What if Claude Code was Free? DeepSeek just launched its own free, open-source coding agent. It’s called DeepSeek Harness. And it crossed 180,000 GitHub stars in less than one week. The biggest difference is control. Most AI coding tools lock you into their model, tools, and internal logic. DeepSeek Harness turns everything into a plugin. The model. The tools. The memory. Even the agent loop itself. Every piece can be swapped, removed, or rebuilt. That means you can design your own AI agent from the ground up. Run it locally with any model. Connect different providers. Or use Claude Code and Codex as sub-agents, assigning each one a different part of the job. And you’re not starting from an empty system. DeepSeek Harness includes 53 tools out of the box. Before, you adapted your workflow to the agent. Now, you can rebuild the agent around your workflow. Comment “DEEPSEEK” and I’ll send you the tool. #deepseek #deepseekharness #claudecode #aiagent #opensourceai