🚨 Game changed! DeepSeek just took down the walls of the plugin marketplace!!!

Last night, an overlooked update in DSH alpha.4: support for custom plugin index sources.

In plain terms: which plugins DSH can install is no longer determined solely by the official source — anyone can now open their own plugin store 🏪

Even more explosive is the speed: less than 2 hours after the official release, someone had migrated the entire Grok Bot marketplace — all 90 bots — into DeepSeek overnight 🤯

Cleaning up drafts to sound less AI, stress-testing startup ideas, reviewing pitch decks from an investor’s perspective, running site audits… AI employees that already exist elsewhere can now run on DeepSeek.

What does this mean?

✅ DeepSeek, with its cheap models, has started eating into other ecosystems ✅ Plugins are no longer locked in by the platform — the best implementation wins ✅ Going forward, we’ll only see more and more “XX marketplace ported into DSH”

I’m calling it: DSH’s “App Store moment” has arrived 🔥

⚠️ One calm note: these are community ports, unofficial, without licenses, and still an alpha release. Bots can execute commands and read/write files — don’t let them near your keys.

Portal below 👇

1️⃣ DSH alpha.4 release notes: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/releases/tag/dsh-v0.2.1-alpha.4 2️⃣ Repo of the 90 Grok Bot plugins: https://github.com/brokep/grok-bots-for-deepseek-harness 3️⃣ Plugin index URL (add it as a custom plugin source in DSH): https://brokep.github.io/grok-bots-for-deepseek-harness/index.json

How to install (tested myself) 👇

1️⃣ Upgrade DSH to alpha.4 2️⃣ Web version → Plugins → click “More” next to Experimental Plugins → enable “Custom Plugin Marketplace” 3️⃣ Go to “Discover” → “Add Index Source” → paste: https://brokep.github.io/grok-bots-for-deepseek-harness/index.json 4️⃣ Search for the bot you want → Install → Enable it right away

I tried Imogen — it works right out of the box. There are 90 bots in the list in total.

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

Source: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

DeepSeek Harness

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DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is an open-source agent harness developed by DeepSeek AI (https://deepseek.com). It is built on an everything-is-a-plugin architecture and powered by Cordis (https://github.com/cordiverse/cordis), whose design is described in A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25512).

Documentation: https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/

Developer preview

DeepSeek Harness is in developer preview and iterating rapidly. THERE WILL BE COMPATIBILITY-BREAKING CHANGES. Review the safety notice before running the project.

Run

Run from npm

Install Node.js, then run:

npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web

The command starts the Web UI at http://127.0.0.1:3080 by default and opens it in the default browser for a local launch. An SSH launch only prints the host URL because the SSH client or editor owns the local forwarded address. Pass --no-open to run the server without opening a browser.

See Web UI guide.

Run from source

To run from a repository checkout:

git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.git
cd deepseek-harness
pnpm install
pnpm run build
pnpm dsh web

pnpm run build prepares the repository artifacts. pnpm dsh web uses those built artifacts without rebuilding.

Community and support

• Submit feedback or bug reports through GitHub Discussions (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/discussions).
• Add the dsh-plugin (https://github.com/topics/dsh-plugin) topic to your plugin repository for discoverability.
• Join DeepSeek Harness Discord community.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Development

Start with the development guide and architecture documentation.

pnpm run dev:web builds, serves, and rebuilds client bundles on source edits in one terminal, and make help lists the matching Make targets for Web and Desktop; the guide’s application commands section owns the full table.

For agents, follow AGENTS.md.

Citation

@misc{deepseek-harness2026,
  title={DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin},
  author={DeepSeek-AI},
  year={2026},
  publisher={GitHub},
  howpublished={\url{https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness}},
}

License

MIT

Third-party dependencies and their licenses are disclosed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.