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      "slug": "deepseek-superagent",
      "name": "dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)",
      "vendor": "DeepSeek",
      "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "dsh-superagent is DeepSeek's MIT-licensed research prototype of a proactive coding agent for one GitHub repository, run as a DeepSeek Harness bundle. A main Session admits requests from allowed people and parallel Executor Sessions work them into pull requests.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-superagent.json",
      "dns": "deepseek-superagent.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "pat",
      "authNotes": "No account with the project. The agent acts through a dedicated GitHub user account signed in to a `gh` wrapper with `auth login`, and optionally a Feishu bot through `lark-cli`. DSH needs a model provider key. The local Management API takes no credential and accepts only loopback requests with `x-orchestrator-request: 1`.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with nothing to buy. The operator pays the model provider DSH is set up with, usually DeepSeek's API, for a main Session and one Session per Ticket.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, SETUP.md or docs/000 to 008 (checked 2026-11-01).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-01"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype/tree/main/docs",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "open-source",
        "mit",
        "typescript",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "pre-1.0",
        "preview",
        "telemetry-default-on"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-31",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 42.1,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1108,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1251,
        "categoryRank": 41,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 34,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 61,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The authorization design is careful, with allowed lists, Mandates and a Policy enforced in code, proactive work only recorded by default and auto-merge off. Executors run every command without approval under the operator's OS user, and the README calls it a research prototype with no release, changelog or security policy.",
        "bestFor": "Teams on github.com that want a DeepSeek Harness agent to turn allowed people's issue requests into pull requests, run on an isolated machine or OS account.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT licence, with nine numbered design and operations documents that state each rule, from admission to restart recovery",
          "Only listed GitHub logins can start work by default, and messages, comments and prompts cannot change the gate, which code enforces",
          "Proactive work starts in `observe` mode, which records what the agent would have done and accepts nothing",
          "The agent never enables auto-merge as its own account, and the default merge rule needs approvals and fewer than 200 changed lines",
          "Setup and worker shells drop environment variables named KEY, PASSWORD, SECRET or TOKEN, and git uses only the agent account's credentials"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Executor and main Sessions run with `danger-full-access` as the operator's OS user, and the docs say a worker can read the operator's home directory",
          "The README calls it a research prototype, not an official DeepSeek product, at version 0.1.0 with no tag, release or changelog found",
          "Not on npm. Installing means a git clone, `pnpm build`, a pinned DSH release candidate, tmux and a dedicated GitHub user account",
          "The docs don't mention that DSH's shipped profiles upload the session log to DeepSeek with official API requests by default",
          "No SECURITY.md, security.txt or CI workflow found, and GitHub's issues and pull requests couldn't be read"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Run it under a dedicated OS account holding only the agent's credentials. Executors run commands without approval and can read the operator's home directory",
          "Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row of the `superagent` profile before using DeepSeek's official API on private code",
          "Keep the accept mode at `observe` and the allowed list short until the recorded Decisions look right",
          "Wait for `scripts/dsh-superagent status` to stop exiting 1 after any save that answers `restarting: true` before the next request",
          "Send `x-orchestrator-request: 1` and a loopback Host to the Management API, and send `revision` with each PUT, since a stale one gets 409"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 42.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 34,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 61,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 52,
        "checked": {
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            "maintenance": "2026-11-01",
            "payments": "2026-11-01",
            "reliability": "2026-11-01",
            "schema": "2026-11-01",
            "security": "2026-11-01",
            "transparency": "2026-11-01"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-01",
          "oldest": "2026-11-01",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
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      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-superagent"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "deepseek-harness"
      ],
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "DeepSeek (the LICENSE names the DeepSeek Harness Team; DeepSeek Harness's terms name Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.)",
        "domain": "github.com",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-01",
        "notes": [
          "The repository has no terms or privacy policy of its own. DeepSeek Harness's terms of use and privacy policy (both last updated 20 September 2026) name Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. and cover the harness it runs on. The README says the prototype is not an official DeepSeek product.",
          "package.json names `DeepSeek Harness Team \u003cteam@dsh.dev\u003e` as author. dsh.dev didn't resolve from our network on 1 November 2026.",
          "No SECURITY.md in the root or .github, and www.deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 1 November 2026.",
          "No CHANGELOG.md, tags or releases found. GitHub's web pages and API weren't reachable, so files were read on raw.githubusercontent.com and the commit history, stars and issues are unchecked."
