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Tool plugins for DeepSeek Harness

Give the agent new things it can do.

Tool plugins add actions the agent can call on its own: reading and writing files, running commands, fetching web pages, querying a database, driving a browser. Each one widens what the agent can do without you copying results back and forth. Each one also widens what can go wrong, so this is the category to install with the most care.

5 plugins

How to choose

Read what the tool can reach before anything else: which directories, which network hosts, which credentials. A narrow tool that does one job is easier to trust than a broad one that can run anything. Check whether calls need your approval or run automatically, and keep in mind that every extra tool description takes up context and gives the model more ways to choose wrongly.

Terms used on this page

Tool call
A structured request from the model to run a named function with specific arguments.
Permission scope
The set of files, commands or network targets a tool is allowed to touch.
Sandbox
An isolated environment that limits what a tool can affect on the host machine.

Questions and answers

Is it safe to let the agent run shell commands or edit files?

It is as safe as the limits around it. Use approval prompts or a sandbox where the plugin offers them, work in a directory under version control, and avoid granting access to anything you could not afford to lose.

Does installing more tools make the agent more capable?

Up to a point. Past that, the model spends context reading tool descriptions and picks the wrong tool more often. Install what the current work needs and remove what you have stopped using.

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