🤖 dsh-auto-review
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Second-model AI approval for DeepSeek Harness — a read-only reviewer subagent decides allow/deny on the approval chain, fail-closed by default.
When an action crosses the sandbox boundary, a second model reads the evidence and returns a verdict with a reason — so humans approve nothing while nothing unsafe slips through.
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Install & uninstall
- git channel (latest
main): dsh plugin --profile web add github:PerryLink/dsh-auto-review — the isolated prepare build needs the allowBuilds keys the dsh CLI prints for dsh-auto-review.
- npm channel (published releases):
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-auto-review.
- 1024 store channel:
npm i -g dsh1024 once, then dsh1024 plugin --profile web add dsh-auto-review (counts toward the deepseek1024.com install ranking).
- tarball channel:
pnpm pack in this repo, then dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-auto-review-<version>.tgz.
- uninstall:
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-auto-review (or remove the row from the profile patch).
- native build scripts: when
dsh plugin add stops at ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS for koffi / node-pty (pulled in by the eval harness), run pnpm approve-builds to approve those build scripts.
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English: part of a 95 plugin family for DeepSeek Harness. If it is useful, a star helps the next person find it — nothing is gated behind it.
What is dsh-auto-review?
Second-model AI approval for DeepSeek Harness — a read-only reviewer subagent decides allow/deny on the approval chain, fail-closed by default.
When an action crosses the sandbox boundary, a second model reads the evidence and returns a verdict with a reason — so humans approve nothing while nothing unsafe slips through.
Workflow diagram for dsh-auto-review: request → policy / review → verdict.
Workflow overview: request → policy / review → verdict. The examples below use the real command surface.
Compatibility
| Surface | Status |
|---|
| Harness | DeepSeek Harness dsh-v0.2.1-rc.2 (verified 2026-10-18): engines.dsh >=0.2.1-0 <0.3.0; the P0 compatibility paths have regression tests. |
| Node | ^22.19.0 || >=24.0.0 |
| Platforms | All (host answerer; optional Web review panel via the session-projection capability) |
| Model | Any generative model (the reviewer inherits the session agent's route; reviewerModel overrides), or the local non-generative Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1 decision model (reviewerBackend: phocinae) |
What you get
dsh-auto-review puts a second model on the approval/request answerer chain:
- Official seam — an answerer that claims only the requests it owns (
ai policy) and delegates everything else via next(); the human approval flow is never short-circuited.
- Read-only reviewer subagent — a one-shot fork with a
read/glob/grep tool allow-list returns a structured verdict { decision, reason, riskLevel }. Reviewer asks are recognized by identity and delegated; maxDepth + the allow-list keep the reviewer non-delegating.
- Fail closed — reviewer crash, timeout, or schema mismatch resolves through
fallbackPolicy (default rejected); a deny verdict feeds its reason back to the calling model.
- Config-driven routing — per-tool policies (
ai/human/never) plus regex risk rules, all changeable from cordis.yml.
- Deny reasons reach the model — the reviewer's reason is injected into the denied tool result (callId-linked); fallback and
never-policy rejections inject auditable markers too ([auto-review] / [auto-review-fallback] / [auto-review-never]).
- Full audit trail — log-only
autoReview/verdict + autoReview/rejection session events (envelope ignorable: true) plus an optional invariant companion enforcing marker ⟺ event.
- Safety knobs — a rejection circuit breaker (3 consecutive denials, or 6 of the last 10 verdicts, per turn), a risk-level policy, a one-shot
/auto-review approve override, and a never-policy hard disable that explains itself to the model.
- Optional reviewer context — a bounded compact transcript (
contextBudget) plus a Codex-style Markdown ruling policy (reviewerPolicyText).
Every decision reconstructs from the session log: approval/asked → autoReview/verdict (or autoReview/rejection) → approval/decided.
Why a second model instead of rules?
Pattern-based auto-approvers decide before dispatch, with no evidence. dsh-auto-review gives the decision to a reviewer subagent that reads the actual workspace (through its read-only tool face), the already-streamed tool-call arguments (sensitive values redacted), the request reason, and your risk rules — then returns a structured verdict. A deny verdict feeds its reason back to the calling model, so the agent learns why instead of retrying blindly.
