Last line of defense · sits underneath Wick, Ducky, Dock

Cerberus

Built to catch what the others miss.

Threat model sourced from interviews with active raiders. Detectors tuned to the patterns they actually use, not theory. No user whitelisting — every member is subject to every detector, including admins.

Free for defense $10/mo per server for the active layer Cancel anytime
20+
detectors
<1s
response
100
rolling backups
none
user whitelist

What fires automatically.

Over 20 detectors run on Discord events. These are the highlights — each tuned to threshold values set from real raid patterns.

Mass-action bursts

channel · role · member · invite

Channel-delete, channel-create, role-remove, member-rename, member-ban, member-kick, invite-create. Each on its own threshold and bans/kicks the actor as soon as the line crosses.

Slow-burn raids

15+ destructive over 1h

15+ destructive actions over an hour, even if no single burst trips. Catches actors pacing themselves to dodge per-event detectors.

Webhook abuse

creation rate · message volume

Creation rate, message volume, role-ping velocity. Abused webhooks are deleted and the creator gets banned.

Permission escalation

admin · manage · ban · kick

Any role gaining Administrator, Manage Server, Manage Roles, Ban, Kick, Manage Channels, or Manage Webhooks gets reverted within seconds.

Hierarchy guard

no auto-lockdown

If anyone moves a role above Cerberus, the owner gets DM'd. Auto-lockdown is intentionally disabled here — that path produced too many false positives.

Bot adds

owner-only authorization

Only the server owner can add bots. Anyone else adding one triggers an auto-kick. Eliminates the most common compromised-admin attack vector.

Premium

Cross-guild raider intel

3+ guild flag = ban on sight

When a member who's been flagged in 3+ other Cerberus-protected guilds joins yours, you get an alert with their full incident history. Premium guilds auto-ban on join. Free tier is alerts only.

What happens when something fires.

Auto-ban / kick

Severity-based action. Banning includes a DM to the user with the reason and your appeal URL — set via /cerberus mod appeal-info.

Lockdown

Disables Send Messages, Add Reactions, threads, and Speak for @everyone across every channel. Snapshots taken before the lock, rolled back atomically via /cerberus unlock. A pre-lockdown full backup is also auto-saved.

Raid mode

/cerberus raid-mode drops every detector's threshold to zero — fires on first action. Auto-fires when 4+ high/critical incidents happen in 60 seconds. Premium guilds can define custom triggers via /cerberus raid-mode trigger-add.

Hardening pass

/cerberus hardening-run runs the full strip in one shot: revert @everyone, strip dangerous perms from non-managed roles, demote recent joiners, purge untrusted webhooks, lock channels.

All destructive owner-only commands gated to the server owner — staff with Manage Server can read but not change posture.

Free for defense. Premium for offense.

Cerberus is free for the defensive baseline. Premium adds the active layer — auto-ban known raiders, auto-backup your server, faster restores.

Free

$0
Defensive baseline · always-on
  • All 20+ detectors active
  • Lockdown / unlock / hardening pass
  • 10 manual backups, 30-day retention
  • Cross-guild raider alerts
  • 7-day incident history
  • Audit + role-menu system
Add Cerberus free
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Premium

$10 /mo · per server
Active layer · billed monthly · cancel anytime
Everything in Free, plus
  • Auto-ban known raiders — 3+ guild flag = ban on sight
  • Scheduled auto-backup, 100 rolling, 1-year retention
  • Embed message backup (rules, role menus, info posts)
  • 3-5x faster restore (parallelized API calls)
  • Custom detector thresholds (tune to your server's normal)
  • Custom raid-mode triggers
  • 90-day incident history
  • Weekly digest DM (top actors, attack patterns)
  • Discohook JSON role-menu import
  • Watched messages (capture + restore-after-wipe)
  • Priority support (direct from the developer)
Subscribe — $10/mo
After payment: Cerberus DMs you to confirm. Run /premium activate guild_id:<id> on the server you want Premium for. Manage anytime with /premium manage.

Full command reference.

Most commands require Manage Server. Anything that changes security posture (lockdown, unlock, trust, hardening, role menus, threshold tuning) is owner-only. Premium-gated commands marked in amber.

Read & inspect

  • /cerberus statusbot state, config, hierarchy
  • /cerberus auditsecurity audit with action buttons
  • /cerberus statsdetector activity (7d free / 90d premium)
  • /cerberus incidentsrecent incidents (25 free / 100 premium)
  • /cerberus inspectincidents involving a member
  • /cerberus raider-infocross-guild raider profile
  • /cerberus hierarchy-checkverify bot role position

Moderation

  • /cerberus quarantineimmediate ban (owner)
  • /cerberus muteDiscord timeout
  • /cerberus mod warnlog + DM warning
  • /cerberus mod noteinternal note
  • /cerberus mod historywarnings + notes
  • /cerberus mod ban-historypast bans & kicks
  • /cerberus mod action-logevery Cerberus incident
  • /cerberus mod appeal-infoset ban-appeal URL (owner)

Manual control & response

  • /cerberus lockdownlock all channels (owner)
  • /cerberus unlockrestore from pre-lockdown snapshot
  • /cerberus hardening-runfull hardening pass (owner)
  • /cerberus raid-mode on/off/statusevery detector at threshold zero
  • /cerberus raid-mode trigger-addcustom auto-raid rules

Trust & probation

  • /cerberus trust list/add/removebot allowlist (rate detectors only)
  • /cerberus webhook list/trust/untrustsame for webhooks
  • /cerberus probation listpost-grant monitoring
  • /cerberus probation clearrelease

Perm escalation, mention spam, and hierarchy checks still fire — even on trusted actors.

Backups & recovery

Auto-backup runs daily (3-deep free / 100-deep premium). Pre-lockdown auto-saved.

  • /cerberus backup savemanual snapshot
  • /cerberus backup listall snapshots
  • /cerberus backup viewinspect a backup
  • /cerberus backup restoreadditive (premium parallel)
  • /cerberus backup deleteremove a snapshot
  • /cerberus backup watch-messagecapture rules / role-menus
  • /cerberus backup restore-messagesrestore captured embeds

Role menus, tuning, setup

  • /cerberus role-menu createnew menu (owner)
  • /cerberus role-menu add-buttonadd a role to a menu
  • /cerberus role-menu publish/deletemanage
  • /cerberus role-menu importpaste Discohook JSON
  • /cerberus thresholds show/set/resettune detectors (owner)
  • /setuproute alerts
  • /premium info / activate / managesubscription

Add Cerberus to your server.

Free forever for the defensive layer. Upgrade any server to Premium when you need the active layer — no per-bot install, no migration.

Step 1
Click "Add to your server" and pick a guild.
Step 2
Run /setup to route alerts.
Step 3
/cerberus tour for the walkthrough.