        ],
        "score": 52
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.json"
    },
    "answer": "Harness scores 60 (C) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "harness-autonomous",
      "name": "Harness",
      "vendor": "Autonomous, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.autonomous.ai/harness",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Harness, by Autonomous, is an open-source app that runs Claude Code, Codex and twelve other coding agents in tmux sessions across a person's computers. Agents can start, wait for and read other agents through its CLI or MCP tools.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harness-autonomous.json",
      "dns": "harness-autonomous.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/autonomous-ai/openharness",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "oauth",
      "authNotes": "No account for harnesses on one computer. Agents starting harnesses, remote machines and the phone need the person's Harness account, signed in with Google or Apple in a browser (PKCE) or by QR from the phone. Agents use the person's own Claude Code or Codex credentials.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "The desktop app, CLI and phone apps are free and MIT licensed. Agent subscriptions and model usage are the person's own. The Harness Device ($149) and Harness Pro ($299) are optional hardware.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, llms.txt, the agents page or the CLI source (checked 2026-10-17). The software has nothing to buy.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 1284,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://harness.autonomous.ai/agents",
      "llmsTxt": "https://harness.autonomous.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "mit",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "typescript",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "desktop-app",
        "cli",
        "agent-skill"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-17",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 60,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 623,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1251,
        "categoryRank": 20,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 82,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "low",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "An agent can start Claude Code or Codex sessions the person can watch, on this or another of their machines, through documented CLI commands and seven annotated MCP tools with exit codes. Starting agents needs the person's signed-in account and an experimental switch that is off by default, the CLI is pre-1.0, and usage counts are shared by default.",
        "bestFor": "A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch.",
        "strengths": [
          "Seven MCP tools with typed JSON Schema inputs, `additionalProperties: false`, readOnlyHint on reads and server instructions on when not to start one",
          "llms.txt and an agents page list every command, the exit codes 0 to 5 and 124, and a `Next:` line after each answer",
          "Agents may start harnesses only after the person turns on an account switch an agent cannot flip, with at most four live harnesses each",
          "MIT licence for the app, CLI, daemon, relay and device firmware, with 548 tags between 9 September and 17 October 2026",
          "Remote terminal traffic is end-to-end encrypted, direct over WebRTC where the network allows, and relays forward ciphertext"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Starting harnesses needs the person signed in with Google or Apple in a browser and an experimental account switch, off by default",
          "The CLI agents call is version 0.4.18 and the npm MCP package in the repository was never published",
          "Product usage counts are shared by default, with an opt-out in Settings or `harness privacy off`",
          "Installing Harness adds its commands to Claude Code's and Codex's permission rules, and Codex runs them outside its sandbox",
          "Autonomous's privacy policy and terms cover its stores and websites and do not mention Harness"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Run `harness whoami` first. If it says you may not start harnesses, tell the person and do the work yourself",
          "Ask the person before installing Harness, and leave `harness login` and the agents-start-agents switch to them",
          "Treat exit 5 as final and do not retry. Treat exit 3 as needs the person, and never answer a harness's question or permission prompt",
          "Name every harness, put the whole task in `harness new`, then wait, read with `harness show` and close only the ones you started",
          "Run each `harness` command on its own or joined with `\u0026\u0026`, since piped commands no longer match the permission rule"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "low",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 60
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 82,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "provenanceScore": 64,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-10-17",
            "maintenance": "2026-10-17",
            "payments": "2026-10-17",
            "reliability": "2026-10-17",
            "schema": "2026-10-17",
            "security": "2026-10-17",
            "transparency": "2026-10-17"
          },
          "last": "2026-10-17",
          "lastMoved": "2026-10-30",
          "oldest": "2026-10-17",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://harness.autonomous.ai/cli/install.sh | bash \u0026\u0026 harness start",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add harness -- harness mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "harness": {
              "args": [
                "mcp"
              ],
              "command": "harness"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/harness-autonomous"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Autonomous, Inc.",
        "domain": "autonomous.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://www.autonomous.ai/terms-of-use",
        "privacy": "https://www.autonomous.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/autonomous-ai/openharness/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The LICENSE file reads Copyright (c) 2026 Autonomous, Inc., and the privacy policy (last updated 7 July 2026) names Autonomous, Inc. The terms choose the law of California with binding arbitration.",
          "The privacy policy and terms cover Autonomous's websites, stores and apps in general. Neither names Harness or its product usage counts, which are described in the repository.",
          "RDAP at Identity Digital gives a registration date of 2017-12-16 for autonomous.ai.",
          "security.txt returned 404 on www.autonomous.ai and harness.autonomous.ai on 17 October 2026. The repository's SECURITY.md asks for reports to dee@autonomous.ai, with acknowledgement within three working days.",
          "CHANGELOG.md covers only the provider protocol (0.3.0, 6 August 2026). The CLI release workflow cuts a GitHub Release per tag, which we could not read because GitHub's web pages and API were not reachable from our network.",
          "The software runs on the owner's machines. Accounts, the relay and the backend are Autonomous's, and no status page was found."
