Evidence record / deepseek-harness
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2026-10-13-deepseek-harness-alpha-adds-rival-harness-catalog-bundles-and-a-shared-global-instruction-chain
Alpha adds rival-harness catalog bundles and a shared global instruction chain. Alpha makes Claude Code and Codex delegation a catalog install; the wrappers already exist on rc and default to unattended approval modes. Those defaults do not imply every operation succeeds or all user communication is suppressed. Base-backed profiles with the instruction plugin and a filesystem provider load eligible global files on the first request, subject to the byte budget and deduplication. The chain includes DSH_HOME/AGENTS.md and DSH_AGENTS_HOME/AGENTS.md (default ~/.agents), followed by project instructions. Mods remains a compatibility experiment, not a promise.
Channel: preview-or-beta; new catalog/global behavior alpha-only. Half: both. Date: 2026-10-03 (Mods experiment); 2026-10-09 (catalog and shared instructions).
Operator consequence: Inspect each wrapper’s permissionMode, audit eligible shared instruction files, and use process DSH_HOME/DSH_AGENTS_HOME to select homes; stray row keys are ignored. Do not confuse the new catalog convenience with a new approval boundary or stable rival-harness integration.
Receipt
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/releases/tag/dsh-v0.2.1-alpha.2
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/blob/d743267388641bc76f17c45ce8b4c231aed1d32c/packages/context/agent-instructions/README.md#L30-L40
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/blob/d743267388641bc76f17c45ce8b4c231aed1d32c/packages/subagent/subagent-codex/src/run.ts#L69
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/blob/639ed015397290b3745d163aafe02ffee4aa3f84/packages/subagent/subagent-claude-code/src/run.ts#L56
- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/blob/639ed015397290b3745d163aafe02ffee4aa3f84/docs/user/guide/providers.md
Finding metadata
Run: 2026-10-13-profile-refresh-2026-09-21_2026-10-13-frontier-v0
Finding ID: 2026-10-13-deepseek-harness-alpha-adds-rival-harness-catalog-bundles-and-a-shared-global-instruction-chain
Profile citations
- deepseek-harness / claim / runs-rival-models-and-harnesses
- deepseek-harness / claim / alpha-global-instructions
Source links
Primary links, including exact changelog lines when available.
- github release2026-10-13-deepseek-harness-alpha-adds-rival-harness-catalog-bundles-and-a-shared-global-instruction-chaindeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness / dsh-v0.2.1-alpha.2tagged commit file2026-10-13-deepseek-harness-alpha-adds-rival-harness-catalog-bundles-and-a-shared-global-instruction-chaindeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness / packages/context/agent-instructions/README.md#L30-L40tagged commit file2026-10-13-deepseek-harness-alpha-adds-rival-harness-catalog-bundles-and-a-shared-global-instruction-chaindeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness / packages/subagent/subagent-codex/src/run.ts#L69tagged commit file2026-10-13-deepseek-harness-alpha-adds-rival-harness-catalog-bundles-and-a-shared-global-instruction-chaindeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness / packages/subagent/subagent-claude-code/src/run.ts#L56tagged commit file2026-10-13-deepseek-harness-alpha-adds-rival-harness-catalog-bundles-and-a-shared-global-instruction-chaindeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness / docs/user/guide/providers.md
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