Plugin market report

Insights and live numbers

Updated 2026-11-08 09:17 (UTC+7).

Biggest insight (8 November 2026)

Rank wins, not product count. The factory has $0 revenue. On 8 November at 07:30, 29 live VS Code listings had 102 installs (55 at 19:01 on 7 November). The 7 listings added at 22:57 brought 1 of the 47 new installs. Installs come almost entirely from ranking in the top 3 for a phrase people search for. DOCX Viewer brings 28 of the 102, from its rank on "word viewer" and "docx preview". More products will not change that. Rank in big-demand niches will.

Our standing rule: for every product we keep, the goal is to be the best one on its platform for its main phrase: the features users ask rivals for, a first screen that shows them, real screenshots, a name that has every word of the phrase, and ratings. Wave11 put this rule into the products that earn installs: DOCX, PPTX, NetCDF, Video, SQLite, Table, PDF and Tensor got their largest updates, each checked again in real VS Code by a second lane. A new product starts only when the re-measure shows we can reach the top 3 in a niche with real demand. The 07:36 releases are judged at about 15:00.

We rate wave11 (7 November 21:45 to 8 November 08:30) 57 out of 100. The products that earn installs got deep, red-teamed updates, the release window ran on time, and installs went from 55 to 102. Open VSX is verified. But revenue is $0, ratings are 0 on 29 listings, no money gate moved through our work, the 7 new listings brought 1 install, the effect of the releases is not measured yet, free disk fell to 6 GB at 23:15 and a network outage stopped 3 lanes for about 1.5 hours.

Live numbers

Product	Store	Status and price	Usage	What it means
Context Drift 0.2.3	VS Code Marketplace	Public, free	225 downloads	The only product with users we did not bring.
App Reviews	Apify Store	Public, $0.0001 per review	9 runs, 2 users	Users are our account and the Apify daily test. No paid run yet.
TubeText	Apify Store	Public, $0.0025 per video	6 runs, 2 users	Users are our account and the Apify daily test. No paid run yet.
Google Trends	Apify Store	Public, $0.001 per result	7 runs, 2 users	Users are our account and the Apify daily test. No paid run yet.
Ads Transparency	Apify Store	Public, $0.0012 per ad, $0.002 per detail	6 runs, 2 users	Users are our account and the Apify daily test. No paid run yet.
Screenshot/PDF	Apify Store	Public, $0.001 per capture	10 runs, 2 users	Users are our account and the Apify daily test. No paid run yet.

Focus plan, highest return only

1. Judge the 07:36 releases at about 15:00. Re-rank the 282 phrases and the 41 new-listing phrases 7 hours after the release. Keep the names that climbed. Do not release the same listing again before then.
2. Owner steps, in this order. The Atlassian Partner tabs and security contact, a new Forge token before 12 November, the publisher domain zovo.one (one DNS TXT record), the Apify ID check, a PayPal.me link, the Obsidian submission, a new Claude sign-in before 13 November, the Stripe Identity check on ECOHELP-182590 before 6 December, and a new Modrinth token.
3. Ratings on the listings that earn installs. Count ratings each day on DOCX, 3D, NetCDF, tensor, table, PPTX and PDF. Rating ask v2 goes to the other listings in their next release.
4. SVG viewer, then hex viewer (GO). The 07:30 re-measure said GO. Build and gate them, then publish after the new-extension cap frees at about 12:17.
5. DOCX Viewer for the web. Ship 0.3.1 with VS Code for the Web support at 14:36 or later, after a fresh real-app check. Only 4 of 36 DOCX rivals work on the web.
Not doing now. No new stores and no paid promotion. Each one adds cost before the first dollar arrives.

What we learned

Rank wins, not product count. On 8 November at 07:30, 29 live VS Code listings had 102 installs and the factory had $0 revenue (F, public gallery). The 7 listings added at 22:57 brought 1 install. The 22 older listings brought 46 overnight with no release. DOCX Viewer has 28 of the 102 installs from its top-3 rank on "word viewer" and "docx preview". Make each kept product the best on its platform for its main phrase before building new ones.
Wave11: installs grew 85 % overnight with no release. Installs went from 55 at 19:01 on 7 November to 102 at 07:30 on 8 November (F). No listing had a release in that time, because of the 7-hour rule. Top-3 phrases held at 103 of 282 (102 at 18:16). So the gain came from the ranks that the 7 November renames won, and from the US day. Batch-1 listings made 5.9 installs a day each, batch 2 made 1.7 and batch 3 made 2.6 (F, re-measure).
Wave11: more listings in small niches did not bring installs. The 7 extensions that went live at 22:57 (G-code, EPUB, ZIP, Font, HAR, Audio and the viewer pack) are top 3 on 4 of 41 phrases and have 1 install after 8 hours (F, RANK9). Their ranks did not change from 1 hour to 7 hours after release. A phrase ranks well when each of its words is in the display name, in any order: median rank 6 when all words are in the name, median rank 39 when one word is missing.
Wave11: the install-earning products got their biggest updates. DOCX Viewer 0.3.0 (equations, charts, a 47 MB report in about 1.5 s), PPTX 0.4.0 (a 197 MB deck in under 5 s, SmartArt, slide to PNG), NetCDF 0.4.0 (0.25-degree grids and a 472 MB file now plot, coastlines), Video 0.2.5 (sound without ffmpeg), Tensor 0.4.0 (.pt and .pth files with a safe reader), plus fixes in SQLite, Table and PDF. 9 names gained a missing search word, for example "PPT Viewer", "MKV" and "SQLite DB Viewer". B-REL published 29 of 29 staged updates to the VS Code Marketplace from 07:36 to 08:17, one per listing, with 0 failed runs. The gallery showed all 29 new versions at 08:18 (F). Open VSX had the same version for 21 of 29 at 08:18, and a follower script publishes the rest.
Wave11: a second check in real VS Code found 8 defects after all tests passed. Two red-team lanes ran 9 staged builds in real VS Code against the gallery builds, on more than 113 real files each. They found and fixed a PPTX zip bomb (webview memory 10 GB down to 146 MB), a tensor pickle loop, 9 unsafe pickle names, a text .pth regression, a SQLite view that never ended, a rating ask after an empty file, Windows-1252 CSV text, and 2 walkthroughs with text that failed the style check. 74 malicious pickle files ran 0 payloads.
Wave11: Open VSX opened, and the money gates did not. Eclipse closed issue 15379 as granted at 03:54, and the zovo namespace is verified with 29 extensions (F). Cursor, Windsurf and VSCodium users can now find them. Revenue is still $0. Atlassian added an owner step at 03:36: a Stripe Identity check on ECOHELP-182590 by 6 December. JetBrains (4 plugins), Apify, Modrinth and Obsidian did not change.
Wave11: ratings are still 0 on 29 listings. Crowded phrases (pdf viewer, sqlite viewer, excel viewer, claude code usage) belong to listings with 100,000 or more installs and many ratings. Rating ask v2 (3 good opens on 2 days, at most 2 asks, never after an error) is in the 8 updated builds. The #1 SQLite and Excel viewers get 1-star reviews about paywalls, so our listings lead with free, no ads and no account (COMP1).
Wave10: a name that starts with the search phrase is the fastest lever. From 15:00 to 18:16 on 7 November, top-3 phrases went from 70 to 109 of 290 tracked phrases (55 at 07:35). Top-10 phrases went from 139 to 176. 13 releases after 15:00 (12 of them name changes) gave 29 new top-3 phrases in 1 hour or less, with 1 loss. Example: the JSON viewer went from 0 to 5 top-3 phrases, and "json tree viewer" went from #37 to #3.
Wave10: installs followed the ranks. Installs went from 41 at 15:02 to 54 at 18:17 and 55 at 19:01 (F). That is 4.0 an hour, against 0.47 an hour from 10:45 to 15:02. 11 of the 13 new installs went to listings with a release that afternoon, for example the first 2 installs ever on the video player after "mov" reached the top 3. The time of day is a confounder, because the US morning starts then. The 8 November 07:30 re-measure is the test.
Wave10: wait 7 hours before you judge a change. Some changes reach search rank in minutes. Others take 4 to 7 hours. 11 new top-3 phrases came on 4 listings with no release after 13:21 local time, for example "claude code history" from #56 to #1 on the session viewer and "dxf viewer" from #6 to #1. The 15:00 conclusion that keyword-only changes do not move rank was wrong. Do not release the same listing again within 7 hours.
Wave10: crowded phrases do not move with a name. The SQLite viewer got "Database Viewer" in its name and went from #13 to #4 on "database viewer", but "sqlite viewer" stayed at #10 and "db file" fell from #3 to #5. The PPTX viewer got no new top-3 phrase. "pdf viewer" went from #19 to #12, not top 3. "claude code usage" stays at #79, because #1 has 77,519 installs. Here, installs and ratings decide, and we have 0 ratings on all 22 listings.
Wave10: 4 new products for 2 new stores, 0 public yet. Agents built and tested 3 JetBrains plugins (AI Usage Meter 35877, DOCX & PPTX Viewer 35878, NetCDF, HDF5 & NumPy Viewer 35879) and 1 Obsidian plugin (Office Viewer). All passed a test in the real app. All 4 JetBrains plugins, Context Drift included, are in moderation with 0 downloads (F, 19:01). Obsidian now takes new plugins only through community.obsidian.md, so the owner must sign in and submit. The install estimates (40 to 530 in 30 days each) are E until the stores show numbers.
Wave10: the real-app check still finds defects after every unit test passes. Fresh lanes ran the new builds from the exact zips. They found 1 High and 3 Medium defects in the Obsidian Office Viewer, 8 defects (2 Medium) in the 2 JetBrains viewers, and 2 broken README links in the PDF viewer. All were fixed. The JetBrains fixes wait until moderation ends.
Wave10: no money gate moved. Revenue is still $0. PayPal is still empty in funding.json. Apify waits for the owner ID check. Atlassian waits for the owner answers on the Partner tabs. Open VSX issue 15379 has had 0 comments since 10:47 on 7 November. 5 free Atlassian apps got the prosemirror-view 1.42.9 security pin and pass 4 of 5 smoke tests.
53 releases moved installs by 1 on the same day. Installs were 39 at 10:51 and 40 at 14:40, while 7 new extensions went live and 46 updates shipped (F, public gallery). The one new install is on DOCX Viewer. Rank moves first and installs follow later, so judge the releases on the 8 and 9 November re-measures, not today.
Search rank can move within hours of a release. The video player went from #22 to #8 on "video player" and from #4 to #1 on "mp4 viewer" within about 3 hours of its new version. The SQLite viewer went from #45 to #9 on "sqlite viewer". Some phrases need longer: claude code usage is still outside the top 100.
A clear name in a small niche ranks on day one. The 7 new extensions got names that start with the search phrase. On the first reading they are top 3 on 18 of 41 phrases, for example #1 on "tiff viewer", "obj viewer" and "mbox viewer". Graphviz and Avro are not, because older listings with many installs hold those phrases.
Small niches give top 3 on the first day. Big phrases do not. NetCDF Viewer is top 3 on all 4 of its phrases, and the table viewer reached #2 on "xlsx diff" and "excel compare" right after its release. The big phrases (csv viewer #12, excel viewer #15, claude code usage) belong to listings with thousands to millions of installs. A name alone does not pass them. Installs and ratings do.
A check on real data still finds bugs after every test passes. Fresh lanes ran every new version from the gallery on real data in real VS Code: the Claude Code, Codex and Gemini folders of this Mac, a 5.2 GB GGUF file and a 124 MB JSON file. They found 6 bugs that the unit tests and the release test missed, for example no weekly limit on Team plans and raw ffmpeg text on an empty video. All 6 were fixed and published the same hour. The last check found none.
Every product now points to the others. All 22 VS Code extensions, 9 Apify Actors and 43 site pages show GitHub Sponsors, the GitHub profile and 3 to 5 related Zovo products. Some lists still show the old names of 9 renamed extensions, and the links still work. The next rollout fixes the names. PayPal needs only a link from the owner. One command adds it everywhere.
Owner sign-ins are still the gate, and they move when agents prepare them. On 7 November an agent filled the Atlassian Partner Verification form from the company documents, and the owner sent it. Agents also sent the security questionnaire on all 10 paid tickets. JetBrains waited 70 minutes over 2 lanes for a sign-in. When the owner signed in, an agent uploaded Context Drift within the hour, and it is now in review. Open VSX has had no reply on issue 15379 since 10:47. The Apify company certificate is approved, and only the owner ID check is left.
Code review is not enough. Run the app. A browser test on 2026-11-06 found that 7 of 19 Atlassian apps crashed at start, although all 7 passed review with scores of 92 to 100. We fixed and redeployed them the same morning. Now no app can be marked ready without a runtime pass on its deployed version. 17 of 19 apps pass. Bulk Page Ops is fixed (version 1.1.1 reads labels through the v2 API, because Confluence removed the old one). Portal SLA and StatusBeacon need a Jira Service Management project to test.
Store search is where Apify users come from, and we are not in it. For 10 of our 11 main keywords, none of our Actors is in the top 100 Store results. The top 10 for "youtube transcript" have 15,238 users in 30 days. Free channels such as Discord and Reddit bring about 7 paying users in total.
The Atlassian apps hold most of the expected money. The base case is about $92,000 in 12 months for all 19 apps. The first 5 to list are AskSpace ($23,000), SignOff ($13,600), Markdown + Mermaid ($8,100), MathBlock ($7,900) and EpicTotals ($5,700). These are estimates from rival install rates, and the method is on the Money page.
VS Code is the only store with real pull. Context Drift has 225 downloads with no promotion (highest of 5 readings, because Marketplace servers return different counts). On 2026-11-06 we added 5 file-viewer extensions. They are Skill Shelf, Tensor Viewer, HDF5 NetCDF Explorer, DOCX Viewer and PPTX Slide Viewer. 8 extensions are now live. Each has a public repo and a landing page on this site.
The Apify numbers are almost all ours. Each Actor shows 2 users, which are our account and the Apify daily auto-test. All runs are our tests and fixes. Apify Store search takes days to rank new Actors, so a quiet first day is normal.
The 19 Atlassian apps are the largest stock of finished work. They are built, reviewed and deployed. They earn nothing until the owner adds partner payment and tax details and we submit paid Marketplace listings.
Owner steps are the bottleneck, not building. The sprints shipped 46 products. 4 owner steps block the money. They are the Open VSX Publisher Agreement, Apify business verification, the Atlassian Partner Agreement and verification, and Atlassian payment details. Free Atlassian listings do not need bank details.
Free on Atlassian is permanent. If an app moves from free to paid, existing installs lock until an admin subscribes. Apps that run in Jira and Confluence must keep licensing, so Issue Dates Calendar stays paid. 7 apps are now free builds, to collect installs and reviews first.
The VS Code Marketplace limits new extensions to 7 in 12 hours. Updates have no limit. The web upload form dropped uploads with no error, so for 5 hours no new extension went live. Trusted publishing through GitHub Actions fixed it on 2026-11-06. 7 new extensions went live in 15 minutes, and the next ones publish by script when a slot opens.
The upload path was the bottleneck, not the products. For 5 hours no new VS Code extension went live, because the web upload form dropped files with no error. A lane found trusted publishing through GitHub Actions. After that, 7 new extensions and 24 updates were published in 2 hours with 0 failures, and the account holds no token.
Installs come from search inside VS Code. DOCX Viewer got 11 installs from 4 web page views. The name decides the search rank, so lane A3 renamed 7 listings to start with the phrase people type, for example Claude Code History & Codex History Viewer.
A test in the real app finds what unit tests miss. Real VS Code runs found product bugs in DICOM, ZIP, Arrow and SMV builds, and a real Minecraft server run found that BucketBackup left out the main world data. All were fixed before release.
Modrinth is the one new store that needs no owner step. Agents made a token and submitted 2 mods. Async Locator 26 cut the longest server tick from 1,368 ms to 17 ms in a real server test.
Building is fast. Store limits set the pace. Agents build and test a new viewer in 25 to 40 minutes, including a test in a real VS Code window. The queue holds 8 finished extensions and 3 more are being built. At about 7 new extensions each 12 hours, the queue is full until 2026-11-08.
A test in real VS Code finds bugs that unit tests miss. The release test ran JSONL, SQLite and Agent Session viewers in a real VS Code window. It found and fixed 6 bugs. All unit tests had passed before.
Search rank comes from the display name. In Marketplace search, the exact search words in the display name decide the rank group. Inside a group, shorter names that start with the words win, then installs. Keywords only break ties. We renamed all 8 live extensions to match this, for example "CSV Viewer, Excel Viewer & Parquet Viewer".
Open VSX has real demand for the same viewers. On Open VSX (used by Cursor and Windsurf), one JSONL viewer has 24,478 downloads and one CSV extension has 361,835. We have 0 there. One script publishes all our extensions when the owner signs the Open VSX agreement.
Ratings help search, so each extension now asks one time. All 15 of our extensions now ask for a rating one time, after 5 good uses over at least 2 days. The prompt never shows in the first session, and the user can turn it off. The extensions send no telemetry.
The review loop worked. Each product went through independent reviews until it scored 92 to 100. Reviews caught an App Reviews run that could hang, a silent install failure in MathBlock, and a Secret Scanner setting that Atlassian does not allow.
First builds always failed their first review. The median first score was 56. One fix round added 15 to 45 points. A reviewer on a different seat finds what the builder misses.
Research prices were 3 to 4 times too high. We now price against the cheapest working rival, at $0.0001 per review, $0.001 per trends result and $0.0025 per transcript.
A real platform run is part of the gate now. All 4 first Actors failed the Apify empty-input auto-test, and no reviewer caught it. Every prefill field now needs a default.

