dsh-side-chat

When working with AI agents on complex tasks or engaging in long conversations, you often need to deeply investigate a specific detail or deliberate over a multi-option question dialog posed by the agent. Expanding on these directly in the main chat can easily disrupt your workflow and pollute the context. dsh-side-chat solves this by providing an enhanced Codex-style side chat panel, offering a dedicated, fully agentic "thinking space" that operates alongside your main conversation without interrupting the flow.

This side panel is far more than a simple scratchpad; it is a genuine DSH session that inherits the main conversation's toolset, model configuration, permission presets, and workspace context. You can select any text from the main chat or directly interact with the agent's question dialogs to initiate a side discussion. The AI will help you analyze options or review code in the side panel, and you can then seamlessly "bring back" the conclusions to the main chat—either by inserting them directly into the composer draft or injecting them as collapsed context rows, keeping your primary workflow smooth and intact.

For developers and power users who prefer multi-threaded thinking and need to maintain a clear mainline during complex agent interactions, this plugin is an indispensable tool. It makes decision-making more deliberate while keeping the main conversation clean and focused, serving as a fantastic extension to elevate the overall DSH experience.