// Check if the remote task is alive.
  virtual Status CheckRemoteAlive(const std::string& remote_task_name,
                                  bool* is_alive) = 0;

  // Get pointer to the coordination service agent instance.
  virtual tsl::CoordinationServiceAgent* GetCoordinationServiceAgent() = 0;
};
}  // namespace tensorflow

// `send_device`, `recv_device`, and `send_device_incarnation` set.
TFE_Op* SendOp(TFE_Context* ctx, TFE_TensorHandle* in,
               const std::string& op_name, const std::string& send_device,
               const std::string& recv_device,
               tensorflow::uint64 send_device_incarnation);

// Return a RecvOp op `op_name` with the attributes `send_device`,

    TF_ImportGraphDefOptions* opts, const char* prefix);

// Set the execution device for nodes in `graph_def`.
// Only applies to nodes where a device was not already explicitly specified.
// `device` is copied and has no lifetime requirements.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TF_ImportGraphDefOptionsSetDefaultDevice(
    TF_ImportGraphDefOptions* opts, const char* device);

// Set whether to uniquify imported operation names. If true, imported operation

  // device if any of their inputs are on that custom device, but custom devices
  // are free to set a bad status in order to require explicit placement.
  void (*execute)(const TFE_Op* op, int* num_outputs,
                  TFE_TensorHandle** outputs, TF_Status* s, void* device_info);

  // Method to delete a device.
  void (*delete_device)(void* device_info);

// C API for device. The API is under active development and eventually
// should allow registering a plugin device with TensorFlow.

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

// TF_Device is a C wrapper to the C++ TF Device class. This is to be passed
// through TF_OpKernelContext, and is opaque to plugin.
typedef struct TF_Device TF_Device;

typedef struct TF_VariableInfo TF_VariableInfo;

  // Experimental Custom Device.
  //===--------------------------------------------------------------------===//
  virtual CustomDeviceOpHandler& GetCustomDeviceOpHandler() = 0;

  // Returns whether `device_name` is registered as a custom device.
  virtual bool IsCustomDevice(const string& device_name) = 0;

  // Register a custom device. It will return error is the device name is
  // already registered.