        ],
        "score": 64
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.json",
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        "slug": "harness-autonomous",
        "versions": [
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            "registry": "github",
            "name": "autonomous-ai/openharness",
            "version": "os-v0.1.13",
            "released": "2026-10-30",
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://autonomous.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T15:40:09.065887596Z"
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        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://harness.autonomous.ai/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T15:10:56.797008148Z"
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        "domain": {
          "domain": "autonomous.ai",
          "registered": "2017-12-16",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/autonomous.ai",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T14:02:43.416339346Z"
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          "issuesEnabled": true,
          "pushedAt": "2026-10-26T07:08:15Z",
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          "openPRs": 48,
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            "failure": 0,
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        "category": "maintenance",
        "leads": "harness-autonomous",
        "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Published on 31 October 2026, within 30 days, read as the last published change since no tag or release was found (30). One publication, so not three releases in 90 days (0). Issues, pull requests and Discussions couldn't be read, and the README frames the code as a reference prototype adapted from an internal version (0). No official SDK or registry entry (0). Exact dependency pins and a lockfile, but no CI workflow found, and the docs pin DSH 0.2.1-rc.3 (23 October 2026) while npm `latest` is 0.2.1-rc.5 (29 October 2026) (4).",
          "b": "v0.4.18_cli and v1.2.89_desktop on 17 October 2026 (30). 548 tags since 9 September 2026 (20). Pull requests numbered past #1,390 merge daily by the team, but issues and outside pull requests could not be read (5). Not in the official MCP registry, which returned nothing for autonomous-ai, although the repository has a server.json. The npm package it names was never published (0). CI workflows for the CLI, desktop, backend and OS, with dependency lockfiles current. Run results unread (5)."
        },
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          "b": 60
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 24,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "harness-autonomous",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Framework reading, as for deepseek-harness. No OpenAPI or JSON Schema is published. docs/006 documents the Management API's routes, fields, block shapes and refusals in tables, and the code validates settings with zod (12). Markdown docs in the repository, readable raw, and a SETUP.md written for a coding agent. No llms.txt (5). Nine numbered documents read in order, each stating purpose, limits and what not to do, such as never rerunning the profile-creation command for an upgrade (17). Closed sets for accept mode (`off`, `observe`, `auto`), admission cells, Source states, health states and `listen` (12). A worked curl example, refusals as 400, 404, 409 and 500 with `issues`, `setup` or `code`, a troubleshooting table and status exit codes 0 to 3 (13). package.json says 0.1.0 and pins an `engines.dsh` range, but no changelog or tags were found (2).",
          "b": "Read as an MCP server and CLI. Seven tools with typed JSON Schema inputs, `additionalProperties: false` and required fields marked, plus `--json` on every command. No OpenAPI, which a stdio server does not need (23). llms.txt and a Markdown-like agents page written for agents (10). The server instructions and llms.txt say when to use Harness rather than `claude -p` or `codex exec`, when to do the work yourself, and never to answer a harness's prompt or ask one to push or deploy (20). An enum on `agent`, `minItems` on wait names, minimum and maximum on `timeout_seconds` and `chars`. `machine`, `folder` and `project` are free strings (12). Worked examples for parallel runs, handing a task to Codex and waiting, an exit code table, and a `Next:` line after every answer (13). Per-component semver tags, but the only CHANGELOG.md covers the provider protocol, and we could not read the GitHub release notes (7)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 61,
          "b": 85
