OpenScience
The open-source AI workbench for scientific research
Is OpenScience safe? Strong public trust posture, backed by multiple independent signals.
Compare OpenScience
How does it stack up against its Research & Data neighbours?
Pick any agent to compare →In detail: OpenScience scores 82.3/100 (Grade A), ranked #118 of 1346 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage B (3 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: its packages ship with cryptographic provenance; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 5.5/10; 56% of recent commits are signed; no published advisory affects its latest release (@synsci/openscience); last pushed 2026-10-03. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →
How OpenScience could raise its score
Each line changes one public signal and recomputes with the live scoring function. The gains don't add up exactly, because the score is capped near the top.
- Raise the OSSF Scorecard from 5.5 to 9.0lowest checks: CII-Best-Practices 0, Code-Review 0, Fuzzing 0 +5.8 → 88.1 A · #2 of 36
- Sign every commit56% signed today +1.8 → 84.1 A · #5 of 36
Chain of custody
Scanners check what the code says. This traces who ships OpenScience and whether that has changed: from the source repository, through how changes are reviewed and released, to the package you install.
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Source Partly signed
github.com/synthetic-sciences/openscience, Apache-2.0, last pushed 2026-10-03. 56% of the last 100 commits carry a verified signature; the rest can't be tied to a verified identity.
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Review and release Mixed
OpenSSF Scorecard rates the repository's practices 5.5/10 (scanned Sep 22, 2026). The checks that decide who can get a change released:
- Code Review0
- Branch Protection3
- Signed Releases0
- Dangerous Workflow10
- Token Permissions10
- Pinned Dependencies7
All 18 Scorecard checks
Binary-Artifacts 10Branch-Protection 3CI-Tests 10CII-Best-Practices 0Code-Review 0Contributors 6Dangerous-Workflow 10Dependency-Update-Tool 10Fuzzing 0License 10Maintained 0Packaging 10Pinned-Dependencies 7SAST 7Security-Policy 10Signed-Releases 0Token-Permissions 10Vulnerabilities 0 -
Published packages Linked and attested
- npm @synsci/openscience Source link points back to this repo Build provenance attested
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What you install today No known advisories
Latest release checked: @synsci/openscience 2.0.147. No published advisory affects it (OSV, checked 2026-10-03).
Changes to this chain
- 2026-09-23 Package provenance attestation detected
Evidence behind this score
Coverage B: 3 of 5 independent evidence types found.
- GitHub repository data
- Package downloads
- Supply-chain checks
- Public actions (missing)
- Community mentions (missing)
Verify this score yourself
Every build re-issues OpenScience’s score as an Ed25519-signed credential, valid for 7 days. You can check it offline against HVTracker’s published key; if anyone changes a number after signing, verification fails.
What this score doesn’t check
It covers who ships the code, not what the code does. It doesn’t read tool descriptions or prompts for injected instructions, watch runtime behaviour, or find bugs nobody has disclosed yet. For that, run a content scanner before you connect it, such as Cisco MCP Scanner or Snyk Agent Scan.
How OpenScience compares in Research & Data
- #3 Firecrawl 88.0 +5.7
- #4 WrenAI 85.4 +3.1
- #5 OpenScience 82.3 this agent
- #6 Crawl4AI 70.2 −12.1
- #7 GPT Researcher 68.8 −13.5
Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks OpenScience’s 82.3.
Where the 82.3 comes from
HVTrust dimensions vs the Research & Data average
82.3 / 100 · 100.0% confidenceOpenScience Research & Data average (36 agents)
Quick Trust Read
How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade A reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage B is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (3 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →
Rank Trend
Activity & Reach
Analysis
Activity Inputs
84.2 / 100Common questions about OpenScience
Does OpenScience publish package provenance?
Does OpenScience have an OpenSSF Scorecard?
Is OpenScience actively maintained?
What license does OpenScience use?
Are OpenScience's commits signed?
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.
Compare OpenScience head-to-head
AI agent surface
MCP, providers, tool surface
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 signal live
- External deps live
- Tool / plugin surface live
- Package provenance drift live
Detected changes to OpenScience'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.
Maintain OpenScience?
For maintainers
HVTrust scores OpenScience 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.
Reputation Timeline
Signal history
Embed Badge Badge guide for maintainers →
For maintainers
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Other agents in Research & Data
GitHub REST API (repo, commits, stars, forks, license) · npm Registry (downloads, provenance) · OpenSSF Scorecard CLI
Each agent's signals refresh once daily across 6 staggered batches. Methodology v4.4 · Raw JSON