kiligzzz/dsh-session-nav

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A piano-key style in-conversation navigation bar for the DeepSeek Harness Web GUI: one key per real user message of the current session. Hover a key to preview that turn's user message plus the model reply; click a key to smoothly jump to that message. Built on the official DSH dual-face plugin mechanism (host + browser half), no DSH source changes.

Overview	Hover preview	Click to jump
A 43-turn session — every user question is one key, compact cluster vertically centered in the message area.	Hover a key to see the user message (single line) plus the model reply (up to 3 lines).	Click any key to auto-page through history (same channel as the official "Load earlier" button) and land the target at the viewport top.

Screenshots taken from a real 43-turn session (DSH记忆注入验证优化, light theme).

Reference implementation: KeLearns/dsh-navigation-bar (visual spec and interactions aligned, code independently rewritten).

Features

• Per-session navigation: one key = one user message (steering messages sent while the agent is running are included), ordered by time; model replies never take a key of their own — they join the turn's preview.
• Full history: keys are built from the complete session log read on demand by the host half (sessionPersistence.readFrom), not from the browser's loaded window — long sessions (hundreds of turns) show every user question at once; merged with the live snapshot and deduplicated by message UUID (no duplicate keys).
• Visual spec: compact key cluster, fixed 10px pitch, 2px bar height, 6px base length, 26px hovered length (≈4.3×), vertically centered in the message area; light #D2D3D3 / #767779 / #1A1C1F, dark #454545 / #A3A3A3 / #FFFFFF.
• Hover ladder: the hovered key grows and recolors, neighbors step 20 / 14 / 10px (≈77% / 54% / 38%), the 4th neighbor returns to base; first/last keys clip naturally.
• Hover tooltip: user message single-line ellipsis + model reply up to 3 lines (JS width-model truncation + -webkit-line-clamp double insurance), vertically centered on the key.
• Active highlight: while not hovering, the key of the message currently in view changes color only (length unchanged), re-evaluated live on scroll.
• Click-to-jump: if the target message is inside the loaded window, scroll smoothly to it; if it is outside (virtualized history not yet loaded), the plugin automatically pulls older pages through the official paging API (the same channel as the "Load earlier" button) until the target row renders, then lands it at the top of the viewport.
• Light/dark theme via data-ds-dark-theme + prefers-color-scheme fallback.

Compatibility

• DSH 0.1.2+ supported (v0.1.11+): 0.1.2 reworked the session-snapshot shape (session.getSnapshot() no longer carries the navigation projection); this plugin now reads the full chat snapshot from the official uiConversation service (viewStore.get('chat')), the same source as the official turn navigator, and extracts historical replies from the on-disk log — every turn previews its reply.
• Versions before 0.1.2: still work (falls back to the legacy snapshot path).

Install

From GitHub (recommended)

dsh plugin --profile web add github:kiligzzz/dsh-session-nav

Local development (link)

dsh plugin --profile web add link:<this-directory>

Note: the plugin roster is loaded when the instance starts — after installing a new plugin, restart the dsh web instance, then refresh the page. Editing lib/client.js only needs a page refresh (dynamically loaded client bundle).

Structure

File	Description
index.js	Host half: reads the full session log and exposes the same-origin route /_dsh/session-nav/questions
lib/client.js	Browser half (hand-written bundle, no build step; window.__ModuleLoader__.load)
cordis.patch.yml	Bundle patch: inserts the plugin row into the web profile roster
package.json	dsh.bundle.patch + dsh.client (platform web) declarations

Data sources (all official APIs):

• ctx.uiConversation.binding(currentId).viewStore.get('chat') → full chat snapshot (with navigation, 0.1.2+; subscribed via useSyncExternalStore)
• ctx.sessions.binding(currentId).session → ConversationSnapshot (fallback for pre-0.1.2 / when uiConversation is unavailable)
• ctx.sessionPersistence.readFrom(sessionId, 0) → full session log (host half)
• DOM anchors: scroll container [data-conversation-scroll], message rows [data-chat-anchor-key]
• Paging: session.loadOlder() (same channel as the official "Load earlier" button)

Performance

Event-driven geometry tracking: scroll capture / resize / lazily attached scrollport ResizeObserver → rAF-merged recomputes; no perpetual MutationObserver, no timers. Anchor rows go through an isConnected-validated cache so virtualized list recycling stays cheap.

Development

Requirements: Node.js >= 18.

pnpm install        # dev dependencies (vitest, eslint, prettier)
pnpm test           # run the unit test suite (31 tests)
pnpm lint           # eslint check
pnpm format         # prettier formatting

Layout notes:

• Pure helpers (text extraction, truncation, key identity, cluster geometry) live in lib/shared.js so the host and browser halves share one implementation and the tests cover it once.
• The browser half is a hand-written bundle with no build step: edit lib/client.js and refresh the page; host changes (index.js) need a plugin reload.
• window.__dssnNavDebug__ exposes diagnostics (entryCount, fullCount, stats) for CDP inspection.

License

MIT