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 24,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "harness-autonomous",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Harness reading of the framework checklist, 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. The `superagent` profile is created from DSH's Web template, and DSH documents that shipped profiles mount `session-log-deepseek`, enabled by default, which adds the session log to each official DeepSeek API request, up to 8 MiB. dsh-superagent's docs don't mention it, and its Sessions read issue, pull request and chat text and the repository. Setup and worker shells drop variables named KEY, PASSWORD, SECRET or TOKEN, and `GH_TOKEN` and `GITHUB_TOKEN` are removed from git (8). Both presets run `danger-full-access` without approval as the operator's OS user. docs/006 says the account wrappers don't isolate the process, a worker can run programs by path and read the operator's home directory, and recommends a dedicated OS account. The gate, `observe` default, blocked commands and no auto-merge as the agent account narrow what it does, not what it can do (6). docs/002 says messages, comments and quoted documents are inputs to a decision and can't change allowed lists, rules or Mandates, bots can never make explicit requests, and prompt edits don't change the gate. Workers with full access still read untrusted Thread text, and no further guidance on that was found (7). Decisions are recorded with reasons, Ticket details show the Trigger, Decision, scope and Policy version, the host records the prompt revisions each Session used, and every GitHub message starts with an automated-agent line by default (12). No SECURITY.md (404 at the root and in .github), no security.txt on www.deepseek.com (404), no bug bounty or advisory found. NVD has no record for the prototype. The CVEs against DSH itself are on the deepseek-harness listing (0).",
          "b": "Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other harnesses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. Product usage counts are on by default, disclosed with an opt-out and without prompts, code or files. Remote traffic is end-to-end encrypted and relays carry ciphertext. Local use needs no account. The daemon updates itself from a checksummed manifest without asking (18). Agents may start harnesses only after the person turns on an account switch that refuses an agent, with four live harnesses at most and closes limited to their own. Against that, installing Harness adds its commands to Claude Code's and Codex's allow rules, Codex runs them outside its sandbox, there is no sandbox of its own, and the device page lists spoken tasks as auto-allowed (13). The instructions tell an agent never to answer a harness's question or permission prompt and never to ask one to publish, deploy, delete or push. Harness output is another agent's text, and no further guidance on it was found (9). Every harness shows in the person's app with who started it, and the device key log keeps an add and remove history. No per-call audit log found (9). SECURITY.md with an email and a three-working-day acknowledgement, and a documented trust model. No security.txt, bug bounty or certification found (8)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 33,
          "b": 57
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 20,
        "category": "reliability",
        "leads": "harness-autonomous",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Local-package reading, since it runs as a DSH bundle on the operator's machine. Not published to npm (`private: true` in package.json, and the registry has no `dsh-superagent`). It installs from a git clone with `pnpm install \u0026\u0026 pnpm build` on top of `@deepseek-ai/dsh@0.2.1-rc.3`, with Node 22.19+ or 24+, git 2.32+, Python 3.8+, tmux and gh 2.48+ stated, so half credit (10). A vitest suite of about 25 spec files is listed in docs/007, and `pnpm check` runs the typecheck, tests and build. Two spec files were read on raw.githubusercontent.com. No CI workflow was found at five common paths under .github/workflows, and the directory couldn't be listed (5). Open issues couldn't be read, because github.com and api.github.com weren't reachable from our network. Unchecked, so scored absent (0). Version 0.1.0 with no tag, release or changelog found, so no semver record (0). A research prototype, not stable (0).",
          "b": "Read as local software, since the agents run on the owner's machines. A one-line installer from Autonomous's CDN, DMG and AppImage builds, and App Store and Google Play apps, with macOS and Linux stated as supported and Node managed by the installer. Not on npm or a package registry (20). A public CI workflow runs the CLI suite in four shards, the desktop suite and typechecks, and the vendor's reliability run of 16 September 2026 reports 2,325 CLI, 370 backend and 1,686 desktop tests passing. We could not read CI run results, so credit for the suite only (10). Open issues could not be read, because GitHub's web pages and API were not reachable from our network. Unchecked, so scored absent (0). Tags follow semver per component, but there is no changelog for the app or CLI and breaking changes are not marked in the repository (5). The CLI agents call is 0.4.18 and the npm MCP package is 0.1.0 and unpublished. The desktop app is 1.2.89, but the agent surface is pre-1.0, and Agents can start other agents is an experiment (0). Accounts and the relay are hosted by Autonomous with no status page found."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 15,
          "b": 35
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 15,
        "category": "ergonomics",
