so the bundle row has something to mount; dropping it would stop the package from being composed at all, taking the client find bar with it.
• lib/client.js — the browser half, injected through dsh.client.inject: ["@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-slots"]. It registers a React component into conversation.session.header.utilities and owns the find bar.

Highlights use the CSS Custom Highlight API, not a wrapped <mark>. The transcript is React-owned and keeps re-rendering (streaming text, fold state); mutating its DOM from outside would be reconciled away or throw during a React commit. A Range registered in the highlight registry is invisible to React and needs no cleanup beyond deleting the entry.

Two limits it does not hide

The find bar states both of these rather than pretending otherwise:

• Only loaded history is searchable. The transcript is paged (the "load earlier" control at the top), so older turns that were never loaded have no DOM to scan. A miss means "not in the loaded part", not "never said".
• A collapsed turn hides its text. Such a match still appears and scrolls to the collapsed container; expanding that turn reveals the hit.

Keyboard

Key	Action
Ctrl+F / Cmd+F	Open the find bar (captured on keydown in the capture phase)
Enter	Next match
Shift+Enter	Previous match
Esc	Close

Companion plugins

• dsh-session-tree — sidebar with tags, grouping and drag-to-move.
• dsh-session-manager — agent tools and REST API for session housekeeping.
• dsh-session-query-vector — semantic session search backend.
• dsh-ui-reload — one-click frontend reload button.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.