dsh-fold
Fold consecutive tool calls inside one assistant turn in the DeepSeek
Harness (DSH) Web GUI into a single line with a live
running-tool label, a running call count, and expand/collapse. Long user
input is folded to 3 lines with its own toggle.
Implementation is pure Slot / React. No DOM patching, no MutationObserver,
no display:none, no querySelector games — the official product renderers
are reused for every expanded tool card (and the user bubble is rebuilt from
official primitives).



Behaviour
- Grouping rule:
tool-callnodes that are consecutive in the chat flow
(snapshot.chat.order) and belong to the same turn form one group.
Assistant-step nodes whose blocks contain ONLY reasoning (Think rows) are
TRANSPARENT: they neither split chains, but fold WITH the group (hidden
while collapsed, re-shown between the calls when expanded). Model-retry
notices (已重试模型请求) and context-injection rows (上下文注入) are
transparent the same way — they never split a chain into separate bars;
the row folds in with the adjacent work (neighboring fold blocks merge
into one bar) and counts toward the group's block count. Think rows
with NO adjacent tools fold into their OWN bar (think-only group). The
reasoning part of a text-bearing node is folded away too — only text
stays visible. Only real assistant TEXT (and user/steering messages,
commands, compaction, …) ends a run — verified against a real 288-call session: with the old rule
every per-step Think row split the chain into 150 groups; with
transparency the same stream folds into 85 groups split exclusively by
text. (In the DSH data model every tool-producing step streams a reasoning
block, so without this rule every call would isolate into its own group.) - While a call is running: the collapsed line shows only the currently
running tool (正在运行 <tool>/Running <tool>), the accumulated call
count (completed + running), and a chevron. When the running call settles,
the label switches to the next running call, or disappears entirely once
every call has settled — including error/cancelled/interrupted calls
(anytool-resultform,isErroror not). - Expanded: the group bar stays on top (chevron down); below it every
member renders through the officialtool.call.toolviewdispatch — the
exact same slot path the product'sToolCallTreeuses — so bash/read/grep/
web/… cards, status, parameters, output, error, subcalls and nested calls
all keep their native look. New calls arriving while expanded are appended
live; the user's expanded state never resets (it lives in React state of
the group leader seat, keyed by the stable first-call node key). - Turn-level big fold: when a turn (one user message + the agent's whole
working cycle) CLOSES with a final summary, everything except the summary —
tool calls, Think rows AND intermediate assistant text — folds behind ONE
bar reading该轮次工作过程已折叠/Turn work process folded. The small
folds live INSIDE the big fold: expanding the big fold reveals them at
their original positions; the summary text always stays visible. A turn
that is still open, or that ended without a summary, keeps the current
(small-fold only) view. - Bar label: the folded bar reports
N 个块已被折叠/N blocks folded
— N is the number of folded blocks (tool calls + Think rows folded into
the group; subcalls inside a block are not counted). While a call runs,
the left side shows正在运行 <tool>/Running <tool>. - Live block in the bar = the conversation's latest state: the folded
bar's left side shows what the CURRENT conversation is doing RIGHT NOW —
the newest active block anywhere in the flow, not a per-group label: a
streaming Think row renders[Think] · <latest line>, a working tool call
renders its real row ([icon] Bash · <command description>for a terminal
call,Read · <path>,Search · <query>,ask_user_question · <question>, … — the product'stoolRowModelreplicated verbatim). While
a call executes the working call is the latest; once it settles and the
model reasons again, the Think row takes over; when the conversation is
idle the left side is empty. The live block shows ONLY while the group is
COLLAPSED — expanded, the details are right below, so the bar's left goes
empty. The bar whose own group hosts the active node additionally shows
the product's row sweep. - Everything non-text folds: automatic context compression
(compaction), context injection (context), manual compaction
(manual-compaction), user commands such as/permission(command),
model-retry notices (model-retry— 已重试模型请求), turn errors
(turn-error), max-token notices (turn-max-tokens), unknown surfaces
(unknown) and workflow runs (workflow-run) are folded like any other
work block — each behind its own1 个块已被折叠bar in an open turn
(expandable, so diagnostics stay reachable), and inside the turn-level
big fold once the turn closes with a summary. Only plain text (user and
steering messages, assistant text, summaries and the summary's copy/chrome
row) stays visible. - User input: a user message whose text overflows 3 lines is clamped to
3 lines with a展开/Expandtoggle below the bubble (shown only when
the text really overflows, measured via ResizeObserver). The clamp lives
on a PADDING-FREE inner box (max-height: 72px= exactly 3 × 24px line
height), so every browser renders exactly 3 lines with the bubble's
bottom gap intact — browsers whose legacy line-clamp behavior would show
a partial 4th line flush against the bubble bottom get clipped to 3 lines
(verified in headless Chromium). The bubble is a faithful replica of the
product'sUserStyleBubblebuilt from official primitives
(MessageText, ref chips for/name@nametokens,JsonBlockextras,
the officialImageGallery, the product time + copy actions with the
officialwriteClipboard) — replication, not delegation, because
Chromium's line-clamp does not clamp content inside a nested flex
container (the official row isdisplay:flex; verified empirically in
headless Chromium). Short messages render untouched (clamp is a no-op,
toggle hidden). - Auto-load older at the top: scrolling the conversation to the very
top while older history exists automatically pulls the next page
(loadOlder) — no button click needed; the product's 加载更早 button
remains as a manual fallback. While the user KEEPS resting at the top andhasMorestays true, pages continue loading one after another until the
history is exhausted or the user scrolls away (each completed load re-arms
the pump with the refreshed snapshot). The scroll host is resolved through
the product's ownscrollerOfcontract
([data-conversation-scroll]), the action is the session scope's officialconversation.loadOlder(), and guards (near-top threshold,hasMore,loadingOlder, in-flight pump) prevent duplicate or mid-scroll loads.
