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DeepSeek Harness Ships First Major Post-Beta Update

14 Changes Bring Multimodal and Subagent Upgrades: DeepSeek rolled out DeepSeek Harness v0.1.0-rc.8, its first major update since beta, with 14 changes: multimodal input, subagent collaboration, and tool calling. New image requests and OCR-based vision let agents, including text-only models, process screenshots. This expands agentic workflows to visual inputs.

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DeepSeek Harness Ships First Major Post-Beta Update: 14 Changes Bring Multimodal and Subagent Upgrades: DeepSeek rolled out DeepSeek Harness v0.1.0-rc.8, its first major update since beta, with 14 changes: multimodal input, subagent collaboration, and tool calling. New image requests and OCR-based vision let agents, including text-only models, process screenshots. This expands agentic workflows to visual inputs.