The core client bundle statically imported every third-language
dictionary (ja/de/fr/…/zh-HK/MO/TW, ~640KB of source — roughly half
the bundle's weight) for a code path most sessions never enter: the
sidebar's own t() only consults zh/en plus the better-locale override
store, and the dicts' ONLY consumer is that store's register() call.
They now ride the existing lazy-chunk machinery as lib/client-locale.js
(fetched from /sidebar/bundle only when better-locale is actually
installed; a generation counter keeps the async registration moot when
the integration effect re-runs or disposes mid-flight). Until the chunk
lands, t() keeps the zh/en chain; the store's own revision bump on
register re-renders the chrome once the dicts arrive.
Core client.js: 1.46MB → 822KB (-44%). The chunk-boundary key-set
check moves to the existing runtime test (every shipped dict stays
key-set-equal to zh).
SideChat transcript: every 2s poll rebuilt ALL row objects, so every
row (markdown parse + DOMPurify included) re-rendered even when the
log had not changed. transcriptRows now takes the previous poll's
rows and re-adopts the position-aligned rows whose content is
identical (reuseRows) — only the changed tail rebuilds. The view
feeds the memoized array back through a ref; unit tests pin the
identity contract (unchanged rows keep object identity, changed rows
and everything past the change rebuild, tool-result landings never
re-adopt).
FileTree: expanded/revealed membership was an includes() scan per
rendered row (O(rows × expanded) per render on deep trees); one Set
per render keeps it O(1) per row.
Shell: buildNewTabOptions was inlined in the two Workbench JSX
sites — two fresh arrays per render (drag state, resizes) re-rendered
every LeafView's + affordance. One shared memo now.
DiffPane resize / TerminalView ResizeObserver: pointer and resize
streams fired a setState / glyph-measuring fit() per event; both ride
per-frame batching now (frame-batcher in the core, a local rAF gate
in the lazy terminal chunk). SessionLens sizes each row's content
with a Blob (a UTF-8 encode of the whole edit) — that moved from
per-row-per-render into one memoized pass per changed fold.
Boot: loadPrefs and loadExternalDisable each fetched the settings
document, serially, before the first paint — and the second had no
timeout, so a stalled wire kept the sidebar unmounted forever. Both
decisions now ride ONE fetch (loadBootDecision) under the existing
2s race.
GitLens: the 2s silent poll re-listed worktrees on every tick (a
second git process per tick for a list that almost never changes, and
a fresh worktrees array re-render each time). Silent ticks now fetch
only the selected checkout's status; every 15th tick (~30s) re-lists
and re-runs auto-selection, so an agent-created linked checkout is
still picked up mid-session.
ChangesTab: extractFileOps parses every accumulated tool/call (up to
4000 events); the poll ran it once for the badge and the render ran
it AGAIN per tick, and the fresh array defeated the downstream memo.
The fold now runs once per poll and its result rides a ref shared by
badge and render (reset on session switch).
A measurement harness, not a pass/fail gate (beyond the mount sanity
it shares with the other lanes): an init-script probe samples the
navigationStart → host-attach latency, a longtask collector runs
through the full built-in tab sweep, sidebar-shaped resource entries
report transfer/decoded/duration, and a frame sampler records the
bottom-strip drag's pacing (p50/p95/max) plus the width-leak guard.
Results print as single-line PERF_JSON records so a shell run can tee
and grep them; before/after comparisons land in
docs/plans/2026-08-31-perf-optimization.md. Baseline (main @ d70db8f,
3 runs): mount ≈ 377ms, 2 longtasks ≈ 161ms, drag p95 = 10ms,
width leak = 504px.
The bottom drag applied the panel's persisted width preference to
--dsh-sidebar-width regardless of panelOpen (only the idle push effect
gated it through layoutPushSize). With the right panel closed, the
first drag frame jumped the variable 0 → ~400px: #root lost 400px
instantly, the host frame's viewport dropped across its 1024px
auto-collapse breakpoint, and the NATIVE left sidebar snapped to its
56px rail — then snapped back on release. The bottom strip is the only
drag reachable with the panel closed, which is why only it showed.
applyDrag now rides the same gate as the push effect for the PUSHED
width; the panel-side DOM writes (panelRef/bottomRef/lastDragSize)
keep the raw width — the bottom panel's right edge derives from it.
