{"slug": "deepclaude", "name": "DeepClaude", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 1, "score": 1.181, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-05-03", "latest": "2026-06-09", "why": "it's quite usefull to have a project like this which streamlines the setup necessary to use other \"brains\" in claude code \"body\"", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "it's quite usefull to have a project like this which streamlines the setup necessary to use other \"brains\" in claude code \"body\"", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/aattaran/deepclaude", "official_url": "https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["DeepClaude"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 775527952, "item_id": 48470497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470497", "by": "kreelman", "date": "2026-06-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Deepclaude (https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude) is a great way to get better at using Claude like tools for software development.", "excerpt": "TLDR :-) This comment is not entirely on point with your comment, it circles around and above it looking for lift though. If you're not doing work that requires your code to stay in home nation data centres, Claude for Deepseek, Deepclaude (https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude) is a great way to get better at using Claude like tools for software development. It even does a pretty good job of putting together cover ", "context": "", "use_case": "Cheaper coding with DeepSeek", "switched_from": "", "story": "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs"}, {"id": 768094144, "item_id": 48005884, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005884", "by": "tgautot", "date": "2026-05-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's quite usefull to have a project like this which streamlines the setup necessary to use other \"brains\" in claude code \"body\"", "excerpt": "Nice, it's quite usefull to have a project like this which streamlines the setup necessary to use other \"brains\" in claude code \"body\". I personally will give this a try, but Ijust find the message on pricing a bit disingenuous, the deepseek price of \"$0.87/M output tokens\" is a discount, and this setup anyways needs a calude.ai subscription offering claude code, which now is 100$/month min.", "context": "", "use_case": "running Claude Code with other models", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper"}, {"id": 768072752, "item_id": 48004547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004547", "by": "varenc", "date": "2026-05-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The more interesting part of deepclaude is the local proxy it runs to switch models mid-session and do combined cost tracking.", "excerpt": "The more interesting part of deepclaude is the local proxy it runs to switch models mid-session and do combined cost tracking. Though these features seem quite buried in the LLM-generated readme. Looking at the history, it appears they were added later, and the readme wasn't restructured to highlight this. Also, the author checked in their apparently effective social media advertising plan: https://github.com/aattara", "context": "", "use_case": "Claude Code agent with other models", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 768040944, "item_id": 48002559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002559", "by": "vitaflo", "date": "2026-05-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm not exactly sure what the point of this is.", "excerpt": "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/claude_code", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["cheaper coding with deepseek", "running claude code with other models", "claude code model-switching proxy", "claude code agent with other models"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136", "title": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465675", "title": "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 775527952, "item_id": 48470497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470497", "by": "kreelman", "date": "2026-06-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Deepclaude (https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude) is a great way to get better at using Claude like tools for software development.", "excerpt": "TLDR :-) This comment is not entirely on point with your comment, it circles around and above it looking for lift though. If you're not doing work that requires your code to stay in home nation data centres, Claude for Deepseek, Deepclaude (https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude) is a great way to get better at using Claude like tools for software development. It even does a pretty good job of putting together cover ", "context": "", "use_case": "Cheaper coding with DeepSeek", "switched_from": "", "story": "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs"}, {"id": 768094144, "item_id": 48005884, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005884", "by": "tgautot", "date": "2026-05-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's quite usefull to have a project like this which streamlines the setup necessary to use other \"brains\" in claude code \"body\"", "excerpt": "Nice, it's quite usefull to have a project like this which streamlines the setup necessary to use other \"brains\" in claude code \"body\". I personally will give this a try, but Ijust find the message on pricing a bit disingenuous, the deepseek price of \"$0.87/M output tokens\" is a discount, and this setup anyways needs a calude.ai subscription offering claude code, which now is 100$/month min.", "context": "", "use_case": "running Claude Code with other models", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper"}, {"id": 768073344, "item_id": 48004584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004584", "by": "varenc", "date": "2026-05-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It runs a proxy to switch models mid-session, and does combined cost tracking between Anthropic and other models you might be using.", "excerpt": "The readme absolutely buries the features that are actually non-trivial: It runs a proxy to switch models mid-session, and does combined cost tracking between Anthropic and other models you might be using. The LLM that wrote the readme never updated the general project description to highlight these features. Also the author checked in their advertising plan: https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude/commit/a90a399682de", "context": "", "use_case": "Claude Code model-switching proxy", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper"}, {"id": 768072752, "item_id": 48004547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004547", "by": "varenc", "date": "2026-05-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The more interesting part of deepclaude is the local proxy it runs to switch models mid-session and do combined cost tracking.", "excerpt": "The more interesting part of deepclaude is the local proxy it runs to switch models mid-session and do combined cost tracking. Though these features seem quite buried in the LLM-generated readme. Looking at the history, it appears they were added later, and the readme wasn't restructured to highlight this. Also, the author checked in their apparently effective social media advertising plan: https://github.com/aattara", "context": "", "use_case": "Claude Code agent with other models", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper"}, {"id": 768040944, "item_id": 48002559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002559", "by": "vitaflo", "date": "2026-05-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm not exactly sure what the point of this is.", "excerpt": "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/claude_code", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepClaude \u2013 Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper"}]}