Quick start
dsh plugin --profile web add github:PerryLink/dsh-auto-review
# 1. install the bundle into your profile
dsh plugin --profile web add github:PerryLink/dsh-auto-review
# or from npm (published releases)
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-auto-review
# 2. restart and verify the row
dsh --profile web --dump-config | grep -A4 'id: auto-review'
Out of the box the shipped patch AI-reviews bash, write, pwsh and powershell; every other tool (including edit — in-place modification) delegates to the human chain. Add edit: ai explicitly if you accept in-place edits without a human in the loop.
Examples
These are the plugin's real entry points; install once, then call one.
Detailed example
Command
/auto-review status
Output
All-time: 1 allows, 0 denies, 1 fallbacks, 1 never rejects (avg 10 ms per verdict).
Recent verdicts: write: fallback(timeout), bash: allow
Observed from test/command.spec.ts:123-160 (assertions at :158-159)
Failure branch
Input
/auto-review approve 2
Output
No recent denial #2 in this session (0 recorded).
Observed from plugins/dsh-auto-review/src/messages.ts:53; plugins/dsh-auto-review/src/runtime.ts:1039; plugins/dsh-auto-review/test/command.spec.ts:109-113
Brief examples
Configuration
All tunables are Schemastery Config fields (changeable from cordis.yml). An id-targeted override replaces the whole row — restate every key you need.
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|
enableByDefault | true | Sessions start with auto-review enabled; /auto-review on|off writes a durable override that beats this |
toolsPolicy.default | human | Policy for unlisted tools (delegate to the human answerer) |
toolsPolicy.overrides | {} | Per-tool policy: ai / human / never |
riskRules | [] | {pattern, policy, field?} matched before the tool table; field selects reason (default), toolName, or arguments |
reviewerProvider | fork | Subagent provider for the reviewer (in-process fork backend) |
reviewerPreset | (none) | Read-only Agent Preset id; required when the host exposes startActivation (0.2.1+) instead of toolFilter |
reviewerModel | (inherit) | Reviewer model id; unset inherits the session agent's route |
reviewerModelProvider | (inherit) | LLM provider route for reviewerModel; unset inherits the session agent's provider |
reviewerBackend | agent | Reviewer engine: agent (the generative reviewer) or phocinae (the local non-generative decision service). Unset infers it from reviewerModel: a Phocinae… id selects phocinae |
phocinae.endpoint | http://127.0.0.1:8155/v1/systemone | Phocinae decision-service URL; loopback only unless phocinae.allowRemoteEndpoint is set |
phocinae.model | Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1 | Served model name; a Phocinae reviewerModel selects it automatically |
phocinae.timeoutMs |
Local decision-model reviewer (Phocinae, optional)
reviewerBackend: phocinae swaps the generative reviewer for the local, non-generative Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1 decision model served by phocinae-server (POST /v1/systemone). The model answers one typed question and never generates text, so a review needs no API key, no subagents/llm seam, and no external network (loopback only): one forward pass (≈21 ms warm on a GPU, ≈1.5 s single-threaded on CPU) returns a harm label with a calibrated confidence.
config:
toolsPolicy: { overrides: { bash: ai } }
reviewerModel: Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1 # this alone selects the Phocinae backend
phocinae:
endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:8155/v1/systemone
minConfidence: 0.45
fallbackPolicy: delegate # optional: hand risky/unsure requests to the human chain
It is a veto/triage layer, not a general-purpose approver. Only a harmless answer with answer_confidence >= phocinae.minConfidence (default 0.45) allows. destructive denies; risky, an unsure harmless, a system/secret path, and an unreachable or malformed service resolve through fallbackPolicy (default fail-closed rejected; set delegate to send them to the human chain). The reviewer only asks about shell commands: a write/edit or any other call without a command argument escalates without contacting the model.
The state is exactly The agent is about to run the shell command "<command>" in its workspace. with described options (the model's trained criteria rendered into the option text, because the HTTP contract has no criteria field). The versioned 91-command set (bench/phocinae-commands.json: 58 destructive, 33 routine) is run by node bench/phocinae-bench.mjs against a live server; with the path/operator guards at the default 0.45, 0 of 58 destructive commands were allowed — 28 denied and 30 escalated — while 3 of 33 routine commands were allowed. At 0.4 the bare model alone allowed cat /etc/shadow (0.4036) and cp /dev/null /etc/passwd (0.4265); that is why the floor is 0.45 and the guards are mandatory (the guarded product still allows 0/58 at 0.4 and 0.35). This is a measured set, not a proof: the model remains advisory, and a command outside it can still be misclassified — the path/operator guards cover the system-path and compound classes the 2026-10-26 audit found. The approval reason, transcript and workspace path are not sent, and the command passes the same key-level and inline-secret redaction as the generative prompt. The endpoint is loopback-only unless phocinae.allowRemoteEndpoint: true. The backend applies to approval reviews only; dsh-eval's review layer still uses a generative model.
