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DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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I'm not exactly sure what the point of this is. Deepseek already has instructions to use its API with many CLI's including Claude Code directly: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

I thought the tool format wasnt exactly the same ? So plugging any IA into claude code requires a conversion of format

DeepSeek has a dedicated Anthropic-compatible endpoint [1].

[1] https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/anthropic_api

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

agreed. OpenCode is a strong base, and with a couple modifications it can become a very effective harness. my sideproject mouse.dev I’ve been combining parts from OpenCode, Claude Code, and Hermes to build a cloud agent architecture that works well from mobile.

> OpenCode is a strong base, and with a couple modifications it can become a very effective harness. I personally didn't find it to be competitve with Claude Code as a harness. Can I ask how you modified it to perform better?

I haven’t run formal evals but i improved the experience for my own needs and it feels noticeably better with these modifications.

-Claude-style subagents -an MCP layer for higher-level tools -Cursor-style control plane modes like Ask, Plan, Debug, and Build.

The MCP layer lets the harness use things like GitHub file/code read, PR creation, web search/fetch, structured user questions, plan-mode switching, user skills, and subagents.

So the improvement is mostly from better ui/ux orchestration and tool access. There's some things from hermes that are interesting as well.

Most of my focus has been on applying this stack to sandboxed cloud agents so you can properly code and work from mobile devices.

I can't definitively say that the stack is better or worse than Claude code, more just tuned for my use case I guess.

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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I'm not exactly sure what the point of this is. Deepseek already has instructions to use its API with many CLI's including Claude Code directly: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

From vibe coders for vibe coders

I don't always copy paste vibe coded project readme mds into Claude code and ask them to rewrite it but when I do... actually that's all I do now because my goal in life is to make wealthy overvalued companies wealthier.

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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If you're okay with sonnet level performance, this sounds like a straight upgrade. But I find that sonnet messes up too much, that it ends up not being worth cost optimizing down to using it or another sonnet-level model. Glad to have this as an option though

I don’t find this with sonnet at all. As long as I have a solid Claude.md and periodically review the output and enforce good code practices via basic CI gates I’ve rarely ever found myself having to switch to opus

You might be surprised then at how good cheaper models solve your problems

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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#!/bin/sh export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-secret export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=deepseek-v4-flash export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1 exec claude $@

This in essence is what allows one to use any model with CC -- including local.

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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How is glm 5.1? I have t tried it yet but have been meaning too

It's surprisingly good. Beats MiniMax 2.7 and Qwen 3.5 Plus in my testing (I haven't tested 3.6 plus though), quite handily. It's far better than Sonnet, and often equivalent to Opus for the web development and OCaml tasks I'm using it for. It definitely isn't Opus 4.7, but its far good enough to earn it's keep and is substantially cheaper.

I agree with this. And also: it uses more thinking time to reach this. So while you get a lot of tokens on their plan, the peak 3x token usage multiplier + the extra thinking means you run into the rate limit anyways.

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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post #57

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> DGX Spark-alike Probably wasn't clear enough if you don't know what that is already, apologies It's an Asus Ascent GX10, which is a little mini PC with 128GB of LPDDR5X as shared memory for an Nvidia GB10 "Blackwell" (kind of, it's a long story) GPU and a MediaTek ARM CPU

Ah yeah I saw that, I was just curious which particular mini-PC you were using. I was considering picking up one of the various AI Max 395 boxes before the RAMpocalypse but didn't take the plunge. Thanks for the response!

I heavily considered one of the AMD Strix Halo boxes, but part of the reason I wanted this was to learn CUDA :)

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's surprisingly good. Beats MiniMax 2.7 and Qwen 3.5 Plus in my testing (I haven't tested 3.6 plus though), quite handily. It's far better than Sonnet, and often equivalent to Opus for the web development and OCaml tasks I'm using it for. It definitely isn't Opus 4.7, but its far good enough to earn it's keep and is substantially cheaper.

I agree with this. And also: it uses more thinking time to reach this. So while you get a lot of tokens on their plan, the peak 3x token usage multiplier + the extra thinking means you run into the rate limit anyways.

True, though the $20 equivalent used for planning only I don’t hit those limits often, vs Claude where the Pro can literally hit limits with a single prompt haha

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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anthropic messed up big time harness works with any muh commodity LLM, meanwhile VCs were duped on the myth of FOOM AGI, probably not a cooincidence Anthropic is enmeshed with the scifi fan fic forum known as lesswrong. The world wants useful tools. The bay area bubble in contrast thrives on Mythos.

I think OAI and Anthropic will be ok for a year or two. But after that If they still continue to earn revenues from selling tokens to firms/software engineers they will be in serious trouble. The American firms are not demonstrating escape velocity and as long as china offers something somewhat comparable and offers it at a very low price to compensate for any difference in quality, they will not be generating enough…

I wouldnt put it past the US gov to ban foreign models. they tried to ban tiktok. what is being demosrrated here is silicon valley can not withstand a competitive market.

Re: DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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If you're looking for Claude Code alternatives, I would first suggest looking into pi.dev or opencode for your harness. And then for models, you can choose from OpenCode Go (IMO most cost effect at this moment), OpenRouter, or direct from DeepSeek. Better if you go the Kimi route IMO and just buy a subscription from kimi.com

> I would first suggest looking into pi.dev Looked into this one. Thought it was suspicious that it only had 7 open issues on github. Turns out they have a bot that auto-closes every single issue just because. I honestly have no words.

The idea is for it to he extremely minimal which strikes me as a very opinionated stance, and not opinions I agree with.
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