GPT Researcher

Runs crawler agents that gather information from many search retrievers including Tavily, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Exa and from local documents such as portable document format, Word, and spreadsheet files, and exposes itself over the Model Context Protocol, real research tool use though not broad action on external business systems.

Sourcegithub.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21

Runs a planner agent that generates research questions, parallel execution agents that scrape and summarize sources, and a publisher that aggregates a cited report, with a multi agent variant built on LangGraph and a recursive deep research mode that explores subtopics by configurable depth and breadth, genuine autonomous multi agent orchestration.

Sourcegithub.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21

Beyond web search, GPT Researcher can research over local document stores and keeps a vector store of the accumulated research context with optional persistence across sessions, so customer documents are drawn in per research task; no maintained index over the customer's knowledge base outside a research run is documented.

SourceGPT Researcher, gptr.dev/llms-full.txtread 2026-09-21

GPT Researcher runs autonomously from a query to a report, and its product manual documents no approval step, review gate or guardrail engine for a person to hold or approve its actions.

SourceGPT Researcher, gptr.dev/llms-full.txtread 2026-09-21

GPT Researcher is open source software the customer runs, and its product manual states the product has no authentication of its own; the only keys are the model and search provider keys the customer supplies. No access model, identity integration or attestation is documented, and running self-hosted is a deployment property rather than a security control.

SourceGPT Researcher, gptr.dev/llms-full.txtread 2026-09-21

Tracks and cites the source of every summarized fact so a report can be audited back to its origins, real output auditability, though it does not ship a full execution tracing, metrics, or logging dashboard for agent runs.

Sourcegptr.devread 2026-09-21

Runs a research task and returns a report without a persistent agent memory or checkpoint layer that carries state across sessions, so memory and state persistence is not documented as a first class feature.

Sourcegithub.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21

Is open source under the Apache license and deploys through Docker, a Python package, or a FastAPI service, and runs with local models through Ollama for fully private and offline operation, real self hosting and data residency.

Sourcegithub.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21

Ships a ready to use research agent and a full suite of customization options for building tailor made and domain specific research agents, real prebuilt and scaffolding capability, though without a browsable marketplace of agents or templates.

Sourcegithub.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21

Can be invoked through a Python package, a representational state transfer application programming interface, a web interface, a command line, and the Model Context Protocol from assistants like Claude, multiple developer invoked channels, though without scheduled or event driven triggers.

Sourcegithub.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21

Works with any large language model provider including OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Google, Mistral, and local models through Ollama, and assigns cheaper and stronger models to different roles such as planning and execution to optimize cost, genuine multi provider and role based model routing.

Sourcepypi.org/project/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21

GPT Researcher ships as a Python package, publishes an OpenAPI specification and an A2A agent card, and runs an official MCP server exposing deep research, quick search, report writing and source retrieval tools over stdio, SSE and streamable HTTP, so outside callers drive it directly.

SourceGPT Researcher, gptr.dev/llms-full.txt and gptr.dev homepageread 2026-09-21

Improves research quality by aggregating many sources to reduce misinformation, but it does not ship a testing, debugging, or evaluation engine for agents, so this capability is not documented as a first class feature.

Sourcegptr.devread 2026-09-21

Runs crawler agents that browse and scrape web pages to gather information for each research question, real automated web access, though not general autonomous browser or computer control as a product.

Sourcegithub.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcherread 2026-09-21