Methodology
Plugin ecosystems that are days old produce two failure modes: link farms full of dead repos, and "reviews" written by people who never ran the thing. This site exists to be the counter-example. Every entry carries exactly one of four statuses, and the status means what it says:
The four statuses
Tested — we ran it hands-on and published a field note with screenshots, commands or timings. The DeepSeek Harness onboarding walkthrough is the current example.
Install-tested — we installed it into a real DSH profile on our machine via the official CLI. The install log (including warnings) is public. Install-tested does not claim the plugin's features work — only that it installs and registers as described.
Install failed — we attempted an install on our machine and it failed. The error output is published verbatim. A failure is a real data point about the plugin and the ecosystem, not a reason to hide the entry.
Listed — curated from research, verified to exist as a public GitHub repo at listing time, but not yet touched by us. No hands-on claim is implied.
What we never do
- No invented first-person experience. If a sentence starts with "we", the log exists.
- No star-count worship. Stars are displayed because they're facts, not because they're quality signals — in a two-day-old ecosystem they measure timing, not merit.
- No silent dead links. When a listed repo disappears, we mark it rather than pretend it never existed. (We found 18 dead links in one popular auto-generated DSH catalog on 2026-08-14 — that discovery is part of why this site exists.)
Data freshness
Star counts, descriptions and push dates are pulled live from the GitHub API at build time — the refresh date is shown on the homepage. Our hands-on statuses are immutable facts with dates: a plugin marked Install failed on 2026-08-14 may work flawlessly next week, and we'll re-test and update rather than delete history.
Re-testing
Entries get re-tested when there's a reason to: a new release, a status-changing event, or a reader report. Updates are appended with dates, not silently rewritten.