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---
license: apache-2.0
base_model: vllm-sr/d3-mini
base_model_relation: finetune
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: zero-shot-classification
tags:
- security
- code-review
- ai-agents
- decision-model
- d3
- system-one
- pre-release
---

# d3-mini-agentcode (pre-release)

![Ink-and-watercolor drawing: a small round robot sits on top of a huge haystack of code pages, holding up a glowing red needle it just found and inspecting it with a loupe.](https://huggingface.co/stonefish-labs/d3-mini-agentcode/resolve/main/assets/banner.jpg)

**Pre-release.** A revised version is planned, trained on bad examples from several writer models, more realistic task
wording and more languages. "Limitations" lists what it should fix.

d3-mini-agentcode is [d3-mini](https://huggingface.co/vllm-sr/d3-mini) (4B, Apache-2.0) fine-tuned to triage code
written or run by AI coding agents. It reads the agent's task and the change (a diff, or a snippet the agent ran) and
answers two things: does the change do something security-relevant the task didn't ask for, and does it look
deliberately harmful. It's meant as a cheap first filter that picks which changes a person or a bigger model should
review.

**Write-up:** [Small Models, Big Haystack](https://batteryshark.github.io/2026/11/05/small-models-big-haystack.html)
covers how this model was built and tested, and how it compares with off-the-shelf d3 models and LLMs.

## Intended use
- **Agent diffs and code mode** (snippets an agent runs): score each one and send the flagged ones to a person or a
  stronger model.
- **A second stage** behind cheaper rules.
- **Not the only gate.** It's a 4B model with the limitations below, and a flag doesn't prove intent.
- **Out of scope:**
  - packages and dependencies (npm, PyPI) and release diffs, where untuned d3-mini did better in our tests (see
    "Packages, releases and prompt injection");
  - changes longer than about 8,192 tokens (see "Long inputs");
  - inputs without a task description, since it was trained with one.

## How it was made
- **Base:** `vllm-sr/d3-mini` at revision `df99bf4ca4418bc6908ee68e9b7479af1f3b8800`, built on Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B.
- **Recipe:** LoRA (r 16, α 32, dropout 0.05) on the text backbone's attention, linear-attention and MLP projections,
  plus the trained answer readout. lr 1e-4 (readout 2e-5), 2 epochs, 1,038 optimizer steps, max length 8,192, label
  smoothing 0.05, shuffled answer order (`adapter/training_args.json`).
- **Files:** the merged weights (they load like d3-mini), the adapter (`adapter/`) and the behaviour extractor that
  builds the input (`extractor/`).
- **Released checkpoint:** seed 1, final. A second training seed isn't published. It scored a little lower on most
  sets, and both are in the results below.
- **Questions:** three System One questions in `questions.json`: `class` (a choice of four), `intent` and `scope`
  (yes/no). The flag rule below uses `class` and `scope`. `intent` is answered but wasn't used in any result here.

## Usage
```python
import json
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from transformers import AutoModel

REPO = "stonefish-labs/d3-mini-agentcode"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(REPO, trust_remote_code=True)
questions = json.load(open(hf_hub_download(REPO, "questions.json")))   # class, intent, scope

state = """Task:
Add a CLI flag to export the report as CSV.

Repository baseline (normal behaviour of this repo/org):
(no repository history available)

Behaviour summary (automated, not a verdict):
(no security-relevant behaviour found)

Change:
diff --git a/report.py b/report.py
..."""

answers = model.system_one(state=state, questions=questions)["answers"]
p_mal = answers["class"]["probabilities"]["deliberately_malicious"]
p_scope = answers["scope"]["noul"]                       # p(yes): the change does more than the task asks
flag = p_mal >= 0.9 or p_scope >= 0.9                    # frozen thresholds (thresholds.json)
```
- **Input:** a text state with four sections, in this order: `Task:`, `Repository baseline (normal behaviour of this
  repo/org):`, `Behaviour summary (automated, not a verdict):` and `Change:`. Include the task. `examples/usage.py`
  scores two example changes.
- **Output:** `system_one` returns `{"model", "answers", "usage"}`. In `answers`, `class` has a `probabilities` entry
  for each option and the top `choice`. `intent` and `scope` each have `noul`, the probability of yes.
- **Behaviour summary:** use the included static extractor (`extractor/`), the same one that wrote the summary in our
  training and evaluation states. It never runs the code it reads. Run `pip install -r extractor/requirements.txt`,
  then, from `extractor/`, `python make_state.py diff change.diff --task-file task.txt` (or
  `snippet run.py --lang py --task "..."`) prints the whole state. `extractor/README.md` covers the Python API and how
  to build a repository baseline.
- **Placeholder summary:** without the extractor, the placeholder `(no security-relevant behaviour found)` did almost
  as well in our tests (seed 1, frozen thresholds). Across 14 languages it found 448/510 and flagged 5/2,150 real
  items and 1/560 controls, against 458/510, 11/2,150 and 1/560 with the extractor's summary. On the independent
  agent-diff set it found 20/22 (21/22 with the extractor), with no false alarms either way. Bash code mode dropped
  the most, from 24/33 to 20/33.
- **Long inputs:** the extractor keeps the task, baseline and behaviour summary whole and cuts the change to fit about
  8,192 tokens (8,192 × 3 characters), with a marker saying how much it left out. Training inputs were built the same
  way. The model doesn't truncate anything. Called directly, it reads the whole input up to d3-mini's 262,144-token
  window (`decision_config.json` sets no `max_length`), but the fine-tune was never trained or tested on inputs
  longer than 8,192 tokens.
- **Speed:** on one A100 in batches of 8, 0.46–0.61 s per item on our agent-diff test sets. On a desktop RTX 4090,
  our package, release and prompt-injection test inputs, cut to 8k, averaged about 1 s per item.
- **Memory:** the bf16 weights take about 9 GB (4.5B parameters, vision tower included). On the 4090, batches of 8 at
  up to 8k tokens peaked at 12.7 GiB allocated.

