deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness
DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
About the project
Open-source agent harness by DeepSeek AI written in TypeScript, built on an everything-is-a-plugin architecture powered by Cordis. It runs as a web UI via npx and serves as a base for composing AI agents from plugins.
Useful for
- Run the agent web UI locally with npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web
- Build a custom agent from plugins tagged with the dsh-plugin topic
- Deploy the harness on a remote server and access it over an SSH tunnel
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 697 stars today.
- The repository is 31 days old and already has 222,542 stars.
- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #1.
- Hacker News: “DeepSeek Harness” — 5 points, 2 days ago.
- About 94 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 222,542
- Stars in a day
- 705
- Forks
- 26,426
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 952
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- dsh-v0.1.5-rc.2 · September 10, 2026
- Created
- August 13, 2026
- Last push
- September 11, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- DeepSeek Harness5 points, September 11, 2026
Spotted in
- September 13, 2026Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #1
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