DSH Workspace Manager

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Native archive control, protected file retention, and verified local backups for DeepSeek Harness.

DSH Workspace Manager completes the archive lifecycle without replacing DeepSeek Harness state or reorganizing its workspace. It adds a native settings page for archived chats and projects, protects valuable outputs before cleanup, and provides auditable local backups.

Capabilities

Area	What it provides
Archive control	Browse, search, filter, restore, and batch-manage chats and projects archived by DSH.
Safe deletion	Remove only the selected conversation's DSH-owned data through the Windows Recycle Bin.
Protected retention	Review candidate outputs with the active DSH model, preserve important files globally, deduplicate copies, and verify their hashes before cleanup.
Verified backup	Create manual, scheduled, or shutdown ZIP backups with manifests and checksums; restore them through validated paths.

Native by design

• DSH remains the only source of truth for archive state.
• Metadata not registered means that a native archived item has no plugin-managed file mapping, commonly because it predates the plugin or exists only in DSH state. It is informational, not an error; native restore and deletion remain available, but there is no additionally registered file scope to retain or clean.
• The plugin does not create projects, reorganize existing workspaces, or generate category folders for every conversation.
• No prerequisite directory needs to be created before installation.
• Cleanup is limited to data owned or explicitly registered by DSH; existing source projects are never deletion targets.

Compatibility

Component	Status
Windows 10 / 11	Supported
DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1-rc.2	Verified
Later DSH releases	Not yet verified
PowerShell	5.1 or later
Node.js	20 or later

Quick start

Install from GitHub

dsh plugin --profile web add github:yxv1203-collab/dsh-conversation-archive#v1.0.0

Restart DeepSeek Harness, open Settings, and select Workspace Manager.

Install an offline package

1. Download dsh-conversation-archive-1.0.0.tgz and its .sha256 file from the v1.0.0 release.

2. Verify the download:

   Get-FileHash .\dsh-conversation-archive-1.0.0.tgz -Algorithm SHA256
   Get-Content .\dsh-conversation-archive-1.0.0.tgz.sha256
   

3. Confirm that the two hashes match, then install:

   dsh plugin --profile web add .\dsh-conversation-archive-1.0.0.tgz
   

Deletion safety model

Deletion is a guarded workflow rather than a direct filesystem operation:

1. Resolve the native archived item and its registered DSH ownership scope.
2. Scan that scope while excluding dependencies, temporary data, and disposable caches.
3. Ask the active DSH model to assess candidate documents, code, media, and other outputs by content.
4. Copy selected valuable outputs to the global retained-files library, deduplicate them, and verify their hashes.
5. Move the conversation and its DSH-owned data to the Windows Recycle Bin.
6. Stop the operation if review, copying, validation, or ownership checks fail.

Retained files and backups

The retained-files library is shared across the complete DSH environment rather than tied to one project. Each entry records its source conversation, source project, original path, preservation time, and content hash. Files can be restored, selected in batches, or moved to the Recycle Bin. Review reminders are displayed inside DSH.

Backups are independent of retained files. They can target a local folder or UNC/network path and can run manually, at a configured interval, or before a clean DSH shutdown. Version retention is configurable; expired backup sets are moved to the Recycle Bin.

Data ownership

• Original source repositories and user-managed project folders are never cleanup targets.
• Native DSH archive state always takes precedence over plugin metadata.
• The retained-files library and backups remain on storage selected by the user.
• Retained files are a local safeguard, not a cloud backup service.

Update and remove

dsh plugin --profile web update dsh-conversation-archive
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-conversation-archive

Removing the plugin does not silently delete retained files or backups.

Current scope

• Windows only.
• Retained-file reminders are shown inside DSH; system notifications are not included.
• Cloud-provider accounts are not connected directly. A locally synchronized or network folder can be used as a backup target.
• On DSH builds without a public destructive API, confirmed deletion is queued and completed at the next clean application start.

Feedback

Bug reports and focused improvement proposals are welcome. Contact yxv1203@gmail.com or open a GitHub issue with the DSH version, plugin version, reproduction steps, and relevant logs.

License

Released under the MIT License.