deepseek-harness 0.2.0

Protocol-aware client for DeepSeek V4-Pro / V4-Flash. Survives the 16 documented quirks; ships the cache discount.

deepseek-harness

Protocol-aware Python client for DeepSeek V4-Pro / V4-Flash. Survives the 16 documented quirks; ships the 50× cache discount.

pip install deepseek-harness

from deepseek_harness import DeepSeekHarness

c = DeepSeekHarness(disable_thinking_by_default=True)
out = c.chat(
    model="deepseek-v4-pro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    max_tokens=4096,
)
print(out["message"]["content"])
print(f"cost: ${out['usage']['estimated_cost_usd']:.6f}  ·  cache hit: {out['usage']['cache_hit_rate']:.0%}")

The harness wraps openai.OpenAI and enforces 10 contract rules by default. See the main repository for the full spec, probe corpus, and three other distribution forms (dsh CLI, @deepseek-harness/mcp server, Anthropic SKILL.md).

License: MIT.