When an agent mentions a file path in its reply, that path is just plain text. To open it you have to find it yourself in a file manager. dsh-file-links turns those paths into blue clickable links with a context menu.

Features

🖱 Click a path → open the file with the system default application
Right-click → Preview → view the file content inline in a panel (text / image)
Right-click → Reveal in Explorer → open the file manager with the file selected (Windows)
Right-click → Open → same as clicking the path

Why this one


Windows-first	Most community plugins were built and tested on macOS; Windows was "expected to work". This plugin is tested on Windows, including paths with Chinese characters and spaces.
Reuses the official opener	Opening files goes through the official `openPath` (`Invoke-Item` on Windows) — no reinvented shell commands for the common case.
Zero runtime dependencies	Pure Node built-ins + native DOM. No bundled framework.
Unobtrusive	Only enhances paths already in the reply. No extra sidebar, no noisy "mentioned files" list.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add github:wmglimpser-hash/dsh-file-links

Then restart dsh web and refresh the browser.

The plugin is a standard DSH bundle: it mounts a host half (two HTTP routes) and a client half (click handling + context menu + preview panel).

Usage

Any path wrapped in backticks in a reply (e.g. `C:\project\README.md`) becomes a blue link:

Left-click the path → opens the file
Right-click the path → context menu with Open file / Preview / Reveal in Explorer

Only absolute paths are clickable: Windows drive paths (C:\..., C:/...), UNC paths (\\server\share\...), POSIX absolute paths (/home/...), and ~/.... Relative paths and bare filenames stay plain text — they cannot be resolved reliably because the session records the launch directory as its cwd, not the agent's actual working directory.

How it works

Host (lib/index.js): two routes
- POST /api/file-links/reveal → reveals the file in Explorer (explorer /select,"path"; directories open themselves)
- POST /api/file-links/read → returns file content for inline preview (text as UTF-8, images as base64 data URIs; 512 KB cap)
Client (lib/client.js): recognizes path-like <code> nodes, styles them as links, adds a right-click context menu, and renders the preview panel (pure DOM, no framework).
Opening reuses the official ctx.workspaces.openPath() (which dispatches Invoke-Item on Windows).

Platform support

Platform	Status
Windows	✅ Tested (including Chinese / space-containing paths)
macOS / Linux	⚠️ Not tested — the open and preview paths are platform-neutral; reveal uses `explorer` and is Windows-only

Known limitations

Reveal is Windows-only. The explorer /select, command is a Windows shell convention. On macOS/Linux the "Reveal in Explorer" menu item will not work (open and preview still do).
Preview is best-effort. Text and common image types preview inline; PDFs, Office documents, and binaries are refused with a message (use "Open" instead).
Only absolute paths are clickable. Relative paths and bare filenames are intentionally left as plain text (see Usage) — clicking them would silently fail because the session cwd is not the agent's working directory.