DeepSeek Harness

DeepSeek Harness deepseek.com

Use DeepSeek Harness to work with documents, analyze spreadsheets, write code, and schedule tasks. Extend its capabilities with composable plugins.

71 points•Kuyawa•about 3 hours ago•24 comments•

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Kuyawaabout 1 hour ago

The original title was "DeepSeek Harness Desktop app for MacOS and Windows"

This new title says nothing, we already know deepseek harness from before, this is a new product, an installable app worth differentiating from just "DeepSeek Harness"

ElProlactinabout 1 hour ago

I wish there was a tool I could use to share my documents, activity, etc. directly with the world's major intelligence agencies.

A marketplace, where the different intelligence agencies could evaluate the value of my digital stuff and then offer me something (like a $5 gift card to Olive Garden), would be really nice.

postsantumabout 1 hour ago

Yes! A real marketplace of ideas with automatic matching, like you can see who has the same ideas as you

Reminds me of some magic device from childrens book, don't remember its name, was like a glass ball where you could see what other people are up to

tobi_bsf26 minutes ago

The chinese will go and suck in all of your laptop and everything else from your network when you install this ;)

Shin--10 minutes ago

I installed it on my laptop and it immediately vanished. I am sure Xi is browsing the hard drive right now.

Bluestein18 minutes ago

Facebook? (But they get the money ...)

kviraniabout 1 hour ago

I don't get it

rapind35 minutes ago

I think they’re saying they would rather use Muse or Dots.

npn20 minutes ago

He thinks his ideas are still valuable and wants to sell them somehow.

Kuyawaabout 2 hours ago

I just installed DeepSeek Harness for MacOS and it's a beast. The same great harness as before but now is an app you just click on your dock to run

All settings and workspaces are transferred so you don't lose anything, the only thing it lacks is a way to increase/decrease font size with cmd + and cmd - so I'll work on a plugin for that

I can't be happier

Edit: Asked DSH for a plugin to increase/decrease font and it delivered. Love it. Then asked for a plugin to ring a bell on questions and tasks finished, of course it delivered flawlessly. The same plugin architecture, extensible by the same AI

ycui7about 2 hours ago

you do can change font size in settings, but not with keyboard shortcut. for some reason, they decided to limit font size to 17 max.

Kuyawaabout 1 hour ago

Do the same as I did, ask it to develop a plugin to increase/decrease font and you will see results in one single task, dsh-zoom as a plugin, restart and done

johngabout 2 hours ago

Can you elaborate? What's better about it vs. other harnesses? What can it do that others can't?

I'm not sure what you mean by it's a beast.

cjbprime37 minutes ago

It has particularly good observability (the ability to see the full content of every prompt and response and tool call) compared to other harnesses, that's the main thing that stood out to me.

Kuyawaabout 2 hours ago

All LLMs work the same to a certain degree, it's a matter of personal preference, token cost and customization. I asked DSH to build a news aggregator for me and it built a really nice app from 30 news sources via rss feeds for less than 50 cents and presto, reading tech news has never been so gratifying

scuppernongabout 1 hour ago

https://frontierharness.org/ allegedly this is on the Pareto frontier, though I don't know how good of a benchmark this really is. it seems to focus on one-shot type tasks, whereas the real utility of one harness over another seems to make itself known in long running tasks.

also this is a very limited static snapshot with one model as backend, I wish there were more consistently refreshed and diversified harness benchmarks.

ssivarkabout 1 hour ago

This page doesn't emphasize the cordis architecture [1], but that's the most exciting thing about this -- not just yet another harness. It has the potential to make this into something like the emacs of harnesses! I think this might be particularly potent for long-running agents.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25512

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