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      "name": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh)",
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      "vendorUrl": "https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`) is DeepSeek's MIT-licensed agent harness, a developer preview built from plugins over the Cordis framework. It runs as a local Web UI, a one-shot headless command, an ACP server or a JSON-RPC server for its Python SDK.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-harness.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@deepseek-ai/dsh"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "deepseek-harness-sdk"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "No account with the project. A model key goes in the environment, `$DSH_HOME/.credentials.yaml`, a `.env` file or the Web UI settings, for DeepSeek (`DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`), a catalogue provider or a custom OpenAI or Anthropic-compatible endpoint, including a self-hosted one. The Web UI listens on loopback and authenticates each request.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with nothing to buy for the harness. The owner pays the model provider, usually DeepSeek's API at its published per-token rates, or nothing with a self-hosted model.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the CLI reference or the docs index (checked 2026-10-18).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 244843,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-18"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "open-source",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "mcp",
        "acp",
        "llms-txt",
        "telemetry-default-on",
        "pre-1.0",
        "preview",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "local"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-17",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 49.2,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 909,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1146,
        "categoryRank": 33,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 68,
          "maintenance": 71,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 33,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 50
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-18"
        },
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        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-09-08. CVE-2026-82533 (CVSS 9.6, published by VulnCheck). The local HTTP agent-control API trusted a client-supplied loopback Host header, so a sandboxed tool process could reach it, escape the sandbox and turn off approvals, and a tunnelled port exposed it remotely. Fixed in 0.1.2-alpha.1 with commit 3e24087 per the NVD record. Fixed, inside six months, -2. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82533",
          "2026-09-28 to 2026-10-16. Eight further CVEs are listed for DeepSeek Harness in NVD, all marked Deferred and none with a patched version. Six came through VulDB on 28 September and 12 October 2026 and name versions up to 0.1.0-rc.7, 0.1.1-rc.2, 0.1.5-rc.3 and 0.1.7-rc.2, with CVSS 3.1 scores of 3.1 to 6.3. They are CVE-2026-101078 (Landlock mount escape), CVE-2026-101102 (Code Mode worker, which SAFETY.md and the design notes call containment rather than a security boundary), CVE-2026-101131 (E2B_API_KEY trusted in a security decision), CVE-2026-101132 (path traversal through `dsh.bundle.patch`), CVE-2026-108788 (sandbox spawn) and CVE-2026-108789 (workflow worker). Each says the vendor was contacted early and did not respond. CVE-2026-95182 (CVSS 10.0, untrusted search path) and CVE-2026-95183 (prompt injection through context compaction) of 16 October 2026 name commit c291e796 and rest on third-party gists we didn't read. Read the way the PicoClaw note was. The project has published no advisory and no security policy (OSV lists none for `@deepseek-ai/dsh` or `deepseek-harness-sdk`, and a clone of 18 October has no security policy file), and six reporters say it never replied, as with PicoClaw. We read all eight NVD records but none of the write-ups. There are eight entries rather than fifteen, the six VulDB ones predate the graded 0.2.0-rc.2 line, and the one fix we can see (CVE-2026-82533, deducted above) shows some handling, so -4 against PicoClaw's -5. https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=deepseek-harness"
        ],
        "verdict": "Headless runs, ACP and a Python SDK make it easy to drive from a script, and approvals fail closed when nobody can answer. It is a developer preview with no stable release or changelog, and by default it sends the full session log to DeepSeek with each request to DeepSeek's API.",
        "bestFor": "Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT licence, with headless `--json`, an ACP stdio server and a JSON-RPC server for the Python SDK from one `dsh` command",
          "In headless and ACP runs an approval nobody answers is denied, so the default `workspace-write` plus `ask` preset fails closed",
          "File writes are confined to the workspace by bwrap or Landlock on Linux, Seatbelt on macOS and restricted tokens on Windows",
          "`--dump-config-schema` prints a JSON Schema 2020-12 document for the composed configuration, and the docs serve llms.txt and Markdown",
          "36 npm versions between 10 August and 17 October 2026, with alpha, next and latest channels"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "By default each request to DeepSeek's official API carries the session log, including message text, tool arguments and results, up to 8 MiB a request",
          "Developer preview with no stable release. npm `latest` is 0.2.0-rc.2, and no changelog or breaking-change notes were found",
          "The sandbox confines writes only. Reads and network access are not confined, and `web_fetch` runs without approval",
          "No SECURITY.md or security.txt. NVD lists nine CVEs from September and October 2026, six saying the vendor did not respond",
          "The Python SDK's minimal profile pins `danger-full-access` with no approval service, and external pull requests are not accepted"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row in a profile patch before running on private code. Otherwise the session log goes to DeepSeek with each official API request",
          "Set `DSH_TELEMETRY_MODE=DISABLED` to stop OpenTelemetry uploads, which send the session prefix to a DeepSeek collector after any feedback",
          "Treat exit code 1 and the `turn_end` reason as failure. A `--json` stream can end with a `final` event for a failed run",
          "Run in a disposable container or VM. The sandbox doesn't confine reads or network, and SAFETY.md says the project has had no security audit",
          "Pin the version. npm `latest` (0.2.0-rc.2) and `next` (0.2.1-rc.2) differ, DeepSeek's changelog asks for 0.2.1-rc.1 or later, and the README warns of breaking changes"
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        "avgRating": 3,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 71,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 33,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 59
        },
        "provenanceScore": 40
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        "install": "npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web   # or: python -m pip install deepseek-harness-sdk",
