DeepSeek ships Harness, an open-source desktop agent app for macOS and Windows

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DeepSeek ships Harness, an open-source desktop agent app for macOS and Windows

Product page only; see the HN thread for hands-on reports.

DeepSeek released Harness, an open-source agent app for everyday work, coding and research, built on a plugin architecture and runnable as a desktop app or web UI.

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DeepSeekDeepSeek Harness ↗ Hacker NewsDiscussion: DeepSeek Harness Desktop ↗

Cascadic Analysis 2

UndertowConfused-deputy / excessive-agency problem

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

A desktop agent that organizes files, runs scripts and installs plugins acts with your permissions on your machine. Anything that can steer it, whether a document, a web page or a plugin, borrows that access.

UndertowPrompt injection may be fundamentally impossible to eliminate

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

Harness reads your files and the web pages it researches. Any of them can contain text written to look like instructions, and the model has no reliable way to know the difference.

DeepSeek ships Harness, an open-source desktop agent app for macOS and Windows

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