AI Agents

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  1. DeepSeek Harness: The Open-Source Agent Framework Where Everything Is a Plugin

    DeepSeek open-sourced its agent harness (dsh) under MIT — 25.9k stars, powered by the Cordis plugin framework, with nine specialized sub-agents, MCP support, sandboxing, …

    Open Source

  2. What 413 Developers Are Building: The August 2026 Ask HN Snapshot

    The August 2026 'Ask HN: What are you working on?' thread is a time capsule of indie developer culture: agent harnesses everywhere, local-first rebellion against …

    Industry Trends

  3. LLM Council: Run Your Own Multi-Model Debate Panel with Karpathy's 400-Line App

    Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council (23.8k stars) turns one AI into a boardroom: multiple frontier models answer your query independently, anonymously review each other's work, …

    Open Source

  4. Jeff Dean's 1% Rule: How to Choose What to Build in the Age of Frontier AI

    Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean gave founders a brutally simple framework at YC Startup School 2026: build only where frontier models succeed 0-1% of the time, never …

    AI

  5. Pi Coding Agent: The Minimalist Harness That's 2x Cheaper Than Claude Code (Databricks Benchmark)

    Pi is the terminal-first coding agent with only 4 tools and a 200-token system prompt. Databricks found simple harnesses like Pi cut cost-per-task by 2x at equal quality …

    AI

  6. QM: YC's Open-Source Multiplayer Agent Harness for Slack and Web

    QM is Y Combinator's open-source multiplayer agent harness that gives every employee an isolated workspace while letting teams collaborate with AI in Slack channels. …

    Open Source