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DeepSeek Harness Plugins: What You Can Actually Swap, and What You Cannot
The runtime declares 69 services and marks only 29 of them swappable. Here is the map, with working patch files for the model route, a remote sandbox, compaction, Claude Code and Codex subagents, and an agent preset of your own.
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What Is Claude Fable 5.1? A Beginner's Guide to Anthropic's New Agent Model
Learn what Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are, what they cost, how Fable 5.1 compares to Opus 5, how to switch in Claude Code and the API, and the three breaking changes to fix before you migrate.
· 14 min · by the editors
When an AI Model Crosses a Cyber-Critical Threshold, Agent Builders Need a New Security Baseline
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra models may have critical cyber capability. Here is what the pause in frontier training means for teams giving AI agents code execution, tools, and internet access.
· 9 min · by the editors
What Is DeepSeek Harness? A Beginner's Guide to the MIT-Licensed Agent Runtime
Learn what DeepSeek Harness is, how to run it on Windows, macOS, or Linux, what "everything is a plugin" changes in practice, how to read its session event log, and how it compares to Claude Code.
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What Is MiniMax H3? A Beginner's Guide to the Open Multimodal Video Model
Learn what MiniMax H3 is, how to generate your first clip with native audio through the API, what it costs per second, which four territories the open weights exclude, and what a local run really needs.
· 14 min · by the editors
Harness Engineering for AI Coding Agents: A Beginner's Guide
Learn what harness engineering is and build a practical repository setup that gives coding agents clear context, bounded tasks, persistent state, and executable proof of completion.
· 13 min · by the editors
What Is Microsoft SkillOpt? A Beginner's Guide to Training Agent Skills
Learn what Microsoft SkillOpt is, how it trains a skill file with epochs and validation gates, what it costs to run, and when writing the skill by hand is still the right call.
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