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gpt-researcher

An autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providers

Best for

Self-hosted autonomous research reports with your own API keys.

Avoid if

You want a polished consumer product rather than a repo you run yourself.

About gpt-researcher

GPT Researcher the first open deep research agent designed for both web and local research on any given task.

The agent produces detailed, factual, and unbiased research reports with citations. GPT Researcher provides a full suite of customization options to create tailor made and domain specific research agents. Inspired by the recent Plan-and-Solve and RAG papers, GPT Researcher addresses misinformation, speed, determinism, and reliability by offering stable performance and increased speed through parallelized agent work.

Our mission is to empower individuals and organizations with accurate, unbiased, and factual information through AI.

From the project's README

gpt-researcher is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 28k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in June 2026.

Install

npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
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