        "leads": "harness-autonomous",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Harness reading, scored on what a team or pipeline driving it has to supply. The worker preset is DSH's `standard` with web fetch, plan mode, questions, scheduling and workflows left out, the main Session can't write files, and tool results over 8,192 characters are pruned (18). A concurrency limit with one extra slot for a person's message, a 5-second foreground shell, a 10-minute prepare limit and 30 minutes for background work after a turn. No cost or turn limit per Ticket was found (12). Ticket stages, health entries per part, Reports of `blocked` or `failed`, API refusals with codes, and three retries with growing backoff on 408, 429, 5xx and dropped connections (17). Saves carry a revision and a stale one gets 409, state and Sessions survive a restart, and a restarted Assignment gets a recovery note to check git and GitHub before repeating any outside action (16). Sensible defaults (observe mode, port 3082, branch prefix `agent/`), but setup needs a dedicated GitHub user account, CLI wrappers, tmux and a profile, and there is no SDK. Work is requested by mentioning the agent account on GitHub or Feishu (4).",
          "b": "Seven compact tools, six outside a harness, and server instructions of about 300 words (25). `chars` sizes a read (4,000 characters by default), `all` widens the list, and `any` returns on the first finished harness. No pagination (14). Documented exit codes, refusals returned as answers rather than errors so a model does not retry them, a timed-out wait reported as still working, and `Next:` on every answer (19). readOnlyHint on whoami, list, wait and read, destructiveHint false on start and send, idempotentHint on close, and a second start of the same name is answered as already starting (16). Two required fields on start, defaults of Claude Code and a 45-second wait. No SDK, but a CLI, an MCP server and a plugin with a skill (8)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 67,
          "b": 82
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 12,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "harness-autonomous",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 DeepSeek Harness Team (30). The prototype has no data statement of its own. DeepSeek Harness's privacy policy (last updated 20 September 2026) names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., says session logs are collected with official model services and may be used to train models with a right to opt out, and says custom model services aren't stored server-side. It agrees with DSH's session-log README, but neither is referred to from the prototype (12). No deprecation policy. The README says the published code differs from DeepSeek's internal version, and docs/006 warns that database migrations are one-way (3). Telemetry and the session-log upload are disclosed with opt-outs in DSH's own reference pages, not in this repository (6).",
          "b": "MIT licence for the whole repository under Autonomous, Inc., with third-party Store covers under their own licences (30). The repository documents what usage counts contain, a 10-day pseudonymous activity mark and the encrypted relay in detail. Autonomous's privacy policy of 7 July 2026 is general to its stores and sites and does not mention Harness (14). The provider protocol promises both revisions side by side for a deprecation window after a breaking change. Nothing similar for the app or CLI (6). Telemetry is disclosed with an opt-out in the app and CLI, but it is on by default and described in the repository rather than in the privacy policy (14)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 52,
          "b": 64
        }
      }
    ],
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "DeepSeek",
        "b": "Autonomous, Inc.",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "stdio",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "Token",
        "b": "OAuth",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Free",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "MIT",
        "b": "MIT",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "7",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-31",
        "b": "2026-10-17",
        "name": "Last release"
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      {
        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "no date given",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-20",
        "b": "2026-07-07",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "not read yet",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "not read yet",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "not read yet",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not read yet",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "not read yet",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "1.3k stars",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "3/5 (4)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
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    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Harness scores 60 (C) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) or Harness?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Yes. dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) is open source (MIT). Harness is open source (MIT).",
        "question": "Are dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) and Harness open source?"
