dsh-left-sidebar-collapse

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Auto-collapse / fully-collapse the DSH left sidebar when you select a
conversation. A standalone, installable DSH plugin (pure client, no
ui-layout framework changes).

Two independent preferences appear in Settings → General:

1. Auto-collapse sidebar — after you select a conversation, the left
   sidebar collapses to its 56px rail. Deterministic: a plugin-internal state
   machine drives ctx.layout and reads the stable data-sidebar-collapsed
   frame signal, holding against the layout's own feedback so it never
   double-toggles.
2. Fully collapse — when the sidebar is collapsed, tuck it completely
   away (the rail is removed, the grid's first track collapses to 0) and show a
   single floating expand button in the top-left. Clicking it restores the
   full sidebar. The conversation pane stays at full width — nothing else is
   disturbed.

The preferences are persisted in localStorage (process-local browser
preference), so the toggles are always writable and survive reloads.

Install

Requires DSH (DeepSeek Harness) dsh CLI.

dsh plugin --profile web add git+https://github.com/condaThinker/dsh-left-sidebar-collapse

Then restart the profile:

dsh --profile web
# or whatever your run command is for the profile you installed into

After install, open Settings → General and toggle Auto-collapse
sidebar (and optionally Fully collapse).

Git install and the prepare build

This plugin ships a self-contained prepare build script (tsdown), per the
DSH plugin distribution convention. When installed by git, pnpm runs that
script to build lib/ in the profile, so it needs network access to resolve
the DSH peer/dev dependencies and the profile must allow the build script:
add dsh-left-sidebar-collapse to the profile's allowBuilds (see pnpm ≥10
allowBuilds/strictDepBuilds), then re-run the dsh plugin add. For a
zero-build alternative, a maintainer may instead commit a freshly built lib/
into the repo and drop prepare — but the recommended path is prepare.

Build

pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm test

How it works

• Auto-collapse: a listener on ctx.sessions.list notices when the
  current session moves to a different real session; the
  AutoCollapseMachine then collapses the
  sidebar via ctx.layout.toggleSidebar() only while the frame renders it
  expanded (reading data-sidebar-collapsed), and suppresses further flips
  until the frame confirms the collapse — no double-toggle, no flip-back.
• Fully collapse: a shell.overlay occupant (FullCollapseButton)
  reactively watches data-sidebar-collapsed; when collapsed and
  "fully collapse" is on it injects a tiny grid-template-columns: 0 minmax(0,1fr) 0 !important override (so the sidebar track → 0 and the
  center reclaims the width) and shows the single expand button.

The client bundle respects DSH's module-table purity: only platform modules
(ui-primitives, the documented dsh-client-runtime exemption) are
value-imported; everything else is a type-only contract pull.

Model Experience

None, as the plugin only moves the browser layout column and never enters the append-only Session log, the model context, or telemetry.

KV Cache effect

None; the collapse gesture does not touch the history tail.

Known Limitations and Deferred Work

• dsh-better-sidebar coexistence — both plugins manage sidebar state
  independently; if the toggle looks like it fires without the flag on, check
  whether another sidebar plugin (e.g. dsh-better-sidebar) is also
  collapsing. This plugin is strictly off when its toggle is off.
• The collapse gesture is a toggle, not a store write — because
  ctx.layout exposes only toggleSidebar(), the plugin keeps the state
  machine above to avoid double-toggling, but it cannot move the layout store
  directly.