dsh-sidebar-superdoc-docx

Opening a .docx in the DSH sidebar historically meant staring at raw XML or a plain download link. To actually edit it in the browser you had to spin up an OnlyOffice Document Server or Collabora, wire up a CDN, and wrestle with cross-origin issues for just tweaking a paragraph in the web GUI. dsh-sidebar-superdoc-docx embeds SuperDoc, a browser-native DOCX editor, directly into the better-sidebar pane. No external document server, no CDN, no third-party service: install it and it is ready.

Editing, suggesting, and pure viewing modes switch with one click from the settings gear. Saving writes through a dedicated atomic route (tmp file plus rename), so the file on disk is never in a half-written state. A three-second disk poll picks up outside changes: a clean editor hot-swaps to the new version in place; a dirty editor simply shows a banner and lets you decide whether to reload, so unsaved work is never silently dropped. Every asset is served same-origin from the package itself; after install the plugin runs fully offline with telemetry off by default.

Who it suits: teams where an AI agent edits a .docx in the session and you need to polish it by hand within seconds, keeping a tight two-way loop without interruptions; intranet, compliance, or air-gapped deployments that cannot reach CDNs or SaaS document services; document-review workflows where you open in suggesting mode and let comments land as tracked changes; or anyone who just wants to click a .docx in the file tree and see a paginated preview with a one-click download. Zero service dependencies, install and go.