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Where DeepSeek Phone Harness goes next — and how you can shape it

The developer of DeepSeek Phone Harness, an open-source tool that runs DeepSeek AI on mobile phones, has published a roadmap prioritizing push notifications, a PWA offline shell, and a persistent PTY terminal based on user requests. The project, which is about 4,000 lines of plain Node.js with no dependencies, is seeking contributors to implement these features.

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Where DeepSeek Phone Harness goes next — and how you can shape it

A roadmap, an honest status check, and a call for contributors. The most-requested feature ships first.

Two weeks ago this was a sketch. Today DeepSeek Phone Harness runs on my phone every day. Here's where it's headed — and where you come in.

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Status check (honest) Working well:

  • Chat + streaming typewriter, multi-turn sessions
  • Tool cards: icon, status, file path, expandable args/result
  • Approval cards + ask_user_question

answer cards (no more deadlocks)

  • Model switching, image attachments, thinking disclosure
  • Terminal, file browser, task history, session management
  • Zero npm dependencies; runs on any Node 22+
**Known limits (being honest):**

- Web page, not a native app (PWA covers most of it)
  • Terminal runs commands one at a time — no full PTY interactivity yet
  • No push notifications yet — you poll, it doesn't call you
  • Cloud channel requires deploying your own Worker

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Roadmap — most-requested first

Push notifications — task finished, approval needed → phone notifies without opening the page #

PWA offline shell — add to home screen, feels native #

Persistent PTY terminal — interactive commands, not just run-and-collect #

Multi-device / multi-account — one agent, several controllers #

Native shell (Tauri/Electron) — if the demand shows up

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How you can shape it

Open an issue with your most-wanted feature — the roadmap above is literally "what people asked for" #

PR welcome: the codebase is ~4000 lines of plain Node + one HTML file. No build step, no framework to learn. A focused PR is a weekend at most #

Report the ugly: a weird hang, a wrong tool card, a confusing flow — file it, I read everything

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The rule

The roadmap is ordered by request count, not by my preference. If your feature isn't on the list, that's because nobody asked for it yet. So ask.

Repo:

https://github.com/2903077918-lgtm/DeepSeek-phone-harness What's the one feature that would make you use this daily? One line is enough.

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