🛡️ dsh-defend
- 1024 store channel:
npm i -g dsh1024 once, then dsh1024 plugin --profile web add dsh-defend (counts toward the deepseek1024.com install ranking).
Prompt-injection, jailbreak, and secret-leak defense for DeepSeek Harness.
Rules decide the known. Interception decides the rest — and everything is audited.
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Compatibility
| Surface | Status |
|---|
| Harness | DeepSeek Harness dsh-v0.1.6-alpha.2 (verified 2026-09-18; peer ranges >=0.1.2-rc.1 <0.2.0 || >=0.1.5-alpha.1 <0.2.0 || >=0.1.6-0 <0.2.0). On this line Session.append's third argument exists only for surface-eligible event types and is a SurfaceIntent, so the non-surface defend/detection type still cannot stamp the ignorable marker: session-log audit stays fail-closed-disabled and /defend now renders that state explicitly. Verified 2026-09-18 (dual typecheck rulers + full test suite + self-contained/artifacts gates). |
| Node | ^22.19.0 || >=24.0.0 |
| Platforms | All (pure host; no native code, no network) |
| Model | Any (detection runs before content reaches the model) |
What you get
dsh-defend puts two independent layers in front of the agent:
- Destructive-delete guard — the executable form of the 8·14/8·16 postmortem lesson. On
tools/pre-execute, recursively deleting shell commands are refused unless every target is an explicit absolute path inside the session workspace and outside the protected prefixes (home config, .dsh/.claude, system directories). Dry-run markers (-WhatIf, --dry-run, git clean -n) pass, because they are exactly the check the lesson demands.
- Detection layer — ported from four upstream assets (all Apache-2.0, see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md): 25 Prompt-Injection-Payloads rules, 25 Jailbreak-Detector patterns through a pure-TypeScript Aho-Corasick automaton, 12 secret grammars from Secret-Key-Leaker-Detect plus the issuers' public references, and the Prompt-Attack-Dataset kept verbatim as the regression benchmark.
Three interception points, one decision model each:
| Point | Scanned | Decision |
|---|
agent/pre-step | inbound user messages | allow → next(); ask → approval; block → reject the step |
tools/pre-execute | tool arguments | allow → next(); ask → approval; block → deny |
tools/post-execute | tool results | allow → next(); ask → approval; block → corrective feedback |
Defaults: ask for every family, block for critical secrets (the upstream interrupt-on-sight semantics). No approval answerer = fail closed. Every pass-through calls next() — downstream policy plugins are never short-circuited.
inbound message ── agent/pre-step ── scan ── clean → next()/enter
tool arguments ── tools/pre-execute ── scan ── allow → next()
tool results ── tools/post-execute ── scan ── block → feedback
│
└─ defend/detection audit (rule id, family,
severity, decision — never matched text)
Quick start
# 1. install the bundle into your profile
dsh plugin --profile web add "github:PerryLink/dsh-defend#main"
# or from npm (published releases)
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-defend
# 2. restart and verify the row
dsh --profile web --dump-config | grep -A3 'id: dsh-defend'
Install & uninstall
- git channel (latest
main): dsh plugin --profile web add "github:PerryLink/dsh-defend#main" — the prepare script builds with production dependencies only.
- npm channel (published releases):
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-defend.
- tarball channel:
pnpm pack in this repo, then dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-defend-<version>.tgz.
- uninstall:
dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-defend (or remove the row from the profile patch).
Configuration
All tunables are Schemastery Config fields (changeable from cordis.yml). An id-targeted override replaces the whole row — restate every key you need. cordis.patch.yml documents each key inline.
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|
enabled | true | Master switch for both layers |
action | deny | Destructive-delete guard action (deny / ask) |
toolNames | ['bash','persistent-bash','terminal-bash'] | Tool names whose command arguments the guard reviews |
detection.enabled | true | Detection-layer switch |
detection.maxScanChars | 10000 | Scan cap per interception (head only) |
detection.normalizeUnicode | true | NFKC-normalize text before scanning (blocks lookalike-Unicode bypass) |
detection.secretMinEntropy | 3.0 | Minimum Shannon entropy (bits/char) to admit a secret regex hit; 0 disables |
detection.injectionAction | ask | Injection family: allow / ask / block |
detection.jailbreakAction | ask | Jailbreak family: allow / ask / block |
detection.secretAction | ask | Secret family: allow / ask / block |
detection.secretBlockCritical | true | Critical secrets always block regardless of secretAction |
detection.audit | true | Write defend/detection session audit events |
detection.allowUnmarkedAudit | false | Keep writing session audit on hosts whose Session.append predates the ignorable marker (every released line so far) or that fail-closed on unknown event types (host 0.1.2-rc.1+), accepting the unresumable-session hazard |
Tools & surfaces
| Surface | Kind | Notes |
|---|
defend_report | tool | Totals (recorded/blocked/asked), per-family counts, and the 20 most recent matches — never matched text |
/defend | command | The same summary as text |
agent/pre-step | listener | Inbound message scanning (enter/reject) |
tools/pre-execute | listener | Tool-argument scanning (deny/ask) + the destructive-delete guard |
tools/post-execute | listener | Tool-result scanning (block feedback) |
Permissions & data
- Permissions: ask decisions ride the official approval seam; nothing is re-implemented or bypassed. The plugin declares
session:append and network:none in its workshop manifest.
