[External Plugin]: webhound

[mfkhalil]

Plugin name

webhound

Short description

Run budget-controlled, inspectable Webhound investigations. Hound is the research harness built with DeepSeek V4 Pro and GPT-5.4 across planning, execution, verification, and assembly—not a selectable model or mode.

GitHub repository

WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp

Plugin path inside the repository

No response

Ref to review

No response

Commit SHA to review

1e1c25c435dc65a4d849e3778b541d4697f1da8e

Version

0.4.3

License identifier

MIT

Author name

Webhound

Author URL

https://www.webhound.ai

Homepage URL

https://www.webhound.ai/mcp-setup

Keywords

webhound
research
web-research
mcp
reports
datasets
citations
evidence

Additional notes for reviewers

Validated against Awesome Copilot's current external-plugin quality gate at this exact SHA: Vally 3/3, install smoke test passed, and manifest/source version match passed. The plugin uses Webhound's hosted MCP with standards-based per-user OAuth and contains no publisher credential or shared API key.

Submission checklist

• The plugin lives in a public GitHub repository.
• The ref and/or sha I provided is immutable (release tag and/or full 40-character commit SHA), not a branch.
• This submission follows this repository's contribution, security, and responsible AI policies.
• This plugin is not already listed in the Awesome Copilot marketplace.

[github-actions]

✅ External plugin intake passed

This submission passed automated intake validation and quality checks and is ready for maintainer review.

• Plugin: webhound

• Repository: https://github.com/WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp

• SHA: 1e1c25c435dc65a4d849e3778b541d4697f1da8e

Quality gate summary

Gate	Status
vally lint	pass
install smoke test	pass
version match	pass
canvas structure	not_run

• vally lint: pass
• install smoke test: pass
• version match: pass
• canvas structure: not_run
• overall: pass

vally lint output

✅ webhound-research (3/3 checks passed)
    ✓ [spec-compliance] All 1 skill(s) are spec-compliant.
        ✓ spec-compliance: All spec checks passed.
    ✓ [valid-refs] All file references across 1 skill(s) are valid.
        ✓ valid-refs: All file references resolve to existing files within the skill directory.
    ✓ [orphan-files] No orphan files found across 1 skill(s).
        ✓ orphan-files: No references/ directory found — no orphans possible.

1 skill(s) linted, 1 passed

Install smoke test output

Install smoke test succeeded. Verified /tmp/external-plugin-quality-Cs6Oqo/copilot-home/.copilot/installed-plugins/external-plugin-intake/webhound/plugin.json.

Version match output

- 1e1c25c435dc65a4d849e3778b541d4697f1da8e: matched version "0.4.3" at "plugin.json".

Canvas structure output

Canvas structure gate skipped because plugin is not tagged with "canvas".

Canonical external.json payload

{
  "name": "webhound",
  "description": "Run budget-controlled, inspectable Webhound investigations. Hound is the research harness built with DeepSeek V4 Pro and GPT-5.4 across planning, execution, verification, and assembly—not a selectable model or mode.",
  "version": "0.4.3",
  "author": {
    "name": "Webhound",
    "url": "https://www.webhound.ai"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp",
  "homepage": "https://www.webhound.ai/mcp-setup",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "webhound",
    "research",
    "web-research",
    "mcp",
    "reports",
    "datasets",
    "citations",
    "evidence"
  ],
  "source": {
    "source": "github",
    "repo": "WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp",
    "sha": "1e1c25c435dc65a4d849e3778b541d4697f1da8e"
  }
}

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