DeepSeek - profClaw

DeepSeek offers some of the best price-to-performance ratios available. DeepSeek R1 is a state-of-the-art reasoning model competitive with o1. DeepSeek Coder excels at programming tasks.

Supported Models

Model	ID	Context	Tools	Notes
DeepSeek Chat	`deepseek-chat`	64K	Yes	General purpose
DeepSeek Coder	`deepseek-coder`	128K	Yes	Code-optimized
DeepSeek R1	`deepseek-reasoner`	64K	No	Chain-of-thought reasoning

Setup

Get an API key

Set the environment variable

export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-...

Verify

profclaw doctor --provider deepseek

Environment Variables

DEEPSEEK_API_KEY

string

required

Your DeepSeek API key.

Configuration Example

.env
settings.yml

DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-...

providers:
  deepseek:
    api_key: "${DEEPSEEK_API_KEY}"

Model Aliases

Alias	Model
`deepseek`	deepseek-chat
`deepseek-coder`	deepseek-coder
`deepseek-r1`	deepseek-reasoner
`deepseek-local`	deepseek-r1:7b (via Ollama)

Usage Examples

# General chat
profclaw chat --model deepseek "Explain microservices"

# Code generation
profclaw chat --model deepseek-coder "Write a Redis client in TypeScript"

# Reasoning
profclaw chat --model deepseek-r1 "Prove that sqrt(2) is irrational"

# Local (via Ollama)
profclaw chat --model deepseek-local "Quick local query"

Notes

API endpoint: https://api.deepseek.com/v1 (OpenAI-compatible)
Status: Beta
DeepSeek R1 uses extended chain-of-thought reasoning similar to OpenAI o1.
deepseek-reasoner (R1) does not support tool calling.
For local/offline use, run ollama pull deepseek-r1:7b and use the deepseek-local alias.

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