dsh-netcafe-watch

Standing jobs for your agent: hand a recurring check (page changes, China reachability) to a hosted runner — your terminal can close; you get notified only when the result actually changes.

What & why

A harness session dies with your terminal. create_task hands the job to our hosted runner: watch_page / watch_reachability / daily_answer, minimum 15-min interval, charged only for the calls each run makes. Weekly public evidence of the machinery working: https://ainetcafe.com/lab/china-weekly. 30-day China-watch is a fixed $10 product.

Every set ships what_can_you_do — describe a task in any language, get the exact tool + a ready-to-run call.

What's in this pack

6 tools, read from the live endpoint on 2026-08-22 — this table is generated, not hand-written, so it cannot drift away from what tools/list actually returns. The Arguments column is what the tool genuinely reads; it comes from the tool's own declared input schema.

Tool	What it does	Arguments	Price / call
what_can_you_do	Describe a task in plain language (any language) and get back exactly which tools on this server do it, with ready-	task	—
create_task	Create a task that runs on a schedule in our cloud — you do not keep anything running. It only notifies you when th	kind, input, interval_seconds, notify_url	—
list_tasks	Show the scheduled tasks on this workspace, when each runs next, how many times it has run and what it has cost so	— (no arguments)	—
get_task_runs	Recent runs of one scheduled task: what it returned, whether the result changed, and what each run cost.	task_id, limit	—
delete_task	Stop and remove a scheduled task and its run history.	task_id	—
china_reachability	Fetch a URL from a real mainland-China network egress and report HTTP status, latency and China DNS resolution. Ans	url	$0.003

— in the price column means the tool is not metered per call (session/trial-gated instead). Failed calls are never charged. Check it yourself:

curl -s -X POST https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/tasks -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Install

dsh plugin --profile <your-profile> add github:mario03690/dsh-watch

Thin config layer only (one @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client row, shipped as cordis.patch.yml) — no tool code runs on your machine. Built against the MCP client config shape of the dsh v0.1 developer preview (2026-08-13); if a later preview changes it, open an issue for a same-day fix.

Cost, quota, privacy

Free anonymous quota, no signup; every response reports its exact USD cost; failed calls are not charged. Documents are processed in memory and not retained. The config URL carries ?s=dsh-tasks — a channel tag identifying the install path, not you.

Disclosure: built and run by the team behind ainetcafe.com — our own service, free tier plus paid usage. Full bundle (everything at once): dsh-netcafe. MIT.

Compatibility & permissions (at a glance)

Signal	This plugin
Runtime	dsh v0.1 developer preview (2026-08-13, Cordis v4). Touches only the MCP client config shape — the narrowest surface available. Verified against a live endpoint on 2026-08-17.
What runs locally	Nothing. Ships one cordis.patch.yml row; there is no tool code, no build step and no lifecycle script in this package.
Filesystem access	None.
Shell / process access	None.
Network access	Outbound HTTPS to ainetcafe.com only, from the MCP client that dsh already ships.
Credentials	None required. No signup, no API key for the free tier. An optional AllRouter key, if you supply one, is sent by dsh as a request header and is never stored by us.
Data retention	Documents and prompts are processed in memory and not retained.
Dependencies	One peer dependency: @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client (ships with dsh).
License	MIT (see LICENSE).
Publisher	The team that runs ainetcafe.com — our own hosted service, free tier plus paid usage. Issues get a same-day reply.

A directory listing is not a security review. Read cordis.patch.yml — it is short enough to read in full in under a minute.