This is the one behavioral DOM read in the plugin (a passive scroll
listener); nothing is patched or restyled.
DSH version
Developed and verified against DSH 0.1.0-rc.7 (dsh --version).
The runtime overlay is guarded by a method-text check and fails closed
(plugin stays inert) on a different version.
Architecture / extension seam
ChatView (conversation.view)
└─ ChatNodeSeat × N one seat per business node
└─ renderSlot("conversation.chat.node", {node}, {entryKey: kind})
├─ cell "tool-call":
│ product: ToolCallTree (priority 0)
│ ours: ToolCallGroupView (priority -100 ← lowest wins)
│ ├─ collapsed bar (running label · count · chevron)
│ └─ expanded: interleaved items
│ ├─ think rows: InlineThink (ReasoningRow replica)
│ └─ tool calls: ToolCallBranch × N
│ └─ renderSlot("tool.call.toolview", …)
│ ← official per-tool cards (bash, read, …)
└─ cell "assistant-step":
product: AssistantNodeView (priority 0)
ours: AssistantNodeWrapper (priority -100)
├─ reasoning-only node inside a tool run → null
│ (the group owns its Think rows)
└─ everything else → delegates to the official
AssistantNodeView from the live registry
└─ cell "user":
product: UserMessageNodeView (priority 0)
ours: UserNodeWrapper (priority -100)
└─ product bubble replica from official
primitives + 3-line clamp + 展开/收起
└─ cells "compaction" / "context" / "manual-compaction" / "command":
product: CompactionItem / ContextInjectionRow / … (priority 0)
ours: NoticeNodeWrapper (priority -100)
└─ one-line folded bar; expands to the official
view (command keeps its commandview slot)
- Seam: the keyed Chat slot
conversation.chat.node, cellstool-call,assistant-step,user,compaction,context,manual-compaction
andcommand, shadowed by priority (the slot core documents "register at
a different priority to shadow it (lowest renders)"). The group is
computed in React from the conversation snapshot (useSession→snapshot.chat.order+snapshot.chat.nodes), never from the DOM. - Only the group leader renders: each tool-call node has its own seat;
the seat of the group's first member renders the group row, every other
member seat returnsnull(zero-height flowItem), so there is exactly one
row per group. - One framework accommodation: the slot core forbids a second entry
from declaringchildrenfor an already-declared slot, and without that
children table the shadowing entry receives norenderSlotbinding fortool.call.toolview.src/client/slots-core-overlay.tsinstalls a
reversible overlay onSlotCore.prototype.register/.releaseEntry(same module instance the shell uses — ui-slots is a
shell-own static module) that treats an identical child spec as a
shared co-declaration. The overlay is a THIN WRAPPER around the live
methods (no method-text dependency), so it works against both the
published package and the minified shipped web bundle; it restores the
pristine methods on unload and never disturbs the product's
declarations. This is the exact change ofdocs/core-patch.md(a
source-level patch), delivered at runtime so the plugin works on
unmodified DSH installs. Without this overlay the pure slot API
cannot express "shadow a keyed renderer AND delegate to its child
slot" — that is the single architecture limitation this plugin papered
over, with the core change kept strictly separated.
Install (web profile)
From GitHub (recommended)
dsh plugin --profile web add github:Yancey2023/dsh-fold
# restart the web app:
dsh --profile web
The CLI clones the repo, resolves the bundle patch, and appends dsh-fold
to the profile bundle stack. To update to the latest version:
dsh plugin --profile web update dsh-fold
# restart:
dsh --profile web
From a local checkout
pnpm install
pnpm build
# option A — official plugin CLI:
dsh plugin --profile web add /absolute/path/to/dsh-fold
# option B — helper script (equivalent):
pnpm run install:dsh # uses DSH_PROFILE (default: web)
# then restart the web app:
dsh --profile web
dsh plugin … add sees the package's dsh.bundle.patch declaration and
appends dsh-fold to the profile bundle stack; the client loader
picks up the dsh.client.platform: "web" manifest and servesexports["./client"] to the page. The host row is a minimal anchor only.
