dsh-turnsnap
Zero-config per-turn git checkpoints for DeepSeek Harness: every completed agent turn in a git workspace becomes one tagged [turnsnap] commit
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- Aug 27, 2026
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- Aug 27, 2026
Introduction
dsh-turnsnap
Zero-config per-turn git checkpoints for DeepSeek Harness (DSH). After every completed agent turn, if the session's working directory is a git repository with uncommitted changes, TurnSnap stages everything and creates one tagged [turnsnap] commit — a rollback point you never had to ask for.
Why
Long agent sessions rewrite many files. When a turn goes wrong you either reach for git by hand or lose the trail. TurnSnap makes the checkpoint automatic: one commit per turn, named after the turn number, file count and time:
[turnsnap] turn 12 · 7 files · 14:32:08
Install
dsh plugin --profile <your-profile> add dsh-turnsnap
No configuration, no client half, nothing to approve: the host half hot-reloads within seconds and starts guarding every session in a git workspace.
How it works
- Listens to the harness
agent/turn-stoppingevent. - Resolves the session workspace from
agent.session.header.cwd. - Skips silently when the directory is not a git repository or has a clean tree.
- Otherwise runs
git add -A && git commit -m "[turnsnap] turn N · M files · HH:MM:SS" --no-verify. - Checkpoints are serialized on one internal queue, so a parent session and its subagents closing turns at the same moment cannot race the git index.
- Git runs through the harness shell service; when the host exposes a sandbox-policy resolver, each request is stamped with the owning session's standing file policy.
Agent tools
| Tool | Effect |
|---|---|
turnsnap_pause | Stop auto-commits until resumed |
turnsnap_resume | Resume auto-commits |
turnsnap_status | Report enabled state, counters and the last checkpoint message |
All three take no arguments. Ask the model to "pause turnsnap" mid-session, or call them yourself from any script that can invoke harness tools.
Caveats
git add -Afolds anything staged-but-uncommitted into the checkpoint. If you keep a deliberate partial stage across a turn boundary, pause first.- Ignored files stay ignored (
add -Arespects.gitignore). - Commits use
--no-verify, so your pre-commit hooks do not run on checkpoints. - One checkpoint per repository per turn: subagents sharing the workspace land in the same commit.
License
MIT