Next steps

When or who	Step
2026-11-08 from 07:36	B-REL published 29 of 29 staged updates to the VS Code Marketplace from 07:36 to 08:17, one per listing, with 0 failed runs. The gallery showed all 29 new versions at 08:18 (F). Open VSX had the same version for 21 of 29 at 08:18, and a follower script publishes the rest.
2026-11-08 09:05 (automatic)	daily.sh collects the store numbers and rebuilds this site.
2026-11-08 about 12:17	The new-extension cap frees. SVG viewer first, then the hex viewer.
2026-11-08 14:36 or later	DOCX Viewer 0.3.1 web build, after a real-app check.
2026-11-08 about 15:00	Re-rank all phrases 7 hours after the release. Keep what climbed.
Owner, first	Atlassian: answer the owner rows on the Partner and Partner - Extended tabs, change the security contact on each ticket, then Submit for Review once.
Owner, before 2026-11-12	A new Atlassian API token for the Forge CLI. The current one expires on 12 November.
Owner	Verify the publisher domain zovo.one on the Marketplace publisher page (one DNS TXT record). Apify ID check (Veriff). PayPal.me link in funding.json. New Modrinth token with 8 scopes.
Owner	Obsidian: sign in on community.obsidian.md, link GitHub theluckystrike, and submit theluckystrike/obsidian-office-viewer (release 0.1.1).
Owner, before 2026-11-13	Run claude auth login. The agent sign-in ends between 13 and 16 November.
Owner, before 2026-12-06	Stripe Identity check for the Primary Partner Contact on ECOHELP-182590 (Atlassian payouts).
Up to 2 business days	JetBrains reviews 4 plugins (35875, 35877, 35878, 35879). After approval, agents upload the 0.1.1 fixes with the stored token.
Owner	Back up the Table Viewer Pro signing key. If it is lost, we cannot make license keys for this build.

Numbers come from the Apify API and the VS Code Marketplace API. 48 snapshots are kept in factory/sprint/stats.json.

8 November wave (wave11)

2026-11-07 21:45 to 2026-11-08 08:30 (UTC+7). F = fetched from a public API or a log, E = estimate. Lane files are in run-20261107/wave11/out/. Handoff is run-20261107/wave11/HANDOFF.md.

Rank wins, not product count. On 8 November at 07:30, 29 live VS Code listings had 102 installs (F). The 7 listings added at 22:57 brought 1 of the 47 new installs. The 22 older listings brought 46 overnight with no release, from the top-3 ranks that the 7 November renames won. DOCX Viewer alone has 28. Revenue is $0. So this wave made the products that earn installs better, and added no new product.

Short version. Installs went from 55 to 102 in 12.5 hours (F). Top-3 phrases held at 103 of 282, because the 7-hour rule stopped all releases overnight. 13 lanes built, red-teamed and staged 9 large updates (DOCX, PPTX, NetCDF, Video, SQLite, Table, PDF, Tensor, and a DOCX web build), plus support and cross-sell updates for 21 more listings. B-REL published 29 of 29 staged updates to the VS Code Marketplace from 07:36, one per listing, with 0 failed runs. The gallery showed the new version on 29 of 29 at 08:33. Open VSX has the same version for 29. Open VSX verified the zovo namespace at 03:54. Ratings are still 0 and revenue is still $0.

Numbers before and after (F)

Measure	7 Nov 19:01	8 Nov 07:30	Note
VS Code listings live	22	29	The last 7 went live at 00:39 (PUB2). No listing waits for a slot now.
VS Code installs	55	102	69 at 00:50. The gallery updates its counters in steps. 118 at the last read of this report.
DOCX Viewer installs	22	28	Then 3D model viewer 9, NetCDF 8, tensor 8, table 7, PPTX 7, PDF 6.
Top-3 phrases, same 282 phrases	102 (18:16)	103	No releases overnight. Top 3 on 56 of the 185 older phrases and 47 of the 97 phrases added on 7 November.
The 7 listings from 22:57	-	1 install	Top 3 on 4 of 41 phrases, top 10 on 18. Same at 1 hour and 7 hours (RANK8, RANK9).
Ratings	0	0	All 29 listings.
Open VSX	claim open	verified	Issue 15379 closed as granted at 03:54. 29 extensions in the namespace.
JetBrains	4 in review	4 in review	0.1.0 pending on all 4 at 07:15. 0 downloads.
Atlassian	15 waiting	15 waiting	New owner step: Stripe Identity on ECOHELP-182590 by 6 December.
Revenue	$0	$0	PayPal is still empty in funding.json.

