dsh-session-search

The Harness sidebar search matches session titles and metadata, but the information you actually need is usually buried in message bodies — a command you ran three weeks ago, a key insight from an assistant reply in a session you never named. dsh-session-search indexes every user prompt and every assistant reply so that pressing Alt+K and typing a few words takes you straight to the specific message, not just the session that contains it.

The index is built once at boot and then kept current through the live session and event stream, with no polling or rescans. Ranking mirrors omnisearch: prefix and fuzzy matching with a 3x boost on the session title, strict AND with an OR fallback when nothing lines up. At around 1,200 messages the index builds in roughly a second and queries answer in single-digit milliseconds. Everything stays on your machine — no network calls, no telemetry, no external service. Forked sessions are de-duplicated so inherited history is not indexed twice, and archived sessions surface a Resurrect button when the optional dsh-kepler-graveyard companion is present.

This plugin suits developers who accumulate long-term conversations in Harness and frequently need to recall a specific piece of context, especially in unnamed sessions where title search falls short. The current version indexes plain text only, so images, tool-call arguments, and reasoning blocks are not covered. The Alt+K chord is fixed for now and not yet rebindable, but it covers the day-to-day retrieval workflow comfortably.