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Most damage to a Discord server is done by somebody who was given permissions legitimately. The staff watch exists for that: it notices when a member of your team does something far outside normal, and can act before the rest happens.
Moderation → Staff watch

What the staff watch has seen.

What it watches

Cove reads your server’s audit log, not its messages. It knows a channel was deleted; it has no idea what was said in it. Each signal has a threshold over a rolling window — a burst, not a total. One ban is Tuesday; six bans in two minutes is not.

The two modes

Start on watch only. Give it a week against your server’s real rhythm, look at what it flagged, then decide whether the thresholds match how your team actually works.

When it gets it wrong

It will, eventually — somebody doing a legitimate mass cleanup looks exactly like somebody doing damage. That is why acting always opens a case, and a case can be reverted: the roles go back, and the history keeps a record that it happened and was undone.
The bot needs View Audit Log in your Discord server. Without it the watch has nothing to read and sits empty — if you invited Cove before this existed, you may need to re-authorise it.

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