The e2e regression pins the pose: panel closed + bottom open, drag the
strip, and every sampled frame must keep the pushed width at 0, the
host grid template, the left column width and #root's right edge
unchanged. Verified red on the old code (leaked 504px).
Replace the pnpm-workspace.yaml overrides with the plain-repo pattern:
install every peer the dev tree touches (dsh-attachment, dsh-code-runtime,
dsh-scope, dsh-session-projection, dsh-system-prompt, dsh-user-approval,
dsh-util-time) as direct devDependencies pinned to the baseline, same
as the thirteen already there. Root-level hoisting makes pnpm resolve
the peers natively (peers check: zero unmet, no global forcing), and
the list extends the existing bump workflow instead of introducing a
new mechanism.
Verified: typecheck clean, 107 test files / 1137 tests green, and the
real-host mount smoke passes 14/14 against @deepseek-ai/dsh@0.1.2-alpha.3.
Upstream declares its dsh-* siblings (dsh-attachment included) as
peerDependencies provided by the host bundle tree, so the host-side
mount is unaffected. The stale copies only surface in this repo's dev
tree, which installs a subset of the peers directly — making the
overrides a standing shim to extend on each baseline bump, not a
temporary patch awaiting an upstream fix.
Point-by-point audit of all 117 commits between alpha.2 and alpha.3:
every host contract this plugin relies on (token auth, slash RPC,
MarkdownText labels, the event-stream/persistence APIs behind
sidechat.events, SettingsNamespaceInput, SUBAGENT_DESCRIPTOR_VERSION
(still 3), dsh-client-store, the profile loader, the node-pty pin) is
unchanged, so no plugin code needed rewiring. alpha.3's breaking
changes (required BeginSubmissionInput.mode, the renamed
attachment-invalid subagent error, the removed SQLite persistence
backend, the identity-gated projection change feed) do not touch this
plugin.
What did need adapting was the dependency tree: the alpha.3 npm
artifacts ship with workspace-era metadata that does not match their
published code —
- dsh-subagent@0.1.2-alpha.3 imports `admitPromptContent` from
@deepseek-ai/dsh-attachment without declaring that dependency, so
resolution floats to a stale 0.1.1-rc.1 copy that lacks the export
(broke 5 test files at load time);
- six transitive peers (dsh-scope, dsh-session-projection,
dsh-system-prompt, dsh-user-approval, dsh-util-time, dsh-code-runtime)
drifted to pre-alpha.3 versions against the ^0.1.2-alpha.3 ranges the
alpha.3 packages declare;
- the alpha.3 line peers on @deepseek-ai/cordis ^4.0.2 (was ^4.0.1).
Fix: pin the seven stragglers via pnpm-workspace.yaml overrides (with
a note to drop them once upstream fixes its metadata), narrow the
cordis peer to ^4.0.2, and bump the baseline pins — CI mount gate,
dsh.plugin.json engines, peer/devDependencies, README badges, plus
SIDEBAR_SERVICE_VERSION in lockstep.
Verified on the npm-published @deepseek-ai/dsh@0.1.2-alpha.3:
typecheck clean, 107 test files / 1137 tests green, `pnpm peers check`
reports zero unmet peers, and the real-host mount smoke passes 14/14.
The main conversation's tool row head is a 16px leading slot with the
tool-kind glyph at 14 (GenericToolCard's variant table), swapped for an
error StateDot on failed rows. Mirror it: bash/pwsh -> IconApiOutline14,
read/web_fetch -> IconBrowseOutline16, edit/write -> IconEditOutline16,
grep/glob/web_search -> IconSearchOutline16, anything else ->
IconSparkle16, all from the ui-primitives module seed; CollapsibleRow
gains the matching icon slot. Thinking/injection rows keep their bare
chrome (the host's equivalents are a different row family).
