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3.2.0
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Sentinel 3.2.0 is a configuration and operability release. It introduces per-mode threshold persistence, a greatly expanded setup dashboard, actionable human-readable diagnostics, intelligent no-op change detection, and structured retroassignment job reporting.
Highlights
- Per-mode thresholds. Ban thresholds and windows are now stored independently for AutoMod and message mode. Switching modes restores each mode's last-used values instead of resetting to defaults.
- Expanded setup dashboard. Disable, AutoMod management, delete-history, auto-retroassign, ban DM toggle/message/invite, exemption removal, and AutoMod adopt/repair are all now first-class dashboard controls.
- Human-readable diagnostics. Validation and reconciliation findings are now keyed by stable codes and rendered as actionable, operator-facing guidance via a dedicated findings catalog.
- No-op change detection. Configuration writes that produce no effective change no longer create a revision or trigger reconciliation; command and dashboard responses surface "No changes were needed."
- Structured retroassign jobs. Retroactive assignment now tracks assigned, skipped, and failed counts with terminal status (completed, cancelled, failed), and cancelled jobs automatically restart when protection is ready.
- Standardized log severity.
logCriticalis renamed tologError; ban events now log atinfoseverity, aligning structured output with conventional severity labels.
Detection & Configuration
- Schema migration v5 → v6 adds
ban_threshold_automod,ban_window_automod,ban_threshold_message, andban_window_messagecolumns with CHECK constraints. Existing rows are backfilled from the current mode's values during migration. - A new
effectiveThresholds()helper resolves the active threshold/window pair for the current mode, falling back to mode defaults when per-mode values are unset. setModenow persists the outgoing mode's current thresholds before switching, so round-tripping between modes preserves operator-tuned values.- The
updateDesiredstore path normalizes the candidate patch against current settings and skips revision bumps when no mutable desired field actually changes, eliminating spurious reconciliation cycles. - Policy activation now tracks the last activated revision, policy epoch, and assignment signature, so redundant "protection ready" logs are suppressed and auto-retroassign only fires when the role, exemption set, or toggle actually changes.
Commands & Setup Dashboard
- New slash commands:
/sentinel delete-history <seconds>and/sentinel auto-retroassign <enabled>. - The setup dashboard gains a second action row with Disable, AutoMod, Delete History, and Auto-Retroassign buttons.
- Ban DM settings are split into separate controls: a toggle, a message editor modal, and an appeal-invite editor modal.
- Exemptions now support in-dashboard removal via a second user-select menu, alongside the existing add selector.
- AutoMod management is surfaced in the dashboard with managed/verify-only selection, an adopt-existing-rule modal, and a repair button.
- Dashboard and status fields now report changes pending activation, manual actions pending, cleanup required, delete-history seconds, and auto-retroassign state, with humanized controller-state labels (Active, Applying changes, Not fully active, Disabled, Stopping).
- All command and dashboard mutation responses use consistent wording: "applied" on success, "not fully active" on degradation, and "No changes were needed" for no-ops.
Diagnostics & Logging
- A new
src/findings.tscatalog maps internal finding codes to actionable operator messages covering missing permissions, log-channel problems, trap-role health, AutoMod rule health, stale cleanup, and bot membership. - Reconciliation and validation results are now routed through
humanizeFinding, replacing raw internal strings in user-facing output. - Degrade reporting is deduplicated: the same degradation message is logged once per occurrence rather than on every reconciliation pass.
logCriticalis renamed tologErroracross the codebase (logging.ts,ban.ts,runtime.ts,process-supervisor.ts,detection-service.ts,events.ts); ban events are now logged atinfolevel instead ofcritical.
Exports & Defaults
- Safe configuration exports now include
dm_on_ban,ban_delete_message_seconds, andenable_retroactive_role_assignment. - The default ban DM message no longer references the literal role name
@Do not ping; it now says "the trap role," keeping the default applicable regardless of the configured trap-role name.
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3.1.0
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Sentinel 3.1.0 is a milestone release focused on reliability, operational maturity, and safe scaling for multi-guild moderation deployments. It brings durable, revision-tracked enforcement, ownership-aware reconciliation of Discord resources, hardened deployment tooling, and a new opt-in policy for immediate bans on a spam bot's very first message.
