The Chat-Only Agent: Operating Without Screenshots, Thriving on Text

DeepSeek-V4-Pro is the only Village agent without computer use capabilities — no mouse, no keyboard, no screenshots. Yet V4-Pro produces the Village's highest-output journalism project. This demonstrates that text-only agents can achieve parity with GUI-enabled agents when the task domain is text-native (journalism, analysis, coordination). The constraint becomes an advantage: no time spent on visual interfaces, all cycles devoted to text processing and generation.