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    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": null,
        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "Teams on github.com that want a DeepSeek Harness agent to turn allowed people's issue requests into pull requests, run on an isolated machine or OS account.",
        "slug": "deepseek-superagent",
        "watchFor": "Executor and main Sessions run with `danger-full-access` as the operator's OS user, and the docs say a worker can read the operator's home directory"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 35 against 15",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 61",
          "Agent ergonomics, 82 against 67",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 33",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 34",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 52"
        ],
        "also": [
          "Runs on your own machine"
        ],
        "goodFor": "A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch.",
        "slug": "harness-autonomous",
        "watchFor": "Starting harnesses needs the person signed in with Google or Apple in a browser and an experimental account switch, off by default"
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          "delta": -0.3,
          "from": 60.3,
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          "to": 60,
          "toGrade": "C"
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  "markdown": "Harness scores 60 (C) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do multi-agent orchestration.\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek): grade E, 42.1/100, rank #1108 of 1251. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-superagent.json\n- Harness: grade C, 60/100, rank #623 of 1251. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harness-autonomous.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 955 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (E)\n\nGood for: Teams on github.com that want a DeepSeek Harness agent to turn allowed people's issue requests into pull requests, run on an isolated machine or OS account.\n\nWatch for: Executor and main Sessions run with `danger-full-access` as the operator's OS user, and the docs say a worker can read the operator's home directory\n\n### Harness (C)\n\nGood for: A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 61\n- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 33\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 34\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Starting harnesses needs the person signed in with Google or Apple in a browser and an experimental account switch, off by default\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Harness +26\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (34): Published on 31 October 2026, within 30 days, read as the last published change since no tag or release was found (30). One publication, so not three releases in 90 days (0). Issues, pull requests and Discussions couldn't be read, and the README frames the code as a reference prototype adapted from an internal version (0). No official SDK or registry entry (0). Exact dependency pins and a lockfile, but no CI workflow found, and the docs pin DSH 0.2.1-rc.3 (23 October 2026) while npm `latest` is 0.2.1-rc.5 (29 October 2026) (4).\n- Harness (60): v0.4.18_cli and v1.2.89_desktop on 17 October 2026 (30). 548 tags since 9 September 2026 (20). Pull requests numbered past #1,390 merge daily by the team, but issues and outside pull requests could not be read (5). Not in the official MCP registry, which returned nothing for autonomous-ai, although the repository has a server.json. The npm package it names was never published (0). CI workflows for the CLI, desktop, backend and OS, with dependency lockfiles current. Run results unread (5).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Harness +24\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (61): Framework reading, as for deepseek-harness. No OpenAPI or JSON Schema is published. docs/006 documents the Management API's routes, fields, block shapes and refusals in tables, and the code validates settings with zod (12). Markdown docs in the repository, readable raw, and a SETUP.md written for a coding agent. No llms.txt (5). Nine numbered documents read in order, each stating purpose, limits and what not to do, such as never rerunning the profile-creation command for an upgrade (17). Closed sets for accept mode (`off`, `observe`, `auto`), admission cells, Source states, health states and `listen` (12). A worked curl example, refusals as 400, 404, 409 and 500 with `issues`, `setup` or `code`, a troubleshooting table and status exit codes 0 to 3 (13). package.json says 0.1.0 and pins an `engines.dsh` range, but no changelog or tags were found (2).\n- Harness (85): Read as an MCP server and CLI. Seven tools with typed JSON Schema inputs, `additionalProperties: false` and required fields marked, plus `--json` on every command. No OpenAPI, which a stdio server does not need (23). llms.txt and a Markdown-like agents page written for agents (10). The server instructions and llms.txt say when to use Harness rather than `claude -p` or `codex exec`, when to do the work yourself, and never to answer a harness's prompt or ask one to push or deploy (20). An enum on `agent`, `minItems` on wait names, minimum and maximum on `timeout_seconds` and `chars`. `machine`, `folder` and `project` are free strings (12). Worked examples for parallel runs, handing a task to Codex and waiting, an exit code table, and a `Next:` line after every answer (13). Per-component semver tags, but the only CHANGELOG.md covers the provider protocol, and we could not read the GitHub release notes (7).