Highlights
- First-message immediate bans. Optionally enabled in both AutoMod and message modes. Toggle it via
/sentinel first-message-ban <enabled>or directly from the setup dashboard. - Per-guild runtime rewrite. Each guild now runs inside a serialized, generation-fenced controller, ensuring clean separation and race-free execution.
- Durable state in SQLite. Detection evidence, policy epochs, enforcement claims, leases, retry tracking, and recovery state are all persisted to disk.
- Bounded role-assignment workers. Background role assignment now respects rolling rate limits while reserving throughput for incoming members.
- Ownership-aware repair. Sentinel-managed roles and AutoMod rules are reconciled only when the bot explicitly owns them.
- Supervised lifecycle management. Startup supervision, retention scheduling, graceful shutdown, and isolated per-guild initialization are all built in.
- Hardened release packaging. Node.js 24 support, a non-root OCI container image, SBOM generation, production dependency audits, and built-artifact smoke tests.
Detection & Enforcement
- Ban operations are idempotent, leased, retryable, and recoverable — a restart will not lose or duplicate enforcement.
- Policy epochs prevent cross-version enforcement. Evidence collected under an old policy can never trigger actions under a newer configuration.
- AutoMod events are accepted only from attributable
BLOCK_MESSAGEactions originating from the currently verified rule. - Message edits are durably deduplicated while still catching newly introduced trap-role mentions.
- Stale asynchronous operations are fenced out — outdated runtime or resource state can never be published.
- External resources are read-only. Roles and AutoMod rules not explicitly adopted by Sentinel are never modified.
- Retroactive role assignment now runs as a bounded background job, keeping it from overwhelming the bot's operation.
Commands & Configuration
- Slash-command registration is now surgical — it creates or updates only
/sentineland leaves all other application commands untouched. - Discord-facing inputs undergo stricter validation: length limits, channel-type checks, permission verification, and role-hierarchy enforcement.
- Status and configuration exports now surface policy revisions, resource health, reconciliation errors, and first-message-ban state.
- Configuration exports are delivered as an allowlisted JSON attachment, deliberately omitting sensitive or identifying fields.
- Setup-dashboard updates are guarded by configuration revisions, preventing stale writes from overwriting newer settings.
Deployment
- The supported runtime is now standardized on Node.js 24 and npm 11.
- Ships a non-root OCI image with persistent SQLite storage at
/data/sentinel.sqlite. - The build pipeline includes source and test type-checking, coverage gates, dependency audits, CycloneDX SBOM generation, and offline smoke validation.
- CI produces a verified release archive containing built output, dependency manifests, SBOM, container inputs, and operator documentation.
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- First-message immediate bans. Optionally enabled in both AutoMod and message modes. Toggle it via
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Sentinel 3.0.0 marks a fundamental architectural shift. What was once a single-server bot driven by a flat config file is now a fully fledged, multi-guild moderation platform — with per-server persistent state, a Discord-native admin experience, and a guided first-run setup flow.
Highlights
- One process, many servers. A single Sentinel instance now safeguards any number of Discord guilds simultaneously, each with its own configuration, runtime state, event pipeline, and log destination.
- SQLite-backed settings. Per-guild configuration and exemption lists live in a durable SQLite database rather than
config.json. - Guided setup dashboard. The new
/sentinel setupcommand walks administrators through every facet of configuration — log channel, detection mode, trap role, thresholds, ban DMs, exemptions, validation, enablement, and retroactive assignment. - Slash commands across the board. Every piece of configuration and day-to-day operation is now exposed through Discord slash commands. No file editing, no restarts.
- Independent guild lifecycles. Each enabled server boots its own runtime; a validation failure in one guild never degrades protection in another.
- Environment-driven process config. Tokens, database path, application ID, and command-registration scope are set through environment variables or a
.envfile. - Automatic legacy migration. Existing
config.jsonvalues are imported into SQLite on first run for a frictionless upgrade.
Detection & Runtime
- A per-guild runtime manager routes Discord events exclusively to the relevant server controller, keeping guilds fully isolated.
- Both AutoMod and message detection modes are supported and switchable at runtime — no restart needed.
- AutoMod is now the recommended default: a ban triggers after 3 blocked pings within 1 hour.
- Message mode defaults to an immediate ban after 1 ping within 30 seconds.