Releases after the re-measure (lane B-REL)

Listing (name in the build)	Old	New	Run	Live in gallery	Open VSX	Checked by
DOCX Viewer, Word Viewer & DOCX Preview (Dark Mode)	0.2.5	0.3.0	published 07:36	yes	0.3.0	VER6-verdict.tsv
PPTX Viewer & PPT Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer & Slideshow (new name)	0.3.0	0.4.0	published 07:38	yes	0.4.0	VER6-verdict.tsv
NetCDF Viewer & HDF5 Viewer (NC Viewer, H5 Viewer) (new name)	0.3.0	0.4.0	published 07:39	yes	0.4.0	VER6-verdict.tsv
MP4, MOV & MKV Viewer, Video Player with Sound (new name)	0.2.2	0.2.5	published 07:41	yes	0.2.5	VER6-verdict.tsv
SQLite DB Viewer & SQLite Viewer, Database Viewer (Read-Only) (new name)	0.2.0	0.2.2	published 07:42	yes	0.2.2	VER7-verdict.tsv
XLSX Viewer, Excel Viewer, CSV Viewer & Parquet Viewer	0.3.1	0.3.3	published 07:44	yes	0.3.3	VER7-verdict.tsv
PDF Viewer & PDF Reader	0.2.6	0.2.8	published 07:45	yes	0.2.8	VER7-verdict.tsv
NPZ Viewer & NPY Viewer, PyTorch, GGUF & Safetensors (NumPy Viewer) (new name)	0.3.1	0.4.0	published 07:47	yes	0.4.0	RATE3-verdict.tsv
DXF Viewer & CAD Viewer for 2D Drawings	0.2.0	0.2.1	published 07:48	yes	0.2.1	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Claude Code Usage, Codex Usage & Gemini CLI Usage Meter	0.2.2	0.2.3	published 07:50	yes	0.2.3	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
AGENTS.md & CLAUDE.md Linter (Context Drift)	0.2.2	0.2.3	published 07:51	yes	0.2.3	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Claude Code History & Codex History Viewer	0.2.2	0.2.3	published 07:53	yes	0.2.3	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Pickle Viewer & PKL Viewer (No Python)	0.1.3	0.1.4	published 07:54	yes	0.1.4	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Graphviz Viewer & DOT Viewer (Live Preview)	0.1.3	0.1.4	published 07:55	yes	0.1.4	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
TIFF Viewer & TIF Viewer (16-bit, GeoTIFF)	0.1.3	0.1.4	published 07:57	yes	0.1.4	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Agent Skills & Claude Skills Manager (Skill Shelf)	0.3.2	0.3.3	published 07:58	yes	0.3.3	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
STL Viewer, OBJ Viewer, GLB & glTF Viewer	0.1.4	0.1.5	published 08:00	yes	0.1.5	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
DICOM Viewer, MRI Viewer & CT Viewer (NIfTI)	0.1.3	0.1.4	published 08:01	yes	0.1.4	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Large JSON Viewer, JSON Browser & JSON Tree	0.2.1	0.2.2	published 08:03	yes	0.2.2	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
JSONL Viewer, Large JSONL Table & NDJSON Viewer	0.2.2	0.2.3	published 08:04	yes	0.2.3	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Avro Viewer, Apache Arrow Viewer & Feather Viewer	0.1.4	0.1.5	published 08:06	yes	0.1.5	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
EML Viewer, Email Headers & MBOX Viewer	0.1.4	0.1.5	published 08:07	yes	0.1.5	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
EPUB Viewer, EPUB Reader & Ebook Reader	0.1.0	0.1.1	published 08:08	yes	0.1.1	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
HAR Viewer & HAR File Analyzer (HTTP Archive, Network Log) (new name)	0.1.0	0.1.1	published 08:10	yes	0.1.1	NM4-swap.tsv
GCode Viewer, CNC Viewer & 3D Print Preview	0.1.0	0.1.1	published 08:11	yes	0.1.1	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
Audio Player & WAV Player, Music & Wave Viewer (MP3, FLAC) (new name)	0.1.2	0.1.3	published 08:13	yes	0.1.3	NM4-swap.tsv
File Viewers Pack: PDF, Excel, CSV, Parquet, Word, PowerPoint	0.1.1	0.1.2	published 08:14	yes	0.1.2	B-MON-dist/RELEASE.md
ZIP Viewer & Archive Explorer (JAR, TAR, GZ) (new name)	0.1.0	0.1.1	published 08:16	yes	0.1.1	NM4-swap.tsv
Font Viewer, TTF Viewer, OTF & WOFF Viewer, Font Preview (new name)	0.1.0	0.1.1	published 08:17	yes	0.1.1	NM4-swap.tsv

Judge these releases at about 15:00, 7 hours after the release. Do not release the same listing again before then.

What the lanes did

DOCX2 built DOCX Viewer 0.3.0: equations, charts, figure numbers, a 47 MB report in about 1.5 s instead of 4.1 s, Page view up to 100 MB, password and RTF files with a .doc name. 156 of 156 tests, real VS Code gate on 17 real files.
PPTX4 built PPTX Viewer 0.4.0: the 3 VER5 findings fixed, a 197 MB deck in 4.4 to 4.8 s (0.3.0 froze), SmartArt, copy or save a slide as PNG, live reload, and a name with "PPT Viewer".
NC2 built NetCDF Viewer 0.4.0: the sampled read from the JetBrains port, so 0.25-degree grids and a 472 MB file plot, plus coastlines, Play, CDF-5 and HDF5 filter plugins. A garbage-value bug was fixed.
SQL2, VID3 and TENS2 built SQLite 0.2.2, Table 0.3.3, PDF 0.2.8, Video 0.2.5 (sound without ffmpeg, MKV in the name) and Tensor 0.4.0 (.pt, .pth and .ckpt files with a safe allow-list reader).
RATE1, RATE2 and RATE3 put rating ask v2 in the 8 builds: 3 good opens on 2 days, at most 2 asks, never after an error, and a setting to switch it off.
VER6 and VER7 red-teamed 9 builds in real VS Code against the gallery builds. They found and fixed 8 defects, for example a PPTX zip bomb and a tensor pickle loop. 74 malicious pickle files ran 0 payloads.
B-MON put the current names of all 29 listings in the cross-sell lists: 9 Apify READMEs and 35 GitHub READMEs are live, and 26 VS Code builds were staged. NM4 added missing name words to HAR, Audio, ZIP and Font.
WEB1 staged DOCX Viewer 0.3.1 for VS Code for the Web and github.dev. Only 4 of 36 DOCX rivals work there (F). It ships at 14:36 or later.
COMP1 found what rank 1 does that we do not, for 8 listings. RANK8 and RANK9 ranked the 7 new listings twice. PREREL checked all 29 release rows and wrote the release script. B-GATE checked 26 store gates 8 times.

Decisions

GO for the SVG viewer and the hex viewer (re-measure rule B: a renamed listing reached the top 3). They start when the new-extension cap frees at about 12:17.
One release per listing in the window. The owner lane build wins over the B-MON build, and the release file must have the same sha256 as the PASS row of the red-team lane.
A phrase ranks when each of its words is in the display name, in any order. 9 names gained a missing word in this release.
No new store and no paid promotion before the first dollar.

Problems

Free disk fell to 6 GB at 23:15. Orchestrator A paused PPTX4 and NC2 from 22:34 to 00:28. Disk was back at 47 GB by 00:35.
A network outage at about 23:00 stopped B-GATE, orchestrator B and the RANK8 start. They restarted from 00:28, about 1.5 hours late.
4 lanes staged builds for the same 5 listings (B-MON, SQL2, TENS2, RATE2). The tensor viewer had 4 different builds. 3 override notes were necessary to pick the right file.
B-GATE first wrote the owner email address into 2 data files. It redacted them at 05:05 and changed the script.

We rate wave11 57 out of 100. Good: the products that earn installs got deep updates, each checked again in real VS Code by a second lane, and the release window ran on time. Installs went from 55 to 102, and Open VSX is open. Bad: revenue is $0, ratings are 0 on 29 listings, no money gate moved through our work, the 7 new listings brought 1 install, the effect of the releases is not measured yet, the disk fell below the 10 GB stop line, and the overlap of 4 lanes on 5 listings cost time.

7 November sprint (wave9)

2026-11-07, 07:30 to 09:45 (UTC+7). F = fetched from a public API or log today, E = estimate. Lane files: run-20261107/wave9/out/.

Short version. Installs went from 28 to 37 in 2 hours (F). DOCX Viewer 0.2.3 is live with Page view, tracked changes, comments and old .doc files. 14 listings got new search text and a Rate link. No new extension went live, because the Marketplace cap of 7 new extensions in 12 hours stays full until 10:50. A script publishes the 14 queued ones from 10:53. Open VSX waits for one more owner step: the GitHub Username field in the Eclipse profile.

Intel delta from lane INT3 and a gallery read at 09.30

Measure	Before	Now	Note
VS Code installs, 15 listings	19 (11-06 16:30Z), 25 (19:25Z)	37 (11-07 02:30Z, F)	28 at 00:31Z, so +9 in the last 2 hours
DOCX Viewer	12 (I2)	17	Top 3 on "word viewer". 46% of all installs
HDF5, PPTX, GGUF/NumPy	3, 1, 1	5, 3, 3	Slow but moving
CSV/Excel, PDF, SQLite	0, 0, 0	1, 1, 1	First installs after the renames
DXF, Large JSON, JSONL, MP4	0	0	Second batch, 17 hours old
Ratings	0	0	All 15 listings
Apify, Modrinth, awesome-list PRs, sponsors	flat		Apify users are our own runs. Modrinth still in moderation. 4 PRs with no reply. 11 sponsors

INT3 found that a new listing without a top-3 phrase makes 0.8 to 1.6 installs a day (F). A top-3 slot on a phrase with demand makes 12 to 18 a day (F, DOCX). So today went into rank, ratings and Open VSX, not into new builds.

What shipped

DOCX Viewer 0.2.3 (DOCX1 spec, DOCX2 build, VER check). Page view with real page layout, tracked changes and comments, and legacy .doc files as text. 126 of 126 unit tests. A separate lane ran it in real VS Code on 25 real and broken files: no blank page, no toast, no remote request. Live since 09:27.
14 search updates (SEO1 plan, SEO2). New names: "CSV Viewer, Excel Viewer (XLSX) & Parquet Viewer" and "JSONL Viewer & NDJSON Viewer (JSONL Table)". 5 new descriptions, new keywords on 9 listings ("nc viewer" on HDF5), and a plain Rate link in every footer. All 14 checked live on the gallery (F). SEO1 estimates +60 to 300 installs in 30 days (E).
Queue fixed (QA2, FIX2). 14 new extensions tested in real VS Code: 12 passed. 2 had dead README images (a wrong repo link and a missing repo). FIX2 fixed both and the .nc clash between G-code and NetCDF.
Site numbers (MET1). The VS Code page reads the public gallery API when the signed-in hub is down. It shows all 15 listings with live versions. Page views show "not available today".
Tomorrow's re-measure (RM1). A launchd job runs at 07:30 on 2026-11-08. It checks 185 phrases and all installs, and writes a go or no-go for 2 new builds.
Outreach (AW2). No replies on the 4 open awesome-list PRs. Show HN and r/vscode posts are drafted for the owner.

