Is AI Research SKILLs safe to use?

AI Research SKILLs has an HVTrust score of 42.4/100 (Grade D), ranked #309 of 351 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for AI Research SKILLs?

AI Research SKILLs scores 42.4/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 13.0k GitHub stars and is categorized under Agent Skills.

AI Research SKILLs

Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs

Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research.

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Is AI Research SKILLs safe? Thin or incomplete trust evidence. Review carefully before production use.

OSSF Scorecard 3.4 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 24%

Last push 102d ago

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In detail: AI Research SKILLs scores 42.4/100 (Grade D), ranked #309 of 351 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage C (2 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 3.4/10; 24% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-06-16. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How AI Research SKILLs compares in Agent Skills

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks AI Research SKILLs’s 42.4.

Where the 42.4 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Agent Skills average

42.4 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

AI Research SKILLs Agent Skills average (351 agents)

Safety / Integrity50% OSSF Scorecard · 30% provenance · 20% signed commits

5.4 / 25

2.7 below avg 8.1

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

0.6 below avg 11.4

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

11.4 / 17

0.8 below avg 12.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

5.2 / 20

9.0 below avg 14.2

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

9.9 / 20

0.9 above avg 9.0

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Publish package provenance or release attestations for stronger supply-chain evidence.

Recent Changes

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 28 spots (#336 → #308)

2026-09-25

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 14.3pts (28.2 → 42.5)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 3.4/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

Publish provenance Add package provenance or release attestations so users can verify where shipped artifacts came from.

Increase signed commits Raise the share of verified-signed commits to make maintainer identity and release history easier to trust.

Refresh maintenance signals The repo was last pushed 102 days ago. Fresh activity helps separate stable projects from stale ones.

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49.3

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#309

In Agent Skills

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade D reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage C is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (2 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-08-11 2026-09-26

Activity & Reach

Stars

13.0k

Forks

931

Last Push

2026-06-16

102 days ago

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

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HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▼1

was #308

Analysis

Activity Inputs

49.3 / 100

StarsRepository reach

24.7 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

10.8 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

0.0 / 25

CommunityFork signal

13.8 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

3.4 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 26, 2026

Signed Commits

24%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 0

CI-Tests 4

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 3

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 0

Packaging 10

Pinned-Dependencies 3

SAST 2

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 0

Common questions about AI Research SKILLs

Public trust evidence for AI Research SKILLs is thin: several supply-chain signals are missing or weak. This does not mean the project is unsafe — it means an outside observer cannot easily verify the usual integrity checks. Treat with extra scrutiny.

Does AI Research SKILLs publish package provenance?

No published build provenance is currently detected for AI Research SKILLs. This is common for open-source projects but means consumers cannot independently verify that the package on the registry matches the GitHub source.

Does AI Research SKILLs have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

AI Research SKILLs has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 3.4/10. The Scorecard checks for branch protection, signed releases, dependency updates, fuzzing, code review, and other supply-chain hygiene items. See the full check breakdown on this page.

Is AI Research SKILLs actively maintained?

Slowing down. Last push was 102 days ago — keep an eye on whether activity resumes.

What license does AI Research SKILLs use?

AI Research SKILLs ships under MIT. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are AI Research SKILLs's commits signed?

24% of the last 100 commits to AI Research SKILLs are verified-signed (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, or GitHub's signing flow). Signed commits help confirm that code was authored by who the commit claims.

Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.

AI agent surface

MCP, providers, tool surface

Scored in HVTrust

These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →

MCP Server Support

None detected

No MCP server signal detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

None detected

No clear third-party provider dependency detected.

Credential signal: No explicit API-key/config marker detected.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Declared

Declared plugin/integration surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

N/A

No package source configured

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

MCP signal live
External deps live
Tool / plugin surface live
Package provenance drift live

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to AI Research SKILLs's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-14

Activity Went Stale

No commits for 90 days

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For maintainers

HVTrust scores AI Research SKILLs from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.

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Reputation Timeline

Signal history

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 28 spots (#336 → #308)

2026-09-25

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 14.3pts (28.2 → 42.5)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 6.1pts (22.2 → 28.3)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #329

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-14

Activity Went Stale

No commits for 90 days

2026-09-10

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 4.2/10

2026-09-10

Rank Moved

Rank rose 33 spots (#350 → #317)

2026-09-10

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 15.7pts (14.3 → 30.0)

2026-09-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 21 spots (#329 → #350)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 156 spots (#153 → #309)

2026-08-16

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 12 spots (#140 → #152)

2026-08-11

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #141

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