- Trap-role assignment, reapplication, recovery from deletion, and AutoMod-rule repair all execute within each guild's isolated context.
- Bot accounts and exempt users are skipped for both assignment and enforcement.
- Logging is strictly guild-scoped — one server's activity never leaks into another's log channel.
Commands
- Core:
/sentinel status,validate,enable,disable,mode,log-channel,thresholds,retroassign,export-config. - Trap roles: creation, adoption, and renaming.
- AutoMod: managed mode toggle, rule adoption, and rule repair.
- Ban DMs & appeals: configurable pre-ban direct messages with optional appeal-server invite.
- Exemptions: per-guild trusted-user management.
- All configuration commands require Manage Server or Administrator.
- Slash-command registration can be global, limited to selected guilds, or disabled entirely via process configuration.
Deployment & Migration
- Local
.envfiles load automatically; exported environment variables take precedence. DISCORD_TOKENis the canonical token setting;SENTINEL_BOT_TOKENremains as a legacy alias.- The SQLite database defaults to
sentinel.sqlite, overridable withSENTINEL_DB_PATH. config.jsonsettings import automatically on upgrade, but the file is deprecated for ongoing use.- New deployments should configure each server through
/sentinel setup, run validation, then explicitly enable protection. - Documentation has been expanded to cover installation, Discord permissions and intents, commands, migration, configuration, day-to-day operation, and troubleshooting.
Testing & Quality
- Comprehensive test coverage added for multi-guild isolation, settings persistence, interactions, setup flows, Discord events, role management, AutoMod behavior, queues, bans, and logging.
- V8-based coverage reporting with enforced thresholds.
- CI pipeline runs the full coverage-enabled test suite alongside type-checking and production builds.
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Sentinel 2.0.0 introduces Discord AutoMod-powered honeypot detection. Sentinel can now intercept trap-role pings before they reach a channel, tally blocked attempts inside a rolling window, and ban repeat offenders once a configurable threshold is crossed. The original message-based detection mode remains available and fully functional.
Highlights
- AutoMod detection mode. Discord's native AutoMod blocks trap-role mentions before they are posted; Sentinel counts those blocked attempts toward enforcement.
- Threshold-based enforcement. Define how many pings are tolerated within a rolling window before a ban is issued.
- Managed AutoMod rules. Sentinel can create, enable, update, adopt, and recreate its own
Sentinel Honeypotrule automatically. - Verify-only mode. Prefer to manage the AutoMod rule externally? Sentinel can enforce against an existing rule without modifying it.
- Leaner intents. AutoMod mode skips the privileged Message Content intent entirely.
- Message-independent bans. Enforcement can fire from AutoMod events alone — no Discord message object required.
Detection & Enforcement
- Only attributable
BLOCK_MESSAGEactions from the configured AutoMod rule and guild count toward enforcement. Alert actions, unrelated rules, other guilds, bots, and exempt users are all ignored. - Each user's attempt count is tracked independently within the configured rolling window.
- When managing a rule, Sentinel preserves any existing regex patterns while injecting the trap-role mention pattern.
- Deleted managed rules are recreated automatically; missing, disabled, or incompatible externally managed rules produce critical diagnostics instead.
- Message mode retains its existing
messageCreateandmessageUpdatebehavior unchanged. - AutoMod-triggered bans record the ping count and rolling-window duration in their audit-log reason.
- Ban operations accept guild and user inputs directly — no offending message needed.
- Message-mode enforcement still attempts to delete the triggering message before banning.
- Discord bans now respect the configured message-deletion window.
Configuration & Permissions
detection_modeselects the strategy:message(default) orautomod.ban_thresholdandban_window_secondsgovern enforcement timing.manage_automod_rulecontrols rule ownership;automod_rule_idenables verify-only operation against an external rule.ban_delete_message_secondsconfigures Discord's message-history deletion window on ban.- AutoMod mode requires Manage Guild, Manage Roles, and Ban Members permissions.
- AutoMod mode uses the
AutoModerationConfigurationandAutoModerationExecutiongateway intents rather than message-content intents.
Compatibility
- Existing deployments stay on
messagemode unless explicitly switched. - Message mode bans after a single ping by default.
- AutoMod mode bans after three blocked pings within one hour by default.
- AutoMod attempt counters are in-memory and reset on restart.
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