How to use DeepSeek Harness with a local model

DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is the open-source agent harness DeepSeek released in August 2026. It works with a local model if you declare an openai-completions provider in settings.yaml that points at llama-server, with a placeholder key and the real context size. With Qwen3.5-4B on CPU it left the tests green in 4 of 5 attempts, but slowly.

September 24, 2026 19 min 68

Artificial Intelligence

Open-weight models in enterprise: one year on

A year ago open weights were a gamble; today they are a real production option. I review what has worked, what has not, and how Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral are fitting into enterprise architectures that used to depend on closed APIs.

February 26, 2025 9 min 236 4.3