keyiadiannao/dsh-restart-button

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A self-contained power & lifecycle controller for DeepSeek Harness: a sidebar power button with a Restart / Shutdown menu and a full-screen transition overlay. The restart/shutdown engine is built into the plugin — no third-party dependencies.

Developed with DeepSeek AI assistance; reviewed before release.

Features

• Sidebar power button in the footer action slot, theme-aware and styled to match the adjacent Settings trigger.
• Restart / Shutdown menu with a Windows-style full-screen transition overlay; the page auto-reloads after a confirmed restart.
• Self-contained restart engine: writes a detached .cjs helper that waits for the old process to exit and the port to free, then relaunches DSH with the same execPath/execArgv/argv/cwd. No PowerShell, no taskkill.
• /restart and /shutdown commands, plus a restart_harness model tool (same name as anweat/dsh-restart; registration is skipped when another plugin already owns the name).
• Localized UI and host notices (zh / en), following the profile's locale.preference.
• Startup housekeeping: restart-helper-*.log files older than 7 days are pruned from the runtime directory.

Screenshots

① Sidebar power button — a theme-aware footer entry, styled to match the adjacent Settings trigger.

② Restart / Shutdown menu — opens from the power button; two actions, one click away.

③ Shutdown confirm dialog — guard against accidental shutdowns: the default focus sits on Cancel, and only an explicit confirm actually stops the process.

④ Shutdown progress overlay — a Windows-style full-screen transition showing the current stage while the process winds down.

⑤ Restart completed toast — after the page auto-reloads, a success notice confirms DSH is back.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add "github:keyiadiannao/dsh-power-button#master"

Restart DSH; a power button appears in the sidebar footer. Requires Node ≥ 22.19.

Configuration

The plugin is configured through the profile's cordis layer (cordis.patch.yml or the settings UI):

Key	Default	Meaning
enableModelTool	true	Register the restart_harness model tool. Set false to keep restart exclusively on the GUI button and /restart.
maxDelayMs	5000	Upper bound (ms) for the model tool's delayMs argument. The effective floor is 1000 ms.

Example:

- id: dsh-power-button
  config:
    enableModelTool: true

How it works

click power → menu → Restart
[host]    POST /api/dsh-power-button/restart
          → write ~/.dsh/restart-helper-<pid>-<ts>.cjs
          → spawn `node <helper>` (detached, windowsHide)
[helper]  wait for old PID to exit → wait for port to free
          → spawn DSH again with same execPath/argv/cwd → self-delete
[host]    terminate after the HTTP response flushes
[client]  poll health → confirm new instanceId → auto reload

Shutdown posts /api/dsh-power-button/shutdown and terminates without relaunching. Because it is irreversible (the process must be started manually), the GUI confirms shutdown in a dialog before it fires — a second click is required. (/shutdown and the model tool remain single-action by design; the model never exposes shutdown.)

Design notes (from real issues hit during development):

• The helper must run outside the process tree (detached + unref), otherwise terminating DSH kills the helper mid-flight.
• The helper is a real .cjs file, not node -e: multi-line node -e scripts are mangled by Windows CreateProcess and die with a silent SyntaxError.
• Restart success is confirmed by a per-process instanceId that must change (old → new), so a brief outage alone never fakes success.
• Durable-write quiescence: after the old process exits and the port frees, the helper polls every session log's (size, mtimeMs) until two consecutive samples are identical (bounded at ~15s) before relaunching. The old process's session write-behind buffer can keep draining after its main loop exits; relaunching into a file that is still being appended interleaves stale seq numbers and corrupts the session — this check closes that window.

Safety

• Destructive POSTs are protected by a same-origin / loopback guard (CSRF): the socket must be loopback, Host must be a loopback authority, and a browser Origin must match.
• An at-most-once latch rejects duplicate transitions (a concurrent second POST gets 409).
• The model tool's delayMs is floored at 1000 ms — the model cannot kill the process before its own turn settles.
• The restart marker is consumed (deleted) on boot, so a later ordinary launch never misreports a restart.
• Command-line logging is redacted (credentials never reach ~/.dsh/restart-helper-<pid>.log); helper and marker files are written 0600, the runtime directory 0700.

Restart confirmation — UI toast, never written into a session

After a successful restart the plugin shows a small localized toast ("Restarted" / "已重启" depending on the UI language) in the corner of the UI. This is purely a UI notice: nothing is written into any session log. (This replaced an earlier design that appended a synthetic assistant/message (turn: 0, step: 0) into the resumed conversation — that approach tripped the token-meter's step-pairing invariant and could corrupt large sessions, so it was removed. Tracked upstream: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Harness#802.)

Mechanics:

• On boot, if the restart marker was consumed, /health reports restarted: true, fromInstanceId: <old>.
• The client checks /health once after load; when restarted is true it shows the toast, then ACKs via POST /api/dsh-power-button/notice-shown so a later refresh does not re-show it.
• Because the confirmation never touches a session file, a restart can no longer corrupt session logs or leave unpaired events behind.

Development

npm run build        # tsdown: host + client bundle
npm run typecheck    # tsc --noEmit
npm test             # vitest: marker lifecycle, delayMs clamp, argv redaction, log pruning

Tests isolate DSH_HOME via a vitest setup file, so they never touch your real ~/.dsh. Artifacts: host at lib/index.js, client bundle at lib/client.js (both committed — git installs are build-free).

License & Attribution

MIT. The "detached helper relaunch" idea follows anweat/dsh-restart (MIT); the implementation is independently written (real .cjs file, no PowerShell, dynamic port), no code copied.