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  <title>Excession blog</title>
  <subtitle>AI security research and product notes from Excession Labs.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-11-05T12:22:34Z</updated>
  <author><name>Excession Labs</name><uri>https://excessionlabs.ai/</uri></author>
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    <title>DeepSeek in OpenCode: Excession provider setup</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/deepseek-opencode/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-04T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-11-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Configure DeepSeek in OpenCode with an Excession custom provider, an environment-based API key and a tested Chat Completions request.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>DeepSeek in Claude Code: Excession gateway setup</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/deepseek-claude-code/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-04T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-11-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Configure DeepSeek in Claude Code through the Excession Anthropic-compatible gateway, with a tested client configuration and its compatibility limits.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What are abliterated models?</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/what-are-abliterated-models/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-04T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-11-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>What abliterated models are, how they differ from uncensored fine-tunes, what can change in quality, and when to use a hosted API or model download.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Excession API vs OpenRouter: integration and funding</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/excession-vs-openrouter/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-02T23:07:33Z</published><updated>2026-11-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>A sourced comparison of SDK setup, separate model catalogs, routing, credit purchases and expiration.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>API authorization testing: a reproducible local workflow</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/api-authorization-testing/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-02T23:07:33Z</published><updated>2026-11-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Run a localhost-only authorization fixture, reproduce cross-account access and verify a server-side fix with recorded curl evidence.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>DeepSeek API latency: timings, errors and raw data</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/deepseek-api-latency-sample/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-02T16:41:11Z</published><updated>2026-11-05T12:22:34Z</updated>
    <summary>40 measured requests with first-token and visible-answer timings, errors, raw JSON/CSV and a script to repeat the test.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>DeepSeek API guide: pricing, Python, streaming and tool calls</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/deepseek-api-guide/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-02T16:39:08Z</published><updated>2026-11-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Choose a model, create a key and send your first request. A practical integration guide with model-specific prices, streaming, complete tool-call handling and error recovery.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The alleged Anthropic Numbat leak is likely fake</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/anthropic-numbat-leak-is-fake/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-01T20:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>The alleged Anthropic Numbat leak on Hugging Face is likely fake: parts of the model match randomly generated numbers exactly, so they were never trained. We tested it in 90 KB without running its code.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Simple pricing: pay as you go, or a plan with up to 150% more</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/simple-pricing/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Add funds from $0.50 that never expire while your account is open, or pick a plan that gives 50% to 150% more plan credit than you pay. Both use the same per-token prices, and a plan lowers your effective price per token.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Introducing Incursion</title>
    <id>https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-excession/</id>
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    <published>2026-11-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Incursion by Excession Labs is a terminal agent for authorized offensive security work. A planner splits the job, workers run in parallel, and each finding comes back with its evidence. This post tells what it does and how to start.</summary>
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