dsh-cross-session

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Let live DeepSeek Harness Sessions discover, message, and coordinate with each other inside the same running DSH process.

• Runs inside the existing dsh runtime
• Starts no daemon, second agent runtime, or separate network port
• Installs as a normal DSH plugin

Current release: @wha1echai/dsh-cross-session@0.1.0-rc.1 for DSH 0.1.0-rc.6.

This is an independent community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by DeepSeek AI.

Composite of two real DSH Session views for readability. The plugin provides the Fleet communication tools, not a split-screen or multi-Session UI.

Why cross-Session communication?

A Session often already has the context you need: an implementation in progress, an investigation with useful evidence, or a review that should stay separate from the main conversation. Copying that history into another chat can lose context and creates more coordination work.

dsh-cross-session lets one live Session work with another without creating a second harness:

• Continue work where the context already exists. Send follow-up work to the Session that owns the task.
• Coordinate parallel work. Check another Session's state, add direction, and observe the resulting turn.
• Keep responsibilities separate. Use dedicated Sessions for implementation, review, research, or long-running work while they remain in one DSH runtime.

What it can do

Action	What it means	Tool
Discover	List live Sessions in the current dsh process	fleet_list
Inspect	Read a bounded summary of another live Session	fleet_inspect
Send	Queue follow-up work for the target's next turn	fleet_send
Steer	Change direction at the target's next step boundary	fleet_steer
Wait	Observe the completed turn that claimed a sent message	fleet_wait
Cancel	Stop active root-Session work when explicitly enabled	fleet_cancel

Send vs. steer: use fleet_send when work should wait for the target's next turn. Use fleet_steer to change the direction of its current turn at the next step boundary. If the target is idle, steering wakes it and begins a turn with that input.

Quick start

1. Install the prerelease

dsh plugin --profile web add @wha1echai/dsh-cross-session@0.1.0-rc.1
dsh --profile web --dump-config

Use an isolated DSH_HOME when evaluating the plugin without changing an existing profile.

npm requires every package to retain latest. Because this is currently the only published version, both latest and next resolve to 0.1.0-rc.1; using the exact version or next makes the prerelease intent explicit.

2. Enable messaging

The Bundle defaults to read-only discovery. Add this to the profile's cordis.patch.yml to enable fleet_send and fleet_steer:

- id: dsh-cross-session-tools
  name: '@wha1echai/dsh-cross-session/tool'
  config:
    controlMode: message

Tool visibility modes:

controlMode	Available tools
read-only	fleet_list, fleet_inspect
message	Read-only tools plus fleet_send, fleet_steer
full	Message tools plus fleet_cancel

Use full only where model access to cancellation is intended. Optional reply waiting is configured with the official Jobs tools in Waiting for a reply.

3. Start DSH

dsh --profile web

Open two live root Sessions in that runtime. The plugin uses the same process as the Web profile; if DSH listens on port 3080, the plugin does not open another port.

Try it

In the target Session:

When contacted through Fleet, summarize the request, complete it normally,
and reply with a short result.

In the calling Session:

Find another live root Session, inspect it, and send it a small task.
If fleet_wait is available, wait for the turn that receives the message.

The expected flow is:

caller discovers target
  → caller inspects and confirms it
  → target receives follow-up work
  → target completes its next turn
  → caller optionally observes the claimed turn through fleet_wait

Operational safety

• fleet_send and fleet_steer can start model requests and tool calls, so they may consume model and tool resources.
• fleet_cancel interrupts active work but cannot roll back work already accepted by a model or tool.
• Enable write modes only in agent compositions that should receive them.
• controlMode controls model-visible tools; it does not replace DSH approval, tools/pre-execute, or ctx.tools.guard() policy.

See the Fleet reference for complete side-effect and late-abort semantics.

Confirmed targeting

Model tools do not write directly to an arbitrary Session ID. They follow a short confirmation flow:

fleet_list
  → choose a live target

fleet_inspect
  → confirm the exact target

fleet_send / fleet_steer / fleet_cancel
  → act on the confirmed selection

Target references and selections are short-lived, caller-bound, and fail closed. A selection cannot silently switch to another Session if the target disappears, is replaced, expires, or the Provider unloads. Write selections are single-attempt.

