dsh-side-chat

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Select text → ask in a side chat. Select any part of a message and a floating button "Ask in side chat" appears. The selected text is carried into the side chat automatically. - Per-conversation isolation. Each side chat is a hidden ordinary DSH session (meta.parentSession links it to the conversation that started it, and the session is archived so it stays out of the main session list). DSH 0.1.7 refuses a model step to an archived session, so the archive is lifted for exactly as long as a side-chat turn is running and restored when it settles. A host-created session is never accounted to a Workspace, so even in that window it can only surface under the sidebar's Ungrouped bucket, never under the workspace it was started from. Every conversation gets its own side chat. - Inherits main-conversation context. The side chat is aware of the conversation it was started from and its working directory, and inherits the main conversation's toolset, model, thinking effort, and permission preset by default — so it can act on the same workspace as the main conversation. - Model / effort / permission are adjustable. A two-level model menu (provider → model → effort) and a permission menu are copied from the main conversation, so each side chat can be tuned independently. - "Look up workspace / parent when needed" switch (default off). When on, the side chat may read files from the…