DeepSeek Harness

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• > The desktop application is an Electron shell around the complete dsh Web application.

  I find it hilarious that all the AI harnesses are Electron crap. These are such simple UIs, it seems like it would be trivial to have the AI itself write native frontends.

  by rayiner
• Still in preview, but I think this update is only meant to simplify the installation process.

  Not providing DSH as a simple to install package resulted in an unknown third party packaging it with some modifications and SEO the hell out of it to always come on top in Internet searches (even above DS):

  deepseekharness[.]io

  Could be just an ambitious engineer, but could equally easily be ran by cyber criminals or NSA.

  by throwa356262
• DeepSeek harness is the OpenCode (better than OpenCode) of the web/desktop medium.

  Good things about it are that it is extremely lightweight and fast. The communication between sub agents is two way in that a sub agent can midway send a message to parent and the parent can send a message midway to change the course of action of a sub agent and while this is happening, you can sitll continue talking to the model on the main thread.

  Downside of DeepSeek is that it is constantly in flux which is understandable and they make it very clear themselves that the breaking changes are to be expected.

  by wg0
• My problem with plugins is that I don't want to install stuff from third parties. It might be malware, become unsupported, or generally have a lower quality. I rather have a curated and polished feature set out of the box.

  It's nice for having your AI create your own plugins. But I haven't really found the need yet.

  by redox99
• 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

  by Kuyawa
• 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.

  by scuppernong
• 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

  by ssivark
• The desktop build seems to enable telemetry by default. Regular `dsh web` only has telemetry for explicit user feedback. Hmm :/

  If like me you're mildly bothered by this, add these lines to $DSH_HOME/cordis.patch.yml before first startup ($DSH_HOME is ~/.dsh by default):

      - id: desktop-product-telemetry
        disabled: true
      - id: product-analytics
        disabled: true
      - id: session-log-deepseek
        config:
          enabled: false
  

  On-topic: I like DeepSeek Harness quite a bit, but the problem with "Everything Is A Plugin" is that when this includes core functionality, you still have to maintain downstream patches for those core plugins if you want to tweak existing behaviour. I currently have ~25 downstream commits and 0 new plugins.
  by wren6991