dsh-plugin-watchdog

Host-side crash/restart watchdog for dsh. When the dsh server process dies — a crash, OOM, kill -9, or a restart — every running agent is interrupted and the work simply stops. The persisted session logs survive, but nothing picks the work back up until a human reopens the sessions. This plugin closes that gap:

• No browser needed. It is a host-only Cordis plugin; it runs inside the dsh server and works whether the GUI is open, closed, or never opened.
• On restart it checks recently active sessions and resumes the ones whose work was genuinely interrupted — not the ones that were deliberately stopped.
• It picks up where they left off: it resumes the persisted session via ctx.agents.resume, then either re-arms the active goal (the goal-round driver queues the next `` itself) or wakes the agent with a "continue where you left off" follow-up prompt. Crash-recovery closers (TOOL_OUTCOME_UNKNOWN / TOOL_NOT_STARTED) are already in the resumed history, so the model verifies uncertain side effects before retrying.

Install

The plugin is a host-only Cordis plugin resolved from your dsh profile's package store. The profile's dsh plugin command forwards to pnpm, so any pnpm-supported git spec works.

From GitHub

dsh plugin --profile web add github:davidgereb/dsh-plugin-watchdog

This also installs the host half's dependency, dsh-lib-context-injection (declared as a git dependency in this package's package.json).

From a local checkout

# 1. build (regenerates lib/index.js + lib/client.js from src/)
node scripts/build.js
# 2. make the local package resolvable by the profile
dsh plugin --profile web link /path/to/dsh-plugin-watchdog
# 3. same for the lib dependency
dsh plugin --profile web link /path/to/dsh-lib-context-injection

Then add the loader row to the profile patch file ($DSH_HOME/profiles/web/cordis.patch.yml):

# ── Watchdog: resume sessions interrupted by a server crash/restart ──
# Host-only plugin (no browser half). On boot it resumes recently-active
# sessions whose agents were interrupted by an unclean server stop and
# continues their work (goal re-arm or a continue follow-up).
- insert:
    - id: watchdog
      name: dsh-plugin-watchdog