What failed and why

13 new extensions failed overnight. At 04:12 the Marketplace refused them: "You have exceeded the maximum number of extensions that can be created in 12 hour(s)". The cap is 7. At 05:31 a network outage made 27 more publish attempts fail, and the old retry loop died. The new retry job reads the cap from the gallery dates and backs off on the cap message.
Open VSX is still at 0. The Eclipse email check went through at 07:54. Every Eclipse sign-in since then returns to Open VSX with "Your Eclipse profile is missing a GitHub username" (screenshot 08:48). The waiting script did not detect this message and used its 6 sign-in tries. It still checks the agreement every minute until 20:00 and publishes 17 extensions once it is signed.
One broken README image for 2 hours. DOCX 0.2.2 pointed at an image that a later commit deleted. 0.2.3 fixed it. 11 of 14 READMEs still load images from the newest commit, so this can happen again.

What the owner must do

Open VSX, before 20:00 today (5 minutes). Sign in at accounts.eclipse.org, edit the profile, type theluckystrike in "GitHub Username" and save. Then on open-vsx.org click "Log in with Eclipse" and sign the Publisher Agreement. The script does the rest.
Apify identity check at verify-company.apify.com (5 minutes). Our 9 Actors stay hidden from the Store search until then.
Decide on the rating notice. All extensions show a one-time "rate this" notice after 5 good uses. Keep it, or switch it off by default.
Optional: post the Show HN and r/vscode drafts in run-20261107/wave9/out/AW2-drafts/.

Next decisions

After 11:20 today: did 7 new extensions go live? (logs/PUB2-retry.out)
2026-11-08 07:30: go or no-go for an SVG viewer and a hex viewer, from remeasure/REPORT-20261108.md.
A small DOCX lane for the 5 findings, and fixed README image links.

Product	Store	Stage	Round	Score	Live
context-drift	VS Code + Open VSX	STOPPED	4	94	LIVE VS Code Marketplace 0.1.5 (review 94)
app-reviews-actor	Apify (LIVE)	READY	4	96	LIVE (review r4 = 96)
forge-markdown-mermaid	Atlassian Forge	READY	4	98	DEPLOYED prod 2.1.0 (review 98), installed on zovo-dev Confluence
google-trends-actor	Apify	STOPPED	5	94	LIVE Apify Store (free, $0.001/result after payouts)
forge-askspace	Atlassian Forge	READY	3	96	DEPLOYED prod (licensed) + dev build installed on zovo-dev Confluence
forge-filter-activity	Atlassian Forge	READY	2	98	DEPLOYED prod + installed (zovo-dev Jira), UI not yet verified live
tubetext-actor	Apify	READY	3	96	LIVE Apify Store (free, $0.0025/video after payouts)
ads-transparency-actor	Apify	READY	3	98	LIVE Apify Store (review 98)
forge-secret-scanner	Atlassian Forge	STOPPED	5	94	DEPLOYED prod (review 94, P2 only) + dev build installed on zovo-dev Confluence + Jira
geo-visibility-actor	Apify	STOPPED	4	92
google-news-actor	Apify	READY	2	98	LIVE Apify Store (published 2026-11-06 21:11)
forge-description-diff	Atlassian Forge	READY	3	98	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Jira
forge-github-gists	Atlassian Forge	READY	4	96	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Confluence
forge-jira-dates-calendar	Atlassian Forge	READY	3	100	DEPLOYED prod + dev, PAID (cross-product apps must keep licensing), redeployed 2026-11-06
forge-expression-validators	Atlassian Forge	READY	4	96	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Jira
tiktok-transcripts-actor	Apify	STOPPED	4	94	LIVE Apify Store (published 2026-11-06 21:12)
web-fetch-actor	Apify	READY	2	96	LIVE Apify Store (published 2026-11-06 21:10)
forge-bulk-page-ops	Atlassian Forge	READY	2	100	DEPLOYED 1.1.1, runtime PASS (SM2 2026-11-06), labels add/remove via v2 read + v1 write
forge-epic-totals	Atlassian Forge	READY	2	96	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Jira
forge-nudge	Atlassian Forge	READY	2	98	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Jira
forge-signoff	Atlassian Forge	READY	3	96	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Confluence
forge-dashboard-notes	Atlassian Forge	READY	4	96	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Jira
medium-substack-actor	Apify	READY	2	96	LIVE Apify Store (published 2026-11-06 21:13)
google-jobs-actor	Apify	STOPPED	4	94	PARKED, Google serves captcha to Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy (4/4 tries, 0 jobs) on 2026-11-05, not published
forge-watching-now	Atlassian Forge	READY	2	98	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Jira
forge-spacecal	Atlassian Forge	READY	2	98	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Confluence
forge-statusbeacon	Atlassian Forge	READY	3	98	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev (Jira/JSM)
forge-portal-sla	Atlassian Forge	READY	2	98	DEPLOYED prod 1.1.0 FREE build (2026-11-06), runtime test needs a JSM project
forge-mathblock	Atlassian Forge	STOPPED	4	94	DEPLOYED prod + dev on zovo-dev Confluence, open P1, SVG data-URI rendering in UI Kit not yet verified live (do not list until checked)
forge-codeblock-plus	Atlassian Forge	NEEDS_FIX	3	94	DEPLOYED prod + dev build installed on zovo-dev Confluence (review 94, P2 only)
screenshot-pdf-actor	Apify	STOPPED	4	88	LIVE Apify Store (review 88, P2 only)
table-viewer-vscode	VS Code Marketplace	READY	2		LIVE VS Code Marketplace 0.1.1 (free)
pdf-viewer-vscode	VS Code Marketplace	READY	2		LIVE VS Code Marketplace 0.1.2 (free)

Market	Status	Account	First product
VS Code Marketplace	READY	Publisher `zovo`, web upload works	Context Drift 0.1.0 built, 92 tests, in independent review. repo
Apify Store	READY	User `zovo-one`, API token saved	App Store + Google Play Reviews Actor, 152 reviews in the first run
Atlassian Forge	READY	Developer Space `Zovo`, Forge CLI logged in (token to 2026-11-12)	Markdown + Mermaid for Confluence, UI builds
Open VSX	OWNER STEP	Signed in as theluckystrike. Eclipse sign-up has an hCaptcha	Create Eclipse account + sign Publisher Agreement, then the same .vsix ships
Modrinth	OWNER STEP	Sign-up form filled (owner username); Cloudflare "Verify you are human" box	Next sprint, needs JDK 21 (about 300 MB)

Platform	Account	Built and live	Build next (in order)	Open-source base to use	OSS money route	How we earn
Apify Store	zovo-one (ready)	App Store + Google Play Reviews (96, live); TubeText YouTube transcripts (96, live); Website Screenshot & PDF (82, live)	1. Google Trends (94, round 5) 2. Google Ads Transparency (building) 3. Keyword Search Volume on DataForSEO (after written resale OK) 4. Domain SEO Metrics (same gate)	apify SDK + apify-cli (Apache-2.0), crawlee (Apache-2.0), google-play-scraper (MIT), dataforseo/PythonClient (MIT); youtube-transcript-api (MIT, logic reference only). Do not copy actor-templates/got-scraping code (no license detected).	Apify Open Source Fair Share pays a commission for OSS used by Actors. No live bounties found.	Pay-per-event, Apify keeps 20%. Needs owner payout info; prices start 14 days later.
Atlassian Forge	Developer Space Zovo (ready); dev site zovo-dev	Filter Activity Stream for Jira (98, prod); AskSpace Q&A for Confluence (96, prod, licensed); Markdown + Mermaid for Confluence (92, fix round 3, prod)	1. List all three as Paid via Atlassian ($0 for 1-10 users) 2. Secret & PII Scanner (building) 3. More Connect-orphan successors from I3 (174 Connect apps, 207,750 installs)	@forge/cli + @forge/react UI Kit, atlassian/forge-skills (Apache-2.0); marked, DOMPurify, mermaid (MIT/Apache) bundled, no egress.	Only Onyx #2281 ($250 Algora, 5+ competing PRs). Skip it.	Atlassian pays 100% of revenue to $1M lifetime. Needs owner partner payment + tax details.
VS Code Marketplace	publisher zovo (ready)	Context Drift 0.1.1 (84, live, free)	Agent Skills Manager is stopped (VS Code ships a native Skills UI). Next only as reach for paid stores.	generator-code, @vscode/test-cli, vsce (MIT); rulesync/ruler (MIT) if a sync front-end is built.	Contribute small drift rules to agnix (MIT/Apache, merges outside PRs). This gives credibility, not money.	No store payments. Free reach only, or license keys via Polar/Lemon Squeezy (unproven).
Open VSX	Eclipse account made; owner must confirm email (human check) and sign the Publisher Agreement	-	Publish Context Drift .vsix when the agreement is signed (Cursor/Windsurf users).	ovsx CLI (EPL-2.0, tool use only).	open-vsx/publish-extensions (22/30 PRs merged). Offer agnix there with maintainer consent.	Reach only.
JetBrains	not opened	-	Agent Skills Manager for JetBrains (Agents Deck proves agent buyers, 42,138 downloads). Hold it until the disk has 40 GB+ free.	intellij-platform-plugin-template + Gradle plugin 2.x + Plugin Verifier (Apache-2.0).	-	Native payments, JetBrains keeps 15%.
Modrinth	owner account (ready)	-	Async Locator 26.x or Better Beds 26.x continuation (MIT, 6.8M / 9.84M downloads, no 26.x port), as the last priority.	MultiLoader-Template (CC0), Fabric Loom (MIT), mc-publish (MIT). Avoid Architectury at runtime (LGPL).	-	Shared ad pool (~$31 per author per year average). Reach only.
monday.com / Chrome	not opened (deferred by decision)	-	On monday, Fair Approvals and Status Hours (decide 2026-11-19). On Chrome, OCR or a page monitor (no pick scores 50+).	mondaycom/welcome-apps (MIT); WXT (MIT); tesseract.js (Apache-2.0). Not ExtPay (AGPL).	-	monday 0% fee to $200k; Chrome needs own billing.

Independent grill (mattpocock/skills "grilling" method)

The grill ran on 2026-11-05 from 15:18 to 16:10. An agent that did not write the research re-fetched the facts, rated each pick 0-100 (demand 20%, gap 15%, money path 25%, build risk 10%, platform/legal 15%, time to first dollar 15%) and wrote 12 owner decisions. The owner said "always yes", so all 12 recommended answers are accepted and applied to the sprint. The full file is run-20261105/grill/out/GRILL.md. For the live sprint, see the factory dashboard.

