dsh-reconnect
Safe model-request retry for DeepSeek Harness with exponential backoff, relay/proxy failure recovery, and a unified settings panel.
Version: 2.0.0
Project Description
dsh-reconnect is a Host-side plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH). It retries failed model requests so temporary network failures do not interrupt an agent turn or a long-running task.
The plugin listens to the DSH agent/request-error waterfall event. After the built-in normal Provider retry policy gives up, or when a Provider's always policy delegates recovery downstream, the Agent loop sends the same request again according to this plugin's policy.
Suitable Use Cases
- Unstable relay stations, reverse proxies, API gateways, or forwarding services
- Relay nodes that disconnect, reset connections, or return incomplete responses
- Intermittent network failures and transport errors
- Temporary provider outages, server-side 5xx errors, rate limits, and timeouts
- Long-running tasks that should survive short-lived provider or network failures
Retry Policy
| Condition | Behavior |
|---|
EMPTY_RESPONSE / RATE_LIMIT / SERVER / STREAM_CLOSED / TIMEOUT / TRANSPORT | Retry indefinitely (transient connection/service failures) |
Model missing or not configured (MODEL_NOT_FOUND, MODEL_NOT_CONFIGURED, or matching Provider text) | Retry indefinitely while waiting for model/account configuration to recover |
QUOTA (insufficient balance or exhausted quota) | Do not retry by default; retried when retryQuota: true |
Unknown errors such as PI_AI_ERROR | Retry indefinitely by default; disable retryUnknown to apply the configurable consecutive-failure cap |
| Tool/argument/unknown-tool/auth/credential/context-overflow/aborted | Never retried; step ends immediately |
Key design points:
- Only retries failures that "resending the same request" can fix — dropped connections, rate limits, timeouts, 5xx.
- Tool execution errors (
tool/result) are outside this plugin's retry boundary. Error routing uses the machine code from agent/request-error, rather than guessing from message text; an unknown machine code uses the configured unknown-error path (bounded only when retryUnknown is disabled).
- Permanent errors (credentials, request content, context overflow) stop immediately; missing or unconfigured models are the deliberate exception and keep retrying while configuration recovers.
retryQuota and retryUnknown control this plugin's fallback chain. The Host always policy delegates recovery to downstream waterfall listeners, so this plugin handles the recoverable failure categories once and does not create a second parallel retry loop.
Backoff and Cancellation
- Exponential backoff:
1s -> 2s -> 4s -> ..., capped at 60s by default (the settings panel offers 1/2/5/10/30/60/120 seconds or a custom value; maxDelayMs overrides in milliseconds)
- Honors a positive
providerRetryAfterMs when available. It is a provider minimum wait and is not capped by the local exponential-backoff limit; only the Node timer maximum applies.
- Logs the provider, error code, turn, step, retry count, and delay
- Emits standard
llm/retry events so the Harness conversation UI shows the continuous retry count and countdown
- Stops when the current turn is aborted, the plugin is stopped, or the plugin is hot-reloaded; active waits are drained during cleanup.
Visual Configuration
Open Settings → Plugin configuration. ReConnect is shown as a plugin card in that page:
- Max wait per attempt: drop-down presets (1/2/5/10/30/60/120 seconds) or a custom value
- Retry on quota: toggle, off by default
- Retry unknown errors indefinitely: toggle, on by default
- Max retries for unknown errors: default 3. Missing or unconfigured model errors are not subject to this cap and always retry.
Changes take effect immediately without restarting DSH.
YAML Configuration
The plugin accepts optional values in its Cordis row config:
maxDelayMs (integer milliseconds, default 60000): caps the local exponential-backoff delay; for example 15000 produces 1s -> 2s -> 4s -> 8s -> 15s -> 15s... indefinitely. A positive Provider Retry-After remains authoritative.retryQuota (boolean, default false): whether QUOTA errors are also retried.retryUnknown (boolean, default true): whether unknown errors are retried indefinitely.unknownMaxRetries (integer, default 3): bounded cap for consecutive unknown failures in the same model step; missing or unconfigured model errors do not use this cap.
The settings service persists the plugin card values. Restore defaults removes the user overrides and immediately returns to the schema/Cordis defaults; a restart is not required.
The plugin's own retry policy is the downstream recovery for both Provider normal and always policies. The two layers do not multiply retries: normal schedules only its configured codes before this plugin, while always delegates the decision downstream.
maxDelayMs caps the local exponential wait, not a Provider Retry-After value and not the total retry duration.
- insert:
- id: reconnect
name: dsh-reconnect
config:
maxDelayMs: 15000
retryQuota: false
retryUnknown: true
Invalid or missing maxDelayMs values fall back to 60000.
Download
The package is platform-independent. Choose one of the following methods.
Method 1: GitHub Web Download
- Open https://github.com/MistRain-1/dsh-reconnect.
- Select Code and then Download ZIP.
- Extract the archive and use the extracted
dsh-reconnect-main directory as the plugin package.
Method 2: Git Clone
Windows PowerShell:
git clone https://github.com/MistRain-1/dsh-reconnect.git "$HOME\dsh-reconnect"
macOS:
git clone https://github.com/MistRain-1/dsh-reconnect.git "$HOME/dsh-reconnect"
Linux:
git clone https://github.com/MistRain-1/dsh-reconnect.git "$HOME/dsh-reconnect"
Method 3: Download the ZIP from a Terminal
Windows PowerShell:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/MistRain-1/dsh-reconnect/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -OutFile dsh-reconnect.zip
Expand-Archive -Path dsh-reconnect.zip -DestinationPath .
macOS:
curl -L https://github.com/MistRain-1/dsh-reconnect/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -o dsh-reconnect.zip
unzip dsh-reconnect.zip
Linux:
wget https://github.com/MistRain-1/dsh-reconnect/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -O dsh-reconnect.zip
unzip dsh-reconnect.zip
After downloading, register the package in the DSH Cordis composition:
- insert:
- id: reconnect
name: dsh-reconnect
A DSH restart is required after installing the persistent plugin package.
Requirements
- DSH Host plugin
- Uses the
agent/request-error waterfall event and the Host settings service
- Client side provides a unified-format settings card and never reads credentials
License
MIT
