Agent Harness
2 published articles
DeepSeek4 min read
AI Agents · Open Source
DeepSeek ships an agent harness where even the model is a plugin
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent runtime where models, tools, sandboxes, and the UI are all Cordis plugins. Append-only session logs and a two-tool minimal mode point to a quieter ambition: auditable, reproducible agent runs.
2026-08-16
Benchmarks & Tests2 min read
Agent evaluation
Your AI agent keeps failing? It might be the harness, not the brain
PawBench, an open-source benchmark from the AgentScope team, systematically evaluates models and agent harnesses together. Results show that harness design can swing scores by over 11 points for smaller models, exposing a blind spot in how AI agents are currently judged.
2026-07-22