dsh-scratchpad

In the DeepSeek Harness Web GUI, even the smallest ad-hoc task—quickly testing an idea, sketching a short script, or firing off a one-off question—forces you to anchor the session to a project workspace or hand-pick a local directory. Do this repeatedly and your sidebar slowly fills with orphaned one-shot folders that clutter the tree and slow you down.

dsh-scratchpad adds a pixel-aligned "Scratchpad" button right next to the native New Session control at the top of the sidebar. One click spawns a fresh temporary conversation and brings it into focus with no directory picker and no extra steps. Every scratchpad session is automatically collected into a single collapsible group that stays pinned to the very top of the workspace tree, so importing new projects will never push it below the fold. In collapsed rail mode the button shrinks to a compact 36x36 capsule with a native tooltip, while expanded mode shares the official border radius, border, background, and hover feedback. Under the hood it is built on the DSH standard Client module system with zero global CSS pollution and no risk of render loops.

If you lean on DSH for quick, exploratory interactions and want your sidebar to stay tidy without changing how you manage real projects, dsh-scratchpad slots into exactly the gap a scratch space should fill. It leaves your existing workflow untouched and simply gives temporary conversations a home they can finally occupy on their own.