retrieval-observatory

v0.1.2 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Framework-agnostic benchmarking for hybrid RAG retrieval pipelines

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits some suspicious behaviors, particularly concerning its metadata and potential execution of shell commands. However, without clear evidence of malicious intent, it cannot be conclusively labeled as dangerous.

  • High metadata risk due to lack of author details and minimal activity
  • Potential for unintended shell command execution
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: The use of an HTTP client suggests network interaction which may be legitimate if the package is designed to fetch or send data.
  • Shell: Executing shell commands like 'git rev-parse' could be part of version control operations but might also indicate unintended behavior if not properly scoped.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk of malicious activity.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating secure handling of sensitive information.
  • Metadata: The package is new with minimal activity, lacks author details, and has not gained traction on GitHub.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls score 1.5

Found 1 network call pattern(s)

  • e: self._client = httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=self.timeout) return self._client async
Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

Shell / Subprocess Execution score 2.0

Found 1 shell execution pattern(s)

  • ne: try: result = subprocess.run( ["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], check
Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

Registered Email Domain

Email domain looks legitimate: berkeley.edu>

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History score 2.5

Git history flags: Repository has zero stars and zero forks

  • Repository has zero stars and zero forks
Maintainer History score 8.0

4 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • Package uploaded less than 24 hours ago (2026-06-05T01:18:07.000Z)
  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)