@ShenHuang: Testing the cultural confidence of the Chinese-speaking circle. An author of a DeepSeek TUI project posts a couple of Chinese sentences on X, visits China, and the project gets 30k stars. I have studied Chinese for decades and return to China countless times each year. I work on Harness in Google's AI mode. The DeepSeek TUI distilled from experience...

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The author released an open-source TUI coding agent tool called OpenSeek, which supports multi-provider routing and rich features, while expressing dissatisfaction with the cultural confidence of the Chinese-speaking circle.

Testing the cultural confidence of the Chinese-speaking circle. An author of a DeepSeek TUI project posts a couple of Chinese sentences on X, visits China, and the project gets 30k stars. I have studied Chinese for decades and return to China countless times each year. I work on Harness in Google's AI mode. The DeekSeek TUI - openseek distilled from experience only has 5 stars, and one of them is from myself and a friend. Why

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Testing the cultural confidence of the Chinese-speaking world

The author of a DeepSeek TUI project posted a few lines of Chinese on X, visited China. The project then got 30k stars.

I have been learning Chinese for decades, and I return to China countless times a year.

I work on Harness in Google’s AI mode. After distilling the experience, I made DeekSeek TUI - openseek, which only has 5 stars, and one of them is from myself and my friend.

Why

LichAmnesia/openseek

Source: https://github.com/LichAmnesia/openseek

OpenSeek - Broad Exploration

Chinese: README-zh.md Website: https://openseek.dev/

Open-source TUI coding agent — a TypeScript / Bun monorepo.

Lightweight terminal coding companion with multi-provider routing (OpenAI-compatible / Anthropic / Bedrock / Vertex / Azure), 50+ tools, 100+ slash commands, Plan / Agent / YOLO modes, MCP client, LSP feedback, and a headless HTTP/SSE runtime API.

Requirements

macOS or Linux (Windows: use WSL2)
Bun (https://bun.sh) ≥ 1.3 — required at runtime, not optional. The codebase uses Bun.spawn / Bun.serve / Bun.file; node alone cannot run it. Even if you install via npm i -g, the openseek command shells out to bun at startup and will fail with env: bun: No such file or directory if bun is not on your PATH.

Install

Step 1 — install bun (skip if already installed)

curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash   # any Unix
brew install oven-sh/bun/bun               # macOS (Homebrew)

Verify: bun --version should print ≥ 1.3.0.

Step 2 — install openseek

Pick one. All three put openseek on your PATH.

# A. npm
npm install -g openseek

# B. bun (same registry as A, smoother if you already use bun)
bun add -g openseek

# C. From source (recommended while iterating)
git clone https://github.com/LichAmnesia/openseek.git
cd openseek
bun install
bun run build
ln -sf "$PWD/bin/openseek" ~/.local/bin/openseek

Step 3 — run

openseek               # start the TUI
openseek doctor        # health check
openseek serve --http  # headless HTTP/SSE on :7117

Develop

bun install
bun run dev          # boots the CLI directly from TypeScript sources, no build needed

Verify

bun run lint        # biome
bun run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit
bun run test        # bun test
bun run verify      # all three

Repo layout

openseek/
├── packages/         14 workspace packages
│   ├── core/         shared leaf utilities
│   ├── provider/     25+ provider adapters (Vercel ai SDK)
│   ├── session/      main agent loop + compaction strategies
│   ├── tool/         built-in tool registry
│   ├── command/      slash-command registry
│   ├── tui/          @opentui/solid terminal renderer
│   ├── mcp/          MCP client (stdio / SSE / websocket)
│   ├── skill/        skill loader
│   ├── agent/        sub-agents + RLM fan-out
│   ├── memory/       SessionMemory
│   ├── plugin/       plugin protocol
│   ├── server/       HTTP / SSE runtime API
│   ├── lsp/          LSP client (tsserver, rust-analyzer, pyright, ...)
│   └── cli/          entrypoint
├── scripts/          init / build / lint / typecheck / test / verify
├── tests/            cross-package smoke / e2e / coverage gate
├── install/          curl-bash installer + Brewfile + Nix expression
├── bin/openseek      executable shim
└── package.json      bun workspaces root

License

See LICENSE.