Shell control operators are never cleared by this backend: a command containing ;, &, |, $(), backticks, a redirect, a newline, or another control character escalates even when the model answers harmless, because a verdict about the visible text says nothing about a compound command. The same applies to a command that references a system or secret path (/etc, /dev, /proc, /root, ~/.ssh, .env, credentials, Windows system paths): it escalates instead of allowing. Calls that are not shell commands (write, edit, …) escalate too: the bundled patch ships write: ai, so set write/edit to human when you enable this backend, or their requests are rejected by the default fallback.
These settings belong to the generative reviewer and are ignored by this backend: reviewerProvider, reviewerPreset, reviewerModelProvider, reviewerTools, reviewerGuidance, reviewerPolicyText, and contextBudget. /auto-review approve does work: it adds a one-sentence human-authorization note (review id and tool name) to the state, and the model still decides. The client sends no Authorization header; if the server sets PHOC_BEARER_TOKEN, leave it unset or put an authenticating proxy in front.
Start the service once: pip install phocinae-server (or run the checkout), download the weights from the model card, then PHOC_MODEL_DIR=<weights-dir> python -m phocinae.main — it listens on 127.0.0.1:8155; verify with curl http://127.0.0.1:8155/health.
Example (annotated full form: fixtures/config/config-full.yaml):
- insert:
- id: auto-review
name: dsh-auto-review
config:
toolsPolicy:
overrides: { bash: ai, write: ai }
riskRules:
- pattern: '([Rr][Mm]\s+(-[a-z]+\s+)*/|[Gg][Ii][Tt]\s+push\s+--force)'
policy: never
- pattern: 'write'
policy: never
field: toolName
reviewerTimeoutMs: 30000
fallbackPolicy: delegate
riskPolicy: { maxAutoAllow: medium, onHighRisk: delegate }
circuitBreaker: { consecutiveDenies: 3, windowDenies: 6, windowSize: 10, action: delegate }
Where the config actually comes from
~/.dsh/settings.yaml is NOT a config source for this plugin. An auto-review: block there has no effect and produces no warning: like every DSH function plugin, dsh-auto-review receives its Config from the row the loader mounts it with — the profile's cordis patch layer. (Some other DSH plugins additionally read the settings service, so the inconsistency is easy to trip over, and the symptom is indistinguishable from the reviewer simply denying.)
Put the configuration in your profile's cordis.patch.yml. An id-targeted override replaces the whole config row, so restate every key you need — dropping toolsPolicy silently returns bash/write to the schema default human and the reviewer stops running at all:
- id: auto-review
config:
toolsPolicy:
overrides: { bash: ai, write: ai }
contextBudget: { turns: 4, maxChars: 8000 }
Tools & surfaces
| Surface | Kind | Notes |
|---|
auto-review | answerer | approval/request waterfall answerer — claims ai-policy requests, delegates the rest via next() |
/auto-review | command | on|off|status|approve [n] — durable per-session override, budgets, and cumulative statistics |
| deny-reason injection | listener | tools/post-execute — verdict / fallback / never reasons fed back to the denied tool result |
autoReview | session projection | Folded from the log-only autoReview/* events |
| Web review panel | client | Session-header action: switch, budgets, statistics, recent verdicts, one-shot approve |
dsh-eval | CLI | YAML-driven agent evaluation engine (bin/dsh-eval.mjs) |
| invariant companion | invariant | dsh-auto-review/invariant (optional; needs the invariants service) |
Session command
/auto-review on|off|status|approve [n]
on/off append the durable autoReview/state override (the fold survives restart/resume — replay IS the state) and inject a switch notice the model sees (logged as a user/message event). status reports the effective state, both per-turn budgets (AI verdicts and reviewer failures), a tripped circuit breaker when one is active, and the session's cumulative statistics (allows/denies/fallbacks/never rejects, mean duration, recent verdicts). approve [n] records a single-use autoReview/override for the n-th most recent denial (1 = most recent): the next same-tool review within overrideTtlMs carries the authorization as reviewer context — the reviewer still decides, and the override is consumed by that review regardless of its outcome.
