{
  "id": 1226776,
  "title": "Where DeepSeek Phone Harness goes next — and how you can shape it",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/where-deepseek-phone-harness-goes-next-and-how-you-can-shape-it",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-16T07:10:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/joey020907/where-deepseek-phone-harness-goes-next-and-how-you-can-shape-it-gmm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "DeepSeek Phone Harness is a tool that runs on a phone every day. It includes features such as chat, streaming typewriter, multi-turn sessions, tool cards, approval cards, model switching, image attachments, thinking disclosure, terminal, file browser, task history, and session management. The tool is currently a Progressive Web App (PWA), which means it is not a native app but covers most of the functionality. It runs on Node.js 22 and above without any npm dependencies. The roadmap ahead includes adding push notifications, offline shell, PTY terminal, multi-device support, and a native shell. The community can shape the tool by opening issues with their most-wanted features or submitting pull requests to the codebase, which is relatively small at around 4000 lines of plain Node.js code.",
  "summary": "Where DeepSeek Phone Harness goes next — and how you can shape it A roadmap, an honest status check, and a call for contributors. The most-requested feature ships first. Two weeks ago this was a sketch. Today DeepSeek Phone Harness runs on my phone every day. Here's where it's headed — and where you come in. Status check (honest) Working well: Chat + streaming typewriter, multi-turn sessions Tool…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Register",
        "title": "DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/deepseeks-innovative-harness-treats-everything-as-a-plug-in",
        "published": "2026-08-14T20:25:56.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}