DeepSeek Team Member: DeepSeek Harness Is Positioned as "the Operating System of the Agent Era"

November 8 — Tianyi Cui, a core member of the DeepSeek Harness team, published a post responding to plugin developers' questions about "the relationship between official built-in features and third-party plugins." He said DeepSeek Harness is positioned as "the operating system of the Agent era." The official team will provide stable foundational capabilities and build in the general features most users need. Under the "everything is a plugin" design, built-in features can likewise be replaced by third-party plugins. Citing the alarm clock and calculator built into smartphone systems as examples, he said he hopes community plugins will do better than the built-in features.