DeepSeek open-sources Super-agent, a prototype coding agent that takes work requests from GitHub and team chats

DeepSeek's Harness team has released dsh-superagent, an open-source prototype of a coding agent. It watches a team's GitHub repository and, optionally, Feishu (Lark) group chats, and does work when asked. The team announced it in a WeChat post on October 31 and published the code under the MIT license. ShiftDelete.Net reports that the repository passed 4,000 stars within a day and that Bloomberg framed the release as a challenge to Anthropic's Claude Code. DeepSeek calls Super-agent a research prototype for reference only, says it is 'not an official DeepSeek product,' and warns that it is not production-ready and differs from the version the team uses internally. When an approved team member asks for work, the agent opens a work item, handles it in its own session and working directory, and replies in the original conversation, for example with a pull request. A local web panel lists only the items that need a human decision. According to Help Net Security, the host software, not the model, enforces who may request work, so text in a message or document cannot expand the agent's permissions. By default, requests that are not explicit are recorded as ones the agent would have accepted but are not acted on. By default the agent also does not turn on auto-merge under its own account.