dsh-remote-status

When working with DeepSeek Harness remote mirror workspaces, switching between local and remote sessions happens so often that it becomes easy to lose track of which machine a given session is actually running on. dsh-remote-status places a compact status chip at the bottom of the sidebar: a green dot labeled "◉ Local" for local sessions, and an orange dot reading "⇄ Remote · machine-name" for remote mirror sessions. Hovering the chip reveals a diagnostics panel showing workspaces/sessions service health, session mode, last refresh time, and recent errors—while local sessions deliberately expose no remote machine details.

Beyond the chip, the plugin automatically appends a "dirname ⇄ machine-name" suffix to default-named remote mirror workspace titles. User-defined titles are left untouched, and already-marked workspaces are never re-renamed. Updates are driven by event subscriptions with a 150 ms debounce plus a 1-second polling fallback, so directory switches reflect almost instantly. If an API call fails, the plugin retains the last-known state and surfaces a ⚠ indicator; a missing workspaces service will not crash it. The entire plugin is a pure UI indicator—it registers zero tools and ships its own host routes, so the chip remains functional even without dsh-remote installed, as long as machine and mirror data have been created by dsh-remote or a compatible plugin.

It is well suited to DeepSeek Harness users who routinely hop between several machines and toggle local and remote sessions, especially when maintaining multiple mirror workspaces and needing an at-a-glance answer to the question "where am I right now?" without digging through config files.