IT之家 October 16 news: According to a report by The Paper today, sources say DeepSeek recently integrated its Harness team along with the Web, App, and Platform teams into a "Product Department", responsible for all of the company's product, design, and R&D work, with Cui Tianyi serving as head of the Product Department.
On October 16, Cui Tianyi told The Paper thatthe report is true。
Public information shows that DeepSeek's Agent Harness team was formed in March this year; its head Cui Tianyi graduated from Zhejiang University with a computer science degree, holds 6 ACM Asia Regional gold medals, worked at top quantitative firm JaneStreet for nine years, and joined DeepSeek in March this year.
As previously reported by IT之家,the DeepSeek Harness desktop v0.2 preview was officially released on September 29, offering out-of-the-box macOS and Windows desktop installers, now available on DeepSeek's official website.
DeepSeek Harness (abbreviated as dsh) is an Agent runtime framework open-sourced by DeepSeek in August 2026, licensed under the MIT license and written in TypeScript.
DeepSeek Harness's most distinctive feature is "Everything is a Plugin", including models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, storage, agent loops, scheduling, UI, and more — all Agent capabilities are provided as plugins through the underlying plugin system Cordis.
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