dsh-session-pruner

dsh-session-pruner

DSH session lifecycle management plugin — full-type session lifecycle management: one-shot subagents archived on completion, continuable subagents and main sessions archived when idle, a capacity cap, and projection-cache cleanup. Prevents session-library accumulation stalls at the source.

Every session type has a defined destination: finished one-shot subagents are archived automatically, idle continuable subagents / main sessions are archived, and overflow is recycled by priority. Archive first (recoverable), delete after expiry — the GUI syncs within 30s, fully panel-configured with hot reload.

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Why

DSH (DeepSeek Harness) caches a full projection of every session in session_projcache.json (token stats, context pressure, ...), and the storage backend rewrites the whole file atomically on every write. When the session library accumulates thousands of subagent sessions:

• The cache balloons past 100MB and each checkpoint fully re-serializes → main process CPU 250%+
• The single-threaded event loop is saturated → every session load stalls, even GET / times out

Managing session lifecycle (this plugin) is the root fix: no session accumulation → no cache rows → no stalls.

Features: full-type lifecycle

Session type	Trigger	Action	Default
one-shot subagent	log contains session/end-seed (finished)	archive/delete at next scan	3min interval
continuable subagent	idle over N days	archive (recoverable)	off (0 days)
main session	idle over N days	archive (recoverable)	off (0 days)
any type	total exceeds capacity cap	recycle by one-shot → continuable → main + oldest	400
archive directory	kept over N hours	physically deleted	24 hours

Archive mechanism (recoverable)

Cleaned sessions are moved to ~/.dsh/sessions-archive/ first (workspace/session-id structure preserved) — they disappear from the GUI immediately (the list only reads the sessions directory), but the files remain and can be restored manually:

# Restore: mv back into the sessions directory
mv ~/.dsh/sessions-archive/<workspace>/<session-id> ~/.dsh/sessions/<workspace>/

A "delete directly" mode (no archive, irreversible) is also available.

Safety (double protection)

• Running sessions are never touched: logs without session/end-seed are never cleaned (checked in both the one-shot path and the capacity cap)
• live protection: sessions still held in the in-memory session store (open/loading) are skipped
• Main sessions do not participate in capacity recycling by default (configurable)
• Per-action failure isolation: every action is try/catch wrapped

How it works

scan (scheduled, default 3min)
  ├─ pruneArchive: physically delete expired archive sessions
  ├─ iterate ~/.dsh/sessions/*/ decompress log (system zstd, multi-frame)
  │     ├─ origin: main | subagent       (session header)
  │     ├─ mode: one-shot | continuable  (subagent/descriptor event)
  │     └─ ended: contains session/end-seed
  ├─ one-shot + ended ──→ archive (archiveMode)
  ├─ continuable/main idle N days ──→ archive
  ├─ total > cap ──→ recycle by priority + oldest (skip running/live)
  └─ each archive also: purge projcache row + workspace accounting

GUI sync: the client calls sessions.refreshList() every uiRefreshSeconds seconds, so cleaned sessions disappear from the sidebar automatically — no page reload needed.

Install

From npm (recommended)

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-session-pruner

From source (development)

dsh plugin --profile web add /path/to/dsh-session-pruner

Restart dsh web after install (launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.deepseek.dsh-web).

Configuration (settings panel, hot reload)

After install, open Settings → Plugins → 会话生命周期管理 card. All 8 options save with hot reload (no restart):

Field	Default	Description
Scan interval (min)	3	cleanup loop period
Capacity cap (sessions)	400	recycle by priority + oldest when exceeded
UI refresh interval (s)	30	GUI session list refresh period
Archive retention (hours)	24	physical delete after retention
Archive mode	archive	archive (recoverable) / delete directly (irreversible)
Continuable idle archive (days)	0	archive after N idle days, 0 = off
Main idle archive (days)	0	archive after N idle days, 0 = off
Clean main on overflow	off	main participates in capacity recycling

Env vars (fallback, panel wins): DSH_SESSION_LIFECYCLE_INTERVAL_MS / _MAX / _CLEAN_MAIN / _ARCHIVE_HOURS / _ARCHIVE_MODE / _CONTINUABLE_IDLE_DAYS / _MAIN_IDLE_DAYS.

Logs

Output in guard server-*.out.log:

[session-lifecycle] armed: interval=3min cap=100 cleanMain=false
[session-lifecycle] hot-reloaded: interval=3min cap=100 ... contIdle=1d mainIdle=2d
[session-lifecycle] archived a1b2c3d4 (subagent/one-shot) one-shot done cache=true
[session-lifecycle] archive pruned: 2 expired

cache=true/false tells whether the projection cache row was purged along with the session.

Tests

node test/dry-run.js   # read-only full-library scan, verify classification (no deletion)
node test/e2e.js       # create a fake one-shot session, verify the real cleanup path

Implementation notes

• Multi-frame zstd: DSH session logs are concatenated zstd frames (append writes); Node zlib decodes a single frame only, so the plugin shells out to the system zstd CLI (brew install zstd on macOS)
• Cache row purge: storageDomain.get('session_projcache').table('sessions').delete(id) — the official write chain (atomic persistence + in-memory sync)
• Workspace accounting: the session id is removed from the workspace domain on archive, keeping the data source consistent with disk
• Zero npm deps: plain Node built-ins + cordis runtime injection
• Panel + hot reload: installSettingsSection + hand-written client card (__ModuleLoader__ bundle), onChange re-schedules the timer instantly

Developer guide

docs/DEVELOPMENT-GUIDE.md — DSH plugin development practice guide (architecture, Host/Client, settings panel, deployment ops, 10 pitfalls with fixes), the foundation for future plugin work.

Known limits

• A finished one-shot subagent survives at most one scan interval
• Requires the system zstd CLI
• The root fix lives upstream: projcache stale-session eviction / incremental storage writes, see deepseek-harness Discussion #1550

License

Apache-2.0