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DeepSeek Harness Hands-On

Four Work Modes, 'Model + Harness = Agent', and the Most Ambitious Agent Open Source of the Year: DeepSeek released Harness as a developer preview and open-sourced the code on August 13. A first-night hands-on review says the v0.1 shell is still rough, but the architecture is ambitious: four preset work modes, a plugin-everything philosophy, and the equation Model + Harness = Agent.

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DeepSeek Harness Hands-On: Four Work Modes, 'Model + Harness = Agent', and the Most Ambitious Agent Open Source of the Year: DeepSeek released Harness as a developer preview and open-sourced the code on August 13. A first-night hands-on review says the v0.1 shell is still rough, but the architecture is ambitious: four preset work modes, a plugin-everything philosophy, and the equation Model + Harness = Agent.