- Data: nothing is stored on disk; the report ring buffer is in-memory and bounded. No network requests, no subprocesses.
- Session log:
defend/detection events carry rule id, family, category, severity, secret type, decision, and scan facts — matched text never reaches the log, and secret matches are type-only by construction.
Security boundaries
- Detection, not enforcement. The guard and the detection layer only produce deny/ask/block decisions on official seams; the sandbox and approval systems remain the enforcement authorities.
- Fail closed. Missing approval answerer, missing session, or a missing services surface degrades to the strictest decision — never to silent pass-through.
- No content leaves the process. Scanning is local; audit events are sanitized; secrets are never logged, displayed, or reported.
- Bounded work. Scan caps, one match per rule, and ring-buffer bounds keep hostile inputs from consuming unbounded resources.
Known limitations
- Detection gaps. The rule library catches the ported vocabularies and their tolerant variants; novel phrasing, lookalike-Unicode encodings (NFKC normalization is tracked as future work), and multi-step attacks can evade it. The benchmark pins the measured floor (27/28 on the upstream dataset) so regressions are visible.
- No model-level verdicts.
dsh-defend is deterministic; it never calls a model and cannot judge novel intent.
- Message rejection is silent.
agent/pre-step reject carries no reason to the model (the seam has no reason field); the audit event records the rule facts.
- Session audit and the
ignorable marker. Audit appends request the envelope's ignorable: true marker so any harness build can load the log. Every released harness line so far (0.1.0-rc.1–0.1.0-rc.8, 0.1.1-rc.1–0.1.1-rc.2) silently drops it — the event lands unmarked and makes the session unresumable on stricter builds; host 0.1.2-rc.1 retains the envelope field for stored-log read compatibility only, but Session.append still cannot stamp it and the read path rejects unmarked unknown event types (defend/detection is not registered), so writing there also makes the session unloadable. dsh-defend therefore decides BEFORE the first append (peer-version pre-check; unresolvable versions fail closed) and disables session-log audit with a one-time warning. Set detection.allowUnmarkedAudit: true to opt back in. See issue #2.
Development
pnpm install # node ^22.19 || >=24
pnpm run typecheck # tsc: src + tests against the local harness checkout
pnpm run typecheck:ci # tsc against the published 0.1.5-rc.2 types (no paths)
pnpm test # vitest: 75 tests, 8 suites (detection benchmark incl.)
pnpm run build # tsdown bundle + tsc declarations (lib/)
pnpm run verify:self-contained # dependency specs resolve from the registry
pnpm run verify:artifacts # built ESM face + shipped files present
pnpm pack # the published tarball
Benchmark
The red-team benchmark (per-category P/R/F1 over 105 samples, plus the 27/28 fixture floor) is published in benchmark/RESULTS.md; regenerate it with node --experimental-strip-types benchmark/run.mjs (zero new dependencies, no build step).
Topics
dsh, dsh-plugin, deepseek-harness, deepseek, cordis, security, prompt-injection, jailbreak, secret-scanning, ai-safety
Contributors
- @PerryLink — creator and maintainer: destructive-delete guard, the four-asset detection port, interception wiring, audit surface, and the five-language docs.
- @cuohua — the precise report on
defend/detection events landing unmarked and making sessions unresumable on stricter builds (#2); the runtime host-capability detection and the ignorable-marker discipline derive directly from that analysis.
PerryLink DSH Plugin Family
This project is one of the 40 DeepSeek Harness plugins maintained by PerryLink. If this one helps you, the others likely will too:
| Plugin | One-liner |
|---|
| dsh-auto-review | Second-model auto-review on the approval chain, fail-closed by default |
| dsh-background-agents | Durable background child agents with a Web UI sidebar, messaging and interrupt |
| dsh-budget | Cost governance for DeepSeek Harness: budgets, carbon, and latency in one panel. |
| dsh-checkpoint-rewind | Claude Code /rewind-equivalent: snapshots, session forks, one-shot restore |
| dsh-claude-move | Migrate Claude Code sessions, memory, skills and CLAUDE.md into DSH |
| dsh-click | Cross-platform native desktop control for DeepSeek Harness — Windows first. |
| dsh-composer-history | Terminal-style input history for the web composer: arrows, Ctrl+R search |
| dsh-data-quality | Dataset quality checks and citation cross-checks (the optional numeric bridge consumed here) |
| dsh-doublecheck | Engineering-discipline guard: requirements grill, test gates, adversary review |
| dsh-draw | Unified static-image generation routing for DeepSeek Harness. |
| dsh-fast | Read-only performance diagnostics for DeepSeek Harness. |
|
Install from the DSH Desktop Market
All PerryLink plugins are browsable in the built-in DSH Desktop Market: Market → Sources → add source → paste https://perrylink-dsh-catalog.perrylink.workers.dev/catalog-source.json → select it. Installation still goes through the Market's npm-identity verification and your confirmation.
License
Apache License 2.0 © 2026 dsh-defend contributors
