dsh-harness-chat-control

DSH Desktop handles conversations well, yet it lacks a key interaction pattern: quoting a previous answer to keep the thread going, or spinning off a side conversation without disturbing the main one. dsh-harness-chat-control fills both gaps in a single install.

Main-thread quoting lets you select any fragment of a reply, which surfaces as a compact annotation capsule in the input box. You refine your follow-up question and send it right where the conversation already lives, with no Markdown noise leaking into the text. Sidebar quoting carries that same reference into a dedicated Better Sidebar panel, so your main thread stays untouched. The sidebar ships with a locked copy of dsh-better-sidebar 0.17.1, meaning no version drift, no separate install, and no conflicts with other plugins. Model switching, stop, and send states all run through the native event path. Editing and resending a user message overwrites the response in place rather than spawning duplicate sessions.

If you often loop back on a specific answer in DSH Desktop and want to spin off branch questions into the sidebar without muddying the main thread, this plugin makes that workflow noticeably smoother. It only injects quoting capsules, entry points, and session routing; the DSH core remains unmodified. It targets DSH Desktop 0.7.2 and Harness 0.1.2-alpha.1.