dsh-side-chat

Usage

1. Select part of any message in the main conversation.
2. A floating "Ask in side chat" button appears — click it.
   • If a side chat already exists for this conversation, you'll also see "Continue active side chat".
3. The right-side panel opens (or expands) with the selected text staged in the composer.
4. Adjust model / effort and permission, and toggle "Look up workspace / parent when needed" as desired.
5. Send. The reply streams back with markdown rendering and, where applicable, a "Think" row for the model's reasoning.
6. Drag the panel's left edge to resize, or use the collapse/expand control.

Sending behavior

By default (sendImmediately on), selecting text sends it immediately and appends your configured default prompt. Turn sendImmediately off in settings to stage the selection as an attachment instead, so you can review and edit before sending.

Bring replies back to the main conversation

Assistant replies in the side chat can be brought into the current main conversation (never sent):

1. Bring a selection. Select part of an assistant reply in the side chat, then choose "Insert directly" (verbatim) or "Summarize & insert" (the side chat's inherited model summarizes it first) from the floating menu.
2. Bring the whole reply. Each assistant reply has "Insert directly" and "Summarize & insert" buttons under its text, for inserting the full reply (or its summary) in one click.
3. Per the bring-back target setting, the content is either appended to the main composer draft (edit before sending) or injected as a collapsed context row (source-tagged, not into the composer; the model sees it next turn).

Ask about the current question dialog

When the main conversation shows a question dialog, the side panel automatically lists the question and its options:

1. While the panel is closed, a floating entry appears beside the dialog's header — click it to open the panel.
2. Each question has "Bring all" and each option has "Bring", both offering to continue an existing side chat or start a new one.
3. The list can be collapsed / expanded, and items can be deleted individually or all at once (deleted items stay gone).

The main conversation keeps waiting on the dialog — nothing is interrupted; do the research in the side chat first, then bring the answer back and answer the dialog.

Delete side chats

Each entry in the side-chat list has a "×" delete button; "Delete all" at the top-right removes every side chat of the current conversation.