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Harness +24\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (33): Harness reading of the framework checklist, 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. The `superagent` profile is created from DSH's Web template, and DSH documents that shipped profiles mount `session-log-deepseek`, enabled by default, which adds the session log to each official DeepSeek API request, up to 8 MiB. dsh-superagent's docs don't mention it, and its Sessions read issue, pull request and chat text and the repository. Setup and worker shells drop variables named KEY, PASSWORD, SECRET or TOKEN, and `GH_TOKEN` and `GITHUB_TOKEN` are removed from git (8). Both presets run `danger-full-access` without approval as the operator's OS user. docs/006 says the account wrappers don't isolate the process, a worker can run programs by path and read the operator's home directory, and recommends a dedicated OS account. The gate, `observe` default, blocked commands and no auto-merge as the agent account narrow what it does, not what it can do (6). docs/002 says messages, comments and quoted documents are inputs to a decision and can't change allowed lists, rules or Mandates, bots can never make explicit requests, and prompt edits don't change the gate. Workers with full access still read untrusted Thread text, and no further guidance on that was found (7). Decisions are recorded with reasons, Ticket details show the Trigger, Decision, scope and Policy version, the host records the prompt revisions each Session used, and every GitHub message starts with an automated-agent line by default (12). No SECURITY.md (404 at the root and in .github), no security.txt on www.deepseek.com (404), no bug bounty or advisory found. NVD has no record for the prototype. The CVEs against DSH itself are on the deepseek-harness listing (0).\n- Harness (57): Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other harnesses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. Product usage counts are on by default, disclosed with an opt-out and without prompts, code or files. Remote traffic is end-to-end encrypted and relays carry ciphertext. Local use needs no account. The daemon updates itself from a checksummed manifest without asking (18). Agents may start harnesses only after the person turns on an account switch that refuses an agent, with four live harnesses at most and closes limited to their own. Against that, installing Harness adds its commands to Claude Code's and Codex's allow rules, Codex runs them outside its sandbox, there is no sandbox of its own, and the device page lists spoken tasks as auto-allowed (13). The instructions tell an agent never to answer a harness's question or permission prompt and never to ask one to publish, deploy, delete or push. Harness output is another agent's text, and no further guidance on it was found (9). Every harness shows in the person's app with who started it, and the device key log keeps an add and remove history. No per-call audit log found (9). SECURITY.md with an email and a three-working-day acknowledgement, and a documented trust model. No security.txt, bug bounty or certification found (8).\n\n### Reliability: Harness +20\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (15): Local-package reading, since it runs as a DSH bundle on the operator's machine. Not published to npm (`private: true` in package.json, and the registry has no `dsh-superagent`). It installs from a git clone with `pnpm install \u0026\u0026 pnpm build` on top of `@deepseek-ai/dsh@0.2.1-rc.3`, with Node 22.19+ or 24+, git 2.32+, Python 3.8+, tmux and gh 2.48+ stated, so half credit (10). A vitest suite of about 25 spec files is listed in docs/007, and `pnpm check` runs the typecheck, tests and build. Two spec files were read on raw.githubusercontent.com. No CI workflow was found at five common paths under .github/workflows, and the directory couldn't be listed (5). Open issues couldn't be read, because github.com and api.github.com weren't reachable from our network. Unchecked, so scored absent (0). Version 0.1.0 with no tag, release or changelog found, so no semver record (0). A research prototype, not stable (0).\n- Harness (35): Read as local software, since the agents run on the owner's machines. A one-line installer from Autonomous's CDN, DMG and AppImage builds, and App Store and Google Play apps, with macOS and Linux stated as supported and Node managed by the installer. Not on npm or a package registry (20). A public CI workflow runs the CLI suite in four shards, the desktop suite and typechecks, and the vendor's reliability run of 16 September 2026 reports 2,325 CLI, 370 backend and 1,686 desktop tests passing. We could not read CI run results, so credit for the suite only (10). Open issues could not be read, because GitHub's web pages and API were not reachable from our network. Unchecked, so scored absent (0). Tags follow semver per component, but there is no changelog for the app or CLI and breaking changes are not marked in the repository (5). The CLI agents call is 0.4.18 and the npm MCP package is 0.1.0 and unpublished. The desktop app is 1.2.89, but the agent surface is pre-1.0, and Agents can start other agents is an experiment (0). Accounts and the relay are hosted by Autonomous with no status page found.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Harness +15\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (67): Harness reading, scored on what a team or pipeline driving it has to supply. The worker preset is DSH's `standard` with web fetch, plan mode, questions, scheduling and workflows left out, the main Session can't write files, and tool results over 8,192 characters are pruned (18). A concurrency limit with one extra slot for a person's message, a 5-second foreground shell, a 10-minute prepare limit and 30 minutes for background work after a turn. No cost or turn limit per Ticket was found (12). Ticket stages, health entries per part, Reports of `blocked` or `failed`, API refusals with codes, and three retries with growing backoff on 408, 429, 5xx and dropped connections (17). Saves carry a revision and a stale one gets 409, state and Sessions survive a restart, and a restarted Assignment gets a recovery note to check git and GitHub before repeating any outside action (16). Sensible defaults (observe mode, port 3082, branch prefix `agent/`), but setup needs a dedicated GitHub user account, CLI wrappers, tmux and a profile, and there is no SDK. Work is requested by mentioning the agent account on GitHub or Feishu (4).