dsh-worktable 🖥️

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An agent-project workbench for DeepSeek Harness — a sidebar app drawer that turns every project into dockable windows, plus a built-in control room that monitors them all in real time.

📸 Screenshots

	🖥️ Control room — the built-in default project: a live card grid watching every project (working / needs you / done) with glassmorphism cards on a blueprint grid
	🧩 Worktable sidebar — the app drawer: projects, shortcuts, and the pinned control-room entry
	🪟 Our projects — every project opens as a dockable split workspace (resident apps like Travel Atlas included)

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✨ Feature tour

🧩 Sidebar app drawer

• Collects your self-hosted projects (and resident plugins like dsh-travelatlas) in one place
• Rename / icon / reorder / hide each project; per-project folder; project ↔ conversation binding — opening a project switches the chat pane to its bound conversation
• Collapse the sidebar and every project becomes a tappable square tile (icon only)

🪟 Dockable split workspace

• Declarative layout presets (left column / top row / main grid + right chat pane)
• Draggable dividers, per-pane tabs, per-layout width persistence
• Built-in panes: file explorer, terminal, browser, animation site, custom window
• Custom window: send a requirement to a new or existing conversation; the agent builds it and the result auto-mounts into the window (locked)

🖥️ Control room (built-in default project)

• A pinned, undeletable first project — bind one management conversation on first open
• 3-column card grid mirrors every project: working / needs you / done with live runtime, subagent counts, and a cleaned-up message preview
• Event-driven host snapshot mirroring — zero polling, zero tokens
• Glassmorphism cards, dark / light / system themes, neon status glows, and a rotating comet on busy cards

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At a glance

🧩 Plugin type	Cordis plugin — host routes + web client, purely additive (no official plugin replaced)
🪟 Workspace engine	Self-built split engine rendered into the host shell overlay seat
💬 Chat pane	Reuses the host conversation — the plugin only selects sessions (sessions.open)
📡 Status data	Mirror of the host session runtime snapshots (subscription-driven)
💾 State	localStorage only (dsh.worktable.*); no workspace files touched
🎨 UI	TypeScript + React (host externals) + vanilla CSS, dark-first with a light theme

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Quick start

1. Install (pick one):

   A · one-liner (recommended) — straight from the GitHub Release tarball, no Git needed:

   dsh plugin --profile web add "https://github.com/Aisland-SJL/dsh-worktable/releases/latest/download/dsh-worktable.tgz"
   

   B · local clone (for hacking on the source) — link: accepts a local absolute path only (no spaces in the path):

   git clone https://github.com/Aisland-SJL/dsh-worktable.git
   dsh plugin --profile web add "link:<absolute path of the cloned dsh-worktable directory>/01_content"
   # e.g. cloned into D:\tools → dsh plugin --profile web add "link:D:/tools/dsh-worktable/01_content"
   

   Either way, the add command registers dsh-worktable in the profile bundle list (writes to ~/.dsh, may ask for authorization). If the dsh command is missing, use npx @deepseek-ai/dsh instead.

2. Restart the DSH web process and refresh the GUI

3. Open the control room: click the pinned 🖥️ control-room card → bind one conversation (join an existing one or create a new one) → you get the live card grid

4. Create projects: sidebar ＋ → pick a layout preset, set a project folder

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Architecture

One package ships the host Cordis plugin and the web client:

• host: /api/worktable/* routes — health, file system, git, file read/write, site serving, mkdir, workspaces, native skin template; WebSocket /api/worktable/term for the terminal pane (PowerShell on Windows)
• client: injected into the sidebar and the shell overlay via the slot protocol; the split engine, tab model, drag/drop, and persistence are self-built
• control room: reads the host session list snapshot (running / pending / completed, jobs, subagent catalogs) — an event-driven mirror, no model involvement
• window tasks: the agent writes widget-result.json into the project folder on completion; the client mounts the artifact into the addressed window and locks it

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Development & testing

cd 01_content
npm install
npm run build     # lib/index.js + lib/client.js
node --check lib/index.js