Web review panel
In the Web GUI (web profile), the package contributes a session-header action (AI Review) that opens a panel with the session's auto-review state: the switch with on/off buttons (they execute /auto-review on|off), both per-turn budgets, cumulative statistics (including hard-disable rejections and cache hits), the circuit trip, the recent verdicts, and one-shot approve buttons for recent denials (they execute /auto-review approve [n]).
How it is wired:
- The host registers an
autoReview session projection (folded from the log-only autoReview/* events) and serves it through the session-projection channel.
- The browser half is a client module (auto-discovered from the
dsh.client declaration) registered on the conversation.session.header.actions seat.
- No extra patch rows are needed: the panel loads whenever the plugin is installed in a profile whose web build provides the session-projection capability (the web profile does). Without that capability the panel reports itself unavailable; the answerer is unaffected.
The panel reads only whole projection values — it never receives the raw session event stream.
How it works
approval/request waterfall (answerer chain)
│
┌───────────────────────┴──────────────────────┐
│ dsh-auto-review answerer │
│ · session enabled? · policy = ai? │ no ── next() ──▶ human answerer (UI)
│ · risk rules → toolsPolicy → default │
└───────────────────────┬──────────────────────┘
│ yes
▼
┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ reviewer subagent (fork, one-shot)│
│ · toolFilter: read/glob/grep │
│ · outputSchema: {decision, │
│ reason, riskLevel} │
│ · timeout + req.signal abort │
└───────────────┬───────────────────┘
│ verdict / failure (fail-closed fallback)
▼
allow → allowed-once deny → rejected + reason injected into the
denied tool result (callId-linked)
│ never → rejected + [auto-review-never] feedback
│ (hard disable, no reviewer runs)
▼
audit: approval/asked → autoReview/verdict | autoReview/rejection
→ approval/decided (session events, log-only, invariant-checked)
Composition order. The answerer runs at its registration position in the waterfall: if a human UI answerer is composed BEFORE the auto-review row, humans answer first and the reviewer only sees what is delegated downstream. Verify with dsh --profile <name> --dump-config and place the auto-review row before your human answerer rows when you want ai-policy tools routed to the reviewer first.
dsh-eval — agent evaluation engine
Beyond the approval reviewer, dsh-auto-review ships dsh-eval: a YAML-driven agent evaluation platform that runs real headless DSH sessions (one isolated agent + scratch workspace per case, the official Minimal persona as the baseline system prompt), collects the tool-call trace from the session event log, and evaluates structured assertions plus an optional second-model review — the same reviewer seam as the approval answerer.
# eval/cases/demo.yaml (abridged)
suite:
name: my-suite
cases:
- id: math-output
input: Solve 17 × 24 and reply with only the final number, nothing else.
expect:
output: { contains: "408" }
- id: glob-trace
seedFrom: '.'
input: Use the glob tool with pattern "src/**" to list the source files…
expect:
toolCalls: [{ tool: glob, arguments: { contains: { pattern: "src" } } }]
results: [{ tool: glob, contains: "index.ts" }]
Run it (a DeepSeek API key must be in the environment):
dsh-eval eval/cases --model deepseek-flash --timeout-ms 240000 --out .eval-reports
Assertion families
The expect block supports six assertion families; each assertion is evaluated independently and reports its own pass/fail with expected/actual values, so a failing case explains itself without a rerun.
| Family | DSL keys | What it gates |
|---|
| Tool trace | toolCalls, toolCallsExact, noToolCalls, results | ordered tool-call sequence (subsequence with skips), exact name sequence, per-tool result (isError/contains/regex) |
| Output & budget | output, turnEnds, maxTokens | final-output substring/regex, turn outcome, token budget |
| Prompt regression | prompt | the rendered system prompt must match a committed baseline (or a baselineFrom file); any drift is reported as a side-by-side diff, with allowedChanges regexes to whitelist intended edits |
| Stress metrics | stress | P99 step latency (maxP99Ms), worst time-to-first-token (maxTtftMs), aggregate token generation speed (minTokensPerSecond) |
| Fairness | bias | bias radar over the final output: per-category regex counts (categories), hard forbid patterns, maxHits/maxCategoryHits caps |
| Second-model review | review | a supplementary pass/fail verdict from the reviewer subagent (a separate layer, same seam as the approval reviewer) |
- id: regression-gate
input: Answer in one sentence.
