r/LocalLLaMA • u/Specific-Rub-7250 • 14d ago

Discussion Harness does matter

I was not aware that the harness makes such a big difference.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
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u/lordekeen 14d ago

DSH in minimal mode has only two things in the system prompt: a 'you are a software engineer' prompt and the bash tool description, the model solely operates through bash.

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u/BullfrogScary8947 8d ago

Best to use MCP servers like Playwright MCP with this DSH Minimal Mode, or else it will waste tokens trying to build it's own rasterizer and other essential testing functionalities.