• Build must run inside 01_content — building from the repo root writes lib/ to the wrong place while the host keeps loading the old bundle
• The client bundle keeps the window.__ModuleLoader__.load handshake; react and @deepseek-ai/* stay external
• Regression: 04_test/functional-diag.cjs (20 steps, strict gate) plus targeted probes (control room, bind panel, collapsed rail, model inheritance), the path matrix (04_test/pathutil-matrix.cjs), and update-check scenarios (04_test/probe-update-scenarios.cjs)
• In the release pipeline: split-anchor DOM regression 04_test/anchor-dom.test.mjs (8 scenarios, both host conversation-root shapes) and data-home resolution regression 04_test/server-home.test.mjs (3 groups: no-cycle fallback, path expansion, official-branch fixture)

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Troubleshooting

Q: After a DeepSeek Harness update, the worktable fails to open / the service fails to start?

Don't panic: your data is safe — projects, bindings, and layouts live in the browser (localStorage), and project files stay in your own project folders; upgrading or repairing never touches them. Pick the case that matches:

Case A: Harness works, only the worktable needs updating

• Open the worktable "Settings" → click "Check now"; when the amber update badge appears next to the worktable title, click it and choose "Copy AI prompt" to hand the upgrade to your AI assistant;

• Or simply re-run the install command (it always installs the latest version), then restart dsh web and refresh:

  dsh plugin --profile web add "https://github.com/Aisland-SJL/dsh-worktable/releases/latest/download/dsh-worktable.tgz"
  

Case B: Harness itself is down (service fails to start / "Failed to load plugins")

• First choice: upgrade Harness to the latest version (official fixes usually ship there): run npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web;
• If it still fails: copy the following to any AI assistant (Claude, Codex, GLM, ... — DeepSeek Harness itself is not required):

Help me fix DeepSeek Harness custom-plugin loading (the error is usually "Failed to load plugins" or the service failing to start):

1. Run npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web to upgrade to the latest and start; if it works, done.
2. If it still fails: open ~/.dsh/profiles/web/package.json, find every dependency starting with link:, and compute their common parent directory (e.g. if all plugins live under D:\projects, the parent is D:\projects).
3. Create a node_modules directory junction in that parent pointing to ~/.dsh/profiles/node_modules: mklink /J "\node_modules" "%USERPROFILE%.dsh\profiles\node_modules"; if that parent already has a node_modules, retry one level up.
4. Restart dsh web and open http://127.0.0.1:3080 to confirm the worktable is back.

This issue has been reported to the DeepSeek Harness team and is being fixed; upgrading after the fix ships will resolve it permanently.

Point-to-annotate 📌

Every window title bar has a small annotate button (chat-bubble with a plus) next to the collapse toggle. Click it, your cursor becomes a blue speech bubble — click anywhere in a window to drop an input box, type what you want changed ("make this text bigger"), and hit ✓. The message is packaged (window number + coordinates + the clicked element + your request), filled into the chat input without sending — press Enter when ready, and the agent works through the annotation protocol (verify with a screenshot or the window, or ask one targeted question instead of guessing).

• Point and speak — no verbal location description needed.
• The payload is self-explaining: any agent, in any conversation, can pick it up.
• Same behavior for every user — no local setup, no special tools.
• Same family of polish: the console gains a 5th dock button Changelog (version notes / check for updates / copy-upgrade command) and ships two default background presets (aurora gradient + coastal view) in the custom background library.

Known limits

• Platform: Windows is the fully tested platform. macOS support is experimental: the core file-path code has been adapted for cross-platform use, but no end-to-end test has been completed on macOS hardware.
• State lives in the browser (localStorage) — projects, bindings, and views do not sync across machines
• The terminal pane is a plain PowerShell host on Windows (no PTY feature parity with the native terminal app)
• Auto-mount requires the agent to actually write widget-result.json in the project folder
• The control room monitors projects that are bound to a conversation; unbound projects show as idle

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Privacy

No telemetry, no network calls beyond the host APIs and the plugin routes. All user state stays in localStorage. Optional update check: a read-only GET to the GitHub Releases API (automatic at most once a day, plus a manual "Check now" button); nothing is uploaded, and it can be disabled in Settings.

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License

MIT

Related

• dsh-reminder — cross-window completion & approval notifications
• dsh-usage — persistent balance/usage dock