dsh-no-phone-home
Stops DeepSeek Harness (dsh) from phoning home. This is a patch-only bundle: it ships no runtime code, it only disables the shipped plugin rows that send data off your machine for DeepSeek's diagnostics, or that record data so it can be sent later.
What it disables
| Row | What it does when enabled |
|---|
session-telemetry-otel | Exports session-log prefixes to dsh-otel-collector.deepseeksvc.com whenever you leave feedback (/feedback, or rating a message). In the shipped default mode (FEEDBACK_ONLY), a single thumbs-up uploads the session up to that point: message text, tool arguments and results, and workspace paths. |
otel | The shared OTLP transport used by session and product telemetry. |
session-log-deepseek | Attaches an incremental copy of the session log (dsh_session_log, up to 8 MiB) to every request sent to the official DeepSeek API. |
plugin-package-inventory-deepseek | Attaches your active plugin list (dsh_plugin_packages) to every request sent to the official DeepSeek API. |
desktop-product-telemetry, product-analytics | Desktop product analytics and its OTLP exporter. Upstream enables these only in the desktop profile; this bundle disables them in every profile. |
command-feedback, message-feedback, ui-message-feedback | /feedback, message ratings and notes. These records exist to authorize and feed the telemetry upload; with it off they would only pile up for a later upload. Disabling them removes the rating buttons from messages. |
Older dsh releases lack some of these rows (otel and the desktop rows arrived after 0.1.7-rc.2). dsh skips a patch for a row it doesn't have, so the bundle works on either.
Patches target row ids only. A patch that also names the package is skipped when upstream moves an id to a different package, which would silently re-enable the row.
Not covered
- DeepSeek API request headers. The DeepSeek model adapter (
llm-deepseek, llm-deepseek-account) sends x-deepseek-harness-user-id (a random id stored in $DSH_HOME/.anonymous-user-id) and x-deepseek-harness-session-id with each model request. These go only to the DeepSeek endpoint you're already sending prompts to, and only when you use a DeepSeek route. Routes through other adapters, such as the OpenAI-compatible llm-pi-ai, send no such headers. Removing them would need a code change in dsh itself.
- Features you use on purpose. Sign-in to a DeepSeek account and DeepSeek web search talk to DeepSeek when you use them. They are not telemetry, so this bundle leaves them alone.
Install
dsh plugin --profile web add github:mattcarvercom/dsh-no-phone-home#v1.0.0
This installs the bundle and adds it to the profile's bundle list. With HMR active (the default for web), it applies to a running dsh web without a restart; otherwise restart dsh. You can also toggle it from the Plugins page.
For defense in depth, also set DSH_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 in the environment that launches dsh. dsh applies that switch after every patch layer, including the profile patch the Plugins page writes, so it keeps session-telemetry-otel off even if that row is switched back on in the UI.
Verify
From a clone of this repo:
npm run check # audits ~/.dsh/profiles/web as dsh would compose it right now
npm test # checks the patch against your installed dsh; run after every dsh upgrade
Both find dsh through the dsh on your PATH. Set DSH_PACKAGE_DIR to an installed @deepseek-ai/dsh package, or DSH_CHECKOUT to a source checkout, to use a different one. check also accepts a profile directory as its argument and honors DSH_HOME.
check composes the real layers in dsh's order: each bundle, the profile patch, $DSH_HOME/cordis.patch.yml, then DSH_TELEMETRY_DISABLED. It exits 1 if any denied row is enabled, if the bundle isn't mounted, or if an enabled row's package name looks like telemetry but isn't covered. A row counts as disabled only when disabled is literally true; a conditional (!!js) value doesn't count. Rows your dsh version doesn't have are listed as absent.
npm test checks the patch against the base and web-app bundles of your installed dsh. It fails if a denied package moved to a new row id, if the patch stops being id-only, or if the composed result isn't clean. It also confirms the audit really catches the shipped defaults, a later re-enable, and a new telemetry-shaped row.
Tested with dsh 0.1.7-rc.2 from npm and with a source checkout 155 commits past it, on Node 25 and 26.
License
MIT
