Read a persisted deep-research report for a developer

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The full research report a completed job produced: pctSignals maps each graded signal to its percentile, signalsExcluded names every signal that could not be graded and why, plus the composites, the contribution history, and the repositories sampled. Readable only for a developer this account has already researched, and free to read from then on — the job that produced it already paid, the report is persisted, and everyone on the account shares it. A developer the account has not researched is a 404, whether or not anyone else has. Send Accept: application/pdf for the report as a PDF (see GET /v2/deep-research/reports/developers/{login}/pdf). signalPopulations says, per graded signal, WHICH substrate its percentile was ranked against: a dive_population ranking is a coarser claim than a benchmark_grid one, and an absolute signal was never ranked against anybody. None of these are peer groups matched on language, seniority or region — there is one global measured population.

Path parameters

login string required

min 1 chars, max 39 chars

Responses

The persisted report

id string required

Identifier of this report.
githubLogin string required

The GitHub handle the research was run on.
status string required

Whether the research finished. Only a `done` report carries a complete set of signals.

runningdonefailed
failCode string | null

Why the research failed, when it did. `engine_error` is our fault and is never billed. Null or absent on a report that succeeded.

not_foundrate_limitedprovider_errortimeoutengine_error
rawSignals object required

Signal name to the VALUE actually measured for this developer. Present whether or not the signal could be ranked, so this is the number to show when `pctSignals` has no entry for it. MEASURED is not the same claim as RANKED.
pctSignals object required

Signal name to its percentile, 0..1, for the signals that could be ranked. A report MIXES ranking substrates, so one description never covers all of them: `signalPopulations[signal]` states which substrate each percentile here was ranked against. No percentile in this report is against a peer group matched on language, seniority, region or discipline — no such peer group exists; there is one measured population. A signal missing here is explained in `signalsExcluded`.
composites object required

Percentile-derived composite scores. EMPTY (`{}`) whenever the ranking population is below its floor, which is the normal case early on: the keys are absent together rather than zeroed, so absence means "not ranked yet", never "scored zero". Read `rawSignals` and say "measured, not yet ranked" instead of showing a bare blank.
- gemScore number
  
  The gem score: how far this developer’s demonstrated quality runs ahead of their visible reputation. Built from the percentiles in `pctSignals`, so it inherits their populations (`signalPopulations`) — mostly the developers Vamo has previously deep-researched, which grows, which makes this number not comparable across reports taken at different times.
- quality number
  
  The quality composite, built from the `qualityTerms` below.
- visibility number
  
  The visibility composite, built from the `visibilityTerms` below.
- reachable number
  
  The reachability composite.
- productionMaturity number
  
  The production-maturity cluster: how much this developer builds and RUNS production software — CI, instrumentation, releases, maintenance, tests — averaged across whichever of those signals they have. A cluster score, so no single thin signal drives it. Built from `pctSignals`, so it inherits their populations. Not a factor in `gemScore`.
- qualityTerms array of object
  
  The individual signals that fed `quality`, with their weights, so the composite can be decomposed rather than trusted blind.
  - signal string required
    
    The signal that contributed.
  - weight number required
    
    Its weight in the composite.
  - pct number required
    
    The developer’s percentile on that signal, 0 to 1. `signalPopulations[signal]` says which substrate it was ranked against, and a report mixes substrates, so read it before quoting this.
- visibilityTerms array of object
  
  The individual signals that fed `visibility`, with their weights.
  - signal string required
    
    The signal that contributed.
  - weight number required
    
    Its weight in the composite.
  - pct number required
    
    The developer’s percentile on that signal, 0 to 1. `signalPopulations[signal]` says which substrate it was ranked against, and a report mixes substrates, so read it before quoting this.
- productionMaturityTerms array of object
  
  The individual signals that fed `productionMaturity`, with their weights.
  - signal string required
    
    The signal that contributed.
  - weight number required
    
    Its weight in the composite.
  - pct number required
    
    The developer’s percentile on that signal, 0 to 1. `signalPopulations[signal]` says which substrate it was ranked against, and a report mixes substrates, so read it before quoting this.
evidence array of string required

Human-readable evidence lines the research produced.
profile object | null required

The GitHub profile as read during the research. Open to extra keys: new fields arrive without a release here. Null when the profile could not be read.
- login string required
  
  The GitHub handle, as read live during the research.
- createdAt string required
  
  When the GitHub account was created, as an ISO 8601 instant.
- followers number required
  
  Follower count at research time.
- following number required
  
  How many accounts they follow, at research time.
- organizations array of string required
  
  Public GitHub organisations they belong to. Private memberships are invisible, so an empty list is not evidence of none.
- socialAccounts array of object required
  
  Social links the developer has published on their GitHub profile.
  - provider string required
    
    Which platform the link points at.
  - url string required
    
    The linked profile URL.
contributions object | null required

Contribution activity, PUBLIC only: work in private repositories is invisible to GitHub’s counters, so low numbers are not evidence of low output. Null when it could not be read.
- totalCommitContributions number required
  
