dsh-plugin-chat-annotations

Annotate any text in the DeepSeek Harness chat: select a fragment, attach a comment (or not), and the annotation travels to the agent with your next message — as a structured content part, not as a field decoration.

Version note. Built and verified against DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1-rc.2. The UI it hooks into is a moving target; on newer Harness versions re-verify and update the plugin if something shifted.

Features

• Select & annotate — select text in any message, click Add to chat, and a numbered marker appears above the selection.
• Non-destructive highlights — the transcript is React-owned; the plugin never mutates it. Highlights are painted with the CSS Custom Highlight API, so the annotated text always stays intact (delete an annotation → the text is untouched).
• Comment popup — optional comment per annotation, saved with the marker.
• Annotation pill — a floating counter above the composer (e.g. ◫ 2 annotations); hover it to list every annotation with its excerpt and comment.
• Sent with the request — annotations are appended to session.prompt as an extra text content part, so the agent sees them as part of the message. Press Enter with annotations and an empty composer: the plugin sends the annotation block alone — no typed text required.
• Auto cleanup — after a successful send the markers, pill, and highlights are cleared, freeing the buffer for the next round.
• Scroll-safe markers — markers hide when their text scrolls out of the chat viewport (or into the composer panel) instead of drifting over the UI.

Install

From the packed tarball

# build the bundle (from this repo)
pnpm install --config.strictDepBuilds=false --config.minimumReleaseAge=0
pnpm build
pnpm pack          # produces dsh-lab-dsh-plugin-chat-annotations-0.0.0.tgz

# install into your profile (run from anywhere; profile path is $DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>)
dsh plugin --profile web add file:/absolute/path/to/dsh-lab-dsh-plugin-chat-annotations-0.0.0.tgz --config.strictDepBuilds=false

Then restart your dsh web server (or just refresh the browser tab — client bundles are re-read on page load).

From GitHub

dsh plugin --profile web add github:ynnmuraii/dsh-plugin-chat-annotations

Verify it loaded

Open the web UI. The annotation pill (◫ 0 annotations) appears above the composer once a session is open. If it does not, check the boot page (HARNESS / Failed to load plugins) and the server logs.

Usage

1. Open a session and select a word / sentence in any message.
2. Click Add to chat — a numbered blue marker appears over the text.
3. (Optional) type a comment in the popup and click Save; or close it with Cancel to keep a marker-only annotation.
4. To edit or delete: click the marker → popup → Save / trash icon.
5. Send your message. The annotation context is appended to the request automatically. If the composer is empty, just press Enter — the annotation block is sent on its own.
6. After the send, annotations clear automatically.

How annotations reach the agent

The plugin intercepts session.prompt traffic and appends an extra text content part to the message:

content: [
  { type: "text", text: "your message..." },
  { type: "text", text: "[User annotations]\n1. Selected text: «excerpt» — Comment: ..." }
]

Entering text is never required: with pending annotations and an empty composer, Enter sends the annotation block as the sole content.

Development

pnpm install --config.strictDepBuilds=false --config.minimumReleaseAge=0
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test        # vitest + jsdom (6 tests: lifecycle, selection, renumbering, clip)
pnpm build       # tsc ESM host + CJS client wrapped for __ModuleLoader__.load

• src/index.ts — host half (Cordis plugin entry, greet tool).
• src/client.ts — browser half: toolbar, markers, pill, popup, wire interception.
• tests/index.spec.ts — jsdom behavior tests.

Layout

src/
  index.ts      host entry (name / inject / apply)
  client.ts     browser half (registered via __ModuleLoader__.load)
tests/          vitest + jsdom
scripts/
  build-client.mjs   wraps the CJS client emit into the module-loader contract
  pack-smoke.mjs     installs the tarball and executes the built entry

Compatibility

Targets: next (@deepseek-ai/dsh 0.1.1-rc.2, cordis 4.0.1). Verified via pnpm lab verify chat-annotations --target next (inspect, install, typecheck, test, build, pack, pack-smoke, composed profile).