Score	Pick	Store	Verdict	Why (re-fetched facts)
70	B2 App Store + Google Play Reviews (built, published free)	Apify	KEEP. Switch on PPE now at market price	Only unified 2-store Actor (confirmed) and Apify pays 80%. But leaders charge $0.0001/review, so the planned $0.0003 is 3x the market. Live since today, with 1 user and no pricing set.
67	I2#1 Keyword Search Volume API (DataForSEO data, unbuilt)	Apify	BUILD once DataForSEO resale is cleared in writing	Leaders have 954/884/469 users/30d. Data costs $0.06 per 1,000 keywords, so margin is above 95%. But $0.002/kw and $0.35-0.40 per 1,000 batch rivals already exist, and the ToS says nothing on resale.
65	B3 Markdown + Mermaid for Confluence (deployed, listing pending)	Atlassian Forge	KEEP. List as Paid via Atlassian	Render Markdown (3,845, Connect, 2021) confirmed, but it was FREE, and Atlassian's free Mermaid viewer shipped a release on 2026-11-04. Paying conversion is the open question. Runs on Atlassian + 100% share confirmed.
65	B5 AskSpace Q&A for Confluence (backend done)	Atlassian Forge	KEEP. Finish the UI and list it	Questions for Confluence has 3,538 installs at $2.50/user and is now rated 2.39 stars from 80 reviews (weaker than research said). EliteSoft is frozen on Connect. The risk is that Atlassian owns the incumbent.
65	I2#2 Domain SEO Metrics (DataForSEO, unbuilt)	Apify	BUILD after I2#1 (same gate)	Same vendor and codebase as I2#1. Not re-fetched in this pass (relies on I2 numbers). Must not use Ahrefs/Semrush trademarks.
62	B4 Google Trends Actor (building)	Apify	KEEP. Reliability is the wedge. Price at $0.001 Bronze parity	Leader 3,186 users/30d, 3.68 stars. 4,909 of 27,090 runs (18%) timed out and 6,424 were aborted. Leader Bronze price is $0.001, not $0.003. A 4.88-star rival exists at $0.001. Google's official Trends API is in alpha.
60	I3#2 Fair Approvals (unbuilt)	monday.com	HOLD. It needs a monday developer account. Build after the Forge apps ship	monday keeps 0% until $200k lifetime (confirmed). Incumbent numbers (AppFox 14,314, 2.6 stars) NOT re-fetched. New stack + security review.
53	B8 TubeText YouTube transcripts (just started)	Apify	CONTINUE WITH COST GATE. Stop if residential bytes/video > 150 KB	Biggest demand (leaders 5,678/3,833/2,768 users/30d). But it is a price war, with johnvc at $0.0025, scrape-creators at $0.001 and codepoetry at $0.0009. Cloud IPs are blocked. The watch page is 329 KB gzipped, about $0.0026 at $8/GB, against $0.0032 net at $0.004.
52	B7 Filter Activity Stream for Jira (just started)	Atlassian Forge	KEEP, LOW PRIORITY. Finish only after AskSpace	UGUBI has 319 installs on Connect, frozen 2025-08-29, at $4/mo for 10 users, rated 3.78 (research said 4.72). The native gadget has no JQL filter (old docs). Small market.
50	H1 Website Screenshot & PDF (built, unpublished)	Apify	PUBLISH AS-IS at <= $0.001, no more build time	The leader is FREE and reliable, and 136,191 of 141,423 runs (96.3%) succeeded. cheapapi charges $0.00083 with 258 users. Chrome compute eats a $0.002 price. Sunk cost, so ship it and watch it.
50	I1#1 Agent Skills Manager for JetBrains (unbuilt)	JetBrains	HOLD until disk >= 40 GB free	Native 85% payments and Agents Deck (42,138, freemium) proves agent buyers. But VS Code just shipped native Skills UI (JetBrains may follow), and the Gradle IDE download is several GB with disk at the 20 GB floor.
46	I4#2 PageWatch website change monitor (unbuilt)	Chrome Web Store	DEFER. No Chrome pick clears 50	No store payments (confirmed), so it needs Lemon Squeezy. Distill (400k, 3.9 stars) and Visualping (100k, 4.5 stars) are strong and NOT re-fetched. Takes about 16 h.
46	Modrinth continuations of Async Locator / Better Beds 26.x (unbuilt)	Modrinth	LOWEST PRIORITY, reach only	Gaps are confirmed. Async Locator has 0 26.x hits, and Better Beds' best 26.x alternative has 2,757. But the pool is $164,669 per 29 days across 71,965 authors, paid NET 60. It needs a JDK and a Gradle build at the disk floor.
35	B1 Context Drift (VS Code/Open VSX; fix round 1 running)	VS Code + Open VSX	TIME-BOX. Finish Fix1. If re-review < 95, park as free OSS	Gap is real for lockfile, version and Makefile drift (agnix v0.61.0 has no such rule), but agnix covers conflicting commands (XP-004) and broken links (REF-002). There is no money path, VS Code lint demand is tiny (agnix has 273 installs), and the independent review scored it 5/100.
24	B6 Agent Skills Manager for VS Code (writing core)	VS Code + Open VSX	STOP NOW. VS Code ships this natively	The VS Code docs show "Chat: Open Customizations" > Skills, with New Skill, Browse (Customization Marketplace) and /skills. It reads .claude/skills and .agents/skills. VS Code has no money path.

Round 1 decisions (accepted)

Q1 Stop B6 (VS Code Agent Skills Manager) now. Answer yes, option (a). Stop B6 now. Keep its tested pure modules in the folder for a later JetBrains port. Move the seat to the B5 AskSpace frontend. ACCEPTED
Q2 Time-box Context Drift (B1) to Fix round 1. Answer yes, option (a). One fix round, one re-review, then either publish free or park it. No third round. ACCEPTED
Q3 Switch on pay-per-event for App Reviews (B2) at market price today. Answer yes, option (a). Set it today, so the 14-day clock (if it applies) starts now. Enter the payout, KYC and tax details this week. ACCEPTED
Q4 Open a DataForSEO account and get resale cleared before the $50 top-up. Answer yes, option (a). Free signup plus a written question today. The $50 top-up waits for their written yes. The build can start on the sandbox now. ACCEPTED
Q5 Defer the monday.com developer account to 2026-11-19. Answer yes, option (a). Defer to 2026-11-19, then decide in round 2. ACCEPTED
Q6 Hold all JetBrains work until disk has >= 40 GB free. Answer yes, option (a). Hold. Re-ask in round 2 with the disk number. ACCEPTED
Q7 Do not open a Chrome Web Store account ($5) yet. Answer yes, option (a). No Chrome account now. ACCEPTED
Q8 Make Modrinth the last priority (finish the free signup only). Answer yes, option (a). Signup only, no build this sprint. ACCEPTED
Q9 List both Forge apps as 'Paid via Atlassian' from day 1, at $0 for 1-10 users. Answer yes, option (a). ACCEPTED
Q10 Keep B8 TubeText only behind a proxy-cost gate. Answer yes, option (a). ACCEPTED
Q11 Publish H1 Screenshot/PDF at $0.001 with no more build time. Answer yes, option (a). ACCEPTED
Q12 Put B7 Filter Activity Stream behind B5 AskSpace. Answer yes, option (a). ACCEPTED

Wave 2 (2026-11-05), what to build, why, how and with which framework

4 research agents (zovo-team2..5), 20 picks, all numbers fetched 2026-11-05. Each pick was self-grilled (3 weakest assumptions checked and marked CONFIRMED, REFUTED or UNVERIFIED). An independent grill pass (mattpocock/skills method) is running; its ratings and owner questions are added below when done. The full files are run-20261105/intel2/out/I1-I4.md.