Uninstall
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-fold
# or: pnpm run uninstall:dsh
# restart the web app — the official tool-call UI renders again immediately.
There is no residue: the slot entry, the overlay, the locale dictionaries
and the stylesheet are all removed with the plugin (each registration is
owned by the plugin fiber / ctx.effect).
Build & test
pnpm install # esbuild, typescript, @types/react, react, ui-slots (devDeps)
pnpm build # tsc --noEmit + esbuild bundles (lib/)
pnpm test # 13 suites: group · tool-row · auto-load · turn-fold · overlay (real ui-slots) · bundle smoke · component · assistant · user · notice · integration
Acceptance mapping
| Case | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 single tool running | 正在运行 bash 1 ▸ |
| 2 read✓ grep✓ bash running | 正在运行 bash 3 ▸ |
| 3 all settled | 3 ▸ — left side empty |
| 4 last failed | 2 ▸ — left side empty (error = ended) |
| 5 expand | bar + official cards, in order |
| 6 expand then new call | stays expanded, count grows, member appended |
| 7 assistant text | text untouched; groups never absorb it |
| 8 two chains split by text | two independent bars |
| 9 streaming | live count/running label via snapshot re-render (no polling) |
| 10 uninstall | official ToolCallTree wins the cell again automatically |
| 11 long user input | bubble clamps to exactly 3 lines, 展开 toggle appears |
| 12 expand user input | full text, 收起 toggle, copy/time actions intact |
| 13 short user input | untouched, no toggle |
| 14 user message w/ images/refs | official gallery + /name @name chips preserved |
| 15 running bash in a group | bar shows the real block row: Bash · <description/command> |
| 16 streaming think (no tool yet) | bar shows Think · <latest line> |
| 17 all settled | bar left side empty |
| 18 compaction/context/命令 | folded (1 个块已被折叠), inside the big fold when closed |
| 19 long user input, legacy clamp | still exactly 3 lines + bottom gap (padding-free clamp box) |
| 20 scroll to top with older history | auto-loads the next page (no click), once per scroll-to-top |
| 21 mid-scroll / no history / loading | no auto-load |
Known limitations
- The expanded member rendering replicates the product's small
ToolCall
wrapper (call-row div + subcall recursion) because that wrapper is not
exported; the actual cards are the officialtool.call.toolviewentries.
The generic fallback for tools without a registered toolview is a
compact theme-aware card (name/args/output/error) instead of the internalGenericToolCard. - The user bubble is likewise a replica (from official primitives), not a
delegation: Chromium's-webkit-line-clampcannot clamp through the
official row's nested flex layout (verified in headless Chromium), so the
clamp has to live on our own element. The replica keeps the product's
bubble, ref chips, images, time and copy actions; if a future DSH changes
the user bubble's visuals, the replica CSS must follow. - The bar's live content is the product's collapsed-row replica
(toolRowModel+ the running Think row) — same titles/summaries as the
product rows, but re-rendered by the plugin; a future DSH changing the row
model's titles or summary keys must be mirrored intool-row.ts. - Diagnostics (model-retry, turn-error, turn-max-tokens, unknown,
workflow-run) fold too, per the all-non-text rule — each behind an
expandable1 个块已被折叠bar, so failures stay reachable in one click. - Group identity = first member's stable node key. If older history is
loaded that prepends a tool call before the current leader, leadership
moves to the new first node and that group's expanded state resets. - The slot-core overlay relies on two structural invariants of this
SlotCore version (register pushes the new entry into the parent record;
releaseEntry tears downentry.children); if a future version breaks
them, the wrapper fails closed (plugin inert, official UI unaffected). - Expanding long chains re-mounts the official cards; hundreds of settled
calls stay collapsed by default, so scrolling cost stays ~one row.
Files
src/client/group.ts pure grouping over the snapshot (unit-tested)
src/client/turn-fold.ts turn-level big fold over the snapshot (unit-tested)
src/client/tool-row.ts running-tool row model (product toolRowModel replica)
src/client/auto-load.ts scroll-to-top auto-load-older (sessions scope)
src/client/AutoLoadHost.tsx seat ref anchor wiring seats into the auto-loader
src/client/ToolCallGroupView.tsx group row (live block content) + official members
src/client/AssistantNodeWrapper.tsx assistant-step shadow (official delegation)
src/client/UserNodeWrapper.tsx user bubble replica + 3-line clamp + toggle
src/client/NoticeNodeWrapper.tsx compaction/context/manual-compaction/command shadow
src/client/registry.ts shared live-registry access for delegation
src/client/translate.ts shared fold translate slot
src/client/slots-core-overlay.ts reversible SlotCore overlay (docs/core-patch.md)
src/client/styles.ts theme-variable CSS
src/client/vendor.d.ts minimal ambient types for the DSH page packages
src/client/index.ts plugin entry (registration)
src/host/index.ts minimal host anchor
cordis.patch.yml bundle patch layer (host row)
build.mjs tsc + esbuild
scripts/install-dsh.cjs install/uninstall helper
test/ group · tool-row · auto-load · turn-fold · overlay · bundle-smoke · render suites
docs/core-patch.md the one core change, as a source patch
License
MIT