DeepSeek launched a public beta of its code agent framework Harness and simultaneously opened a companion NPM plugin ecosystem; the GitHub repository remains private. Harness is positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI CODEX and ANTHROPIC Claude Code, aimed at programming and office productivity use cases.

2026-08-13

DeepSeek launched a public beta of its code agent framework Harness and simultaneously opened a companion NPM plugin ecosystem; the GitHub repository remains private. Harness is positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI CODEX and ANTHROPIC Claude Code, aimed at programming and office productivity use cases.