dsh-side-chat-pro

Side Chat Pro (dsh-side-chat-pro)

Select text inside a DSH conversation, then pick one of three actions: ask in a side chat, translate, or explain the term.

Forked from dsh-side-chat-plus (MIT, by heartmove / dsh-sub-chats contributors). All upstream features are kept; selection translate and concept explain are added.

What's new

• Three-way selection menu: ask in side chat / translate / explain.
• Context-aware translation: the paragraph around the selection is sent along, and the model returns 1–5 candidate translations ranked by fit, which handles the case where one English word means different things in different contexts.
• Concept explain: one to three sentences on what the term means here, also with the surrounding context.
• Standalone popover: translation and explanation appear next to the selection, with copy and close; nothing is written into the main conversation.
• Uses the side chat's current model and reasoning effort; high/xhigh/max effort is lowered to low for these short tasks so results come back faster.

Upstream features kept

• Side-chat Q&A: an isolated hidden session per parent conversation, inheriting model and permissions.
• Draggable launcher button that remembers its position.
• Parent-conversation context: a new side chat starts with the last 5 turns (10k characters max) and can page further back with sidechat_read_parent.
• Durable side-chat records: they survive a DSH restart and only disappear when you end them explicitly.

Install

dsh plugin --profile <your profile> add dsh-side-chat-pro

Restart DSH afterwards.

Known limitations

• Built by patching the compiled output of upstream 0.5.2. src/ is included for reading; rebuild from the upstream repository if you need sources.
• Selection only works inside the DSH window. For selecting text in other Windows apps, see dsh-select-assist-plus.
• Requires DSH >=0.2.1-rc.1.

License

MIT. Original copyright belongs to dsh-sub-chats contributors (see LICENSE); the delta is described in NOTICE.