dsh-side-chat

Halfway through a long DSH conversation, you often want to branch off for a quick what-if question without dragging that detour into the main thread and polluting the context that follows. dsh-side-chat exists for exactly that: it opens an independent side-chat panel inside Better Sidebar, giving you a Codex-style fork-and-return experience at any point in your session.

The side session is forked from the most recent completed turn of your main conversation. It inherits the full context but hides the pre-fork history, so the panel shows only the new side-chat messages. Everything runs over your existing API connection with streaming session and event support, reasoning traces, tool calls, and Markdown rendering. You can stop mid-stream or re-branch freely, copy the answer with one click, or drop it straight into the main chat input as a draft. Side-session IDs are persisted per main conversation in the Sidebar tab meta and localStorage, so they survive a restart.

If you already use DSH Web and push a main task forward turn after turn but occasionally need a quiet detour to sanity-check an idea, explore an alternative approach, or let the model reason from a different angle without breaking your main-thread flow, this plugin is built for you. It is lightweight and ready to go after a single Web-service restart, with no additional dependencies.