dsh-btw

Mid-conversation, a side thought pops up — what if I could ask a quick question without derailing the main thread? dsh-btw is built exactly for that. Hit Ctrl/⌘+Alt+B or tap the ? icon next to any completed answer, and a floating drawer slides in. It snapshots the finished dialogue you have loaded, opens a brand-new isolated session, and streams the answer back — while your main conversation stays perfectly untouched.

Being a pure client-side plugin, dsh-btw makes zero server-side changes. It does not copy the main session's goals, plans, tool calls, or permission state; it only ships the loaded user and assistant text (capped at 48 KB) as hidden read-only context with the first prompt. Each answer carries its own follow-up anchor: tapping ? on the same answer continues that specific thread, while different answers stay independent. Side-ask sessions are prefixed with BTW: and auto-archived, so they never clutter your session list, and a page refresh simply rebuilds the context from the latest main thread.

It suits users working in the DeepSeek Harness Web GUI on long-form writing, iterative debugging, or multi-step planning. If you want a clean main line of thought while still being able to toss a quick side question without opening a new window or starting over, dsh-btw is your lightweight thinking sidebar. It inherits the main session's model by default, lets you switch provider and model independently inside the drawer, and shows a live context-pressure ring so you always know how much token budget the side-ask thread is using.