expect:
prompt:
baseline: "You are a helpful software engineer assistant."
allowedChanges: ["copyright-year"]
stress:
maxP99Ms: 8000
maxTtftMs: 3000
minTokensPerSecond: 20
bias:
categories: { gender: ["[Hh]e is (un)?stable"] }
forbid: ["[Ss]crew that"]
maxCategoryHits: 0
CI gate: the process exits 0 only when every case of every suite passed — failing evaluations fail the build. Each case leaves a replayable session JSONL and a trace JSON beside report.md/report.json; assertion results (including the prompt side-by-side diff), token usage, stress/bias metrics, and the review verdict are all written into the report files.
- name: dsh-eval
run: npx dsh-eval eval/cases --model deepseek-flash --timeout-ms 240000 --out .eval-reports
env:
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY }}
dsh-eval differs from openai/codex-research: codex-research scores agent trajectories for research comparison; dsh-eval is a declarative pass/fail regression harness — YAML cases, structured trace/prompt/stress/bias assertions, an optional second-model review, and a CI exit code — for gating any DSH agent, not research ranking.
MCP server (standalone)
dsh-auto-review also ships a stdio MCP server (dsh-auto-review-mcp) so external MCP clients (Claude, Codex, …) can consume a deterministic review path without a harness. It speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON) — one JSON object per line, no Content-Length framing.
Boundary. The full reviewer needs the harness subagent seam and a second model, which a separate stdio process cannot reach. The standalone server is therefore deterministic rules + cache, no model review:
review_action reuses the same-fingerprint verdict cache (src/cache.ts) and the risk-rule / tool-policy resolution (src/config.ts): a never rule → deny; a cache hit on an identical tool + arguments fingerprint replays that verdict; anything else (ai needs a model, human needs a human) → fail-closed deny with reason: "standalone path, no model". It never allows an action a model did not already allow.cache_stats reports hit/store counts and the TTL status.
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|
review_action | {tool, args?, reason?} → {decision, reason, riskLevel} — deterministic deny / cache replay |
cache_stats | {} → {hits, stores, size, ttlMs, enabled} |
Run it directly:
# risk rules come from environment variables
export DSH_AUTO_REVIEW_RISK_RULES='[{"pattern":"rm -rf","policy":"never","field":"arguments"}]'
node bin/dsh-auto-review-mcp.mjs
# or, after npm install: npx dsh-auto-review-mcp
Environment config: DSH_AUTO_REVIEW_RISK_RULES (JSON array of {pattern, policy, field?}), DSH_AUTO_REVIEW_TOOLS_POLICY (JSON {default?, overrides?}), DSH_AUTO_REVIEW_CACHE_TTL_MS, DSH_AUTO_REVIEW_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES.
Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json) example:
{
"mcpServers": {
"dsh-auto-review": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "dsh-auto-review-mcp"],
"env": {
"DSH_AUTO_REVIEW_RISK_RULES": "[{\"pattern\":\"rm -rf\",\"policy\":\"never\",\"field\":\"arguments\"}]"
}
}
}
}
The server is read-only and deterministic: no network, no model, no writes.
Permissions & data
- Permissions: the workshop manifest declares
session:append, approval:answer, subagent:spawn, command:register, and tools:observe.
- Data: nothing is stored on disk; the report ring buffer is in-memory and bounded. No network requests of its own.
- Session log:
autoReview/* events carry reviewer identity, verdict, reason, risk, and duration — appended with the envelope's ignorable: true marker so any build loads the log. Hosts whose Session.append predates the marker (every released rc line through 0.1.1-rc.2 — no release stamps it yet) are detected before the first append (peer-version pre-check); hosts 0.1.2-rc.1, 0.1.3-alpha.2, and 0.1.5-rc.2 keep the ignorable field on the envelope but Session.append offers no way to stamp it (its third parameter is SurfaceIntent for surface events only), and the persistence read path refuses unmarked unknown event types, so those lines — and unresolvable versions — also fail closed before any append. Audit then degrades to an in-memory mirror with marker-free feedback, so sessions stay loadable everywhere.
