DeepSeek's agent watches your group chat and files fixes unasked

DeepSeek's Harness team unveiled Super-agent, an open-source prototype coding agent, in a WeChat post on October 31, positioning it directly against Anthropic's Claude Code weeks ahead of Anthropic's expected IPO roadshow.

Unlike agents that wait to be summoned, Super-agent monitors developers' group chats on its own, gathers views on coding problems, and proposes solutions first — aiming, in its manual's words, to minimise what people need to worry about and maximise the value gained.

The launch comes alongside a roughly $15 billion funding round for DeepSeek, as Chinese labs step up their challenge to US rivals in the developer-tools market; the tool itself remains a prototype, not a finished product.