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DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin
DeepSeek ships an open agent harness where every capability is a plugin. MIT license, four runtime modes, provider-agnostic routing.
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DeepSeek Harness is agent infrastructure—a framework for building and orchestrating autonomous systems with modular, swappable components. The MIT license and plugin architecture lower the barrier for practitioners to deploy agents at scale without vendor lock-in.
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7 to knowDeepSeek Harness v0.1 released in developer preview
MIT-licensed open-source agent harness
Plugin-based architecture (Cordis plugins for all capabilities)
Four runtime modes supported
Append-only session logs for auditability
Provider-agnostic model routing (multi-model support)
Published Aug 17, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is an MIT-licensed agent harness where every capability is a Cordis plugin. Four runtime modes, append-only session logs, and provider-agnostic model routing.