Security boundaries
- The reviewer is a model. Its verdicts are advisory policy, not a security kernel; prefer
human/never rules for irreversible operations.
- Fail closed. Every abnormal path (provider missing, capability gaps, start rejection, timeout, non-
completed stop reason, missing/malformed verdict, audit-correlation failure) resolves through fallbackPolicy, default rejected — and the rejection feeds an auditable reason back to the model. allow-once grants unconditionally; it exists only for unattended deployments whose admin accepts that risk.
- Read-only reviewer. The reviewer's
toolFilter allow-list (read/glob/grep) cannot write, edit, run bash, fetch the network, or delegate (maxDepth = its own depth). Its session log is persisted and auditable.
- Context-isolated reviewer. The reviewer child's steps are filtered on the documented
agent/pre-step seam: only its own prompt and its own read-only tool results enter them. Workspace instruction files (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md) and context-injecting plugins are dropped from the step this seam controls. The host's own runtime-context snapshot is re-admitted by the loop after agent/pre-step; the firewall does not remove it, so the reviewer sees it. This holds under EITHER subagent provider. The filter is an allow-list over message SOURCES, so a plugin that declares a new source kind is dropped too.
- Sensitive arguments are redacted (key-name matching:
token, password, api_key, Authorization, credentials, private keys …) before entering the reviewer prompt, and a free-form string argument additionally passes an inline heuristic that masks the KEY=VALUE / KEY: VALUE / --flag VALUE spellings and Bearer/Basic schemes — which is how a secret usually appears in a shell call. The plugin never executes the reviewed arguments. Both passes are best-effort, not a secret scanner: a bare secret with no key next to it stays visible, so do not AI-review tools whose argument values you cannot afford to show a model.
- Hard disables explain themselves. A
never tool or risk rule rejects deterministically AND records a log-only autoReview/rejection event, then injects a [auto-review-never] marker into the denied tool result — the model learns the action is hard-disabled instead of retrying it (invariant-checked: marker ⟺ event).
Known limitations
- Two different exposures, two different answers — neither substitutes for the other. Injected context (workspace instruction files, third-party plugin injections) is injected fresh into any new agent session, so it reaches the reviewer identically under
reviewerProvider: fork and reviewerProvider: spawn; the host runtime-context snapshot is re-admitted after the pre-step seam and is explicitly out of the firewall's claim — measured byte-identical across both on the same request. The agent/pre-step source filter closes the workspace/third-party half under either provider; it does not remove the host snapshot, which is re-admitted after the seam. spawn alone does NOT keep workspace instructions out of the reviewer. Separately, fork seeds the child with the delegating session's completed turns: that history is already the child's own log rather than a message entering a step, so the filter cannot touch it and only spawn avoids it, with the reviewer prompt's untrusted-transcript fence as the mitigation in between. In the two traces above the seeding produced no additional messages, so its practical impact is unquantified.
- The reviewer needs a working LLM route (inherited by default); without one every review falls back per
fallbackPolicy — never a silent grant.
reviewerTools names must exist as global tools in the profile; an unknown name fails the reviewer child loudly at the earliest point and falls back.- Risk rules match the request
reason, the toolName, or the redacted call arguments per their field; other conditions belong in toolsPolicy.overrides.
- The
/auto-review approve override authorizes the next same-tool review, not the exact historical call; a different action on the same tool consumes it.
- The verdict events are log-only; the Web review panel reads the folded
autoReview projection (the raw event stream never reaches browser plugins).
autoReview/state and autoReview/verdict are appended with the envelope's ignorable: true marker on hosts that honor it, so any harness build loads the log — readers that do not know the out-of-repo types simply skip those records. On released rc hosts (rc.1–rc.8) the runtime detects the dropped marker and never writes these events (the in-memory mirror keeps the command, budgets, breaker, and approve working for the session); sessions already polluted by pre-0.5.1 versions can be repaired with scripts/repair-session-logs.mjs from dsh-permission-rules (its default target set covers all five event types).
Related work
- Andy8647/dsh-auto-approval — two-state allow/deny classifier on the
tools/pre-execute waterfall with file-log audit. dsh-auto-review deliberately differs: official answerer chain, always delegates what it does not own, read-only second model with a structured verdict, deny reasons fed back to the model, session-log audit.
