DSH Metafolder Plugin

Visual meta-folders for the DeepSeek Harness sidebar.

Nest real workspace folders and individual sessions under named, collapsible groups — for example every Resonant OS project under one "Resonant OS" meta folder. The safe organization layer changes how sessions and workspace folders are visualised and persists in this browser’s localStorage. An optional Host integration exists, but durable Host storage and cross-device sync are not implemented:

• workspace paths, permissions, and session working directories are untouched;
• workspace and session grouping is metadata-only;
• physical workspace moves remain guarded until DSH exposes a supported path-migration API;
• ungrouping returns a folder to the main list unchanged;
• the AI's permissions stay attached to the real folder, because the real folder is what the plugin renders.

Features

• Meta-folders over the real workspace rows, with per-folder session counts.
• Drag and drop: drag a workspace or session row onto a meta folder to file it; drop it on the list background to take it out again.
• Local assignments: groups and assignments survive page reloads in the same browser. Clearing browser storage removes them. The optional Host service uses memory only; it is not durable storage or cross-device sync.
• Physical move boundary: actual workspace/project moves are intentionally guarded until DSH provides a workspace/session migration API or a dedicated atomic Host capability.
• Row menu: → <meta folder> to file, Remove from meta folder to unfile, plus rename / move up / move down, and delete workspace.
• Per-folder colour: pick it when you create the folder — an eight-swatch palette, the theme colour, or a custom colour — and change it any time from Rename meta folder. The colour tints the folder glyph, its label, and the drop-target outline.
• View options (the shipped menu, preserved): group by Workspace / Flat, order by Manual / Updated. Manual order honours the order already stored by the shipped browser (dsh.workspace.view.v5).
• Add workspace still works, from both the wide sidebar and the collapsed rail, via the composed directory-flow picker with a Host-picker fallback.
• Session search (local + Host index), rename / fork / archive per session, per-workspace new session.

Everything the shipped browser offered is still here — the meta-folder layer is an addition to the toolbar, not a replacement.

Requirements

• DeepSeek Harness >= 0.1.5-rc.1 on the web profile.
• The shipped @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-sidebar and @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-workspace client packages (the seat it shadows).
• Node ^22.19.0 || >=24.0.0 to build the browser half.

Install

One package, two halves:

lib/client.js is generated from client.js; regenerate and check it after editing:

npm run check     # build + syntax + export smoke test

Download and install

Download version 1.2.1. The .tgz asset is ready to install; no build or manual symlink is needed:

dsh plugin --profile web add https://github.com/ManoloRemiddi/DSH-Metafolder-Plugin/releases/download/v1.2.1/dsh-metafolder-plugin-1.2.1.tgz

Finish any running tasks, restart your existing DSH process, and reload its web page. Use your actual profile if it is not web. The shipped sidebar and workspace packages must be present. This release was checked with DSH 0.1.5-rc.1; newer releases may change the UI interfaces it uses.

For an existing manual symlink installation, update that checkout to v1.2.1 and keep its existing registration. Do not add a second copy or duplicate patch row.

For development, clone the repository and run npm run check and npm test. The built browser file is included in both the repository and the release.

Registration note: a single slot takes one registration per priority and the lowest renders, so the seat is registered with priority: -1 to shadow the shipped browser at 0. Registering at the default 0 is rejected with "already has a registration at priority 0 … register at a different priority to shadow it".

Remove

For a CLI installation:

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-metafolder-plugin

For the older manual installation, remove only its metafolder-plugin insert row and its package symlink. Restart DSH and reload the page. Groups stay under dsh.wsmeta.v1 in localStorage; uninstalling does not move workspace files.

Support and related plugins

Report a problem with your DSH version, browser version, install method and reproduction steps. Do not attach credentials or private session logs.

Browse the DeepSeek Harness Plugins collection.

Verified against

• @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-workspace — sidebar.workspaces registration, the sidebar.workspaces.directoryFlow hole, WorkspaceBrowserProps.
• @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-sidebar — owner share { wide, expandSidebar }.
• @deepseek-ai/dsh-api-workspace-controller / dsh-api-session-controller — workspace and session service methods and snapshot shapes.
• DSH physical move boundary: the remaining work for true physical moves requires an upstream DSH workspace/session migration API or a dedicated Host capability that atomically updates the filesystem, workspace registry, and session metadata.

MIT © 2026 Manolo Remiddi