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Rohit Raj
Rohit Raj

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DeepSeek Harness vs Claude Code vs Codex CLI: The v0.1 Developer Preview, Honestly — 2026

Originally published on rohitraj.tech

DeepSeek open-sourced its agent harness on August 13, 2026 under MIT — 572 points on Hacker News in a day. Every page currently ranking for "DeepSeek Harness vs Claude Code" describes a different, older product. Here is what v0.1 actually ships: the Cordis plugin kernel, the real cordis.yml keys, 53 built-in tools, and the one config default that decides whether it touches your repo.


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