If like me you're mildly bothered by this, add these lines to $DSH_HOME/cordis.patch.yml before first startup ($DSH_HOME is ~/.dsh by default):

    - id: desktop-product-telemetry
      disabled: true
    - id: product-analytics
      disabled: true
    - id: session-log-deepseek
      config:
        enabled: false

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25512

also this is a very limited static snapshot with one model as backend, I wish there were more consistently refreshed and diversified harness benchmarks.

All settings and workspaces are transferred so you don't lose anything, the only thing it lacks is a way to increase/decrease font size with cmd + and cmd - so I'll work on a plugin for that

I can't be happier

Edit: Asked DSH for a plugin to increase/decrease font and it delivered. Love it. Then asked for a plugin to ring a bell on questions and tasks finished, of course it delivered flawlessly. The same plugin architecture, extensible by the same AI

It's nice for having your AI create your own plugins. But I haven't really found the need yet.

Good things about it are that it is extremely lightweight and fast. The communication between sub agents is two way in that a sub agent can midway send a message to parent and the parent can send a message midway to change the course of action of a sub agent and while this is happening, you can sitll continue talking to the model on the main thread.

Downside of DeepSeek is that it is constantly in flux which is understandable and they make it very clear themselves that the breaking changes are to be expected.

Not providing DSH as a simple to install package resulted in an unknown third party packaging it with some modifications and SEO the hell out of it to always come on top in Internet searches (even above DS):

deepseekharness[.]io

Could be just an ambitious engineer, but could equally easily be ran by cyber criminals or NSA.

The desktop application is an Electron shell around the complete dsh Web application.

I find it hilarious that all the AI harnesses are Electron crap. These are such simple UIs, it seems like it would be trivial to have the AI itself write native frontends.

I'm not yet sure if it is really sensible long-term, but it is definitely now while we're still trying to figure out what exactly we want and need from LLMs and harnesses.

https://aifcc.franzai.com/

I'm using Cursor (it's the only way my company allows us to use Grok) and OpenChamber (when using GPT, Muse Spark and others) and I'm happy. If I were to use DeepSeek, I'd use it through OpenChamber too.

* OpenChamber is a GUI for OpenCode.

This gives more power to the consumer and ensures they can freely switch the components according to their needs. AI market is already full of power imbalance and anti competitive potential, no reason to increase that even more.

Captcha had me ruffled at the onset as I am slightly visually impaired and couldn't pick out the somewhat grainy images. It seems to be the standard now.

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

website doesn't work without webgl :/

The webpage is a completely unusable stuttery mess on my Android phone (at most 5fps).

With the preview of official app, hope team will add remote connection soon.

A marketplace, where the different intelligence agencies could evaluate the value of my digital stuff and then offer me something (like a $5 gift card to Olive Garden), would be really nice.

This new title says nothing, we already know deepseek harness from before, this is a new product, an installable app worth differentiating from just "DeepSeek Harness"

I'd probably check it out if it was actually called 'YAH Harness' and not [insert Chinese AI lab here] Harness