Deepseek harness just beat hermes at the one thing i didn’t expect

I ran both agents side by side inside the same Agentic OS — and the winner depends entirely on the job. Here’s where the gap showed up: → DeepSeek Harness hit 136,000 GitHub stars in 2 days → Its entire

Julian Goldie SEOAug 21

Two open-source AI agents.

Two very different approaches. DeepSeek Harness: → 136,000 GitHub stars in 2 days. → 421 community plugins after launch. → Local agent architecture. Hermes Agent: → 226,000 GitHub stars. → 6 months of updates. → Memory and self-improvement

Julian Goldie SEOAug 21

For users who use DeepSeek Harness as an engine but lack a workspace and desktop experience

Geek LiteAug 21

Shipped: DeepSeek Harness Browser (unofficial plugin)

A real Chrome living INSIDE the harness, right beside the chat 👀 The agent drives it over CDP and reads the actual DOM, not a scraped copy. Bonus: rendered local file previews too, markdown, HTML, images, even PDFs

Tech2WildAug 2114