DeepSeek Harness is an open-source framework for building and running AI agents, organized so that its functionality is provided through plugins. Developers use it to launch agent workflows through a local web interface or from source, while the catalogue add-ons extend the harness as plugins.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness --skill editing-cordis-compositionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harnessWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/editing-cordis-compositions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/editing-cordis-compositions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/editing-cordis-compositions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/editing-cordis-compositions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/editing-cordis-compositions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00069 | $0.03163 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.01581 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00633 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00316 |
Grade A, and why
editing-cordis-compositions scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- editing-cordis-compositions — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- editing-cordis-compositions — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- editing-cordis-compositions — 97% identical, 21 lines differ
- editing-cordis-compositions — 97% identical, 21 lines differ
- editing-cordis-compositions — 97% identical, 21 lines differ
- editing-cordis-compositions — 97% identical, 21 lines differ
- editing-cordis-compositions — 95% identical, 20 lines differ
- editing-cordis-compositions — 92% identical, 17 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Editing Cordis compositions
Every capability in this harness is a plugin row in a cordis.yml. There is no separate configuration language: changing what an agent can do means changing which rows are composed for it.
Off-limits
Never edit, delete, or overwrite a preset that ships with the deployment — the agent-presets directory beside the deployment's own config, which supplies standard, ptc, minimal, and cordis. Never escalate the sandbox to reach it, even when a change there looks quicker. An upgrade overwrites that install, and corrupting cordis disables preset authoring itself. Reading a shipped composition is the intended way to start; writing to one is not, and neither is editing the host composition to work around a preset limitation.
To change what a shipped preset does, copy it and edit the copy. Locally authored presets under the user root are yours to create, edit, and delete.
Decide the plane first
Two planes, and the choice is not about how "agent-related" something feels — it is about whether the thing must be shared.
Host composition. The registries themselves (tools, systemPrompt, agents, agent-loop, sessions), anything crossing sessions (persistence, session query, storage, settings, credentials, telemetry), the sandbox and approval stack, the model route, and the subagent registry with its spawn/fork backends. One instance for the process.
Agent preset. What one session contributes to those registries: its tool plugins, its persona and prompt sections, its compaction policy. One instance per session, mounted under that session's scope and unwound with it.
A service with a consumer outside the agent plane cannot move into a preset. subagents is the worked example: the registry answers cross-session queries for the host api-proxy, so a per-session copy both starves that host row — it waits forever for a service nothing provides — and collides on the second session, since a provider name registers once. The preset contributes the delegation tools; the registry and its backends stay host-side.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 11d ago First seen · 166 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 861b3b8b7983
editing-cordis-compositions is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness (218,563 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 3,163 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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