Rendering-layer upgrade for the Side Chat transcript (data already rides
the raw events; the mapping just stopped discarding it):
- Tool rows with a derivable structure now render the host's
ui-primitives atoms instead of a generic double <pre>: bash calls map
onto TerminalBlock (command from call args, output + exit pill
recovered from the result's trailing exit marker), edit/write map onto
DiffBlock (call-time literal replacement, refined by the result meta's
contextual hunks), read maps onto ReadBlock (line-window meta, same
semantic narrowing the host applies). Every narrowing declines to the
generic row on malformed input.
- turn/end now emits a turnSummary row: token usage aggregated from
assistant/message.usage (output summed across steps, input from the
last request) plus the envelope-time wall duration, printed with the
main conversation's formatTokens/formatDurationMs cadence.
- The client entry injects 'connection' (DSH 0.1.2-alpha.2+) and the
thread view shows the host's ConnectionIndicator while the Remote
transport is down; the reconnect control calls reconnect() and a
disconnected -> connected transition pulls the transcript immediately
instead of waiting for the next poll tick.
19 new locale keys propagated across zh/en and all 19 third-language
dictionaries; unit coverage in sidechat-transcript.spec and a new
sidechat-view render spec (jsdom). Real-host mount smoke: 14/14.
DSH itself is still on its 0.1.2-alpha line (npm `alpha` dist-tag), so the
plugin mirrors it: v0.18.0-alpha.0 publishes under the npm `alpha`
dist-tag and supports DSH 0.1.2-alpha.x only. Stable-DSH (0.1.0-rc.8 ~
0.1.1-rc.2) users stay on v0.17.1 (npm `latest`). Verified end-to-end
against a real 0.1.2-alpha.2 host: full vitest suite, typecheck,
build/pack, consumer type surface, and the headless mount smoke 14/14
(the prerelease version also passes `dsh plugin add file:`).
- peer floor raised `^0.1.0-rc.8` -> `^0.1.2-alpha.2` (the mount install
no longer warns: the old floor could not semver-match a prerelease
host); dsh.plugin.json engines.dsh `>=0.1.2-alpha.2`.
- Dropped the pre-alpha compatibility layer:
- e2e host RPC collapsed from the dot/slash dual dialect to slash-only
(rpcAttempt; the 404-probe negotiation and its cache are gone), and
parseLaunchUrl now requires the ?token= launch URL;
- MarkdownText labels collapsed to the nested single shape (the cast
became unnecessary against the alpha.2 declarations);
- the defunct `@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-runtime` row is gone from the
chunk externals allowlist (chunk-loader / tsdown / two specs) and
from dsh.client.inject.
- market-manifest guard now allows an exact prerelease version (alpha
cuts are not the market's verified `latest` target); release.yml picks
the npm dist-tag from the version (prerelease -> `alpha`, else
`latest`) so an alpha can never hijack `latest`.
- Docs retargeted: AGENTS.md §2/§3, README/README_EN badges + v0.18.0
-alpha.0 section + install note (`dsh-better-sidebar@alpha`), guide.
DSH 0.1.2-alpha.2 is on npm under the `alpha` dist-tag, so the CI mount
pin and the @deepseek-ai/* devDependencies baseline move up from
0.1.1-rc.1/rc.2 (the dead dsh-client-runtime devDep goes away with
them). Verified end-to-end against a real 0.1.2-alpha.2 host: full
vitest suite (1106), typecheck, build/pack, consumer type surface, and
the headless mount smoke 14/14 — the token URL, slash RPC and
MarkdownText labels contracts are unchanged from alpha.1.
- dsh-settings dropped the runtime `settingsNamespace` export:
namespaces are validated at compile time (SettingsNamespaceInput), so
the host passes the 'dsh-better-sidebar' constant directly and the
fake settings service in smoke.spec casts to the branded type.
- dsh-subagent bumped SUBAGENT_DESCRIPTOR_VERSION 2 -> 3: the version is
stamped by the host package; the sidechat seed assertion now follows
the constant instead of pinning a literal.
- Restored SessionEvent.ignorable and the RemoteError wrapping were
verified to have no impact on this plugin.
