How did DeepSeek Harness v0.1 do on X?

DeepSeek posted the DeepSeek Harness v0.1 launch from @deepseek_ai on Aug 13, 2026. The post has 4,510,159 views, 20,026 likes, 2,436 reposts, 1,100 quotes and 845 replies, an engagement rate of 0.54%. It ranks #185 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

DeepSeek@deepseek_ai · 1.2M followersView on X
🧩 DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is now available in Developer Preview! 🔹 We’re opening it up to developers building agent harnesses worldwide and open-sourcing the codebase in MIT license. 🔹 Powered by the Cordis meta-framework, DeepSeek Harness is an agent harness built around one core idea: Everything is a plugin. Models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, loops, orchestration, and UI are ALL implemented as plugins, and can be mixed, matched, replaced, and extended. Try it now! https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness
Aug 13, 2026 · 4,510,159 views
  • 26xthe median launch175K median views
  • #185of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 3.7xits own following1,211,669 followers
Views
4.5M
Likes
20K
Reposts
2.4K
Quotes
1.1K
Replies
845
Bookmarks
7.8K

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 4.5M views would cost $451K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $113K.

The post reached about 3.7 views for every follower of @deepseek_ai.

What launched?

DeepSeek launched DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in Developer Preview, an MIT-licensed open-source agent harness where models, tools, skills, and sessions are all plugins.

How does it compare with other launches?

DeepSeek Harness v0.1 has more views than 94% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 26x the median launch's 175K views.

  • DeepSeek Harness v0.14.5M
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricDeepSeek Harness v0.1Median launch
Views4.5M175K
Engagement rate0.54%0.48%
Views per follower3.72.8
Quote posts1.1K27
Saves per 10K views17.314.2

Other DeepSeek launches we track: DeepSeek-R1 (12.6M views), DeepSeek-V4-Flash API (9.6M views), DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (8.4M views), DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview (3.2M views), DeepSeek-V4-Pro (3.1M views), DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (2.8M views). All 11 DeepSeek launches, or every developer tools launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
Developer tools launches595111.1K41x#23
Accounts over 1M followers2242.2M2.0x#79
Text-only launch posts279122.7K37x#11
Every launch2,839175K26x#185

What this launch shows

From an account with 1.2M followers, the post reached 3.7 times the account's following. Launches from accounts over 1M followers reach a median of 0.5 times their following, so this one went about 6.9 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 79 of 224 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 1,100 quote posts, 2.4 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "🧩 DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is now available in Developer Preview!". The post runs 75 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with no media: text-only launches have a median of 122.7K views, against 183.4K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 162.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

What is DeepSeek?
In its own words on X: "Unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism." DeepSeek posted the DeepSeek Harness v0.1 launch from @deepseek_ai on Aug 13, 2026.
How many views did DeepSeek Harness v0.1 get on X?
4,510,159 views. DeepSeek posted it from @deepseek_ai on Aug 13, 2026, and the post has 20,026 likes, 2,436 reposts, 1,100 quotes, 845 replies and 7,816 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was DeepSeek Harness v0.1 a big launch on X?
It ranks #185 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 94% of them and 26x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.54%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 4.5M views on X cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 4.5M views would cost $451K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $113K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/deepseek-harness-v0-1, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.