The exact setup we ran: Oracle's free box, DeepSeek Harness and NVIDIA's free model — the patch file word for word, our 3-job test, and every catch

The companion to the reel. A Claude Code-style coding agent you run yourself, with no bill: Oracle's Always Free box (2 OCPU, 12 GB, never expires) for the machine, DeepSeek Harness (open source, MIT) for the agent, and NVIDIA's free API endpoint for the model. We set it up on September 24, 2026 and gave it three real, graded jobs — a bug fix (8/8 tests), a data pull (4/4 orders exact) and a report (every total exact). It passed all three in 80 seconds. PAGE 1 — the stack and the path in order. PAGE 2 — the box, Node 22 and the harness, and how to store your key. PAGE 3 — the patch file, verbatim, and how to run a job. PAGE 4 — our test, how we graded it, and why we did not use DeepSeek's own model on the free tier. PAGE 5 — six catches in each company's own words. PAGE 6 — the checklist. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Oracle, DeepSeek, NVIDIA or Anthropic; no Claude model is used.

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