DeepSeek Harness Plugins by Category: 2026 Map
A complete map of all 12 DeepSeek Harness (dsh) plugin categories, with plugin counts, representative picks, and links — 800+ plugins as of August 2026.
DeepSeek Harness (dsh) has no official plugin categories — the ones referenced throughout FindHarness come from the community-maintained awesome-dsh-plugin list, extended with one extra category (MCP & Connectors) for a genre that emerged after that taxonomy was set. As of August 2026, FindHarness's full catalog spans 12 categories and 800+ plugins. This is the map: every category, its size, and a handful of representative plugins to start with.
Methodology: curated vs. full catalog
Two different plugin counts show up across FindHarness, and it's worth knowing which one you're looking at. The curated set — used for FindHarness's homepage and its ranked "best of" posts like 10 Best DeepSeek Harness Plugins — is exactly the human-reviewed awesome-dsh-plugin collection (source=awesome). The full catalog, linked from every category page below, also includes plugins auto-discovered via npm keyword search and GitHub topic search, each verified against the dsh field in its package.json before being indexed (which filters out repos that merely mention dsh without shipping a real plugin). The full catalog is bigger and more current, but less filtered — a generic, multi-ecosystem tool that happens to carry a dsh-related tag can appear there even if it never went through human review. Star-ranked listicles on this blog deliberately stick to the curated set for that reason; this category map covers the full catalog's shape.
It's also worth remembering that none of this taxonomy is dsh's own. The official plugin mechanism doesn't define categories, tags, or a manifest field for genre — a plugin is just a module that exports apply(ctx), and the only thing dsh itself checks at install time is whether a package declares a dsh.bundle field in package.json. Every category name below, and the decision about which one a given plugin belongs to, is downstream of community curation, not anything dsh enforces or validates.
The 12 categories
| Category | Plugins | Representative picks |
|---|---|---|
| Tools & Capabilities | 222 | modlens, dsh-vision-toolkit, notes |
| UI Enhancements | 195 | dsh-web-ui-all, dsh-TUI, DSH-better-sidebar |
| Development & Runtime | 72 | oh-dsh, forkprobe, plugin-registry |
| Sessions & Messages | 71 | dsh-turn-rewind, dsh-chat-import, dsh-share |
| Models & Providers | 38 | dsh-codex-connect, deepseek-harness-wallet |
| Workflow & Automation | 34 | dsh-agent-teams, dsh_workflow |
| Skills | 32 | skills, dsh-reverse-skill, dsh-design-skills |
| MCP & Connectors | 32 | dsh-overleaf, task-passport, godot-bridge |
| Just for Fun | 31 | dsh-ads, whale-girl, dsh-gomoku |
| Memory | 30 | dsh-mnemon, distill, dsh-mneme |
| Notifications & Integrations | 30 | dsh-open-in-vscode, dsh-notification |
| Themes & Appearance | 14 | dsh-deep-whale, dsh-skin |
Tools & Capabilities — 222 plugins
The largest category by a wide margin, nearly a third of the full catalog. It's a catch-all for anything that extends what the agent can directly do: vision bridges for text-only models (modlens, dsh-vision-toolkit), note export (notes), browser control (dsh-browser), and search (modsearch). See Best DeepSeek Harness Tool Plugins for the ranked breakdown.
UI Enhancements — 195 plugins
The second-largest category, and the home of everything from full UI overhauls to terminal clients. dsh-web-ui-all is the single highest-starred plugin in the entire catalog; dsh-TUI and DSH-better-sidebar round out the top picks. See Best DeepSeek Harness UI Plugins and, for the terminal-specific subset, DeepSeek Harness TUI Plugins.
Development & Runtime — 72 plugins
Tooling for plugin developers and power users rather than agent capabilities: distribution bundles like oh-dsh, skill-comparison tools like forkprobe, and plugin health/security auditors. See Best DeepSeek Harness Plugins for Developers.
Sessions & Messages — 71 plugins
Everything about the conversation itself once it's happened: rewind (dsh-turn-rewind), cross-agent import (dsh-chat-import pulls in histories from 13 other coding agents), and sharing (dsh-share). See Best DeepSeek Harness Session and Message Plugins.
Models & Providers — 38 plugins
Sits on top of, not instead of, dsh's native Settings → Models configuration — OAuth import shortcuts (dsh-codex-connect), cost tracking (deepseek-harness-wallet), and fallback routing. See Best DeepSeek Harness Model and Provider Plugins.
Workflow & Automation — 34 plugins
Multi-agent orchestration and scheduled runs, building on dsh's official workflow engine and subagent system: dsh-agent-teams, dsh_workflow, and scheduled-run tooling like dsh-automation. See Best DeepSeek Harness Workflow and Automation Plugins.
Skills — 32 plugins
Skill packs layered on dsh's ctx.skills provider registry: skills (Creght platform), dsh-reverse-skill (85-file security research pack), and dsh-design-skills (10-style design system). See DeepSeek Harness Skills Explained for the mechanism plus the full ranked list.
MCP & Connectors — 32 plugins
The newest category on FindHarness, added because it emerged after the awesome-list's original taxonomy was set. Wraps specific MCP servers (dsh-overleaf for Overleaf, godot-bridge for Godot) and tools that extend the MCP layer itself (dsh-mcp-panel). See Best DeepSeek Harness MCP and Connector Plugins.
Just for Fun — 31 plugins
Desktop pets, games, and jokes — dsh-ads is the most-starred plugin in this category and one of the highest-starred in the catalog overall. See The Most Fun DeepSeek Harness Plugins.
Memory — 30 plugins
dsh has no built-in long-term memory feature — this whole category exists to fill that documented gap, either as full plugins (dsh-mnemon, dsh-mneme) or as MCP memory-server integrations. See Best DeepSeek Harness Memory Plugins.
Notifications & Integrations — 30 plugins
Desktop alerts, IM bridges (Feishu, Telegram, WeChat), and editor integration (dsh-open-in-vscode). See Best DeepSeek Harness Notification Plugins.
Themes & Appearance — 14 plugins
The smallest category, purely cosmetic: dsh-deep-whale leads by stars, with skin switchers and wallpaper layers filling out the rest. Often installed alongside dsh-web-ui-all's built-in skin center.
FAQ
Why 12 categories and not more or fewer?
Eleven come directly from the awesome-dsh-plugin README's own section headings — a community, human-maintained taxonomy, not an official dsh standard. FindHarness added a twelfth, MCP & Connectors, because enough MCP-specific plugins existed to warrant splitting them out from the categories they'd otherwise fall into (mostly Tools & Capabilities and Notifications & Integrations, where they would have been buried before).
Which category should I start browsing if I'm new?
UI Enhancements or Tools & Capabilities cover the broadest, most immediately useful ground. If you're specifically missing a feature dsh lacks out of the box — long-term memory is the most commonly requested one in the official Discussions — go straight to that category.
Does a bigger category mean better plugins?
No — category size mostly reflects how broad the category's definition is. Tools & Capabilities is huge because it's a catch-all; Themes & Appearance is small because "change how it looks" is a narrower design space than "give the agent a new capability."
Is the plugin count exact, or does it change?
It changes — this is a fast-growing, unofficial ecosystem with no central registry (see How to Find DeepSeek Harness Plugins for why). The counts here are a snapshot as of August 2026; check each category page directly for the current count.
Next steps
For a cross-category starter kit rather than a category-by-category tour, see The Essential DeepSeek Harness Setup. To understand how "curated" and "full catalog" differ in practice, start with 10 Best DeepSeek Harness Plugins. Or skip the reading and browse everything directly at /plugins.