DeepSeek published MIT-licensed research code on October 31st, 2026 for a coding agent that acts on authorized requests. The public prototype differs from DeepSeek's private internal implementation, and some designs in its article remain unimplemented in the released code.
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Primary source: [Bloomberg Technology](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-01/deepseek-drops-enhanced-coding-agent-with-aim-to-rival-anthropic)
Why it matters #
Super-agent shows DeepSeek moving from open models into the agent runtime layer, where Claude Code already has company-reported run-rate revenue above $2.5 billion and where control of developer workflow can matter as much as model quality. The public prototype works with permitted GitHub and optional Feishu signals.
Liang Wenfeng built DeepSeek out of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer. On October 31st, 2026, DeepSeek's Harness team released an open-source prototype that acts on authorized coding requests and returns results, often as pull requests.…
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