Tooling3d ago
DeepSeek Harness team open-sources dsh-superagent, a proactive coding agent prototype for a single GitHub repo, alongside its Super-agent architecture article
On Oct 31, deepseek-ai open-sourced dsh-superagent-prototype on GitHub under the MIT license: a proactive coding agent that runs as a DeepSeek Harness bundle, lives on one GitHub repository and can optionally listen to Feishu. When an allowed person asks for work, it opens a work item, works in its own session and directory, and answers in the original conversation, for example with a pull request. The README states it is a research prototype, not an official DeepSeek product. The companion article, Exploring Super-agent Design, proposes a two-layer Router-Worker architecture; the team test, as reproduced by media, reports a p95 completion time of 15.7 minutes versus 29.5 minutes for a single-session setup.
Tooling5d ago
CrowdStrike: China-nexus VAPOR PANDA used the ARTEX multi-agent framework, mainly on DeepSeek, against 200+ organizations in 11 days
CrowdStrike reported on Oct 29 that the China-nexus espionage group VAPOR PANDA, starting Oct 17, ran the open-source agentic intrusion framework ARTEX with DeepSeek plus a second, unconfirmed commercial LLM, hitting more than 200 organizations in at least 14 countries from a single controller over 11 days. Post-exploitation was confirmed at nine organizations, where the BLOODALCHEMY backdoor was deployed. Planning agents used about 1.4 billion input tokens in a single intrusion, and recovered transcripts show a human operator steering the agents in Chinese at key decision points.
Tooling8d ago
Cursor adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: all four effort levels sit on the CursorBench 4.0 cost frontier, with Max scoring 47.7% at $0.98 per task
Cursor announced on Oct 26 (UTC) that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available in Cursor and can be turned on under Cursor Settings > Models. Cursor says every effort level sits on the CursorBench cost frontier, from $0.60 to $0.98 per task, with no model scoring higher at those prices. The official CursorBench 4.0 leaderboard lists DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at 47.7% on Max ($0.98 per task), 46.3% on Medium ($0.80), 45.6% on High ($0.77) and 44.9% on Low ($0.60). The top score on the board, Opus 5.5 Max, is 57.8% but costs $13.43 per task.
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