omdsh-chatmode

DeepSeek Harness is a coding agent: before it will take a single message, the New Session screen asks for a project directory. Fair enough, because code needs somewhere to land. But not every question is work. You might want to ask about a concept, brainstorm, or have the agent run a quick script without it knowing which repo you are in. omdsh-chatmode adds that posture to the web GUI so you can start talking without choosing a folder.

It does this without modifying a single line of the harness. A Chat / Work segment appears above the conversation; a Chat workspace group shows up first in the sidebar; and while in Chat mode the project picker on the new-session row disappears, leaving only the preset chip that ships with the harness. The mode is derived, not stored: a session is a chat exactly when it lives under the managed Chat workspace, so opening a conversation from the sidebar moves the switch to describe where you are rather than writing a flag.

Built for developers who use Harness for coding but also want a frictionless, context-free conversation at any moment. Install it and it sits alongside your project workflow; uninstall it and everything reverts, leaving no residue.