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Compatibility

| Surface | Status | |---|---| | Harness | DeepSeek Harness dsh-v0.1.5-rc.2 (adapted 2026-09-09): the session envelope keeps its ignorable field for stored-log read compatibility only - Session.append still cannot stamp it, so audit-gate behavior is unchanged. Verified 2026-09-11 against the dsh-v0.1.5-rc.2 master checkout (full gate chain + profile install smoke). | | Node | ^22.19.0 \|\| >=24.0.0 | | Platforms | Anywhere DSH runs (pure host, zero-dependency regex; no browser half) | | Model | Text models fully supported; no extra model capability required |

What you get

dsh-mask anonymizes personal data at the model boundary — before a message reaches the model — and keeps a restore table host-side so placeholders stay reversible:

• Request-time masking — agent/pre-step messages are rewritten so phones, emails, ID cards, bank cards, and keys (on by default) and IPs (opt-in) become <PHONE_1>-style placeholders. The masked text is what gets logged and sent to the model.
• Restore table — the placeholder → original map lives only in memory and a controlled storage domain (dsh_mask); the plaintext never enters the session log.
• Audit, not plaintext — the mask/applied session event records only "replaced N values + type distribution", never the original text or the mapping.
• /mask command — status (counts + distribution), on/off (runtime toggle), restore <text> (unmap placeholders), help.
• mask_test tool — run a snippet through the detector and see the placeholder result; it never reveals the original values.

user message ──agent/pre-step──▶ placeholders ──model──▶ placeholders ──restore──▶ display
                                   ▲                                                    │
                                   └──────── restore table (memory + dsh_mask) ────────┘

Quick start

# 1. install the bundle into your profile
dsh plugin --profile web add "github:PerryLink/dsh-mask#main"

# or from npm (published releases)
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-mask

# 2. verify the row mounts
dsh --profile web --dump-config | grep -A2 'id: mask'

Then tailor the entity list in your profile patch:

- insert:
    - id: mask
      name: dsh-mask
      config:
        entities: [phone, email, id-card, bank-card, key]

> /mask status
> /mask restore <PHONE_1>

Install & uninstall

• git channel (latest main): dsh plugin --profile web add "github:PerryLink/dsh-mask#main" (equivalent to installing from git+https://github.com/PerryLink/dsh-mask.git). No build step — index.mjs and lib/ are the shipped artifacts.
• npm channel (published releases): dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-mask.
• tarball channel: pnpm pack in this repo, then dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-mask-<version>.tgz.
• uninstall: dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-mask (or remove the row from the profile patch).

dsh-mask no longer bundles the storage stack. Profiles that already compose it (the web profile does, via @deepseek-ai/dsh-web-app) provide storageDomain, so persistence works out of the box. On a bare profile without storage the plugin still mounts and masks, but the restore table is memory-only (lost on restart) — compose the storage stack in your profile patch, or set persistRestoreTable: false.

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; false unregisters the listener, the /mask command, and the mask_test tool | | mode | regex | Detection mode; only regex is implemented (regex+ner for name/address recognition is reserved and fails loud) | | entities | [phone, email, id-card, bank-card, key] | Which PII types to mask; ip is also regex-capable (opt-in), person/address require NER | | scope | [messages] | Masking surface(s); messages masks agent/pre-step messages, tools masks tool-result text on tools/post-execute. Accepts a string or an array, e.g. [messages, tools] | | registerCommand | true | Register the /mask command | | registerTools | true | Register the mask_test tool when the tools service is present | | persistRestoreTable | true | Persist the restore table to the controlled dsh_mask storage domain (false = memory only) | | maxRestoreEntriesPerSession | 500 | Per-session restore entry cap (oldest evicted first) | | maxSessions | 1000 | In-memory session cap (least-recently-used evicted, mapping reloaded on demand) | | maskClientEnabled | false | Feature flag for the browser half "reveal" bubble (defensive; off by default until the live slot catalog verifies the target slot). The key is schema-declared and validated, but no runtime code reads it yet, so it changes nothing until the browser half ships |

