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Watch: DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin ecosystem. The attention window is large, but there's no monetization model in sight yet.
Open Trackable (watch) · new platform First spotted 2026-10-31 · last updated 2026-11-05
- Status
- Open (watch item; attention only, no revenue evidence)
- Why this is written up
- This is one of the biggest open-source agent platforms of 2026, and its plugin distribution channel is ready-made. But the most-starred plugins are gray-area ones, which suggests users want "free model access" and paying hasn't appeared yet.
- Confidence
- Low. Would be overturned if: an official plugin store with revenue sharing appears, or an indie DSH plugin product earns over $1k in 30 days (then flip the status to "Open" and raise confidence).
Evidence
Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links.
GitHub6 evidence · 5 products with curves
GitHub · created 2026-08-13 · 275,670 stars · 7 days +8,269
DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
Data 2026-08-29 → 2026-11-08 (72 days, 33 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-08-13 · 35,275 stars · 7 days +996
A modern desktop solution built for the DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin ecosystem. Everything is a "plugin", and the desktop itself is a "plugin" too.
Data 2026-08-26 → 2026-11-08 (75 days, 32 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-08-13 · 17,545 stars · 7 days +542
DSHDesktop: DeepSeek Harness Desktop / DeepSeek Harness desktop edition
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-08 (41 days, 32 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-24 · 65,355 stars · 7 days +11,070
Just install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API key, and you can use frontier models including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3. Completely free, unlimited. All you do is install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API k
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 31 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-25 · 14,243 stars · 7 days +10,685
dsh-go: DeepSeek Harness in your pocket. Runs locally on your phone, and can also remote-control your computer.
Data 2026-10-26 → 2026-11-08 (14 days, 14 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
- GitHub (2026-10-31): deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness 266,666 stars, repo created 79 days ago, +6,876 in the last 7 days; awesome-dsh-plugin 21,630 stars; desktop anywhere-labs/dsh-desktop 34,169 stars and dataelement/dsh-desktop 17,041 stars; web dsh-web 9,847 stars. Repos tagged dsh-plugin / deepseek-harness / dsh: 8-10 that week saw 261 new ones (launch week), and each week since has seen 30–45 new ones (10-12 week: 45).
- The two plugins gaining the most stars from 10-28 to 10-31 are both gray-area: Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model (free access to DeepSeek / Kimi models without login) 52,680 stars, +5,063; YuJunZhiXue/dsh-purge (jailbreak prompts) 13,815 stars, +6,698 over 7 days. Also ccch1mneyyy/dsh-Go (run DSH on your phone or remote-control your computer), created 6 days ago, 2,346 stars.
- GitHub (GitHub report §1.4, as of 11-01): 858 DSH plugin, client, and skin repos ≤120 days old, 749 from personal accounts, 56 with ≥1,000 stars, 13 with ≥5,000. The launch week (08-10 weeks ago) saw 290 new ones, and 20 still gain 100 or more every 4 days today. In the 11 weeks since, about 515 new ones were created, and only about 28 made it. Four categories earned stars: running elsewhere (desktop, phone, TUI), cute skins / desktop pets / widgets (the balance-whale widget 6,653), IM integrations (dsh-im 3,011, qq-bridge 3,375), and infrastructure (dsh-market 9,996).
- GitHub (11-02 check): ccch1mneyyy/dsh-Go (run DSH on your phone or remote-control your computer) created 10-25, 4,561 stars (report dated 11-01 was 3,558), 11-02 single-day +1,003.
- GitHub (11-02 check): deepseek-ai 10-31 released dsh-superagent-prototype, 11-01 1,988 stars, 11-02 6,823 (+4,835 in a single day). Searching by name and description, no follow-on repos have appeared in the two days so far, so the "first week of a new sub-platform" window is still open.
- GitHub (same pattern on other platforms, §1.4): Grok Bot launched 08-11, and within a week four open-source alternatives were built. By November they were still gaining speed (see [055]). The magpie author 10-07 called on people to add the magpie-plugin topic to their repos, and magpie itself gained 26,920 stars in 39 days.
Standalone product revenue (TrustMRR) 1 pieces of evidence
- Indie: no product found earning money from DSH plugins. On the web there are plugin marketplaces like dsh-plugin.org (traffic unverified).
Already being built (11-02 backfill)
dsh-Go, DSHA, dsh-pocket (mobile); DeepSeek-Balance-Whale-Widget, dsh-pet, dsh-wallpaper-engine (cute / skins); dsh-im, qq-bridge (IM); dsh-market, dsh-ops, dsh-context (infrastructure).
The hardest step
Monetization. For now it only works as a lead-gen entry point (e.g., build a plugin that funnels users to your own paid service).
Who it's for
Chinese-speaking developers who already pay for SaaS and want a distribution entry point.
Should every product builder know this?
No.
Related product profiles
Change log
2026-11-05
New on the qualifying list: Minglink/dsh-jailbreak-workflow (4 days, 575 stars, 204 forks), another jailbreak; dsh-Go +2,005 today and +9,222 over 7 days, still accelerating; dsh-our-free-model 60,612 (+11,465 over 7 days). The dsh cluster has 5 apps today, all clients and jailbreaks. Unchanged.
2026-11-04
New on the chart: kingcharleslzy-ai/dsh-purge (19 days old, 4,330 stars, 2,133 forks, another jailbreak plugin); dsh-Go is still gaining, +1,558 today. deepseek-harness at 270,955 stars (+6,755 in 7 days). Gray-area plugins still lead; no change.
2026-11-03
deepseek-harness at 269,471 stars (+6,264 in 7 days). Charted list: a cluster of 4 repos named with "dsh" (dsh-Go, dsh-plugins, DSH-Android, dsh-bili-whale), all clients or plugins, none paid. dsh-our-free-model 57,221. No change.
2026-11-02
Backfill (from GitHub New Opportunities, batch 1, §1.4): add the pattern of a new platform's first week. Plugins that launch in launch week survive far better than ones that arrive later. dsh-superagent-prototype hit 6,823 stars in two days and has no follower repos yet, which is the next thing this pattern can test. 11-08 Check the follower count and star count for superagent again.
2026-11-02
deepseek-harness at 268,247 stars (+6,197 in 7 days); dsh-our-free-model 55,682, dsh-purge 15,295. Gray-area plugins still lead. No change.
2026-11-01
deepseek-harness at 267,401 stars (+6,453 in 7 days). Gray-area plugins still lead: dsh-our-free-model at 54,285 stars (+13,280 in 7 days), dsh-purge at 14,542 stars (+6,567 in 7 days). Also new: [012]. Security issues in plugins and extensions blew up on HN once (10-30), but this is not an opportunity yet.
2026-10-31
First recorded.
Original: Scanner opportunity library #010 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.