omdsh-dev/DSH-better-sidebar
DSH Better Sidebar
DSH Better Sidebar is an add-on sidebar panel for an AI coding assistant. It places side chats, subagent monitoring, and context navigation next to the main working view, and it brings a terminal, a file editor, and a git panel into the same sidebar so work can continue without switching windows.
What sets it apart is its open sidebar foundation: third-party extensions can register their own pages alongside the built-in ones, so the workspace can grow beyond its default views. The built-in pages include side threads that inherit context from the parent conversation, with queued messages, per-thread model choice, image attachments, and promotion to a top-level session. A monitoring page shows running subagents as a live graph or tree next to a task list with exit codes and live output, and stuck work can be force-killed. Jumping from agent nodes, background jobs, and session headers to a conversation's context view requires the companion plugin.
The rest of the workspace covers files and source control. A lazily loaded file tree shows git status colors, live folder watching, global search, drag-and-drop upload, and batch actions. A code editor offers find and replace and protects unsaved drafts, while previews render Markdown with diagrams and an outline, sandboxed HTML, and paged views of very large files. The source control page groups merge, staged, and changed files, can generate commit messages, and handles branch sync. A read-only commit graph with branch lanes, tag badges, and branch filtering lets you browse history without checking out or fetching. A bottom workbench adds multiple terminal tabs with drag-to-split panes, and its layout is saved separately for each session.
