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The documentation, built from repo, is available here: https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/guide... (I find the development and reference sections easier to read and navigate)
For those who want to know what it achieves: it adds hot-reload and dynamic enable/dispose capabilities to a plugin system, like the one in Pi agents, though they push the boundaries further, to the UI components and so on.
For those who want to know what it does: if you have some PLT knowledge, ask your agent to explain the algebra to you better; for those who aren't familiar, the framework requires each plugin to provide how it initializes and how it destructs (like C++'s RAII, Rust's Drop trait and so on), and the runtime will then properly handle the lifecycle events and the common pitfalls. In addition, it provides a clean way to declare the dependencies between plugins, and the runtime will also properly process the lifecycle changes on a broader plane.
I think it's worth reading if you are not familiar with OSGi, iPOJO, React's useEffect and so on (which the paper itself mentions); for others, a skim is enough: it does point out the gotchas for some common problems, but the algebra may not help you further.
That actually sounds amazing.
If anybody has tried it, does it let you preview components in any frontend framework with perfect fidelity? That would be a big win.
Every product relying on "community plugins" for their features implies it works fine the 6 first months, then it's a nightmare of incompatible, deprecated, incompatible plugins, with no consistency and no governance.
I understand how attractive it can be to companies to think, hey, let's make a very small product and rely on other people to make features, and I hope it works, but I'm personally staying away from that.
AI can write custom plugins for you. So this means the tool is infinitely flexible for you, even without any community.
Compare this to Zed where I can't make a hexviewer for binary files or player for audio files for myself without recompiling Zed's source code.
"Everything the model sees is recorded in an append-only session log: system prompts, reasoning, tool calls and results, subagent scheduling, and every context injection. In the Trajectory view, you can inspect these records by source. Resume, fork, search, and replay all operate on the same event stream."
Seems pretty helpful - have sort of wanted something similar (I use Pi).
They also released this research paper that backs their whole plugin composability system that seems pretty cool: https://github.com/cordiverse/paper
But the future is here and thus it's called "Agentic causality's reified temporal traceability."
Aren't VS Code, Claude Code, Hermes Agent, Goose or Letta harnesses, but with UI, too?
Good to know I was not the only one confused. Reads like word salad!
1. The first significant agentic harness was made by Anthropic.
2. One of the most senior developers of client-side software at Anthropic is Felix Rieseberg, one of the original creators of Electron. [1]
3. After Claude Code blew up, everyone else copied Anthropic.
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1: https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/claudes_criminally_bad_ma...
(I actually have/am writing a harness in Java fwiw, but mostly as a hobby/experimentation)
Having Oracle's tramp-stamp on it may have been the final kiss of death in terms of totally-superficial "coolness" factor.
fast iteration is for POCs. once you have the app built and working, you need performance and stability much more than fast iteration
smol has implementations in Go, Python, Clojure, PHP
https://github.com/smol-env/smol
out of the box an agent only needs to be able to do http requests and call tools (which might again be just http requests or shelling out)
there is no inherent reason for why an agent has to be in JavaScript or Typescript
but they are popular languages and come with runtimes and libraries for http requests, steaming, TUI (terminal ui) and so on which can help
There’s an interesting counter example for DeepSeek called CodeWhale, though:
https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale
I stopped paying attention the third time they redefined matrix arithmetic semantics. That happened to be around the 100th time I was sent a script and it only ran on the author’s machine. Maybe they will fix it some day. When they do, I will not believe it.
In contrast, TS has a much nicer type system and better async support. It runs well on web, mobile, desktop and server. Yes, sometimes you have to ship node.js or a whole web browser, but the tooling for that is slightly less insane than the analogous tooling for python.
Its language interoperability story is slightly nicer too (invoke native code, or use wasm). It’s UI story is much, much better since it reuses all the web stuff.
Pip practically invented the supply chain attack; npm perfected it. That’s probably a draw.
Of course, if you care about performance, then other choices make more sense. If you’re training a model then python probably still wins, but very few customers have a $1M+ machine.
Any reason why it should not be written in nodejs?
https://github.com/cordiverse/paper
This other day I was looking at that “caveman” skill, and was shocked to see it evolved to become a company, and, in one of its modes, the highest form of compression seems to be “Wenyan” which is Classical Chinese.
Should I get started on learning Chinese?
Also, "less tokens" is not always straight forward. I doubt it's a coincidence that the cavemen skill (or now proxy, I guess) has lots of numbers, but not a single benchmark on model performance or actual per-task token savings
For example one paper I remember found that without CoT, just stating your prompt twice increases model performance. With CoT, the same function is served by the CoT restating the important parts of your question. Something about which tokens can affect which other tokens in attention implementations
I'm finding more and more there seem to be sort of niche prompting skills that are important to be aware of
It was very easy to connect the harness to the local model and it seems to run quite fast, compared to other harnesses that I have tried.
Do the first party harnesses really have an advantage when paired with the maker's model?
Anyway very happy with it, I use it as a plugin to RubyMine and Webstorm.
One of the primary advantages is being able to choose your model - and it often has free deals for newer models that are running promotions. Whenever I switch to Claude Code it seems clunky. Would rather use Claude with Cascade.
I also just do a bit of hand-coding to guide the agent still.
I worry the $200 / month plans are loss-leaders encouraging you to maximize token usage to churn out slop, rather than thoughtfully use coding agents in a way that still engages your brain, and produces good software.
this looks like a genuinely new one
Did they discover Unix pipes?
oof