Trusted programmatic Consumers can still use sessionId through the direct ctx.fleet Service API. The confirmed-target flow is the model-facing safety path.

Waiting for a reply

fleet_send returns a caller-bound reply receipt. The optional reply-job Consumer adds fleet_wait, which starts an owner-scoped DSH Job and observes the complete turn that claimed the exact sent message.

Mount the Consumer in the same composition scope as the official Jobs tool Consumer. In a Web profile that uses agent presets, copy a shipped preset to a user-owned preset, add this row beside its @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-jobs row, and select that preset for the calling Session:

- id: dsh-cross-session-reply-job
  name: '@wha1echai/dsh-cross-session/reply-job'

User-owned presets normally live under $DSH_HOME/.agent-presets/<id>/agent.cordis.yml. Do not edit the preset files shipped inside the DSH installation, and do not mount reply-job globally when the official Jobs tools are preset-scoped. Tool visibility follows the Cordis context where each Consumer registers.

The result belongs to the claiming turn. It does not claim that every assistant token in that turn was caused exclusively by one message.

Timeout, abort, or job cancellation stops observation only. It never cancels, steers, or substitutes the target Session. The official Jobs capability continues to own job output, listing, cancellation, and completion notices.

Scope

Supported now

• live Sessions in one running dsh process;
• root-Session discovery and bounded inspection;
• confirmed send, steer, and optional cancel;
• exact claimed-turn reply observation;
• optional display titles already recorded by DSH;
• normal DSH Web, CLI, or other host compositions.

Not provided

• a second harness, agent runtime, or daemon;
• a separate network port;
• cross-process, cross-device, or multi-runtime communication;
• remote-control gateway behavior;
• a dedicated multi-Session Web or desktop UI;
• delegated-Session writes, which remain future work through the official subagent capability.

How it fits into DSH

Model tools ───────┐
Future UI ─────────┼──> FleetService (`ctx.fleet`) <── InProcessFleetProvider
Other plugins ─────┘                                      │
                                                          └── live Agent registry

Consumers depend on ctx.fleet; they do not call Agent methods directly. The current Provider operates on live Agents in the same process. Delegated-Session control remains owned by ctx.subagents, orchestration remains owned by ctx.workflowEngine, and background lifecycle remains owned by ctx.jobs.

See the architecture and Fleet reference for lifecycle rules, configuration limits, APIs, error codes, and extension points.

Compatibility

Component	Supported version
dsh-cross-session	0.1.0-rc.1
DeepSeek Harness	0.1.0-rc.6
Node.js	^22.19.0 or >=24.0.0
Repository package manager	pnpm 11.7.0

Release candidates are pinned intentionally. Compatibility with later DSH versions is not implied until tested.

Other installation options

Local checkout

git clone https://github.com/Wha1eChai/dsh-cross-session.git
cd dsh-cross-session
pnpm install
pnpm run build

dsh plugin --profile web add /absolute/path/to/dsh-cross-session

Commit-pinned GitHub source

dsh plugin --profile web add github:Wha1eChai/dsh-cross-session#<commit>

Git installs run prepare to build TypeScript. pnpm 10 and later require explicit permission in the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml:

allowBuilds:
  '@wha1echai/dsh-cross-session': true

Review and pin the source before granting install-time execution permission. If the first add is rejected, add the exact package key printed by pnpm to the profile's pnpm-workspace.yaml, then rerun the same dsh plugin --profile web add command.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm run typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm run build
pnpm pack --pack-destination .pack-output/dev
pnpm run check:packed -- .pack-output/dev

Tests use the real DSH ToolRuntime and Loader composition. They cover targeting, lifecycle invalidation, relay attribution, reply observation, scoped tool visibility, unload behavior, and packed JavaScript/declaration entries.

See CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, and release and rollback.

Roadmap

• delegated-Session messaging through the official subagent capability;
• clearer supervisor-oriented presets that compose existing DSH capabilities;
• a first-class multi-Session Web experience;
• additional Providers for carefully designed multi-runtime communication;
• compatibility testing for later DSH release candidates.

Detailed delivered milestones, future layers, and non-goals are maintained in docs/plan/.

Project status

dsh-cross-session is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by DeepSeek AI.

Licensed under the MIT License.