📡 Radar — 17 Aug 2026

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📡 17 Aug 2026

🛠️ AI Development

• Article

  Less Context, Better Agents: full chat history hurts long-horizon agents

  On a 50-task tool-using benchmark, full chat history scored worst (71%); pruning to recent tool calls plus a running summary hit 91.6% and cut tokens ~63%. Trimming context beats hoarding it.

  via @marfinxx ↗
• Repo

  DeepSeek open-sources Harness, an MIT Claude Code alternative

  The Harness team we flagged in early August shipped: a plugin-everything agent runtime (dsh) under MIT, past 27k stars in hours. Still a v0.1 preview that warns of breaking changes — worth a look.

  via @deepseek_ai ↗