Nine findings, one critical. Terminal cases verified in a real terminal first. CRITICAL: cells held the accumulated SGR history, so every state boundary re-emitted the whole chain — output switching color without a full reset emitted O(n^2) characters. Measured: 3200 such cells produced 25 MB, and the reviewer's ~90 KB alternating-color case is well under bash's own output cap. State is now a normalized record (foreground, background, attribute set) with one canonical sequence per boundary, so the emitted text is linear in cells; the 90 KB case parses in 36 ms. That also makes the attribute closers every chalk-based tool writes actually close: `\x1b[1mbold\x1b[22mplain` leaves the following write PLAIN, which a real terminal confirms. Width follows emoji presentation, not the U+2600-U+27BF block: `A✓B` redrawn with `XY` shows `XYB`, so the check every progress line writes is ONE column. Taking the block as wide misaligned exactly the output this card exists for. Writing over either half of a wide pair blanks the other, since a terminal cannot leave one cell of a two-cell glyph standing. `line\n\x1b[0m` does not end in a newline as a string yet its last parsed line holds nothing visible, so the terminator check now reads the parsed lines — it had added a blank row and inflated the collapse count. A line with no cursor movement no longer builds a column buffer at all; only its SGR is folded, so an `ls -R` or a 5k-line log allocates nothing per character. The `.terminalDescription` rule had been inserted into an existing grouped selector, silently giving `.codeBody` description typography and changing its bottom margin from 4px to 0 — a pre-existing surface this PR does not own. Split out, `.codeBody`'s margin restored. Three comments contradicted their code: the fixture's exit-marker line (still claiming recovery from a marker deliberately removed), `bash-sample`'s header (still routing a click to the details panel, and calling the consumer's cap the block's own), and a DetailsPanel comment stacked above the wrong rule. The ui-primitives README documented only the CR/BS half of the replay, so a reader would expect `OK0%` where `100%\r\x1b[KOK` renders `OK`.
DeepSeek Harness
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DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is an open-source coding agent built on the DeepSeek Harness SDK.
It uses an architecture where everything is a plugin.
Install
Install dsh with one command:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/master/scripts/install.sh | sh
The installer requires git and Node ^22.19 || >=24, offers to install pnpm when it is missing, and prompts for a DeepSeek API key.
The installer keeps every checkout under ~/.dsh/source: the master clone at ~/.dsh/source/master and each install's staging checkout as a git worktree ~/.dsh/source/staging-<timestamp>. The stable symlink ~/.dsh/source/current points at the active staging worktree, and dsh in ~/.local/bin links to current/bin/dsh, so an upgrade repoints one symlink and the dsh on PATH never moves. Re-running the command adds a fresh staging worktree from an updated master and repoints current at it. See scripts/install.sh for alternate install locations and other options.
Use DeepSeek Harness
Web UI
For the recommended local interface, build the frontend after installation and after each update, then start the Web UI. Resolve the running checkout from the dsh launcher so the command holds regardless of which staging worktree is current (the launcher resolves through the stable current symlink):
dsh_bin=$(cd "$(dirname "$(command -v dsh)")" && pwd -P)/$(basename "$(command -v dsh)")
while [ -L "$dsh_bin" ]; do
link=$(readlink "$dsh_bin")
case $link in /*) dsh_bin=$link ;; *) dsh_bin=$(cd "$(dirname "$dsh_bin")" && cd "$(dirname "$link")" && pwd -P)/$(basename "$link") ;; esac
done
dsh_dir=$(cd "$(dirname "$dsh_bin")/.." && pwd -P)
pnpm --dir "$dsh_dir" run build && pnpm --dir "$dsh_dir" run build:web
dsh web
The Web UI is served at http://127.0.0.1:3080 by default.
TUI
Start the full-screen terminal interface:
dsh
Headless
Run one task, print the final answer, and exit:
dsh -p "summarize this workspace"
Why DeepSeek Harness
Built-in capabilities cover file reading, editing, and search; shell execution; reusable skills; task tracking; subagents and workflows; persistent sessions; and context compaction. The TUI also includes Plan Mode.
- Everything is a plugin. Models, tools, policies, storage, context management, and interfaces are composable Cordis plugins, so deployments can extend or replace behavior without forking the agent loop. See the architecture for the underlying design.
- Code Mode (opt-in). It exposes a
run_codetool and a generated TypeScript SDK; only program output re-enters model context. See Code Mode. - Self-referential Cordis tools are opt-in. They let the agent inspect its live runtime and mount or unmount plugins while it runs. See the Cordis tools.
Community
Follow DeepSeek Harness on Twitter for project updates.
Development
pnpm install
pnpm run test:coverage
Start with the development guide and read the architecture before changing packages.
For agents, follow AGENTS.md.
DeepSeek Harness is currently pre-release.