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Whenever Messages are stored in Honcho, a background process called the Deriver is triggered to reason about the conversation and generate insights. The Deriver is an asynchronous process and, depending on load may not immediately generated insights for the latest message you’ve sent. To help with this, Honcho provides several utilities to check the status of the Deriver. 
from honcho import Honcho
honcho = Honcho()

status = honcho.get_deriver_status()
honcho.poll_deriver_status()
Output types 
class DeriverStatus(BaseModel):
    completed_work_units: int
    """Completed work units"""

    in_progress_work_units: int
    """Work units currently being processed"""

    pending_work_units: int
    """Work units waiting to be processed"""

    total_work_units: int
    """Total work units"""

    sessions: Optional[Dict[str, Sessions]] = None
    """Per-session status when not filtered by session"""
Whenever a Message is sent it will generate several tasks. These could be tasks such as generating insights, cleaning up a representation, summarizing a conversation etc. These tasks are defined based on who is sending the message, what Session the message is in, and potentially who is observing the message. We call the combination of these parameters a work_unit This has a few different implications.
  • tasks within the same work_unit are processed sequentially, but multiple work_units will be processed in parallel
  • If local representations are turned in a Session then a Message will generate an additional work unit for every Peer that has observe_others=True
The get_deriver_status and poll_deriver_status methods can take additional parameters to scope the status to a specific work unit 
def get_deriver_status(
        self,
        observer_id: str | None = None,
        sender_id: str | None = None,
        session_id: str | None = None,
    ) -> DeriverStatus:
Additionally, there are deriver status and polling deriver status methods available on the Session objects in each of the SDKs. Below are the function signatures for the session level deriver status method 
@validate_call
    def get_deriver_status(
        self,
        observer_id: str | None = None,
        sender_id: str | None = None,
    ) -> DeriverStatus: