dsh-sidebar-entry-manager

dsh-sidebar-entry-manager

A visibility switch for the plugin entries in the DeepSeek Harness left sidebar.

The DSH sidebar shell only draws whatever is registered in sidebar.panellist; it ships no per-entry visibility control, and the official "More" menu deliberately offers no pin/hide action. Today the only way to lose a row is to disable the whole plugin — losing the feature with it.

This plugin adds the missing step: hide the row, keep the plugin running.

After install

Gear at the bottom of the sidebar → Settings → Sidebar entries

The page lists whatever is actually registered right now (install another plugin and its row shows up without a release), one switch per entry:

• off → the row stops being drawn in the left navigation (including the collapsed icon rail);
• on → it comes straight back;
• "Show everything again" resets the list.

The choice lives on the Host (~/.dsh/sidebar-entry-manager.json), so it survives a port change, a restart, and a different browser.

Plugin updates (v0.2.0)

The same section ends with a Plugin update block:

• current version, a silent check when the page opens, and a manual "Check for updates";
• when a newer version exists, "Update now" goes through the plugin market's public update API (/dsh-market/api/v1/*) — the market installs, verifies the version and keeps a rollback point;
• an Auto-update switch (off by default): when on, a newer version is installed automatically on open; if conversations are running the market refuses and the plugin simply reports it instead of forcing the update;
• completion follows the market's refreshRequired / restartRequired outcome ("refresh the page" or "restart the app").

What it actually changes

Only the row's rendering: the row gets display:none while React keeps owning the node. The plugin, its page, its shortcuts and its services are untouched.

This is not a replacement for disabling a plugin — do that on the Plugins page when you want the resources back. This is for "keep it, just get it out of my sidebar".

One warning

The plugins entry (the plugin manager) can be hidden too, but then the sidebar has no plugin manager entry left. Settings is unaffected, so recovery is always one click away.

Known limits

• Governs the root-scope global panel rows (sidebar.panellist) only. The right side card's tab visibility is dsh-better-sidebar's own "Side card" settings section; the two never fight.
• Rows are drawn by the shell with no id attribute, so this plugin maps DOM rows back to declared ids by index, cross-checked against aria-label. If two plugins register the same label and the order moves, a row can be mismatched — toggle it off and on again to resettle.
• The plugins entry is plugins; dshmarket's market row is dsh-market. Independent.
• Auto-update depends on the plugin market's public update API; without the market only a manual-update hint is shown.

Install

dsh plugin --profile desktop add "<absolute path>\dsh-sidebar-entry-manager-0.2.0.tgz"

Or paste the package name into Plugins → Add plugin once it is on npm.

Development

node scripts/build.mjs   # src/ → lib/ (browser half wrapped in the __ModuleLoader__ envelope, version injected)
node --test              # 25 cases, zero dependencies

• src/host.js → lib/index.js: the state file (hidden + autoUpdate) plus one fenced /api/dsh-sidebar-entry-manager/state route (GET reads, POST writes).
• src/client.js → lib/client.js: DOM visibility, the settings.section page, and the update panel.

License

MIT