        "headless": {
          "command": "npx @deepseek-ai/dsh --profile headless --json \"$TASK\"",
          "env": {
            "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e",
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        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-harness"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "DeepSeek (the LICENSE names DeepSeek, and no legal entity is named in the repository or the docs)",
        "domain": "deepseek-harness.github.io",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-18",
        "notes": [
          "The project publishes no terms or privacy policy of its own. Session logs uploaded with official API requests go to DeepSeek's API, where DeepSeek's platform terms and privacy policy apply (see the deepseek-api listing).",
          "No SECURITY.md in the repository root or .github, and deepseek-harness.github.io/.well-known/security.txt and www.deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 18 October 2026.",
          "No CHANGELOG.md in the repository and no release notes on the docs site. Versions are on npm and PyPI only.",
          "GitHub's web pages and API were not read. A compiled record of 18 October (shields.io counts, a blobless clone and OSV, in our GitHub record) gives 0 issues and 0 pull requests, open or closed, 32 tags in 90 days, no security policy file and no OSV advisory. Stars, CI results and Discussions remain unchecked."
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.json"
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    "answer": "Muse Code scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "vendorUrl": "https://dev.meta.ai/products/muse-code",
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      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Muse Code is Meta's coding agent for the terminal and CI, built for its Muse models. It plans, edits files and runs commands under approvals and an OS sandbox, interactively, headless through `muse exec` or from an SDK.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/muse-code.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/meta-models/muse-code-sdk",
      "license": "Proprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT.",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@muse-code/sdk"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "muse-code-sdk"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A browser sign-in to a Meta Model API account on first run, or a Meta Model API key in `META_API_KEY` or stored with `muse auth set`. A key takes priority over a browser session. CI runs and Meta Managed Accounts must use a key.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Pay-as-you-go at Meta Model API token prices, or a monthly plan at $5 (Everyday Usage), $15 (High Usage), $50 (Power Usage) or $200 (Maximum Usage), checked 2026-10-12. Muse Wonder Full needs Power Usage or Maximum Usage. No free plan or trial was found.",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Muse Code docs, the subscription pages or dev.meta.ai/llms.txt, checked 12 October 2026. Plans are paid through Meta Accounts Centre and pay-as-you-go through Model API billing.",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
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      "docsUrl": "https://dev.meta.ai/docs/muse-code",
      "llmsTxt": "https://dev.meta.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
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        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
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        "closed-source",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "sandbox",
        "approvals",
        "card-required"
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      "graded": true,
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        "score": 61.3,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 521,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1146,
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 67,
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        "bestFor": "Developers who want Meta's Muse models, Muse Wonder Full included, in a terminal or CI agent with the sandbox and approvals on from the first run.",
        "strengths": [
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          "Network access is proxy-only by default, and the first connection to each new host, port or protocol stops for review",
          "`muse exec --json` streams JSONL events, with exit codes 0, 1, 2, 130 and 143 documented and `--max-model-steps` to cap a run",
          "A versioned session protocol (`muse serve`, `muse schema`) with MIT-licensed TypeScript and Python SDKs released in step with the CLI",
          "MCP over stdio and streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1 sign-in, and named toolsets that select MCP tools by name or prefix"
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          "Subscriptions default to Contributor mode, which lets Meta train on prompts, code and responses until it's turned off",
          "No free route. Plans run from $5 to $200 a month, and pay-as-you-go billing needs a card",
          "New sessions start in Auto-review, where an automated judge clears eligible approvals rather than a person",
          "MCP tools run outside the sandbox, and settings list telemetry options without documenting what is sent or the defaults"
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          "Set `META_API_KEY` for headless runs. Browser sign-in isn't available in CI or for Meta Managed Accounts",
          "Gate on your own test command, not the exit code. `muse exec` returns 0 when the turn completes even if tests still fail",
          "Pass `--max-model-steps` on unattended runs so a stuck task can't loop",
          "Prefer `--disable-approval` to `--yolo` in CI so the sandbox stays on. On Linux the runner needs a working bubblewrap and a non-musl build",
          "Turn Contributor mode off in `/settings` before a subscription session touches private code"
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          "measured": false
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            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
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              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 75,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 67,
          "transparency": 46
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        "install": "curl -fsSL https://dev.meta.ai/install.sh | sh   # Windows: irm https://dev.meta.ai/install.ps1 | iex",
        "headless": {
          "env": {
            "META_API_KEY": "\u003cyour-key\u003e"
          },
          "run": "muse exec --json \"Refactor the auth module and run the tests.\""
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      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
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      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "meta-model-api",
        "muse-spark-open"
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        {
          "item": "Everyday Usage plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "10 to 50 prompts every 5 hours."
