dsh-conversation-process-collapse

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Settled-turn process folding for the Web conversation: once a turn closes, every process row — intermediate narration, Think rows, tool cards, retry status, workflow runs — collapses at the DOM layer into one expandable disclosure (Processed in {duration} · {n} steps, duration omitted when a boundary is out of the window) at the turn's first process position, while the closing content message and the turn-tail stay visible. Reasoning inside the final answer is also hidden with the group; its visible text remains. A turn folds only when it is closed AND has a content-bearing assistant step — tool-only turns and live streaming keep the plain flow, so an answer or the running progress is never hidden.

The DOM version currently focuses on process-row folding while keeping the final answer visible. The earlier React-slot feature that promotes generated images beside the final answer has not yet been ported to the DOM implementation and can be added later as an enhancement.

The implementation is a pure frontend DOM plugin: it watches [data-chat-flow], recognizes closed turns, and collapses process rows into an expandable disclosure while keeping the final answer visible. It does not require the unmerged conversation.chat.processGroup extension point, a profile override, or a fork of the official conversation package.

Install / Update as a standalone plugin

The package ships an installable bundle declaration (dsh.bundle.patch + cordis.patch.yml), so it installs from any DeepSeek Harness installation exactly like any profile plugin:

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-conversation-process-collapse
# update
dsh plugin --profile web update 'dsh-conversation-process-collapse@latest'

The npm package name is dsh-conversation-process-collapse; it is both the profile bundle row and the browser client package.

The command is a pnpm forwarder over the profile directory; it then reconciles the profile's bundle layer stack, so the plugin joins dsh web without a build step.

No override is needed. After installing, restart dsh web and hard-refresh the browser (Cmd / Ctrl + Shift + R) to load the new client bundle.

After install

After adding the package and restarting dsh web, settled turns in the Web conversation collapse their process rows into one disclosure header while the final answer stays visible:

If the plugin manager marks an unrelated npm package as “installed, not active” (inert), that is normal: only packages declaring dsh.bundle metadata enter the profile bundle layer and become profile plugins. This package declares dsh.bundle; after installing it, restart the DSH process and hard-refresh the browser (Cmd / Ctrl + Shift + R) so the new bundle layer is loaded.

Model Experience

None, as this package folds already-rendered conversation rows in the browser without altering model requests, Tool execution, or session events.

KV Cache effect

None; this package neither assembles nor sends a provider request.

Known Limitations and Deferred Work

• Expansion state is not persisted — the open/closed state lives in memory, so switching conversation tabs or reloading the page returns each group to its collapsed default.
• The DOM pass runs on the rendered flow only — the plugin can only see messages already mounted in the page; unloaded history boundaries are not folded until paging brings them in.