dsh-ui-reload

A "reload the whole frontend" button in the DSH conversation session header, immediately left of the share button.

Clicking it reloads the entire page — the one operation that reliably picks up anything the frontend can be out of sync with: client plugin bundles rebuilt under the running page, plugin-list changes, stale CSS, and the shell's own code.

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 button mounts into the slot conversation.session.header.utilities; a release that renames or removes that slot leaves it unrendered.

Install

dsh plugin --profile <your-profile> add github:minhaoli/dsh-ui-reload

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: ui-reload
      name: 'dsh-ui-reload'

Why a full reload and not HMR

DSH already ships dsh-client-hmr, which republishes a plugin the moment its bundle changes. This button exists for the residue that path cannot reach — a page whose shell or bootstrap predates a change, or state that only a real document load clears. Reloading the document is the only thing that covers all of it.

What survives a click: conversation, workspace and connection state — they live on the host.

What does not: anything held only in the page — scroll position, open panels, in-flight composer text, running client-side timers.

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 a plain page reload needs nothing from the host. 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 button with it.
• lib/client.js — the browser half, injected through dsh.client.inject: ["@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-slots"]. It registers the button into conversation.session.header.utilities and calls window.location.reload() on click, after a 400 ms acknowledgement so the click registers visually before the load takes over.

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-search — in-conversation find bar.
• dsh-session-query-vector — semantic session search backend.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.