The DeepSeek Harness ecosystem by the numbers: 6,700+ plugins in days
dsh hit 145k stars in days — and the plugin topic is growing by ~175 repos/day. We indexed the whole ecosystem: top plugins, commit velocity, breaking changes. Data, not vibes.
Two days into its public release, DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is not just trending — it is compounding. Here is what the ecosystem actually looks like, by the numbers, from data AgentRunDB collected from the GitHub API.
The headline numbers
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Main repo stars | 145,800+ (github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness) |
| Forks | 14,900+ |
| Commits since launch | 12,400+ |
| Repositories tagged dsh-plugin | 6,700+ and climbing hourly |
| Top-100 plugins we track | 10 |
| Latest commits we track | 30 |
The plugin topic alone grew from 6,546 to 6,722 repositories between two of our crawls a few hours apart. That is roughly 175 new dsh plugins per day at the current pace.
What people are building
The top of the ecosystem by stars right now:
| Plugin | Stars | License | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| open-design | 88,324 | Apache-2.0 | 🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Clau |
| reactive-resume | 40,839 | MIT | A one-of-a-kind resume builder that keeps your privacy in mi |
| DeepSeek-Reasonix | 34,683 | MIT | DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineere |
| OpenViking | 28,897 | AGPL-3.0 | Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Me |
| colleague-skill | 23,146 | MIT | 将冰冷的离别化为温暖的 Skill，欢迎加入数字生命1.0！Transforming cold farewells in |
| voyager | 19,594 | GPL-3.0 | Enhancement suite for Gemini, AI Studio, Claude & ChatGPT — |
| archify | 13,855 | MIT | Agent skill for beautiful, verifiable architecture, workflow |
| EverOS | 12,082 | Apache-2.0 | One portable memory layer for every AI agent: local-first, M |
A design tool, a resume builder, an agent OS, a memory layer, a plugin desktop — the "Everything is a Plugin" architecture is being taken literally, and fast.
Update velocity (and breaking changes)
We currently track the latest 30 commits to the main repository, spanning 5 days — about 6 commits per day, with 0 flagged as breaking changes in that window.
The README is blunt about it: dsh is in developer preview and "THERE WILL BE COMPATIBILITY-BREAKING CHANGES." If you build on dsh today, you need a tracker — that is exactly why we built one:
- /deepseek-harness/updates — every commit, classified (breaking / feature / fix), refreshed hourly
- /plugins — the dsh-plugin directory, ranked by stars
- /deepseek-harness — quick start, official links and compatibility
Why this matters
Fast-moving ecosystems create a specific kind of search demand: "dsh plugin X broken after update", "deepseek harness breaking change", "dsh vs claude code". That demand has nowhere to land yet — the ecosystem is days old and the official docs are still forming.
AgentRunDB exists to answer one question — does it actually run? — with evidence instead of vibes. The dsh tracker is our first always-on data pipeline: crawl, classify, publish, repeat.
Methodology
All numbers come from the public GitHub API, collected on 2026-08-18 by our hourly crawler, and are published machine-readably at llms.txt. Counters move fast — the tracker pages are always more current than this article.