dsh-annotation-plugin

Quote selected assistant text into your next request — a standalone plugin for DeepSeek Harness.

This plugin ships both halves of the feature in one npm package:

• Host half (dsh.bundle + cordis.patch.yml): an annotation plugin that records quotes as log-only session events (annotation/added / annotation/removed), exposes a Typert Remote (record / list / discard), and materializes pending quotes into the model-facing message batch at agent/pre-step.
• Browser half (dsh.client): a quote button on each assistant message and a floating, collapsible pending-quote card above the composer.

Install

Requires a DeepSeek Harness profile that composes @deepseek-ai/dsh-base (the official base layer provides session, agent, web and the client runtime).

From npm (recommended)

dsh plugin --profile <name> add dsh-annotation-plugin

The published package ships prebuilt artifacts, so nothing builds at install time.

From GitHub

A git install fetches sources, not built artifacts — the package's prepare script (tsdown) builds lib/ after checkout, and pnpm refuses to run a git dependency's prepare until you explicitly allow it. The first add fails and dsh prints the exact package key to allow:

dsh plugin --profile <name> add github:you/dsh-annotation-plugin
# → pnpm refuses to run the prepare script; copy the package key it prints
#   into the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml, then re-run the add:

# <profile dir>/pnpm-workspace.yaml
allowBuilds:
  dsh-annotation-plugin: true

dsh plugin --profile <name> add github:you/dsh-annotation-plugin   # re-run

That allowance is permission to execute the package's code on your machine at install time, outside any sandbox the agent runs under. Only allow packages whose source you trust, and pin a commit so a later push cannot silently change what runs:

dsh plugin --profile <name> add github:you/dsh-annotation-plugin#<sha>

If you would rather not ask users for the allowance, install the npm build instead (or distribute a tarball from pnpm pack — neither needs any build permission).

The bundle layer inserts the annotation plugin row; the client-modules table picks up the dsh.client declaration and loads the browser bundle in the Web GUI.

Usage

1. Select text in an assistant message. 2. Click the quote button (✎) in the message action strip — the selection is recorded and a floating card appears above the composer: Quotes · N ▴. 3. Click the card to expand the quoted-text list; use ✕ on a row to cancel that quote. 4. Send your message — the pending quotes are materialized as quoted context for the model and the card disappears.

Requirements

Peer dependencies (@deepseek-ai/dsh-session, @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-conversation, …) are satisfied by the profile's dependency tree.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm build        # tsdown: lib/index.mjs (node half) + lib/client.js (browser bundle)
pnpm test         # vitest (jsdom client specs)
pnpm typecheck

Regenerating the Remote contribution

src/remote.ts is a committed copy of the Typert-generated descriptors. After changing any @Remote method signature in src/index.ts, regenerate it (e.g. from the official checkout: pnpm run build:lib:host, then copy packages/session/annotation/lib/typert.remote-client.js into src/remote.ts and adapt the package ids). An out-of-date descriptor silently strips fields on the client — the classic "schema missing a field" failure.

Notes

• The Host half uses the namespace plugin form (name / inject / apply named exports). Do not add an export default — the Loader's unwrapExports would discard the namespace.
• The browser half mounts its own Typert Remote contribution (ctx.remote.$mount) because the published @deepseek-ai/dsh-api-remotes does not carry the annotation namespace.
• The discard Remote export maps to the remove method (method: "discard", implementation: "remove"); keep the generated descriptor in sync.

License

MIT