dsh-self-restart

Let the agent restart DSH Desktop itself — safely.

Why

The agent's shell tool runs as a child of the Desktop main process. Any watchdog it spawns with nohup/disown dies with the Desktop process tree (those only survive SIGHUP). This plugin materializes a watchdog script and a double-fork + setsid() launcher: the watchdog escapes into its own session, gets reparented to launchd, then kills Desktop, relaunches it, and polls a health URL — writing progress to a status file the next turn reads.

Verified end-to-end: kill → relaunch → healthy in ~3 seconds.

Usage

The agent calls the desktop_restart tool. The call never meaningfully returns — the turn dies mid-stream. The plugin records which session asked; after the watchdog reports HEALTHY, the next boot resumes that session and wakes it with a followup message, so the agent continues its post-restart verification without a user poke. Status file for manual inspection:

cat /tmp/dsh-self-restart.status
# 2026-09-02T01:27:40Z killing
# 2026-09-02T01:27:41Z relaunching
# 2026-09-02T01:27:43Z HEALTHY after 3s

Config

- id: self-restart
  config:
    appPath: /Applications/DSH Desktop.app   # default
    healthUrl: http://127.0.0.1:43120/       # default
    statusFile: /tmp/dsh-self-restart.status # default

Test

npm test   # node --experimental-strip-types --test