meow-dsh-task: R&D Task Tracking and Review Panel for DeepSeek Harness

What Does It Do?

meow-dsh-task is a DSH plugin for DeepSeek Harness that turns cross-context R&D work into a trackable, handoff-ready process. It solves the problem of tasks living only inside chat history and losing context when a session ends: tasks, plans, checkpoints, reviews, issues and handoff notes are all persisted as a JSON source of truth and rendered into team-readable markdown shared through the repository. Models read and write through 15 dedicated tools, while humans use a command group and a built-in task management page, all running alongside the native DSH task system with independent storage and zero source changes.

Core Features

• Full task lifecycle: initialization, claiming, status updates, checkpoint appends and sub-todo maintenance are all driven by model-side tools, with concurrency protection on claiming.
• Plans and review loop: tasks are grouped by plan, and review milestones can be opened or closed while issues are reported and resolved.
• Handoff notes: five fields covering goal, done, in-progress, blockers and next steps let the next owner resume with the original runId.
• Dual interface: a built-in task management page plus a JSON API, opened from a task button at the right of the input box, built in plain React with no third-party UI dependencies.
• Multi-workspace and git sharing: the storage root resolves per workspace, and the JSON source of truth is rendered into markdown artifacts, skipping writes when content is unchanged to reduce merge conflicts.
• System prompt injection: five protocols are injected in order to remind the model of process discipline at initialization, startup, execution, completion and review stages.

How to Use This Plugin?

After enabling it in the web profile of DSH, a task button appears at the right of the input box; clicking it opens the task panel, where you can review the task list and override the storage root per workspace under advanced configuration. On the model side nothing manual is needed: when a workspace has no task files yet, the injected bootstrap protocol first teaches the model to initialize the task list, then it proceeds through claiming, execution, checkpoints, review and handoff writing. Humans use the /meow-dsh-task command group to see usage or trigger management actions. The plugin runs fully offline, never reads chat history and calls no third-party APIs, persisting only collaboration metadata such as tasks and plans.

How to Troubleshoot This Plugin?

If the task panel or commands are unavailable, first confirm you are running the web profile — the plugin depends on the web server, and client slots plus web routes are unavailable under TUI or CLI profiles. If an API incompatibility is reported, the runtime version is too old and should be upgraded to a supported cordis release following the official instructions. If task data does not appear in the expected directory, check the storage root resolution chain: an explicit plugin configuration takes priority over the environment variable, which in turn precedes the current session workspace and the process working directory.