**An agent-project workbench for DeepSeek Harness** — a sidebar app drawer that turns every project into dockable windows, plus a built-in control room that watches them all in real time.
| <img src="docs/assets/shot-2-console.png" width="1080" alt="Control room"> | **🖥️ Control room** — the built-in default project: a live card grid watching every project (working / needs you / done) with glassmorphism cards on a blueprint grid |
| <img src="docs/assets/shot-1-sidebar.png" alt="Worktable sidebar" width="1080"> | **🧩 Worktable sidebar** — the app drawer: projects, shortcuts and the pinned control-room entry |
| <img src="docs/assets/shot-3-workspace.png" alt="Split workspace" width="1080"> | **🪟 Our projects** — every project opens as a dockable split workspace (resident apps like Travel Atlas included) |
dsh plugin --profile web add "link:<absolute path of the cloned dsh-worktable directory>/01_content"
# e.g. cloned into D:\tools → dsh plugin --profile web add "link:D:/tools/dsh-worktable/01_content"
```
Either way the `add` command registers `dsh-worktable` in the profile bundle list (writes to `~/.dsh`, may ask for authorization). If the `dsh` command is missing, use `npx @deepseek-ai/dsh` instead.
2. **Restart** the DSH web process, refresh the GUI
3. **Open the control room**: click the pinned 🖥️ control-room card → bind one conversation (join existing or create new) → you get the live card grid
4. **Create projects**: sidebar ＋ → pick a layout preset, set a project folder
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## Architecture
One package ships the **host Cordis plugin** and the **web client**:
- **host**: `/api/worktable/*` routes — health, file system, git, file read/write, site serving, mkdir, workspaces, native skin template; WebSocket `/api/worktable/term` for the terminal pane (PowerShell on Windows)
- **client**: injected into the sidebar and the shell overlay via the slot protocol; the split engine, tab model, drag/drop and persistence are self-built
- **control room**: reads the host session list snapshot (running / pending / completed, jobs, subagent catalogs) — an event-driven mirror, no model involvement
- **window tasks**: the agent writes `widget-result.json` into the project folder on completion; the client mounts the artifact into the addressed window and locks it
**Q: After a DeepSeek Harness update, the worktable fails to open / the service fails to start?**
Don't panic: your data is safe — projects, bindings and layouts live in the browser (localStorage), and project files stay in your own project folders; upgrading or repairing never touches them. Pick the case that matches:
**Case A: Harness works, only the worktable needs updating**
- Open the worktable "Settings" → click "Check now"; when the amber update badge appears next to the worktable title, click it and choose "Copy AI prompt" to hand the upgrade to your AI assistant;
- Or simply re-run the install command (always installs the latest), then restart dsh web and refresh:
```bash
dsh plugin --profile web add "https://github.com/Aisland-SJL/dsh-worktable/releases/latest/download/dsh-worktable.tgz"
```
**Case B: Harness itself is down** (service fails to start / "Failed to load plugins")
- First choice: upgrade Harness to the latest (official fixes usually ship there): run `npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web`;
- If it still fails: copy the following to any AI assistant (Claude, Codex, GLM, … — DeepSeek Harness itself is not required):
> Help me fix DeepSeek Harness custom-plugin loading (the error is usually "Failed to load plugins" or the service failing to start):
> 1. Run npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web to upgrade to the latest and start; if it works, done.
> 2. If it still fails: open ~/.dsh/profiles/web/package.json, find every dependency starting with link:, and compute their common parent directory (e.g. if all plugins live under D:\projects, the parent is D:\projects).
> 3. Create a node_modules directory junction in that parent pointing to ~/.dsh/profiles/node_modules: mklink /J "<parent>\node_modules" "%USERPROFILE%\.dsh\profiles\node_modules"; if that parent already has a node_modules, retry one level up.
> 4. Restart dsh web and open http://127.0.0.1:3080 to confirm the worktable is back.
This issue has been reported to the DeepSeek Harness team and is being fixed; upgrading after the fix ships resolves it permanently.
Every window title bar has a small **annotate button** (chat-bubble with a plus) next to the collapse toggle. Click it, your cursor becomes a blue speech bubble — click anywhere in a window to drop an input box, type what you want changed ("make this text bigger"), and hit **✓**. The message is packaged (window number + coordinates + the clicked element + your request), filled into the chat input **without sending** — press Enter when ready, and the agent works through the annotation protocol (verify with a screenshot or the window, or ask one targeted question instead of guessing).
- Point and speak — no verbal location description needed.
- The payload is self-explaining: any agent, in any conversation, can pick it up.
- Same behavior for every user — no local setup, no special tools.
- Same family of polish: the console gains a 5th dock button **Changelog** (version notes / check for updates / copy-upgrade command) and ships **two default background presets** (aurora gradient + coastal view) in the custom background library.
- **Platform**: Windows is the fully tested platform. macOS support is experimental: the core file-path code has been adapted for cross-platform use, but no end-to-end test has been completed on macOS hardware.
No telemetry, no network calls beyond the host APIs and the plugin routes. All user state stays in localStorage. Optional update check: a read-only GET to the GitHub Releases API (automatic at most once a day, plus a manual "Check now" button); nothing is uploaded, and it can be disabled in Settings.
