Features

• File Explorer — browse the current session workspace as a directory tree with expand/collapse, VS Code-style file-type icons (TS/JS/Vue/JSON/image/ archive/script and 30+ more extensions), git status markers (M/A/D/R/?), names color-coded by status (green untracked / yellow modified / grey ignored), .gitignore-excluded files and folders shown grey, and directory "modified" indicators.
• Source Control — staged / unstaged / untracked change lists with stage / unstage / discard (per-file or all), commit with a message, and a branch info bar. Diff view: full-file side-by-side compare with an editable right column (Enter splits lines, backspace/delete merges, NBSP placeholders), Ctrl+S to save. Commit Graph: an SVG history view with branch lanes and merge lines; click a commit to expand its changed files (with file-type icons and status letters M/A/D/R) below the row, hover for a tooltip with the full message, stats, and a GitHub link; plus checkout. Sync: fetch / pull / push / sync (pull + push) with ahead/behind counts, each remote-write confirmed. Branches: switch / create / rename / delete / merge / publish. Remotes: add / remove / set URL. Git Init: initialize a repository from a plain directory. Merge changes: pull/merge conflicts (UU/AA/DD/…) are detected and listed for manual resolution. Multi-repo support: auto-discovers git repositories under the workspace and lets you switch between them; the SCM panel follows the selected repo. Split panes: drag the divider between changes and repository to resize, history fills the bottom. Bulk actions live in the section headers; discard all asks for confirmation.
• Syntax highlighting — editor and diff views colorize 15 languages (TS/JS/Python/JSON/Markdown/...) with a GitHub Dark theme; the editor re-highlights live while typing, lightweight.
• File Search — live name search across the workspace.
• File Editor — open any text file in an "Edit" tab of the conversation view, edit, and save (button or Ctrl+S); images open in an in-editor preview with zoom/pan, and other binary files are detected and refused instead of corrupted.
• Collapsible rail — collapse the whole panel into a narrow icon rail (expand panel, explorer, search, source control, terminal). The source-control icon shows a live change-count badge; clicking an icon reopens the panel on that tab, matching the native sidebar's look.
• Multi-tab terminal — a bottom terminal panel opened from the rail (native ConPTY, PowerShell/cmd by default); multiple tabs, drag to resize, and auto cleanup of processes when a tab closes or the connection drops.
• File operations — context menu with new file/folder, delete (confirm dialog), copy / cut / paste, copy relative / absolute path; drag files within the tree, drag files in from the OS, multi-select bulk actions.
• i18n — English and Chinese, follows the browser language.
• Dark theme — matches the DSH Web UI tokens.

Screenshots

File Explorer	Source Control	Diff

Installation

From dsh-market (GUI)

Open the marketplace in the DSH Web UI, search for "solution-explorer", and click install.

From npm

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-solution-explorer

From a local checkout

dsh plugin --profile web add /path/to/dsh-solution-explorer

After installing, reload the Web UI. The explorer panel appears as its own right column once a session with a workspace is active.

Configuration

The plugin accepts an optional config in the bundle row (cordis.patch.yml):

Field	Type	Default	Description
defaultWidth	number	280	Panel width in px, clamped to 264–560.
autoOpen	boolean	true	Auto-open the panel when a session activates.
filterPatterns	string[]	[]	Name patterns to hide from the file tree.
showHidden	boolean	false	Show dot-prefixed (hidden) files in the tree.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm build    # tsc declarations + tsdown bundles (lib/index.js, lib/client.js)
pnpm watch    # rebuild on change

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the submission guide.

pnpm install also runs the prepare script, so a git-based install (dsh plugin add github:xiaoksio/dsh-solution-explorer) builds lib/ on the target machine without manual steps.

How it works

The plugin is a single npm package with two halves, both declared in package.json under the dsh key:

• Host half (src/index.ts, exports . → lib/index.js): runs in the dsh host process and serves the workspace-gated filesystem and git API over HTTP routes under /solution-explorer/* (tree, read, write, delete, search, git-repos, git-status, git-diff, git-log, git-stage, git-unstage, git-discard, git-commit, paste, move, upload, create). All routes resolve paths strictly inside the session workspace root. It also announces itself in the system prompt so the agent knows what the panel can do.
• Browser half (src/client/index.ts, exports ./client → lib/client.js): loaded by the Web GUI's __ModuleLoader__ as a closure-factory bundle. It appends the explorer column to the frame grid ([data-dsh-frame]), follows the active session's cwd, and mounts the file editor into the conversation.view slot.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development conventions and how to submit the plugin to awesome-dsh-plugin.

License

MIT