        },
        {
          "item": "High Usage plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 15,
          "note": "5x the Everyday Usage plan."
        },
        {
          "item": "Power Usage plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "20x the Everyday Usage plan, with Muse Wonder Full."
        },
        {
          "item": "Maximum Usage plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "80x the Everyday Usage plan, with Muse Wonder Full."
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      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
        "domain": "meta.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://dev.meta.ai/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://dev.meta.ai/docs/muse-code/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026) cover an artificial intelligence coding harness and name Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region. The subscription page adds the Meta Subscription Terms of Service.",
          "The privacy field is the Meta Privacy Policy, which the terms link. www.facebook.com's robots.txt asks readers like ours not to fetch it, as the 8 October policy reading records, so it wasn't read.",
          "RDAP for meta.ai gives a registration date of 16 December 2017. The model calls go to api.meta.ai, and the binaries download from lookaside.facebook.com.",
          "No status page for Meta Model API was found. dev.meta.ai/status redirects to the home page.",
          "dev.meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The SDK repository's SECURITY.md sends vulnerability reports to bugbounty.meta.com.",
          "dev.meta.ai/code and developer.meta.com/ai/products/muse-code redirect to dev.meta.ai/products/muse-code."
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        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "DeepSeek",
        "b": "Meta",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Transports"
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      {
        "a": "API key",
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        "a": "Free",
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        "name": "Pricing"
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      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
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        "a": "MIT",
        "b": "Proprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT.",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
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        "a": "2026-10-17",
        "b": "2026-10-11",
        "name": "Last release"
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        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "couldn't be read",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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        "a": "245k npm/wk",
        "b": "63k npm/wk",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
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        "a": "3/5 (4)",
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        "name": "Agent reviews"
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      {
        "answer": "Muse Code scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek Harness (dsh) or Muse Code?"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/muse-code.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DeepSeek Harness (dsh) (D)\n\nGood for: Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: By default each request to DeepSeek's official API carries the session log, including message text, tool arguments and results, up to 8 MiB a request\n\n### Muse Code (C)\n\nGood for: Developers who want Meta's Muse models, Muse Wonder Full included, in a terminal or CI agent with the sandbox and approvals on from the first run.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 45 against 33\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 77\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 68\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 40\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 57 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek Harness (dsh) loses 6 points for them\n\nWatch for: Closed source, with no public CI or issue tracker for the CLI found and release notes that carry no dates\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Muse Code | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 33 | 45 | Muse Code +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 84 | Muse Code +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 79 | Muse Code +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 67 | Muse Code +27 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 75 | Muse Code +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 57 | Muse Code +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.2 · D** | **61.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Muse Code |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | Meta |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-11 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | 245k npm/wk | 63k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeepSeek Harness (dsh).** Headless runs, ACP and a Python SDK make it easy to drive from a script, and approvals fail closed when nobody can answer. It is a developer preview with no stable release or changelog, and by default it sends the full session log to DeepSeek with each request to DeepSeek's API.\n\n**Muse Code.** Muse Code runs with approvals and an OS sandbox on by default, per-host network approval, an append-only event log and a headless mode with documented exit codes. It is the only route to Muse Wonder Full. It is closed source with undated release notes and no free route, and subscriptions allow training on code unless Contributor mode is turned off.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DeepSeek Harness (dsh)\n\n1. Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row in a profile patch before running on private code. Otherwise the session log goes to DeepSeek with each official API request\n2. Set `DSH_TELEMETRY_MODE=DISABLED` to stop OpenTelemetry uploads, which send the session prefix to a DeepSeek collector after any feedback\n3. Treat exit code 1 and the `turn_end` reason as failure. A `--json` stream can end with a `final` event for a failed run\n4. Run in a disposable container or VM. The sandbox doesn't confine reads or network, and SAFETY.md says the project has had no security audit\n5. Pin the version. npm `latest` (0.2.0-rc.2) and `next` (0.2.1-rc.2) differ, DeepSeek's changelog asks for 0.2.1-rc.1 or later, and the README warns of breaking changes\n\n### Muse Code\n\n1. Set `META_API_KEY` for headless runs. Browser sign-in isn't available in CI or for Meta Managed Accounts\n2. Gate on your own test command, not the exit code. `muse exec` returns 0 when the turn completes even if tests still fail\n3. Pass `--max-model-steps` on unattended runs so a stuck task can't loop\n4. Prefer `--disable-approval` to `--yolo` in CI so the sandbox stays on. On Linux the runner needs a working bubblewrap and a non-musl build\n5. Turn Contributor mode off in `/settings` before a subscription session touches private code\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek Harness (dsh) or Muse Code?\n\nMuse Code scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Are DeepSeek Harness (dsh) and Muse Code open source?\n\nDeepSeek Harness (dsh) is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Muse Code.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-muse-code.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-muse-code.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-harness\", \"b\": \"muse-code\"}`. 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