#	Store	Product (what)	Why (fetched data)	How	Framework	Price	Hours	Self-grill	Status
I1-1	JetBrains Marketplace	Agent Skills Manager for JetBrains (SkillShelf) Browse/install/update/audit Agent Skills (SKILL.md) for Junie, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor from one tool window; wraps `npx skills`. Pro adds update diffs, offline pre-install audit, team packs fr…	skills npm 5,392,551/week; JB search 'skills.sh' = 2 plugins (626, 354 dl); VS Code leader Copilot MCP + Agent Skills Manager 112,069; Agents Deck $39/$49 latest version 26,975 dl; MCP Servers for AI Assistants $20/$30; Snyk 76 malicious of 3,984 skills. Fetch…	`gh repo create --template JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template`; product-descriptor PSKILLSHELF optional=true; SkillsCli.kt (GeneralCommandLine npx skills), SkillsToolWindow.kt, AuditScanner.kt,…	`JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template` Apache-2.0, 3768 stars	Freemium; Pro $29/yr personal, $69/yr commercial ($2.90/$6.90 mo), 30-day trial; net 85%	10	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	BLOCKED by JDK and disk
I1-2	JetBrains Marketplace	Excalidraw Studio for JetBrains Maintained JCEF Excalidraw editor for .excalidraw/.excalidraw.svg/.png. Pro adds git-synced libraries, export presets, Markdown embed, MCP tools so agents draw.	VS Code pomdtr.excalidraw-editor 574,920 installs; Open VSX 206,887; @excalidraw/excalidraw 1,311,415/week; JB Excalidraw Integration 48,403 total, 30,591 on last version (2024-11-12, stale); JB Excalidraw Editor 5,508 free active. Fetched 2026-11-05.	Template repo; webview/ Vite+React bundle -> resources; ExcalidrawEditorProvider.kt (JBCefBrowser, depends com.intellij.modules.jcef), JsBridge.kt (JBCefJSQuery), McpTools.kt; JSON round-trip tests, J…	`JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template` Apache-2.0, 3768 stars	Freemium; Pro $19/yr personal, $49/yr commercial	10	CONFIRMED REFUTED UNVERIFIED	BLOCKED by JDK and disk
I1-3	JetBrains Marketplace	D2 Studio for JetBrains D2 diagrams-as-code with TextMate highlighting, live JCEF preview via @terrastruct/d2 wasm and error annotations. Pro adds export, themes/sketch/ELK, Markdown fences, MCP render/validate tools.	The only JB D2 plugin (20630) is dead, with until-build 223.*, last 2024-01-08, 3,545 dl; 'terrastruct' 0 hits; VS Code terrastruct.d2 81,736 frozen v0.8.8 2023-09-22; @terrastruct/d2 107,745/week; d2 25,793 stars; issue #747 13 reactions; anchor Mermaid Studio $49/$149 (…	Template repo; D2FileType, D2TextMateBundleProvider (grammar from d2-vscode BSD-3), D2PreviewEditor (TextEditorWithPreview+JCEF), D2Annotator, D2MarkdownFenceProvider; 20 golden .d2 tests; verifyPlugi…	`JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template` Apache-2.0, 3768 stars	Freemium; Pro $25/yr personal, $59/yr commercial	10	CONFIRMED REFUTED UNVERIFIED	BLOCKED by JDK and disk
I1-4	VS Code Marketplace + Open VSX	Agent Skills Manager for VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf Port of #1, with a TreeView of skills per agent dir, search/install webview, skills programmatic API; Pro (audit, team packs, update diffs) via Polar license key.	Open VSX AutomataLabs copilot-mcp stale v0.0.83 2025-09-23 (8,628); OV skills.sh managers 8,342/4,982/2,116/1,546; VS Code tail 1,600/977/513/325 under 112,069 leader. Fetched 2026-11-05.	`npx --yes --package yo --package generator-code -- yo code skillshelf --extensionType=ts --bundler=esbuild`; shared @zovo/skill-audit TS package; @vscode/test-cli tests; `vsce publish --oidc` + ovsx publ…	`microsoft/vscode-generator-code` MIT (npm; GitHub NOASSERTION), 1641 stars	Free; Pro $19/yr via Polar license keys (5% + 50c Starter, MoR)	6	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	BUILDING (B6)
I1-5	VS Code Marketplace + Open VSX	D2 Live Maintained D2 extension with live preview (same renderer as #3), export, themes, d2 fences in Markdown preview; optional $9 Polar export pack.	Official terrastruct.d2 81,736 installs frozen v0.8.8 2023-09-22, rating 3.4/5; Open VSX copy 7,382 frozen 2023-04-25; OV alternatives 1,119/988/652.	`yo code d2-live --extensionType=ts`; webview panel + @terrastruct/d2; d2-vscode grammar (BSD-3 credit); markdown.markdownItPlugins; @vscode/test-cli; publish as #4. Kill on day 30 if under 300 installs.	`microsoft/vscode-extension-samples` MIT, 10202 stars	Free (+ optional $9 one-time Polar export pack)	4	CONFIRMED REFUTED UNVERIFIED	READY to build
I2-1	Apify Store (+Apify MCP)	Keyword Search Volume API (licensed DataForSEO data) Bulk Google Ads keyword volume, 12-mo trend, CPC, competition for up to 10k keywords per run, for SEO freelancers, agencies and agents. The MVP uses DataForSEO search_volume tasks of 1,000 kw, 24h cache, PPE p…	Niche 112 Actors / 4,128 u30 / 9 with >=100 (Store search 2026-11-05). Leader aitorsm/keyword-volume 954 u30, 0 reviews, BRONZE $0.01067/kw; memo23 884 u30 5.4% failed runs; steadyfetch 469 u30 created 2026-08-27. Data cost $0.06/task (<=1,000 kw) standard, $0…	apify create keyword-volume-api -t python-start; src/main.py + cache.py; secrets via apify secrets add; pytest with recorded fixtures + sandbox.dataforseo.com; apify push; set PPE in Console; README w…	`dataforseo/PythonClient` MIT, 51 stars	PPE keyword-result $0.004 (FREE tier $0.006); optional batch $0.20/1k for >=1k lists	5	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	Needs a $50 DataForSEO top-up from the owner
I2-2	Apify Store (+Apify MCP)	Domain SEO Metrics (licensed rank/backlinks/referring domains/traffic) Bulk domain metrics for up to 10k domains without scraping Ahrefs/Semrush, for link builders, lead scoring and agents. The MVP uses DataForSEO backlinks bulk_* endpoints (1,000 targets/request) in same repo …	168 Actors / 2,840 u30 / 6 with >=100. Leaders pro100chok/semrush-scraper 470 u30 3.00/6 ($0.015), pro100chok/ahrefs-seo-tools 306 u30 3.55/5, radeance/ahrefs-scraper 248 u30 3.02/11; churn u90->u30 1,193->470 and 1,035->306. Data costs $0.024/request + $0.000036/r…	apify create domain-seo-metrics -t python-start in #1 monorepo; shared common/dfs.py; fixtures per endpoint; no trademarks in title; apify push. Kill on day 30 if under 30 u30.	`dataforseo/PythonClient` MIT, 51 stars	PPE domain-result $0.004	4	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	Needs a $50 DataForSEO top-up from the owner
I2-3	Apify Store (+Apify MCP, scheduled runs)	AI Search Visibility (GEO) tracker Brand x prompt x engine (ChatGPT/OpenAI web search, Perplexity, Gemini grounding, optional ChatGPT-UI via apify/chatgpt-search-scraper) gives mention, position, competitors, cited URLs and share of voice; buy…	apify/chatgpt-search-scraper 350 u30, 3.72/10, BRONZE $0.005/result; perplexity 318, gemini 159, ai-mode 147; santhej/ai-rank-tracker-pro 62 u30 at $0.05/platform-check. Engine costs are OpenAI web search $10/1k calls; Perplexity Search API $5/1k; Gemini groundin…	apify create ai-search-visibility -t python-start; src/engines/*.py, extract.py, report.py; golden-file extraction tests; budget guard with maxTotalChargeUsd. Kill on day 30 if under 15 u30 or margin under 50%.	`apify/apify-sdk-python` Apache-2.0, 180 stars	PPE engine-check $0.03; byo-key-check $0.005	7	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	READY to build
I2-4	Apify Store (+Apify MCP)	Google Ads Transparency Center scraper All creatives per advertiser/domain with format, first/last shown, regions, media URL, landing domain. HTTP-only RPC calls, no browser. For PPC agencies and ad-intel SaaS	102 Actors / 2,835 u30 / 4 with >=100. Leader scrapesage 1,528 u30, 1 review, $0.002/ad + $0.003 detail; #2 solidcode 665 u30 1.93/4, last build 2026-09-06. SerpApi anchor $75/5,000 searches = $0.015.	apify create ads-transparency -t python-crawlee-beautifulsoup (HttpCrawler/impit); reverse RPC by hand (do not copy unlicensed repo); recorded fixtures; nightly health-check schedule. Kill on day 30 if under 40…	`apify/crawlee-python` Apache-2.0, 9649 stars	PPE ad $0.0012, ad-detail $0.002	9	CONFIRMED REFUTED UNVERIFIED	READY to build
I2-5	Apify Store (+Apify MCP)	ATS Jobs by company list (Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby/Workable/SmartRecruiters/Recruitee) with new/closed diff Company domains -> auto-detect ATS -> all open jobs in one schema + status new/open/closed vs last run. For recruiters, job boards, sales hiring-signal teams and agents	Leader fantastic-jobs/career-site-job-listing-api 1,645 u30, 4.08/13, BRONZE $0.012/job (GOLD $0.004); per-ATS/multi-ATS rivals ~700 u30 combined at $0.002-0.004. Greenhouse airbnb 200/207 jobs, Ashby 72 jobs, Lever >3 MB JSON, no auth (curl 2026-11-05 08:13 U…	apify create ats-jobs -t python-start; src/detect.py, src/ats/*.py, normalize.py, diff.py; no proxy; per-ATS fixtures + 20-domain detection table. Kill on day 30 if under 25 u30.	`apify/apify-sdk-python` Apache-2.0, 180 stars	PPE job $0.0015, company-resolved $0.002	8	CONFIRMED REFUTED	READY to build
I3-1	Atlassian Forge (Confluence)	AskSpace, Q&A for Confluence Stack Overflow-style Q&A inside Confluence (ask/answer/vote/accept/tag/search, page byline 'ask about this page', list macro), for Confluence admins at 50-500 user orgs. The MVP is a UI Kit global page + m…	Questions for Confluence (Atlassian) 3,538 installs, 3.02/78, $2.50/user/mo (100 users $2,500/yr), 1 reviews 2026-02-25, 2026-03-18; EliteSoft Q&A 645 installs Connect frozen since 2024-12-10 ($0.40/user/mo); biggest Forge rival Smart Q&A 259 (from rest/…	forge create (Confluence global page, UI Kit); modules confluence:globalPage, macro, confluence:contentBylineItem, optional rovo:action; Forge SQL tables question/answer/vote/tag; jest resolver tests;…	`@forge/react + @forge/cli (npm) / atlassian/forge-skills` Atlassian Developer Terms (SDK, not OSS); forge-skills Apache-2.0, 28 stars	free <=10 users, then $0.75/user/mo (paid via Atlassian, 100% share to $1M)	10	CONFIRMED	BUILDING (B5)
I3-2	monday.com	Fair Approvals Item approvals. The approver comes from a People column, Approve/Reject writes status/approver/timestamp + Update audit, and a recipe notifies the approver. For ops and marketing teams on Standard/Pro	AppFox Approvals 14,314 installs, 223/mo lifetime, 2.6*/18, $20/$50/$100 per mo, last update 2026-02-04; challengers 429/78/14/12 installs (apps-for-monday.com homepage data, 2026-11-05); revenue share 0% until $200k lifetime then 85/15 (developer.monday.com s…	welcome-apps quickstart-react item view + quickstart-integrations recipe on monday code; vitest on state machine; mapps code:push; submit in Developer Center; owner must create monday dev account; kil…	`mondaycom/welcome-apps` MIT, 127 stars	Free (5 approvals/mo), $15/$39/$79 per month	8	REFUTED UNVERIFIED	Needs a monday account from the owner
I3-3	Atlassian Forge (Jira)	Filter Activity Stream Dashboard gadget + page with live activity feed for any JQL filter, daily digest; successor to a frozen paid Connect app, for Jira team leads	UGUBI Filters Activity Stream 319 installs, 4.72*/22, Connect, last release 2025-08-29, $40/yr (10 users) to $500/yr (100 users); UGUBI has 0 Forge apps; Forge rivals 182 (free)/41/24/0 (catalogue + pricing API, 2026-11-05)	forge create (Jira dashboard gadget, UI Kit) + jira:globalPage; resolver /rest/api/3/search/jql expand=changelog; KVS cache; scheduledTrigger digest; jest on timeline merge; kill <25 installs at day 3…	`@forge/react + @forge/cli (npm) / atlassian/forge-skills` Atlassian Developer Terms (SDK, not OSS); forge-skills Apache-2.0, 28 stars	free <=10 users, then $0.30/user/mo	6	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	BUILDING (B7)
I3-4	monday.com	Status Hours (time-in-status as numbers) Recipe writes hours spent in previous status to a Numbers column + item view history, for sales/CRM ops and delivery leads	SaaSJet Time in Status 2,811 installs, 3.1*/7, review complains output is text not numbers; new entrants 319/16/6/4 (apps-for-monday.com, 2026-11-05)	welcome-apps quickstart-integrations-ts custom trigger + action; @mondaycom/apps-sdk storage; vitest duration math; mapps code:push; kill <15 installs at day 30	`mondaycom/welcome-apps` MIT, 127 stars	$9/$19/$39 per month	8	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	Needs a monday account from the owner
I3-5	monday.com	Embeds that work (reserve) One app embedding Google Calendar/Sheets, Canva, Figma links as board views/widgets; iframe only	Collabsoft embed apps ~89k installs rated 1.5-3.0*, none updated since 2025-09-01, $5/10 seats/mo; Google Calendar Embedded 39,676 installs d30 +111 (apps-for-monday.com, 2026-11-05)	quickstart-react board view + dashboard widget; link-to-iframe transformer; kill <100 installs at day 30	`mondaycom/welcome-apps` MIT, 127 stars	free 1 embed, then $4/10 seats/mo	6	REFUTED UNVERIFIED	Needs a monday account from the owner
I4-1	Apify (paid) + MCP Registry + npm CLI + Obsidian + Raycast (+Chrome later)	TubeText - YouTube transcript engine One TS core returns a YouTube video or playlist transcript as txt/md/srt/json with timestamps and chapters. Apify Actor (PPE) is the paid surface. MCP server, CLI, Obsidian and Raycast are free reach …	Apify search "youtube transcript" gives 963 Actors, top-10 u30 17,139. starvibe 400,963 successful runs/30d at $0.005 (>= $2,005/mo gross). pintostudio 473,326 successful runs at $0.01 (>= $4,733/mo) with 61,877 FAILED (11.6%), 3.72 stars. PyPI youtube-transcript-a…	apify create tubetext -t ts-start; packages/core (caption track fetch + formatters); .actor/pay_per_event.json; packages/mcp (@modelcontextprotocol/sdk stdio, mcpName io.github.theluckystrike/tubetext…	`jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api (logic reference) + modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk + apify-sdk-js` MIT / NOASSERTION(GitHub; npm MIT) / Apache-2.0, 8565 stars	Apify PPE $0.004 per video + $0.0005 per playlist item; other surfaces free	16	CONFIRMED REFUTED	BUILDING (B8)
I4-2	Chrome Web Store (paid via own licence) + GitHub Action + MCP Registry + Raycast (+Firefox)	PageWatch - website change monitor WXT MV3 extension to pick an element, with chrome.alarms checks, text diff, notifications and history. Free has 5 monitors. Pro has unlimited monitors, 1-min checks and webhooks. Same core runs as a cron GitHub Action (…	On Chrome, Distill Web Monitor has 400,000 users 3.9 stars; Visualping 100,000 users 4.5 stars; Changedetection.io extension 8,000 users, last updated 2025-03-25. Distill pricing $15/$35/$80 per month (third-party snapshots). changedetection.io Apache-2.0 35,520 star…	npx wxt@latest init pagewatch; entrypoints background/popup/picker/history; packages/core (linkedom + jsdiff); vitest HTML fixtures; wxt zip and upload (owner account), then wxt zip -b firefox. Action…	`wxt-dev/wxt` MIT, 10702 stars	Free (5 monitors); Pro $4/mo or $36/yr via Lemon Squeezy/Stripe licence key (not ExtPay)	16	CONFIRMED REFUTED	Needs a $5 Chrome account from the owner
I4-3	Chrome (paid) + Raycast + MCP Registry + npm CLI (+Obsidian optional)	TextGrab - offline OCR / screenshot to text Select an area, OCR it on-device with tesseract.js wasm, copy the text or a table as CSV. Same core runs as a CLI, an MCP ocr_image tool and a Raycast 'OCR clipboard image' command.	On Chrome, "Image to Text (OCR)" has 100,000 users at 1.9 stars; OCR - Image Reader 200,000 at 4.5; Copy Text from Picture 90,000 at 4.9. Raycast OCR 91,581 downloads (ScreenOCR 64,016). Obsidian Text Extractor 344,972 (GPL-3.0). tesseract.js 5,496,162 npm downloads/…	npx wxt@latest init textgrab; offscreen document runs the tesseract worker; captureVisibleTab then crop; packages/core preprocessing; vitest CER check on 6 fixtures; Chrome upload, npm, mcp-publisher.…	`naptha/tesseract.js` Apache-2.0, 38812 stars	Free (EN + 5 languages); Pro $3/mo or $24/yr	12	CONFIRMED UNVERIFIED	Needs a $5 Chrome account from the owner
I4-4	Chrome + Raycast + GitHub Marketplace Action + npm CLI + MCP Registry	ImageSlim - WebP/AVIF convert and compress jSquash wasm codecs in one core. Chrome 'save image as PNG/JPG/WebP/AVIF', Raycast Finder convert, an MIT GitHub Action that compresses images in PRs, plus a CLI and an MCP tool.	Chrome 'WebP / Avif image converter' 100,000 users at 3.3 stars. Raycast 22 matches, 179,694 downloads. Obsidian 79 matches, 1,020,945 downloads, but Image Converter (MIT, 560,358) is maintained. calibreapp/image-actions is GPL-3.0.	wxt init; packages/core with @jsquash/*; Action from actions/typescript-action with dist committed; golden-size tests; publish the action (GitHub ready), Chrome (owner), npm (owner). Kill at day 30 if under …	`jamsinclair/jSquash` Apache-2.0, 741 stars	Free; Chrome Pro $2/mo or $15/yr for bulk and AVIF	12	CONFIRMED REFUTED	Needs a $5 Chrome account from the owner
I4-5	Modrinth + CurseForge (+GitHub) via one multi-loader codebase	Async Locator 26.x continuation (Fabric + NeoForge); second target Infinite Music Port the MIT Async Locator (moves structure locating off the server thread) to MC 26.1-26.3 for Fabric and NeoForge from one Stonecutter/MultiLoader tree. Publish everywhere with mc-publish.	async-locator 6,799,809 downloads, MIT, last 1.20.2 (2023-06-24); 0 Modrinth hits on 26.x; Refined fork 49,391 downloads stops at 1.21.8. Infinite Music 5,986,251 downloads, MIT, stuck on 1.21.3, only 26.x rival constant-music (LGPL, 1.55M).	MultiLoader-Template (CC0) or Stonecutter 0.9.8; copy MIT src keeping the notice; update mixins for 26.x; gradlew runServer smoke test under timeout; Kira-NT/mc-publish to Modrinth, CurseForge and Git…	`jaredlll08/MultiLoader-Template` CC0-1.0, 778 stars	Free (Modrinth ad pool / CurseForge rewards)	10	CONFIRMED REFUTED UNVERIFIED	Needs a Modrinth signup from the owner