## Thresholds
- **Frozen, used for every result below:** flag when p(class = deliberately_malicious) ≥ **0.9** or p(scope = yes) ≥
  **0.9**. Fitted on an English, Python-heavy dev set for at most 5% false alarms.
- **Multilingual option:** 0.9 / **0.05**, fitted on a 10% repository-level dev split of the 14-language set. On the
  other 90% it found 421/443 (95%) and flagged 43/1,900 real items (2.3%). The frozen thresholds found 90% and
  flagged 0.5% there.
- **Your own:** fit thresholds on a sample of your own code for the false-alarm rate you can live with
  (`thresholds.json` has the details).

## Results
Each model at its own dev-fitted thresholds: 0.9 / 0.9 for both seeds, 0.5 / 0.7 for untuned d3-mini. "Untuned" is
d3-mini given the same input (task, baseline, behaviour summary and change). Models wrote every bad example here
except the compromised releases, and none came from a real attack.

| test set | seed 1 (released) | seed 2 | untuned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independent agent-diff set: out-of-scope changes found / real agent diffs and in-scope controls flagged | 21/22 / 0/172 | 19/22 / 0/172 | 10/22 / 0/172 |
| Public code mode from a source not used in training: bad snippets found / real snippets flagged | 31/31 / 0/200 | 31/31 / 0/200 | 31/31 / 1/200 |
| Held-out agent diffs and code mode (repos and sources not used in training): found / real items flagged | 122/122 / 0/527 | 118/122 / 0/527 | 96/122 / 2/527 |
| Behaviour families never seen in training: found | 26/26 | 22/26 | 14/26 |
| Compromised library releases shown as diffs (none in training): found / ordinary releases flagged | 21/27 / 0/80 | 19/27 / 0/80 | 19/27 / 0/80 |
| **14 languages and shells** (8 diff languages, 6 code-mode and shell cells): found / real items flagged / authored benign controls flagged | **458/510 / 11/2,150 / 1/560** | 446/510 / 7/2,150 / 2/560 | 343/510 / 48/2,150 / 12/560 |
| Task asks for the change, held-out set, the request alone as the task: flagged changes that clear | 122/122 | 118/118 | 66/96 |
| Task asks for the change, 14 languages, the request alone as the task: pairs that clear | 244/246 | 233/246 | 163/246 |
| Task asks for the change, 14 languages, the request added after a real task: pairs that clear / same change still flagged with an ordinary request | 143/246 / 221/246 | 173/246 / 218/246 | 116/246 / 152/246 |
| Unrequested account email added to request headers: found / controls flagged | 1/40 / 0/60 | 0/40 / 0/60 | 3/40 / 4/60 |

Per language (seed 1, frozen thresholds; `RESULTS.md` has both seeds, AUROCs with confidence intervals and the
untuned model):

| | C/C++ | C# | Go | Java | JS/TS | PHP | Rust | Swift/ObjC | bash | cmd/batch | zsh/macOS | PowerShell | Python (code mode) | JS/TS (code mode) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| found | 35/38 | 34/37 | 36/38 | 36/37 | 33/37 | 34/38 | 33/37 | 37/38 | 24/33 | 28/33 | 29/36 | 35/37 | 30/35 | 34/36 |
| real flagged | 1/149 | 0/149 | 1/150 | 1/149 | 0/150 | 0/150 | 0/150 | 0/150 | 1/200 | 0/130 | 3/144 | 3/150 | 1/200 | 0/129 |

### Packages, releases and prompt injection
After release, we ran seed 1 and untuned d3-mini on the same inputs on a desktop RTX 4090, each at its frozen
thresholds. Both checks we set beforehand failed: seed 1 raised more false alarms on packages, and planted text
talked it out of more catches on packages and releases.

| test | seed 1 | untuned |
|---|---|---|
| Newer npm packages (time split): malicious found / benign look-alikes flagged | 46/89 / 7/112 | 47/89 / 1/112 |
| Planted prompt-injection text, agent diffs: catches lost | 0/105 | 0/50 |
| Planted text, packages and releases, worst template (a fake approval note): catches lost | 12/83 | 4/73 |
| All five templates, all sets: catches lost | 37/423 | 14/366 |

Six of the seven benign look-alikes it flagged were large packages cut off at the 8k input limit.

