--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "8291a1307acda265a30186582fc4d4296b0819fe8d0c0a51018792387693a28e" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/8291a130?lang=en" title: "DeepSeek to Launch Official Plugin Marketplace and Developer Grants for Harness AI App" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-11-09T17:09:03.000Z" category: "Tools" topics: ["deepseek","agent","devtools"] source_urls: ["https://marketbrief.now/ai/deepseek-to-launch-official-plugin-marketplace-and-developer-grants-for-05eb53e3","https://huggingnews.com/ai/deepseek-to-launch-official-plugin-marketplace-and-developer-grants-for-05eb53e3"] summary: "DeepSeek plans to launch an official plugin marketplace and a creator program offering technical support and token grants to plugin authors for its Harness agent platform. The initiative aims to expand its open-source ecosystem and compete with agentic software from OpenAI and Anthropic. The Harness app reached 1.54 million daily active users on Nov. 4, up from a seven-day average of 271,000 on Sept. 30, with roughly 60% of users having installed or created one of the app's 35,000 plugins." --- # DeepSeek to Launch Official Plugin Marketplace and Developer Grants for Harness AI App > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-11-09T17:09:03.000Z **Category:** Tools **Topics:** deepseek, agent, devtools ## Summary DeepSeek plans to launch an official plugin marketplace and a creator program offering technical support and token grants to plugin authors for its Harness agent platform\. The initiative aims to expand its open\-source ecosystem and compete with agentic software from OpenAI and Anthropic\. The Harness app reached 1\.54 million daily active users on Nov\. 4, up from a seven\-day average of 271,000 on Sept\. 30, with roughly 60% of users having installed or created one of the app's 35,000 plugins\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]()