Example override in your profile patch:

- insert:
    - id: mask
      name: dsh-mask
      config:
        entities: [phone, email, id-card, bank-card, key, ip]
        persistRestoreTable: false
        registerCommand: true

Tools & surfaces

| Surface | Reveals plaintext | Notes | |---|---|---| | agent/pre-step masking | never | Rewrites messages to placeholders before they are logged or sent to the model | | tools/post-execute masking | never | Rewrites tool-result text blocks to placeholders before they are logged or fed back to the model (scope: tools) | | /mask status | never | Enabled state, total replaced, type distribution | | /mask on / /mask off | never | Runtime toggle (resets to config.enabled on restart) | | /mask restore <text> | yes (explicit) | Unmaps placeholders back to the values stored for this session | | mask_test | never | Masks a snippet and reports the placeholder result + counts |

Permissions & data

• Permissions: dsh-mask performs no network requests and stores no credentials; it only reads the session at the agent/pre-step boundary and writes its own dsh_mask storage domain. The dshWorkshop manifest declares network:none and credentials:none.
• Data: the placeholder → original restore table lives in memory and, when persistRestoreTable: true, in the controlled dsh_mask storage domain — this is the only place plaintext PII is stored, and it is never written to the session log.
• Session log: mask/applied is declared in types.d.ts and appended only when the host records the type (see Known limitations). Its payload is counts + type distribution only.

Security boundaries

• Plaintext never enters the session log. The masked (placeholder) form is what gets logged and sent to the model, so model-visible content is reconstructable from the log in placeholder form; the originals stay in the restore table.
• Sanitize before display/log. lib/sanitize.mjs redacts PII, secrets, and URL credentials before any text reaches the model or the log; mask_test and /mask status never echo originals.
• Controlled restore. /mask restore is the single explicit reveal surface, and it only reads the mapping for the active session.
• Fail closed. Unimplemented mode (regex+ner), unknown scope values, NER-only entities, and out-of-bounds numbers all fail loudly at load.
• Registrations are effects. The listener, command, tool, and storage-domain close are all Cordis effects — stop/hot-reload removes them.

Known limitations

• Regex only. Name (person) and address (address) recognition needs an external NER recognizer, which the pure-host zero-dependency form does not bundle; mode: regex+ner and those entities fail loudly at load. The PII types covered out of the box are phone, email, ID card, bank card, key, and (opt-in) IP.
• Region-specific patterns. The phone and id-card detectors match mainland-China formats only: phone is 1[3-9] followed by nine digits, and id-card is an 18-character Chinese resident ID (17 digits plus a digit or X). Phone numbers and national identifiers from other countries are not detected. email, ip, and key are region-agnostic; bank-card accepts any 16-19 digit run at a lower confidence score.
• Display-layer restore needs a client half. Masking is fully host-side, but transparently un-masking the assistant bubbles in the client UI is a browser-half feature this pure-host form does not ship. The host side keeps the restore table and the exported RestoreStore seam (its methods take a session id), so a future client half would reach them through a host remote rather than directly; today the unmasking surface is the /mask restore <text> command, and the maskClientEnabled key is validated but read by no runtime code yet.
• Session events on 0.1.2-rc.1. The harness does not yet record mask/* event types, and its Session.append does not stamp the ignorable envelope, so on alpha.3 the session-log audit appends are skipped (sessions keep loading); the plugin enables them automatically once a host records the types or supports the ignorable envelope.

Development

pnpm install                                       # node ^22.19 || >=24
pnpm run typecheck && pnpm run typecheck:ci        # tsc --checkJs against the published 0.1.5-rc.2 peers
pnpm test                                          # node --test
pnpm run verify:self-contained                     # dependency specs resolve from the registry
pnpm run verify:artifacts                          # shipped files present + index.mjs importable
pnpm run check:readmes                             # five-language README consistency
pnpm pack                                          # the published tarball

There is no build step: pure ESM, index.mjs and lib/ are the shipped artifacts.