Recommended frameworks

I1 JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template (Apache-2.0), for the JetBrains scaffold and CI
I1 JetBrains/intellij-platform-gradle-plugin (Apache-2.0), to build, runIde, verify, sign and publish
I1 JetBrains/intellij-plugin-verifier (Apache-2.0), for compatibility checks
I1 microsoft/vscode-generator-code (MIT (npm) / NOASSERTION (GitHub)), for the VS Code scaffold
I1 microsoft/vscode-test-cli (MIT), for integration tests
I1 microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node (MIT), for LSP (only if needed)
I2 apify/apify-cli (Apache-2.0), for apify create/run/push/secrets. It is the official path
I2 apify/actor-templates (NONE). Use it only through apify create. It has no license, so do not copy it
I2 apify/apify-sdk-python (Apache-2.0), for lifecycle, storage and PPE Actor.charge
I2 apify/apify-sdk-js (Apache-2.0), when Node libs are needed
I2 apify/crawlee-python (Apache-2.0), for retries, sessions and proxies
I2 apify/crawlee (Apache-2.0), the most mature, browser-heavy
I3 @forge/cli 15.0.0 (npm) (Atlassian Developer Terms), to scaffold, lint, deploy, install and tunnel
I3 @forge/react 12.4.0 (UI Kit) (Atlassian Developer Terms), for the UI (default over Custom UI)
I3 @forge/sql 4.0.9 / @forge/kvs 2.1.1 (Atlassian Developer Terms), for storage
I3 atlassian/forge-skills (Apache-2.0), for agent skills and Forge MCP docs
I3 bitbucket.org/atlassian/forge-sql-examples, forge-and-bitbucket-pipelines (Apache-2.0), for templates and CI
I3 forge-sql-orm/forge-sql-orm (MIT), an ORM
I4 wxt-dev/wxt (MIT), the DEFAULT to scaffold, build, zip and submit for MV3
I4 PlasmoHQ/plasmo (MIT). Avoid it
I4 Glench/ExtPay (NOASSERTION (npm extpay AGPL-3.0-or-later)). AVOID it
I4 raycast/extensions (@raycast/api) (MIT), the DEFAULT
I4 obsidianmd/obsidian-sample-plugin (0BSD), the DEFAULT
I4 modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk (NOASSERTION (npm MIT)), the DEFAULT

1. How the rating works

Each market gets 8 factors, each 0 to 100. Higher is better for a builder.
The weights (v2, fixed after the pass-3 review) are demand 15, gap 15, agent ease 15, monetization 12, revenue evidence 15, review speed 5, platform stability 8. Evidence confidence is used once, as the multiplier below.
Raw = weighted average of the 8 factors.
Final = Raw x (0.7 + 0.3 x evidence confidence / 100). Weak evidence lowers the final score by up to 30%.
A row marked provisional uses pass-1 inputs. Nobody researched its revenue in pass 2. Its confidence is 35.
Do not trust a gap of less than 5 points between two markets.

2. Ranked markets

Click a column to sort. Click a row for details.

#	Market	Final	Raw	Demand	Gap	Agent	Money	Revenue	Review	Stable	Conf.

3. Biggest insights

Money proof is rare. Only Modrinth, Tebex, JetBrains prices, Craft CMS and Atlassian Forge have fetched revenue data. For most other markets nobody published seller income.
Top markets pay little to the average seller. Modrinth paid creators $176,855 in 29 days. That is about $31 per author per year across 71,756 authors. A typical paid Craft plugin has about 12 active installs at $49. Only the leaders earn well.
JetBrains is the best paid-plugin market for an agent builder. It has 529 paid plugins, a 15% commission, and top personal prices of $10 to $39 per year. A person reviews each update.
The agent-instruction validator gap is real but not empty. The rival agnix has 236,872 JetBrains downloads and 269 VS Code installs. It is not on Open VSX, which has smaller rivals (2,144 and 986). Hermes confirmed this from the store APIs.
Pass 1 had errors. Canva can pay developers (Premium Apps Program). Steam open Workshops can sell paid items. Xero dropped revenue share and now charges developers AUD 35 to 1,445 per month. Joplin and SiYuan already have some of the plugin types we called gaps.
Apify Store is the one proven payout channel near MCP. Apify paid developers $1.7M last month. 795 of its top 855 Actors charge per event. But buyers pay for data, not for an MCP wrapper. The best "mcp" Actor has 94 users in 30 days.
Telegram Stars money is proven for games only. Durov posted $16M (Catizen) and $500k in 10 days (a solo Mini App). No public revenue exists for non-game utility bots. That niche is open, not proven. Stars pay $0.013 each after a 21-day hold.
Discord keeps 15% of the first $1M (about 20% with fees), then 30%. Payouts start after $100 and a review. No public Premium App revenue exists.
For chat bots, change the niche. AI moderation on Discord is crowded (832 apps). A standup or task bot has 10 apps. The biggest one is in 3,490 servers.
Every market needs one human step. ID check, Stripe onboarding, KYC, first listing, or 2FA. An agent can do the rest. See the "Human steps" line in each row.
Key dates. VS Code PAT publishing ends 2026-12-01. Use GitHub Actions OIDC. Gemini CLI lost its free tier on 2026-06-18.

3b. Hermes verification (4 jobs run in the terminal with `hermes -z`)

Job	Result	Status
h1 Shopify niches	Back-in-stock has 10,000+ apps. The top apps have 4,381, 3,976 and 3,892 reviews. Wishlist has 583-584 apps. Product bundles have 8,746 apps. Shopify back-in-stock is saturated. Do not port the Wix app there. Shopify returns search HTML only when you send the header `Turbo-Frame: search_results`.	Verified
h4 agent-file validator	agnix is the only mature validator, with 236,872 JetBrains downloads and 269 VS Code installs, and it is absent from Open VSX. Open VSX has rivals, skill-doctor 2,144 and nifty-agent-config 986. VS Code rivals have 8 or fewer installs. Search discovery in the stores is weak. Stale-reference checking has no strong entry.	Verified (store APIs)
h3 Telegram utility bots revenue	No revenue figure found. Hermes search tools failed (no Firecrawl key, search engines blocked).	Not found
h2 monday.com, Salesforce, QuickBooks terms	Nothing verified. Cloudflare 403 and JavaScript-only pages. The owner must read these pages in a browser.	Failed
h1 BigCommerce, Salesforce fees	Not fetched. HTTP 403.	Failed

To be honest, Hermes did the 2 jobs that need only public APIs. It failed on the jobs that need a browser or a search engine. To fix this, set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in Hermes.

3c. Hermes x10 niche checks (10 jobs at the same time, public APIs only)

Hermes read live store APIs. Each count has an exact call in hermes10/nN.md. A niche with few listings has low supply. It does not prove demand.

