Phd Skills
PhD Research Skills for Claude Code: paper reproduction, experiment design, paper review, result comparison and more.
Is Phd Skills safe? Thin or incomplete trust evidence. Review carefully before production use.
Compare Phd Skills
How does it stack up against its Agent Skills neighbours?
Pick any agent to compare →In detail: Phd Skills scores 46.9/100 (Grade D), ranked #279 of 371 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 2.7/10; 88% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-16. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →
How Phd Skills 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 2.7 to 9.0lowest checks: Branch-Protection 0, CI-Tests 0, CII-Best-Practices 0 +13.1 → 60.0 C · #100 of 371
- Sign every commit88% signed today +0.6 → 47.5 D · #270 of 371
Chain of custody
Scanners check what the code says. This traces who ships Phd Skills and whether that has changed: from the source repository, through how changes are reviewed and released, to the code you run. These are the checks for OWASP ASI04 Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and, for skills, AST02 Supply Chain Compromise.
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Source Signed
github.com/fcakyon/phd-skills, MIT, last pushed 2026-09-16. 88% of the last 100 commits carry a verified signature, so changes trace to a verified account.
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Review and release Weak
OpenSSF Scorecard rates the repository's practices 2.7/10 (scanned Oct 5, 2026). The checks that decide who can get a change released:
- Code Review0
- Branch Protection0
- Signed Releasesn/a
- Dangerous Workflown/a
- Token Permissionsn/a
- Pinned Dependenciesn/a
All 18 Scorecard checks
Binary-Artifacts 10Branch-Protection 0CI-Tests 0CII-Best-Practices 0Code-Review 0Contributors 6Dangerous-Workflow -1Dependency-Update-Tool 0Fuzzing 0License 10Maintained 0Packaging -1Pinned-Dependencies -1SAST 0Security-Policy 0Signed-Releases -1Token-Permissions -1Vulnerabilities 10 -
Published packages None
No registry package. Phd Skills is used from its repository, so what you run is whatever you check out: pin a release tag or commit.
Changes to this chain
- 2026-08-29 OSSF Scorecard: 2.7/10
Evidence behind this score
Coverage C: 2 of 5 independent evidence types found.
- GitHub repository data
- Package downloads (missing)
- Supply-chain checks
- Public actions (missing)
- Community mentions (missing)
Verify this score yourself
Every build re-issues Phd Skills’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 the skill’s instructions for injected instructions, watch runtime behaviour, or find bugs nobody has disclosed yet. For that, run a content scanner before you install it, such as Cisco Skill Scanner.
How Phd Skills compares in Agent Skills
- #277 Autoresearch 47.1 +0.2
- #278 Superseo Skills 47.1 +0.2
- #279 Phd Skills 46.9 this agent
- #280 Ai Business Skills 46.7 −0.2
- #281 Genshijin 46.7 −0.2
Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Phd Skills’s 46.9.
Where the 46.9 comes from
HVTrust dimensions vs the Agent Skills average
46.9 / 100 · 100.0% confidencePhd Skills Agent Skills average (371 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 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
Activity & Reach
Analysis
Activity Inputs
48.5 / 100Common questions about Phd Skills
Does Phd Skills publish package provenance?
Does Phd Skills have an OpenSSF Scorecard?
Is Phd Skills actively maintained?
What license does Phd Skills use?
Are Phd Skills'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.
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 Phd 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.
Maintain Phd Skills?
For maintainers
HVTrust scores Phd 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.
Reputation Timeline
Signal history
Embed Badge Badge guide for maintainers →
For maintainers
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