DeepSeek's demo prompts: practise one useful tool

Start with a tool you can check

Pick one repeated task you understand, then write down what a useful tool should let you do. Reading a document and keeping notes beside it is a manageable example. Decide how you would check the result before asking AI to build it.

DeepSeek has shared seven example requests for Creator Mode in DeepSeek Harness, showcased on November 2 and reported by TechNode on November 3. The collection gives learners something concrete to study: the written requests behind demonstrations of tools such as a paper reader, video editor and poster workspace.

Read the announcement: DeepSeek: Seven Creator Mode demonstration prompts.

These tools live inside Harness

Creator Mode builds plugins, additions to the tools or interface inside DeepSeek Harness. Harness is DeepSeek's open-source AI workspace. The new showcase and prompt collection concern this existing feature, rather than the first release of Creator Mode.

DeepSeek says some demonstrated plugins took several rounds of conversation to refine. Copying a request may produce a different result. Treat the examples as starting points for learning how to describe and review a tool.

Harness is available in public preview, with desktop downloads for Apple silicon Macs and 64-bit Windows, plus a web interface you can run locally. The setup guide requires a model connection, such as a DeepSeek API key, a private key that lets the app use your model account. Check that provider's charges before you begin.

Turn one example into your own brief

The paper-reader example asks for an uploaded document to retain its appearance, with options to highlight selected text, add a note or ask about it in the conversation. Those are requests for behaviour, not proof that every generated reader will preserve every document perfectly.

For practice, narrow the job. Ask for a reader for a short, invented document with one heading, a table and a picture. Write down what should stay in place and what should happen when you select a sentence. You can prepare this brief with a familiar AI tool before deciding whether to try Harness.

1. Describe who will use the reader and the single task they need to finish.
2. List the heading, table and picture the reader must preserve.
3. Decide how selecting text and adding a note should work, including what happens when nothing is selected.
4. If you try building it, compare the original document with the result and record each mismatch.
5. Change one part of the request, then repeat the same checks. Keep the results so you can see what improved.

Choose a suitable place to practise

The project's safety notice calls Harness experimental, unaudited software that must not be treated as secure or ready for production. It can run generated commands and access files, credentials and network connections made available to it.

If you try it, follow that notice: use a disposable test environment with limited access, keep backups and review proposed commands and plugins. A beginner can ask an experienced builder to prepare that environment. Use made-up documents rather than customer records or private work files.

Learn how to judge the result

Our perspective is that a good example request is valuable when you learn to adapt it. Knowing the task, describing an awkward case and checking the output are skills you can carry between building tools.

If you are learning alongside someone, bring your brief and the checklist to the session. They give you a clear way to discuss what works, what needs another attempt and whether the tool is useful enough to develop further.