dsh-turn-watchdog

In a DeepSeek Harness workflow, a hung turn midway through generation is the most frustrating failure mode: the model stalls, an external call times out, and the user is left staring at a silent interface with no way to tell whether the session is still alive. dsh-turn-watchdog is a lightweight plugin built specifically for this kind of black-box waiting.

Every 60 seconds the plugin scans all live sessions and flags any whose last event is neither turn/end nor session/end-seed and whose idle time has exceeded a configurable threshold (10 minutes by default). Matched sessions are surfaced as a plain-text warning injected into the current prompt so both the AI and the user can act on it; the turn_watchdog_status tool offers an on-demand rescan at any time. The entire process is strictly read-only: it never rewrites session events, interrupts a turn, or restarts services. It has zero external dependencies, registers no HTTP routes, and creates no custom session events.

If you routinely deal with model response timeouts or hanging tool calls while using or developing Harness workflows and want to quickly pinpoint which sessions have gone unresponsive without touching session internals, this slots in as an extremely low-overhead safety net, turning passive waiting into active awareness.