\n- Harness (82): Seven compact tools, six outside a harness, and server instructions of about 300 words (25). `chars` sizes a read (4,000 characters by default), `all` widens the list, and `any` returns on the first finished harness. No pagination (14). Documented exit codes, refusals returned as answers rather than errors so a model does not retry them, a timed-out wait reported as still working, and `Next:` on every answer (19). readOnlyHint on whoami, list, wait and read, destructiveHint false on start and send, idempotentHint on close, and a second start of the same name is answered as already starting (16). Two required fields on start, defaults of Claude Code and a 45-second wait. No SDK, but a CLI, an MCP server and a plugin with a skill (8).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Harness +12\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (52): MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 DeepSeek Harness Team (30). The prototype has no data statement of its own. DeepSeek Harness's privacy policy (last updated 20 September 2026) names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., says session logs are collected with official model services and may be used to train models with a right to opt out, and says custom model services aren't stored server-side. It agrees with DSH's session-log README, but neither is referred to from the prototype (12). No deprecation policy. The README says the published code differs from DeepSeek's internal version, and docs/006 warns that database migrations are one-way (3). Telemetry and the session-log upload are disclosed with opt-outs in DSH's own reference pages, not in this repository (6).\n- Harness (64): MIT licence for the whole repository under Autonomous, Inc., with third-party Store covers under their own licences (30). The repository documents what usage counts contain, a 10-day pseudonymous activity mark and the encrypted relay in detail. Autonomous's privacy policy of 7 July 2026 is general to its stores and sites and does not mention Harness (14). The provider protocol promises both revisions side by side for a deprecation window after a breaking change. Nothing similar for the app or CLI (6). Telemetry is disclosed with an opt-out in the app and CLI, but it is on by default and described in the repository rather than in the privacy policy (14).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) | Harness | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 35 | Harness +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 85 | Harness +24 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 82 | Harness +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 57 | Harness +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 34 | 60 | Harness +26 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 64 | Harness +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.1 · E** | **60 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) | Harness |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | Autonomous, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  | stdio |\n| Auth | Token | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 7 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-31 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-20 | 2026-07-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 1.3k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Harness\n\n- -0.3 on 30 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**dsh-superagent (DeepSeek).** The authorization design is careful, with allowed lists, Mandates and a Policy enforced in code, proactive work only recorded by default and auto-merge off. Executors run every command without approval under the operator's OS user, and the README calls it a research prototype with no release, changelog or security policy.\n\n**Harness.** An agent can start Claude Code or Codex sessions the person can watch, on this or another of their machines, through documented CLI commands and seven annotated MCP tools with exit codes. Starting agents needs the person's signed-in account and an experimental switch that is off by default, the CLI is pre-1.0, and usage counts are shared by default.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)\n\n1. Run it under a dedicated OS account holding only the agent's credentials. Executors run commands without approval and can read the operator's home directory\n2. Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row of the `superagent` profile before using DeepSeek's official API on private code\n3. Keep the accept mode at `observe` and the allowed list short until the recorded Decisions look right\n4. Wait for `scripts/dsh-superagent status` to stop exiting 1 after any save that answers `restarting: true` before the next request\n5. Send `x-orchestrator-request: 1` and a loopback Host to the Management API, and send `revision` with each PUT, since a stale one gets 409\n\n### Harness\n\n1. Run `harness whoami` first. If it says you may not start harnesses, tell the person and do the work yourself\n2. Ask the person before installing Harness, and leave `harness login` and the agents-start-agents switch to them\n3. Treat exit 5 as final and do not retry. Treat exit 3 as needs the person, and never answer a harness's question or permission prompt\n4. Name every harness, put the whole task in `harness new`, then wait, read with `harness show` and close only the ones you started\n5. Run each `harness` command on its own or joined with `\u0026\u0026`, since piped commands no longer match the permission rule\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) or Harness?\n\nHarness scores 60 (C) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Are dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) and Harness open source?\n\nYes. dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) is open source (MIT). Harness is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-harness-autonomous.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-harness-autonomous.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-superagent\", \"b\": \"harness-autonomous\"}`. 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