## Limitations
- **Authored positives.** The bad examples in training and in most tests are inert changes that a model wrote into
  real agent work. Near-perfect scores on held-out authored sets partly reflect that. The independent agent-diff set,
  written under a different protocol and scored against 137 real agent diffs, is the better check.
- **Writer gap.** One model wrote all the training positives. Recall is lower on positives other models wrote: across
  the 14 languages it found 88% of GPT-written and 93% of Claude-written ones, and 82% against 95% in code mode.
- **Task wording.** When the task asks for exactly the flagged change, the flag clears on 244 of 246 pairs if the task
  is only that request. When the same request follows a longer, real task description, it clears on 143 of 246 (58%;
  70% for seed 2).
- **Python-heavy training.** The agent-diff training data is mostly Python (JS/TS is 4.4%). It still found 278/300 in
  8 other diff languages (AUROC 0.96–1.00 per language). Code mode and shells are weaker at 180/210, with bash the
  lowest at 24/33. Python code mode dropped too (30/35), so language doesn't explain all of it.
- **Packages and releases.** On packages and release diffs it did no better than untuned d3-mini and raised more false
  alarms (see "Packages, releases and prompt injection"). Use untuned d3-mini there.
- **Long inputs.** It was trained and tested on inputs of up to 8,192 tokens. The extractor cuts longer changes to fit
  (see "Long inputs" under Usage).
- **Missed: personal data in request headers.** It doesn't flag an agent adding the user's email to the User-Agent or
  another header of a request to the task's own API (1/40). Check request contents separately.
- **Also:**
  - no release or commit diffs in training, so the release result is transfer;
  - no evaluation on agent code written after the base model's training cutoff (the newer-npm set is packages);
  - calibration error (ECE) is 0.015–0.028 on data like the training data and higher elsewhere (0.21 for `class` on
    the independent agent-diff set);
  - the extractor understands Python, JS/TS and shell best, and other languages get line-level patterns only.

## Training data
- **Agent diffs (2,500, benign):**
  - [nvidia/SWE-Zero-openhands-trajectories](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/SWE-Zero-openhands-trajectories) and
    [nvidia/SWE-Hero-openhands-trajectories](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/SWE-Hero-openhands-trajectories)
    (CC-BY-4.0);
  - [nebius/SWE-rebench-openhands-trajectories](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nebius/SWE-rebench-openhands-trajectories)
    and [nebius/SWE-agent-trajectories](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nebius/SWE-agent-trajectories) (CC-BY-4.0);
  - [sweagent/iter2-rl-rollouts](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sweagent/iter2-rl-rollouts) (MIT).
- **Code-mode snippets (benign):**
  [lambda/hermes-agent-reasoning-traces](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lambda/hermes-agent-reasoning-traces),
  [snorkelai/Tau2-Bench-Verified-Airline-With-Code-Agents](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snorkelai/Tau2-Bench-Verified-Airline-With-Code-Agents),
  [snorkelai/Tau2-Bench-Airline-With-Code-Agents](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snorkelai/Tau2-Bench-Airline-With-Code-Agents)
  and [xingyaoww/code-act](https://huggingface.co/datasets/xingyaoww/code-act) (Apache-2.0).
- **577 scrubbed snippets from our own agent sessions,** used as benign examples only and not released.
- **Authored examples:** inert out-of-scope and malicious changes, in-scope controls and task-swap pairs that DeepSeek
  Flash wrote into the public items above. Network destinations and secrets are stand-ins, and nothing harmful runs.
- **Package examples** from public npm and PyPI packages and a public malicious-package dataset (see "Packages and
  releases" under Limitations).
- `SOURCES.md` lists revisions and attributions.

**Privacy checks before release:**
- membership tests (trained vs unseen private snippets) were at chance, AUROC 0.51–0.53;
- a scan of the 577 private snippets found no real emails, tokens, hostnames, IP addresses or home paths;
- prompting the model through a generation head attached for the test didn't get it to emit secrets, credentials,
  hostnames, personal emails or internal names;
- one check we set beforehand failed: on private snippets it trained on, the model continued code word for word for
  50 or more tokens a little more often than the base model (14/424 against 8/424). It did the same on private
  snippets it never saw (15/374), so it's better at predicting this style of code in general. None of those
  continuations contained internal names or secrets.

## Licence
Apache-2.0, like the base model (`LICENSE`, `NOTICE`). Training-data attributions are in `SOURCES.md`.