Harness already consumes about 92 trillion tokens a day, so an official marketplace would give DeepSeek a channel to put plugins in front of its 1.54 million daily users.
DeepSeek’s Harness agent had about 1.54 million daily active users on November 4, and the company plans to open an official marketplace for the plugins that extend it. The Harness team posted the figures on the evening of November 5, according to IT Home, Sina, Jiemian and TechNode. Harness is DeepSeek’s open-source agent software; version 0.1 went live on August 13, and a desktop app followed on September 29.
The user count covers only people who reach Harness through DeepSeek’s official API, so it leaves out anyone using other routes. The team also reported about 92 trillion tokens consumed per day and about 35,000 third-party plugins since launch. About 60% of Harness’s active users have made or installed at least one third-party plugin, according to the DeepSeek team.
DeepSeek gave no launch date for the marketplace, and the rules for a planned program that supports plugin authors have not been published. IT Home reported that the program would offer token incentives, technical exchange and recommendations of authors’ work, with details to be set gradually from community feedback.
Harness grew nearly sixfold in five weeks on a plugin-first design
Sina’s report puts the daily user count on September 30, the day after the desktop app launched, at 271,000. The 1.54 million figure for November 4 is about 5.7 times that level, an increase of more than 1.26 million users in a little over a month.
The team describes the product as built on a principle it calls 一切皆插件, or everything is a plugin: models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxing, storage, loops, scheduling and the interface are all plugins that users can swap and recombine. DeepSeek’s own Harness page calls the project open source under the MIT license, with composable plugins.
The usage figures imply heavy per-user consumption. Dividing 92 trillion tokens by 1.54 million daily users gives roughly 60 million tokens per user per day, an EastFrontier calculation that assumes both figures describe the same group of users. The figure is a rough indicator of how heavy the typical agent workload is.
An open plugin system has produced compatibility problems that a marketplace is meant to fix
The openness that drives the plugin count also causes breakage. In a report republished by Tencent News, IT时代网 said Harness lead Cui Tianyi (崔添翼) answered developer complaints on November 7 by saying that plugin upgrades and version compatibility are still being improved and that an official marketplace is coming. The report says a plugin can crash the client or stop it from starting after an upgrade, and that the official source page has long warned of breaking updates. The client was at version 0.22.rc1 at the time.
Users can already add third-party marketplaces to search for and update plugins. The same report argues that only an official source can resolve compatibility problems systematically. The team’s published roadmap matches that diagnosis: better stability and compatibility in the plugin interface, stronger plugin security, and a marketplace that lets authors upload plugins more easily and lets users find them. IT Home adds that DeepSeek is inviting startups and enterprises to connect their products and services through plugins.
The security item deserves attention from companies considering Harness at work. A client in which nearly everything is a plugin gives third-party code broad reach, and DeepSeek has said only that it will strengthen protection, without describing a review process.
Harness follows DeepSeek’s push into agent software. EastFrontier reported on November 2 that the Harness team published a Super-agent design and released an MIT-licensed prototype, and it covered the original Harness release in August.
The marketplace’s rules will decide how DeepSeek shares value with plugin authors
Three details will show how far DeepSeek intends to go. The first is the author program and the rules for who qualifies for its token incentives. The second is the security process for listed plugins, given the crash reports. The third is timing: IT时代网 says the marketplace’s arrival would mean a major version update for Harness, but neither it nor DeepSeek has given a date.
The first sign to watch is the Harness version that adds the marketplace, together with the terms DeepSeek publishes for plugin authors.