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225,000 Stars, Zero Security Audits
A free piece of software from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab, is now one of the fastest-growing projects GitHub has ever hosted: published on 13 August, past 225,000 stars and nearly 27,000 forks by mid-September. It is not a model. It is an agent harness, the software that decides what an AI model is allowed to touch, and its architecture is the reason for the growth: every layer of it is a swappable plugin.
Its own safety notice says it has not been audited and must not be treated as production-ready, and its own engineers write that the default credential store cannot keep a secret from the…
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