# DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) to DeepSeek Harness's 49.2 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- DeepSeek Harness (dsh): D 49.2, rank #909 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.min.md
- DeepSeek Harness (dsh), good for Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 77 against 58; Maintenance & community, 71 against 49.
- mini-swe-agent, good for Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 33; Security & auth, 56 against 40. Also No key needed to call it.

| Category | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 33 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 50 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DeepSeek | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-07-23 |
| Popularity | 245k npm/wk | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |