DeepSeek, approximately 35,000 third-party plugins… pushing to build an official market

DeepSeek said it will build an official plugin marketplace for its DeepSeek Harness AI agent tool and launch a creator support program, according to an announcement published on the 5th. The Harness team said it will improve the stability, compatibility and security of its plugin API while creating a central hub where developers can publish plugins and users can find and install them. The plan covers the full lifecycle from plugin creation to distribution and discovery, not just development. The creator program will include token support, technical exchange and promotion of contributors' work. The move matters because DeepSeek is formalizing an ecosystem around its agent tooling, and the next thing to watch is how quickly the marketplace launches and whether third-party developers migrate to it.