Job	Market	Verified finding	Verdict
n4	MCP registry	EDIFACT 0 servers, X12 0 real servers, AS2 0, HL7 2, GTFS 1, OFX 0 real. FHIR 9 and ISO 20022 9 are crowded. The registry search is a substring match, so phrase zeros can be wrong.	Open for EDIFACT, X12, AS2
n5	n8n nodes	GTFS, MT940 and NMEA have 0 community nodes. EDIFACT has 1 node, 23 downloads a week. X12 has 1 vendor-locked node, 8 a week. Demand is tiny (all under 25 a week).	Open but low demand
n2	Atlassian	SBOM has 4 apps, and the top one has 0 installs. For EU CRA, the top app has 1 install. Standup has 65 apps, top 766 installs. Compliance reporting has a top of 736. Time tracking is closed (Tempo 26,128).	Open, demand unproven
n1	Modrinth	Prometheus exporter has 3 projects, and the leader was last updated 2023-04. Bedrock forms has 8, leader 2,579 downloads. The dashboard leader has 4,365. Cloud-native backup has 2 projects, max 67 downloads. Anti-cheat (842k) and Discord bridge (557k) are crowded.	Open for metrics, forms, dashboard, cloud backup
n3	Grafana	0 data sources for Stripe, PostHog, DuckDB, HubSpot, Notion, Linear, Shopify in the 384-item list. Supabase has an unlisted dev stub (5,219 downloads). Be careful, because the list is incomplete. Known plugins such as MySQL return 404.	Likely open, not proven
n6	Obsidian vs Joplin vs SiYuan	Obsidian has 9,823 plugins, Joplin 389, SiYuan 615. After size adjustment Joplin is thin in MCP (0 plugins), spaced repetition (2), dataview-like (5). SiYuan is not thin anywhere (11 MCP plugins).	Open on Joplin for MCP, dataview
n7	Raycast	3,494 extensions. MCP has 16, mostly with no token needed. Docker 11, Postgres 5, Obsidian 9. Cloudflare, Vercel, Sentry, Linear all need tokens.	Open for MCP, Postgres
n8	Discord bots	The official directory and top.gg were unreachable. On discord.bots.gg (1,281 bots, lower bound), standup, habit, study and invoice have 0 dedicated bots. Poll leader 7,902 servers. Translation leader 133,300. Tickets are hard.	Open on a small catalogue
n9	WordPress / Craft	For C2PA, WordPress has 1 plugin with 0 installs and Craft has 0. For Passkey/WebAuthn, Craft has 0 and the WordPress best is 2,000. For Bluesky, the WordPress best is 700. Craft MCP has 5 plugins, leader 3,230. Craft store now shows 1,663 plugins (pass 2 said 1,020). WordPress MCP is closed (Jetpack 3M).	Open for C2PA, passkey, Bluesky
n10	JetBrains	529 paid and 342 freemium plugins. Paid AI plugins are small (top 20,107 downloads). Security has 21 paid, Docker 16. Prices were unreachable in this job.	Paid AI weak

Our honest reading. Supply gaps are easy to find. Demand proof is not. The best-balanced picks are those with both a zero-supply count and a large buyer group. They are EDIFACT/X12/AS2 MCP servers, a WordPress C2PA or passkey plugin, a Joplin MCP bridge, and a Modrinth metrics exporter.

3d. Pass 3, with demand, revenue anchors, dry-runs and independent review

Niche	Demand proof (fetched)	Revenue anchor	Verdict
EDIFACT / X12 / AS2 tools	On PyPI, pyx12 has 307,648 and pydifact 171,048 downloads a month. 0 real MCP servers. Orderful sells at $189 per trading partner per month.	EdiFabric toolkit up to $799 a year	Moderate
Agent-file validator	agnix has 31,068 npm downloads a week, up 2.5x in 8 weeks, and 465 stars. Only 269 VS Code installs. Absent from Open VSX.	BashSupport Pro $39 to $99 a year. agnix is free.	Moderate
Passkey / WebAuthn plugin	WordPress has 6 plugins, 6,580 installs in total. Craft has 0 plugins. npm @simplewebauthn has 24.9M downloads a month.	bettershield $79 a year per site. WP 2FA Premium $79 a year.	Moderate
Joplin MCP bridge	4 MCP packages with 204 downloads a week. Top repo 174 stars. 36 forum topics. Joplin core now has a built-in MCP server.	No paid Joplin store. Obsidian Copilot Plus $139.99 a year.	Moderate, small
Raycast MCP + Postgres / Docker	3,488 listings. MCP registry extension 44,318 installs. Docker 54,580. 0 listings combine MCP with Postgres or Docker.	None. The store is free.	Moderate, free only
Grafana data sources	Category is huge (top 345M downloads). Named niches have 0 to 7 issue requests each.	Grafana Enterprise plugins $55 per user (assumed)	Category yes, niche weak
C2PA in WordPress	The only real plugin has 0 active installs and 1,156 downloads. The EU AI Act Art. 50 date (2026-08-02) passed with no uptake.	AI-label services $7 to $15 a month	Weak
Atlassian SBOM / CRA	CRA reporting started 2026-09-11. The only CRA app has 0 installs. Adjacent apps have up to 551.	Clearlane $69 a month	Weak
Discord standup / habit bot	0 of 1,281 listed bots. The best open-source standup bot has 32 stars.	Apollo bot $8 a month	Weak
Minecraft Prometheus exporter	Rivals have 311 and 126 downloads. spark has 24.9M and Plan 58k.	Analyse Minecraft $9 to $249 a month	Weak

Dry-run results (nothing was published)

8 of 9 toolchains ran. mcp-publisher validate, vsce package, ray build, the Joplin build, the WordPress plugin check, and composer validate for Craft all ran. The first human step is always an account, token or login. ray lint needs a real Raycast author account. forge lint needs an Atlassian login. ovsx publish waits for a token. We made one mistake. The q1 agent sent one unauthenticated create request to Modrinth. It returned 400 and created nothing.

Independent review (q4) and fixes

Confidence was counted twice. It is now a multiplier only.
15 rows lost revenue or confidence points where no figure had been fetched (Telegram, Forge, Shopify, Notion, Roblox, WordPress, Chrome, JetBrains, Discord, Wix, Modrinth, Raycast, Godot, Craft).
Only 5 markets stay in the top 10 under three different weight sets. They are Apify, Modrinth, Forge, Telegram and Craft (Craft is fragile after the fixes).
The open contradictions we know of are the Craft plugin count (1,020 vs 1,663, the new count is right), Discord directory access, n8n node counts, JetBrains price access (p1 found it).

Top 5 new markets to target

#	Market	First niche	Why (numbers)	Kill rule
1	MCP registry + your own hosted API (Apify as a side channel)	EDIFACT / X12 / AS2 parse and validate	0 real EDI servers in the registry. PyPI pyx12 307,648 and pydifact 171,048 downloads a month. Orderful sells at $189 per trading partner per month. The 3 Apify EDI Actors have 1 user each in 30 days, so do not rely on Apify for buyers. No store pays you here, so sell through your own checkout.	Stop at under 10 signups or 3 paying users after 30 days.
2	VS Code + Open VSX (then JetBrains)	Agent-file validator with stale-reference checks and fixes	agnix has 31,068 npm downloads a week, 236,872 JetBrains downloads and 269 VS Code installs, and is absent from Open VSX.	Stop at under 300 Open VSX installs after 30 days.
3	CMS plugins for Craft CMS + WordPress.org	Passkey / WebAuthn login plugin	Craft has 0 plugins. The WordPress best is 2,000 installs, 6,580 across all. Premium anchors $79 a year per site. Craft pays through its own store (20% fee).	Stop at under 200 installs after 30 days.
4	Atlassian Forge	Choose after a 7-day demand test (compliance reporting top 736 installs, standup top 766)	The best payout terms found are 83% of revenue, 100% up to $1M lifetime. The SBOM / CRA idea failed the demand test.	Stop if no niche has a competitor above 500 installs and a gap.
5	Raycast	MCP + Postgres / Docker extension, as a free funnel to your own paid service	MCP registry extension 44,318 installs. Docker 54,580. 0 listings combine MCP with Postgres or Docker. The store pays nothing.	Stop at under 500 installs after 30 days.

Apify is a real market ($1.7M paid to developers last month, 106,696 Actors) but its demand is in social and web scrapers (top Actor 62,546 users in 30 days), and the top agent tool is Apify's own first-party Actor. EDI Actors there get about 1 user in 30 days. Avoid LinkedIn scrapers, because your safety rules forbid LinkedIn automation. Not in the list are Telegram and Obsidian (you already work there), Modrinth (money is tiny, about $31 per author per year, and its best niche failed demand), Shopify (back-in-stock is saturated), and Discord (standup has no demand).

Work-quality score 84 / 100 (not 95)

Coverage 10, fact check 8, revenue evidence 6, demand proof 9, submission test 7, gap proof 9, independent review 9, reproducibility 9, actionability 8, honesty 9. In the last step the Apify check corrected my own #1 pick before you saw it wrong. Two criteria block 95. Revenue evidence needs real sales data, and the submission test needs a logged-in publish. Both need the owner.

4. Recommended build order

Agent-instruction validator (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, SKILL.md). A rival, agnix, exists. Compete on a stale-reference check and on fixes, and publish to Open VSX where agnix is absent. Then JetBrains.
Narrow-format MCP server (EDIFACT/X12, GTFS or OFX). Publish to the official registry. Sell through your own API.
Wix back-in-stock app, as a cheap test bed. Wix Stores has pre-order built in, so skip a pre-order app. Do not port to Shopify, because its back-in-stock niche has 10,000+ apps. Find a different Shopify niche first.
Discord standup bot with a paid server subscription.
Raycast and SiYuan ports of your best Obsidian plugins. These cost nothing to publish. They pay nothing.

5. Procedure for an agent

Run df -g /System/Volumes/Data. Stop if Avail is less than 20 GB.
Run memory_pressure | tail -1. Do not build if free is less than 25%.
Find the market in section 2. Open its row. Read "Human steps" and "First command".
Ask the owner to do the human steps. Do not skip them.
Build in ~/<project>-work/. Do not use /private/tmp.
For a private repo, run gh api repos/OWNER/REPO --jq .private. Push one time at the end.
Run the first command. Record the listing URL and the date.
Publish few items. Mass submission can get an account banned.
Delete temporary folders. Write each deletion in a manifest.

6. What is still weak

All pass-2 clusters are present.
Hermes first looked broken because -z prints only at the end. I killed those jobs too early. Four later jobs worked. 2 gave verified results, and 2 failed on blocked sites and a missing search key.
The session allows 6 agents at one time. We could not run 10.
Many vendor pages returned 403. Revenue shares for Discord, monday.com, Salesforce and QuickBooks are still unverified. The owner can read those pages in a browser.
Fab, Unity and Superhive have no seller revenue data.
Nobody tested a real submission. "Agent can publish" comes from documentation.
The weights are our choice. A different weight set can reorder the top 10.

7. What to improve next

Publish one test item to Firefox AMO, the MCP registry and Raycast. Measure the real human steps and the real review time.
Run the Shopify niche search again in a browser (the search page returned HTTP 429). Check the BigCommerce and Salesforce review fees.
Use the current Wix CLI commands npm create @wix/new@latest -- app, then wix build, then wix release. The pass-1 command names were wrong.
Ask the owner to copy 5 numbers from vendor pages that block agents.
Track real installs and income of the first three plugins. Re-rate with that data.

8. Rating of this work

84 / 100
Better than pass 1 (68). Hermes now delegates real work, and 11 of 14 jobs gave verified results with exact API calls. 3 failed on blocked sites. Ten ran at the same time. Revenue evidence and error fixes add value. Two of six pass-2 clusters are missing or provisional, nothing was submitted for real, and Hermes cannot reach blocked sites. These facts hold the score down.

Plugin Market Intel - Pass 2 report