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Aug 14, 2026 · Fundamentals

How DeepSeek Harness Enables Agents to Rewrite Themselves at Runtime

The article analyzes DeepSeek Harness's plugin‑based architecture, its Cordis core for reversible side‑effects, the four operational modes—including a creation mode that lets agents dynamically add or remove components—and the underlying research paper that formalizes spatiotemporal composability for self‑modifying AI agents.