gpt-researcher
gpt-researcher is a Web research & fact-checking skill for AI agents, published by HaipingXu in the social-science-claude-scholar repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates gpt-researcher F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Risky. This skill has patterns associated with unsafe behaviour. Read the source carefully before running it.
Use this skill when the user asks to "research background on", "find background information about", "search web for context on", "look up policy history of", "find grey literature on", "research institutional context", "find government reports on", "background research for introduction section", "research country context", "web research on", "autonomous web search", "deep research on", "find sources about", or needs web-sourced background context for academic writing (political economy, comparative politics, economic history, public policy). Complements Zotero/arXiv for web-accessible grey literature and policy documents.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 45 / 100
- Safety
- Risky
- GitHub stars
- 20
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 98 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- High-risk patterns
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- references sensitive credential env
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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