dsh-approval-hotkeys

 

Approval-panel hotkeys for DeepSeek Harness, for every approval source — not just edits.

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A deliberately minimal plugin with one generic rule: Enter always presses the confirm button (the primary, right-most action); Esc always presses the cancel button — on every button-bearing interaction panel the harness renders.

The panel anchors are harness-generic, so the hotkeys work on every interaction the GUI shows — edit approvals, permission escalations, tool questions, plan reviews. This is the Claude Code habit: confirm with Enter, refuse with Esc.

Approval panel

Every approval — edits, permission escalations, anything routed through the ApprovalPanel. Enter presses Allow once, Esc presses Reject.

<p align="center"> <img src="assets/screenshots/approval-panel.png" width="680" alt="Approval panel — Enter: Allow once, Esc: Reject"/> </p>

Question / choice panel

Tool questions (ask_user_question). Enter presses Submit / Next, Esc presses Discard the group.

<p align="center"> <img src="assets/screenshots/question-panel.png" width="680" alt="Question panel — Enter: Submit, Esc: Discard the group"/> </p>

Plan review panel

Enter presses Approve, Esc presses Decline (or Discuss when the panel has no decline action).

<p align="center"> <img src="assets/screenshots/plan-review-panel.png" width="680" alt="Plan review panel — Enter: Approve, Esc: Decline"/> </p>

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-approval-hotkeys

Restart dsh web — or, since this plugin is pure browser-side, just refresh the page when the host side did not change. No configuration, no settings page.

For contributors: install from a local checkout or a pinned commit — dsh plugin --profile web add /path/to/dsh-approval-hotkeys or dsh plugin --profile web add github:SiriLee/dsh-approval-hotkeys#<sha>. A git install fails on first run until you add an allowBuilds key to the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml (pnpm blocks git dependencies from running build scripts); after that it runs the plugin's prepare and installs it.

How it works

• Enter → confirm: clicks the panel's primary button — the last button

of its action row ("Allow once", "Submit/Next", "Approve"). The harness's Button component has no stable data-variant attribute (variants are CSS-Modules hash classes), so the plugin anchors on the layout contract that the confirm action always renders last — which is exactly the primary-colored button.

• Esc → cancel: clicks the panel's cancel button — Reject (first),

Discard (header), Decline (footer second-last, or Discuss when the panel has no decline action). Without a panel, Esc is left alone (no pause/stop binding — the GUI's own stop button and shortcuts own that).

Guards (what the plugin deliberately does NOT do)

• Never while typing: keydown inside an input / textarea / select /

contentEditable (the composer owns Enter/Esc there — e.g. Shift+Enter newline, Esc dismisses suggestions).

• Enter with focus on a button: left to the browser (it activates the

focused button natively) and to the panel itself (the question composer's options submit on Enter) — acting again would double-fire.

• Never on chords or repeats: Ctrl/Meta/Alt+key combinations and

held-key repeats are left alone.

• Esc with no panel: left alone — the plugin never stops or pauses the

agent; panels are the only surface it acts on.

Button resolution contract (data-hotkey="none")

Enter/Esc resolve their buttons by position (first / last / header-last / footer-last), not by a stable semantic attribute — the harness's Button component exposes no reliable data-role/data-variant, so position is the only stable signal available to a client plugin that does not own the panel DOM. That makes button order the single coupling point to the harness layout.

To keep that coupling safe when other plugins inject buttons into a panel (utility toggles, decorative controls), this plugin skips any button marked data-hotkey="none" when resolving the confirm/cancel action. Any plugin that adds a non-action button into an interaction panel should mark it:

<button data-hotkey="none">Collapse diff</button>

This is a cooperative, opt-out contract, not a hard guarantee. It reliably covers "a plugin inserts an extra non-action button ahead of the action row" (such as dsh-edit-approval's diff collapse toggle). It does not cover:

• a plugin that injects a button without the marker (contract ignored), or
• a plugin that reorders / inserts a genuinely actionable button among the

real confirm/cancel buttons (the semantics changed, not just a decoration added), or

• a change to the harness's own panel layout.

Those cases need a stable semantic anchor in the harness panel DOM (e.g. data-role="confirm" / data-role="cancel") — a harness-repo change, not a client-plugin fix. File an issue / PR against deepseek-harness if it bites.

Design notes

• Pure browser (client) plugin: the host half is a no-op stub. All behavior

is a single document keydown listener registered inside one ctx.effect, torn down on unload/HMR.

• Relies on the stable ApprovalPanel DOM contract: reject renders first,

allow-once last, both disabled after an answer — so a double-answer is impossible and the button-order dependency is the only harness coupling.

• The panel lookup prefers the current session's pending approval key and

falls back to the first panel in DOM order.

Development

npm install
npm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit (host + client)
npm test            # vitest (jsdom unit tests for the dispatch logic)
npm run build       # esbuild: lib/index.js + lib/client.js + .d.ts
node scripts/verify-host.mjs

Release

The first publish is manual (npm publish --access public), then the GitHub Actions Trusted Publishing workflow takes over — push a v<semver> tag and CI publishes with provenance. Full steps: [docs/release.md](docs/release.md).

Security

Pure browser-side plugin: the host half is an empty stub, and all behavior is a document-level keydown listener that clicks existing panel buttons. No network requests, no file access, no credentials.

License

[MIT](LICENSE)