Where to find DeepSeek Harness plugins (and which sources to trust)
There is no official registry. That has consequences worth understanding before you install anything.
If you search for DSH plugins you will find a dozen sites claiming to be the plugin market. Almost none of them host code. They are indexes over GitHub repositories, which means: the source of truth is always the GitHub repo, and every other site is a view of it. Judge the views by whether they link back.
The four kinds of source
- GitHub topics and search —
topic:deepseek-harness,topic:dsh-plugin, or the "dsh" keyword in a repo name. Free, unfiltered, and the only place where a brand-new plugin appears before anyone else knows about it. Downside: no quality signal, and plenty of repos that mention DSH without being plugins. - Awesome lists — human-curated Markdown files. Better signal per entry, but they go stale quietly: a list last updated eight months ago is a museum.
- Index sites (this one included) — automatically built from the GitHub API. Good for browsing and for star history, useless if the build is stale. Check the "last refreshed" date before trusting the numbers.
- "Markets" that also install — a few wrap
dsh plugin addbehind a button. Convenient, and the highest-risk option: you are trusting their package resolution as well as the plugin author.
What to check before installing anything
- Last push date. A plugin for a runtime that changes weekly, untouched for six months, is broken even if it has 2,000 stars.
- The README shows the actual install command. If a listing gives you a command its own repo does not contain, do not run it.
- It states which DSH version it targets. Most do not. That omission is the single best predictor of "installed but not loading".
- It has a licence. No licence means no legal right to use it, regardless of what the listing page implies.
- Read what it touches. A plugin runs with your permissions. See Is DSH safe?
Why the counts differ between sites
Every index that crawls GitHub will report a different total, because each decides differently what counts as a DSH plugin: does a desktop client count? a plugin market? an awesome list? a fork of the runtime? A site claiming 14,000 plugins is not lying — it is counting more loosely than one that says 700. Compare inclusion rules, not totals. This site indexes 714 repositories across 15 categories and excludes forks of the runtime itself.
Where this site fits
We index 714 repositories, 356 of which describe themselves in Chinese. Every entry links to its GitHub source in the first paragraph, no entry is paid for, and the data is rebuilt from the GitHub API — the refresh date is on the home page. If an entry is wrong, the repo is the authority, not us.