bytedance/deer-flow

What it does

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

Summary based on the GitHub description (opens in a new tab)

What the README covers

🦌 DeerFlow - 2.0
Official Website
Sister Projects
Coding Plan from ByteDance Volcengine
InfoQuest
Table of Contents
One-Line Agent Setup
Quick Start
Configuration
Running the Application
Advanced
From Deep Research to Super Agent Harness

Getting started

Excerpt from the README · Checked 15 Oct 2026

bash

DEER_FLOW_ENV_FILE=/srv/deer-flow/stage.env DEER_FLOW_CONFIG_PATH=/srv/deer-flow/stage.yaml make gateway

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Ranking trend

Global rank in each recorded snapshot. A lower number is a higher rank.

Global Rank · 2 Observed Snapshots · Lower Is Better · Gaps Indicate Missing Ranks

From #193 to #197 across 2 snapshots since 15 Oct 2026.

What people build with it

Planned, not done

Run long research tasks with sub-agents in DeerFlow

DeerFlow 2.0 is an open-source agent harness from ByteDance that plans a task, hands parts to sub-agents and works in a sandbox with memory, skills and search tools, using any OpenAI-compatible model.