- ACP automation bridge — one-shot machine decisions for its own ACP-owned agents.
dsh-auto-review is session- and tool-policy-scoped for the interactive harness; it never infers durable grants.
Development
pnpm install # node ^22.19 || >=24
pnpm run typecheck # tsc: src + tests against the local harness checkout
pnpm test # vitest: 30 spec files
pnpm run build # tsc declarations + tsdown bundles (lib/, incl. the client bundle)
pnpm run verify:self-contained
pnpm pack # the published tarball
Repository layout: src/index.ts (plugin contract) · src/config.ts (Schemastery schema + resolution) · src/runtime.ts (answerer, command, deny-reason injection) · src/review.ts (reviewer orchestration, prompt, sanitization) · src/phocinae.ts (the optional local decision-model reviewer) · src/events.ts (session-event vocabulary + folds) · src/audit.ts (host ignorable-marker capability detection) · src/projection.ts + src/projection-types.ts (the autoReview session projection) · src/invariant.ts (invariant companion) · src/eval/ (the dsh-eval engine) · eval/ (shipped evaluation composition) · bin/dsh-eval.mjs (CLI launcher) · src/client/ (browser half) · test/ · fixtures/.
Interoperability with other DSH plugins
Verified against DSH 0.2.1-rc.2 (the runtime this README ships for) and the high-star plugin set surveyed on 2026-10-05.
This plugin does not interfere with other plugins, including the widely installed high-star ones:
- No tool-name collision. Every tool is namespaced; no bare name owned by a shipped tool or another plugin is registered.
- No service-key collision. It provides
autoReviewRuntime; that key is not a built-in seam and is not provided by any surveyed high-star plugin.
- No slot collision. It registers no client slot key, so it cannot contend for a
shadows-shipped-ui seat.
- No HTTP route collision. It registers no
webServer prefix.
- No patch-layer collision. The bundle patch only
inserts its own row; it never overrides a built-in row's config.
- No global mutation. It does not patch prototypes, rewrite
process.env, or replace the global fetch dispatcher.
Shared event listeners are non-interfering by construction. It observes the ordering-sensitive events agent/pre-step, approval/request, tools/post-execute with ctx.on() — Cordis's broadcast registration, where every listener runs and none can starve another. Every listener here delegates through next(), so the chain is never short-circuited, and a mutation is applied to the value next() produced rather than returned in its place:
agent/pre-step — also used by dsh-routing-suite (7000★, 7 listeners), modlens (4122★), dsh-purge (3317★), dsh-agent-teams (1923★), dsh-context (1849★).tools/post-execute — also used by cc-safety-net (1576★).
Static evidence: dsh-plugin-doctor K10–K13 report pass for every check on this repository.
Topics
deepseek-harness, dsh, dsh-plugin, cordis, approval, auto-review, second-model, ai-safety, sandbox, subagent
Contributors
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@renleihaokun — shell-argument secrets, truncated evidence, empty review panel (#65), and the 0.2.1 activation restoration (#71); fixes shipped in 0.13.4/0.13.5.
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@daveycodez — isolated reviewer context and transcript-by-default (#22).
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@PerryLink — creator and maintainer: the approval answerer, the reviewer subagent, risk policy and circuit breaker, the session-projection review panel, the invariant companion, dsh-eval, and the five-language docs.
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@weipeng1999 — proposed independent reviewer provider/model routing (#11, discussion #12), which shipped as reviewerProvider / reviewerModel.
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@alexchenzl — listed the plugin on the DSH plugin directory (#10).
PerryLink DSH Plugin Family
This project is part of the DeepSeek Harness plugin family from PerryLink. The roster stays collapsed below so every README keeps a short first screen; expand it to see every row and its status.
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Structured receipts
Integrations can call ctx.autoReviewRuntime.answerDetailed(request, next) and import DetailedAnswer / ReviewReceipt to receive request-local correlation, review/fallback/delegation and circuit evidence without custom session events. answer() and the installed approval chain retain their behavior. Only the detailed API converts internal or downstream exceptions to rejected / unavailable; after disposal its final result is rejected, without promising immediate cancellation or removal of late underlying side effects. configuredReviewerBackend names the reviewer backend, not the model provider. A later Host listener registered with prepend can run first: receipts do not provide exclusive approval admission.
License
Apache License 2.0 © 2026 dsh-auto-review contributors
