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dsh-plugin-collapsible-steps
Verified · install-tested on dsh mervyn-teo
What it does
A plugin in the UI & Skins category for DeepSeek Harness.
Works — verified, early-stage project
A plugin in the UI & Skins category for DeepSeek Harness. It installs cleanly and boots without issues in our testing. It's early-stage but functional.
“Verified” means our automated CI actually ran dsh plugin add in a clean profile and it booted — nothing more. Feature descriptions and version compatibility are the author’s claims. This is not a security audit and not an endorsement of third-party code.
README
dsh-plugin-collapsible-steps
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A DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Web
plugin that folds every run of consecutive collapsible-card steps between
messages into a single + N steps row. Click the row to collapse the run
(hiding all but the most recent step) or expand it back. The shipped
conversation cards and markdown answers are left untouched — the rows are
annotated, never replaced.
What it does
- Adds a Collapse steps / Expand steps control to the session header, and a
- N stepsrow before every run of consecutive step nodes. - Collapsing a row hides that run's rows (
display: none, so no empty gaps
are left behind) except the most recent one, which stays below the+ N stepstext; clicking+expands the run back. - A "step" is any collapsible-card row —
tool-call,workflow-run,command,command-input,compaction,context(context injection),manual-compaction,model-retry, and an assistant message'sThink
(reasoning) disclosure. The final text answer, user/steering messages, and
turn notices act as group boundaries. - The regular tool cards, reasoning sections, and markdown answer rendering
all remain the shipped DSH ones. - A Collapsible steps card under Settings → Plugins controls whether runs
are collapsed by default.
Settings
The plugin registers a collapsible-steps settings namespace with one option:
collapseByDefault(boolean, defaulttrue) — collapse runs of steps by
default. Turn it off to keep runs expanded until you collapse them manually.
How it works
The slot system gives a plugin no way to wrap the shipped conversation cards,
so instead of replacing the step renderers this plugin annotates the shipped
DOM: it reads the conversation node order through the session hook, computes
the runs of consecutive steps, and inserts the bracket headers directly into
the existing flow (the node rows themselves are never moved, so the shipped
view keeps reconciling normally).
Files
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
lib/client.js |
Browser half — the header control, bracket insertion, collapse state, and the settings card. |
lib/index.js |
Host half — registers the collapsible-steps settings namespace. |
lib/invariant.js |
Invariant registration. |
cordis.patch.yml |
Composition patch that inserts the plugin row and its default config. |
package.json |
Package metadata (dsh.bundle + dsh.client manifest). |
Install
dsh plugin --profile web add github:mervyn-teo/dsh-plugin-collapsible-steps
Then restart dsh web — host bundles load at boot.
Requirements
- DSH with the base conversation UI (
@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-conversation)
mounted — the plugin inserts brackets into its chat flow.
License
Install
Install the catalog once, then DeepSeek Harness can find and install any plugin from this site automatically:
dsh plugin add dshbase-catalogThen say "install dsh-plugin-collapsible-steps for me" — your agent finds it in the directory and installs it. Docs: dshbase-catalog · verified packs.
This plugin is GitHub source (not published to npm) — install it straight from the repo:
Web profile:
dsh plugin --profile web add github:mervyn-teo/dsh-plugin-collapsible-stepsHeadless (CLI) profile:
dsh plugin --profile headless add github:mervyn-teo/dsh-plugin-collapsible-stepsTest report
Verified: L1 install + L2 load + L3 runtime from GitHub source on dsh 0.1.0-rc.6.
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