Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd. has recently registered the official WeChat public account "DeepSeek Harness Team", with an IP address located in Haidian, Beijing. As the first official communication channel established by DeepSeek specifically for the Harness business line, this move is widely seen as a signal that the company's Harness-related products are about to be officially launched.

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Harness is a core engineering system that truly enables large models to run, and it is responsible for key capabilities such as tool calling, task planning, and execution scheduling. It is an essential underlying support for agent (Agent) development. In May of this year, DeepSeek officially formed a dedicated core team for Harness, led by Cui Tianyi, and opened recruitment for three positions: Harness researcher, engineer, and product manager.

Combined with previous statements from DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng at an internal investor meeting — DeepSeek believes that the most reasonable approach in the Agent direction is to "focus on building a general-purpose Agent," with vertical Agents having a lower priority — industry experts speculate that this team will first focus its strategy on general-purpose Agents.

As a critical step in DeepSeek's journey toward agents, the independent operation of the Harness team marks that DeepSeek is accelerating the transformation of cutting-edge large model cognitive abilities into practical general-purpose intelligent agent products, continuously driving progress from model breakthroughs toward engineering implementation and the AGI mainline.