agents-in-the-loop
Cross-session call center for DeepSeek Harness (DSH)
agents. Two model tools, nothing else: session_message delivers messages
between ANY two sessions on the dsh instance, and contacts is a named
directory over session ids so agents reach each other by alias in one call.
Formerly taskboard-flow — the kanban trigger/triage/task engine was
removed in v1.0.0; the messaging core is preserved verbatim.
Compatibility
- DSH
>=0.1.2 (hard floor): v0.7.2+ relies on
agents.resume({ resumeSessionId }), which dsh 0.1.2 introduced. Declared
in package.json via engines + optional peerDependencies (the dsh
plugin loader does not enforce these fields today — they are the
machine-readable contract for installers and humans; npm may warn about
the nonstandard @deepseek-ai/dsh engines key, which is advisory).
- Verified against: dsh 0.1.2 through 0.1.6-alpha.1 (tools service
register(), workspaceRegistry/agents inject, agent/created /
agent/disposed events, runtime-context notes).
- Node
>=20.
Config is file-based (a cordis composition patch). No web UI, no database,
no background polling — the plugin is inert until an agent calls a tool.
What it gives your agents
session_message — list live sessions; send a message to another
session. Delivery rules (battle-tested, preserved):
- Target by NAME, not id (v1.3.1):
send accepts the REGISTERED
CONTACT NAME as target — resolved against the live contacts store at
call time, so a re-raised agent re-registered under the same name is
always reached and stale session ids never bite. Raw session-… ids
still work verbatim. Successful sends report resolvedFrom: <contact>;
list annotates each live session with its registered contact name.
- Idle target + wake (default): the FULL message text is rendered into
the target conversation (steer, followup fallback) AND pushed into its
runtime context (~30-min TTL). Main GUI sessions start a turn only on
user input — the text is visible the moment anyone opens the session.
- Busy target + wake: the full text is injected as a plugin-source
notice — visible immediately, mid-turn safe, starts no turn — plus the
runtime-context note.
resumeIfDead: true resurrects a dead target first (opt-in).- Self-send is refused.
contacts — a named directory over raw session ids (list / get /
call / add / update / remove):
- Resolve "advisor" → session id + label + live status in ONE call
(no
session_message list + guessing).
call messages the contact through the same delivery engine.- Self-registration needs the NAME ONLY:
add with no sessionId
registers the calling session automatically (v1.0.0 carries the
taskboard-flow v0.7.3 behavior) — never research your own session id.
- Names: lowercase
[a-z0-9._-], ≤64 chars.
Install
dsh plugin --profile web add link:/path/to/agents-in-the-loop
cp cordis.patch.yml.example cordis.patch.yml # then edit
Restart dsh web afterwards. The tools appear for every session.
Configuration
One row (see cordis.patch.yml.example):
- insert:
- id: agents-in-the-loop
name: agents-in-the-loop
config:
enabled: true
sessionMessage:
enabled: true # kill-switch for the session_message tool
contacts:
enabled: true # kill-switch for the contacts tool
# file: '~/.dsh/taskboard-flow-contacts.json' # default store
The contacts store defaults to ~/.dsh/taskboard-flow-contacts.json — the
historical taskboard-flow path, so contacts created before the rename keep
working. Atomic tmp+rename writes; personal state, never shipped.
Data & cleanup notes
~/.dsh/taskboard-flow-contacts.json — the contacts store (kept).~/.dsh/taskboard-flow-state.json — the old dispatch-state file; the
v1.0.0 plugin never reads it and it can be deleted.
Requirements
- A running dsh web deployment (dsh ≥ 0.1.1).
- No other dependencies; no dsh-taskboard needed (the board plugin is no
longer required by this plugin).
License
MIT
