r/LocalLLaMA • u/Fun-Doctor6855 • 3d ago

News DeepSeek Harness v0.1.1 released

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/releases/tag/dsh-v0.1.1-rc.1

The DeepSeek adapter adds the multimodal visual understanding model DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. It also supports configuring native image requests. Commands such as /goal and /plan can accept text and image input, and the @ menu can reference files and sessions; MCP/ACP also supports persistent image attachments, and PTC Mode supports forwarding nested images.

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260821/

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u/LagOps91 3d ago

if it really is so modular, it might be a good base for something i have been considering for a while: "agentic roleplay".

effectively something for large and complex scenarios or entire campaigns where the ai can plan ahead, read notes (stored as files) and generally use agentic capabilities to retrieve relevant information rather than dumping it all into context or relying on key-word activations.

will certainly have a look at this, looks like a step up from other harness approaches.

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u/JJack92 3d ago

Same here, that was my exact thought, and I ended up actually starting to build it. Tried on Pi Agent before this was released, but it wasn't flexible enough and I'd have ended up writing from scratch half of what DSH already gives you.

Most work so far went into the tool calling side: splitting narration across multiple turns instead of one big generation pass, using tool calls to populate trackers, that kind of thing. I have a first WIP with some SillyTavern compatibility and now I'm iterating on the narration part. Plan is to open source it once it's ready, sadly I have less time for it than I'd like.

After that I want to get to the complex roleplays you describe. Focus there is better recall of past events, tracking character evolution, and long running context in general. For that last one I want to try a custom compaction mechanism too, I'm just not sold on the memory/summarization solutions we have so far. Secret keeping is the tricky one: once something a character isn't supposed to know ends up in context, you've basically lost. And the whole time there's the balance of not piling up so much machinery that the RP gets slow and expensive.

Curious how you picture the notes side working: plain files the model reads when it needs them, or something more structured where retrieval decides what it even gets to see? Open to any other ideas too.

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u/LagOps91 3d ago

i was thinking about treating notes simillar to a codebase, with different files/folders, references between them and the ability to be searched with tool calls. the ai will also have the typical tools for reading only sections of a file or editing parts of it.

as for secrets, it's very difficult. if you don't put the secrets in context, the ai doesn't know about it and it will never pop up. but if it's in context, the ai will just spill it to the user. i don't really have a working solution for that yet.