@seclink: Black and gray markets have the keenest senses; plugin black market activities targeting DeepSeek harness have already begun, and they're already being hotly debated on V2EX. Just a few days since it went open-source, DeepSeek is indeed generating revenue for the security industry... Agent plugin security is clearly a new department and new business; big companies create a gadget, leading to promotions for a bunch of people...

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Black and gray markets have started illegal activities targeting DeepSeek's harness plugin, sparking heated discussions on communities like V2EX, highlighting the new challenges in AI agent plugin security.

Black and gray markets have the keenest senses; plugin black market activities targeting DeepSeek harness have already begun, and they're already being hotly debated on V2EX. Just a few days since it went open-source, DeepSeek is indeed generating revenue for the security industry... Agent plugin security is clearly a new department and new business; big companies create a gadget, leading to promotions for a bunch of people...
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Black market operators are always the quickest to sniff out opportunities—malicious plugins targeting DeepSeek harness have already emerged, sparking heated discussions on V2EX.

It’s only been a few days since open-source release, and sure enough, DeepSeek is already generating revenue for the security industry…

Agent plugin security—now that’s a whole new department and business line waiting to happen. Whenever a big tech company rolls out a new toy, it creates another wave of promotions…

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@seclink: Since it's already trending, the code is worth reading and understanding to absorb its strengths. Among them, the concepts of loose coupling and modularity are indeed worth learning from. deepseek-harness is worth learning from for its 'capability as seam' plugin-style loose coupling: http://ctx.tools/ctx.sandb…

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@BoxMrChen: The Deepseek Harness philosophy is awesome. They made everything into plugins — GUI, TUI — and oppose hardcoding workflows like plan, subagent, permissions, MCP into the core. To be honest, at first glance I felt they reinvented Pi Agent, even though it was built on Cordis...

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The author comments on Deepseek Harness's plugin-based philosophy, arguing that it turns everything (GUI/TUI, etc.) into plugins and opposes hardcoding workflows. They compare it with Pi Agent and Prime-Agent, propose the idea of building a self-evolving Agent in a REPL, and have already started implementing it with Codex.