- e2e scratch profiles (e2e-mount.sh / e2e-aggregate-mount.sh) add
'@deepseek-ai/*' to minimumReleaseAgeExclude (mirroring the repo
root): alpha releases are often <24h old when the lane runs, which
pnpm 11's default minimumReleaseAge would refuse to install.
- vitest excludes .worktrees/** — local task worktrees carried stale
code against the shared node_modules and broke on the devDeps bump.
- Version lockstep 0.17.2 (package.json, dsh.plugin.json,
SIDEBAR_SERVICE_VERSION, README/AGENTS/guide docs).
DSH 0.1.2-alpha.1 removed the client `ctx.connection.api` face (Remote
gateway migration), so every Side Chat transcript poll (`sessions.history`)
threw TypeError into the view's catch and was swallowed — the tab rendered
an empty transcript forever, silently (no console error, so the mount lane
never caught it). The successor APIs are not a drop-in either:
session/follow|page reject plain session addresses for origin:'subagent'
logs (agent-busy fence) and paging cannot read past the current cursor.
Move the transcript to the plugin's own wire — one transport for every
DSH generation:
- new `sidechat.events` route: live threads read the in-memory
`agent.session.events`; cold threads read `sessionPersistence.inspect`
(both seams exist since 0.1.0-rc.8; alpha.1's inspect returns the
expanded logical log, never the packed chunk-row encoding). The
inherited seed is cut host-side (`threadOwnLogEvents`), polls ride an
`afterSeq` delta, and the response is tail-capped at 8000 events (the
old client walk ceiling).
- SideChatView.fetchThread is single-path; collectOwnEvents (the client
walk) is gone, and so are the ctx.connection mirror and inject entry
(no consumer left).
- transcriptRows keeps re-cutting at session/end-seed as defense in
depth.
Verification:
- unit: sidechat.events route (seed cut, afterSeq delta + never
resurrecting the seed, cap, cold/live sources, 404/503/bad-request),
full suite 1104 passed; typecheck and build (purity gate) green.
- mount e2e vs a real dsh-v0.1.2-alpha.1 source build: 14/14, including
the Side Chat tab sweep polling sidechat.events (performance resource
assertion) and live + post-dispose (persisted) route reads.
- mount e2e vs PATH dsh 0.1.0-rc.8: 14/14 (no regression).
Registers dsh-bilingual-reader in the better-sidebar add-tab-plugin catalog:
native-PDF reading with LLM selection translation, isolated from the main
conversation. Adds the catalog entry plus pluginBilingualReaderDesc across
all 20 locale dictionaries (zh/en source + 18 mirrors).
- New persisted built-in pref workspaceFence (default true) under the
files card's secondary settings modal; host reads it per request via
the settings seam (fenceEnabledOf — absent/malformed stays ON).
- ensureWorkspacePath/ensureWorkspaceWritePath gain a fence param:
disarmed skips the containment assert but keeps realpath resolution;
wired through fs.tree/fs.read/fs.write, the media + html routes, and
the upload path (writeWorkspaceUpload fence input).
- Editor load failures and file-tree level errors show the localized
reason plus a one-click global off (FenceErrorNotice) that flips the
pref, adopts it into the store, and auto-retries the failed operation
(reloadSeq / retryDir) — the raw wire text is never shown.
- GitView's two client-side pre-checks (hidden open action + no-op
defense) respect the pref; store threaded through TreePanel/FileTree.
- i18n: 4 new keys across all 21 dictionaries; tests: fence-off route
coverage, prefs parsing, schema default, editor toggles list;
docs: guide §8/§8.1 + plans/2026-08-29 design record.
The reveal tint now uses the DSH business-blue surface
(--dsw-alias-state-business-tertiary, the same source the host's nav
items use for their active accent, skin-aware) instead of a neutral
accent wash, and drops the 2px left bar. Consecutive revealed rows
square off their touching edges (sibling combinator + :has), so a
multi-file highlight renders as ONE rounded block — per-row radius
notches no longer fragment it; a solo row keeps the full radius.