Benchmark

The PII benchmark (per-type P/R/F1 over 108 synthetic samples) is published in benchmark/RESULTS.md; regenerate it with node benchmark/run.mjs (no build step, zero new dependencies).

Topics

dsh, dsh-plugin, deepseek-harness, deepseek, cordis, pii, mask, privacy, anonymization, security

Contributors

• @PerryLink — creator and maintainer: the regex PII detector ported from Pii-Stripper-Middleware, the agent/pre-step masking seam, the restore table, the /mask command and mask_test tool, and the five-language docs.

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-defend | Prompt-injection, jailbreak, and secret-leak defense for DeepSeek Harness. | | | 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. | | | dsh-fund-research | Deterministic research reports for Chinese public mutual funds | | | dsh-github | GitHub PR/issues integration for DSH, every write gated by approval | | | dsh-industry-research | Industry research orchestration that seals its deliverables through this plugin's ctx.researchReport.assemble | | | dsh-library | Local document knowledge base for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-local-ai | Local-model (Ollama) integration for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-lsp-actions | LSP diagnostics, formatting, completion, code actions and rename over language servers | | | dsh-mcp-panel | Read-only MCP runtime panel: /mcp command + Settings tab with status, tools and errors | | | dsh-memento | Approval-gated cross-session memory: ctx.memory seam + SQLite + memory tool | | | dsh-observe | OpenTelemetry and Langfuse observability exporter for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-output-styles | Claude Code outputStyles-equivalent runtime style switching | | | dsh-permission-rules | Claude Code-style declarative allow/deny/ask permission rules with audit | | | dsh-personal-directive | Personal directive injector with top-bar toggle (framework edition) | | dsh-plugin-guide | Plugin-development knowledge base as an on-demand agent skill | | | dsh-plugin-doctor | Zero-dependency static + sandbox smoke detector for DSH plugins | | | dsh-reach | Multi-channel approval/question bridge: WeChat/Telegram/Feishu, session console | | dsh-research-report | Verifiable research-report engine: content-addressed evidence ledger and sealed versions | | | dsh-score | Multi-dimensional quality scoring for DeepSeek Harness plugins. | | | dsh-session-pin | Pin sessions in the Web sidebar with durable ordering | | | dsh-session-sync | Cross-device session sync for DeepSeek Harness — a dedicated git mirror of your session store. | | | dsh-skill-pack-security | Security-audit skill pack: secret scan, dependency and supply-chain review | | | dsh-talk | Voice-first session loop for DeepSeek Harness: talk to it, hear it answer. | | | dsh-test-drive | Isolated install-and-smoke test drives for DeepSeek Harness plugins. | | | dsh-ticktick | TickTick/Dida365 task bridge: session-header panel + 11 tools | | dsh-translate | Vendor parameter translation and deterministic JSON repair for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-wechat | WeChat ↔ DSH bridge (Tencent iLink bot): text/image/file/voice, approvals in chat | | dsh-autotier | Automatic strong/cheap model-tier routing with deterministic risk guards and a /tier command | | | dsh-catalog | DSH Desktop Market standard catalog source for the PerryLink family | | | dsh-cert-mcp | Read-only MCP server exposing the certification registry: grades, snapshots and five-dimension evidence | | | dsh-kit | One-command starter pack that installs the core family | | | dsh-plugin-certification | Community certification registry with repro-checkable grades and badges | | | dsh-plugin-kit | Shared zero-runtime-dependency toolkit for the PerryLink DSH plugins | | | dsh-plugin-portal | Zero-dependency static portal rendering the whole plugin family as one page | | | dsh-plugin-upgrade-015 | Merged 0.1.3-alpha.1 → 0.1.5-rc.1 upgrade corridor card plus a zero-dependency seam scanner | | | dsh-team-rooms | Cross-session team rooms: shared message bus, task board and timeline | |

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

LICENSE (Apache License 2.0) © 2026 dsh-mask contributors