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DeepSeek Harness Open Source

Everything Is a Plugin — the Bet Is an Agent Platform, Not a Product: DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek Harness (CLI: dsh) on August 13, and GitHub stars passed 140,000 within days. Built on the Cordis microkernel, every component including the agent loop itself is a plugin, betting that Harness becomes the baseboard of the agent era: Model + Harness = Agent.

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DeepSeek Harness Open Source: Everything Is a Plugin — the Bet Is an Agent Platform, Not a Product: DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek Harness (CLI: dsh) on August 13, and GitHub stars passed 140,000 within days. Built on the Cordis microkernel, every component including the agent loop itself is a plugin, betting that Harness becomes the baseboard of the agent era: Model + Harness = Agent.

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