  Commits GitHub counted over the research window.
- totalPullRequestContributions number required
  
  Pull requests opened over the window.
- totalPullRequestReviewContributions number required
  
  Pull request reviews over the window.
- calendar array of object required
  
  Daily contribution counts across the window.
  - date string required
    
    The calendar day, `YYYY-MM-DD`.
  - count number required
    
    Contributions GitHub counted that day.
  - weekday number required
    
    Day of the week, 0 for Sunday through 6 for Saturday. Present so weekday and weekend activity can be told apart without re-deriving it.
repos array of object required

The repositories actually sampled by this research. A SAMPLE, not a complete list: `commitStats` says how much was sampled and how much was skipped.
- name string required
  
  The repository name, without the owner.
- owner string required
  
  The owning account’s login, which may be a person or an organisation.
- isFork boolean required
  
  True when the repository is a fork. Forks are kept in the sample rather than dropped, so filter on this if you only want original work.
- primaryLanguage string | null required
  
  GitHub’s primary language. Null when it reports none.
- languages array of object required
  
  Language breakdown by bytes of code, which is a proxy for effort and not a measure of skill.
  - name string required
    
    The language.
  - size number required
    
    Bytes of code GitHub attributes to it in this repository.
- topics array of string required
  
  GitHub topics the owner tagged the repository with.
- stars number required
  
  Stargazer count at research time.
- forks number required
  
  Fork count at research time.
- pushedAt string required
  
  When the repository was last pushed to, as an ISO 8601 instant.
- latestReleaseAt string | null required
  
  When it last cut a release, as an ISO 8601 instant. Null when it has never released.
- contribution object | null
  
  What the developer did in this repository, AUTHORED work kept apart from MERGED-FOR-OTHERS work. Absent on reports produced before contribution depth existed, and absent means unknown, never zero.
  - relation string | null
    
    How the developer relates to this repository, first match wins: `owner` (their own repository), `maintainer` (merged other people’s PRs here, or merged two or more of their own PRs in a repository they do not own, which shows write access), `core` (ten or more of their authored PRs merged), `reviewer` (three or more reviews given with at most two authored PRs merged), `drive-by` (one or two authored PRs merged). Reviews alone never make someone a maintainer. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    ownermaintainercorereviewerdrive-by
  - commitsAuthored number | null
    
    AUTHORED work: commits the developer authored in this repository that GitHub credits to them (default branch, linked email), across the years the research read. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - authoredPrs number | null
    
    AUTHORED work: pull requests the developer opened in this repository, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - authoredPrsMerged number | null
    
    AUTHORED work: of the PRs they opened here, how many were merged by anyone, including themselves, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Estimated from a sample when they opened more than the dive reads one by one. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - authoredPrsMergedByOthers number | null
    
    AUTHORED work: of their merged PRs here, how many someone other than the developer (and not a bot) merged, which is outside validation of the work, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - selfMergedPrs number | null
    
    AUTHORED work: of their merged PRs here, how many the developer merged themselves, which shows write access rather than outside validation, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - mergedForOthers number | null
    
    MERGED-FOR-OTHERS work: other people’s PRs this developer merged here, read from the latest 50 merged PRs of each repository they own or hold write access to. A gatekeeping fact, never added to the authored counts. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - reviewsGiven number | null
    
    REVIEW work: reviews the developer left on other people’s PRs here, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Neither authored nor merged work. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - filesTouchedMedian number | null
    
    AUTHORED work: the median number of files changed per merged PR the developer authored here, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - firstMergedAt string | null
    
    AUTHORED work: when the earliest PR the developer authored here was merged, as an ISO 8601 instant. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  - lastMergedAt string | null
    
    AUTHORED work: when the most recent PR the developer authored here was merged, as an ISO 8601 instant. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  - prTitles array | null
    
    AUTHORED work: titles of PRs the developer authored here, newest first, at most 8. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    max 8 items
subjects array | null

WHAT-domain tags (fintech, mobile, devtools) read off the sampled repositories — owned AND contributed, manifests included — strength order. Null on reports produced before this field existed.
technologies array | null

HOW-they-build tags (react, rust, kafka) read the same way as `subjects`, same vocabulary, computed alongside it but never blended in. Null on reports produced before this field existed.
commitStats object required

How much of the developer’s work this research actually looked at. Read it before treating the signals as comprehensive.
- sampleN number required
  
  How many commits were examined.
- reposSampled number required
  
  How many repositories were examined.
- reposSkipped number required
  
  How many were skipped, typically for size. A high number here means the signals rest on a narrower base than the developer’s full output.
familiesPresent array of string required

Which signal families had enough data to contribute to this report.
signalsGraded number required

How many signals were successfully percentile-ranked. The rest are explained in `signalsExcluded`.
signalsExcluded object required

Signal name to why it was not ranked, and the four reasons say genuinely different things. `insufficient_cohort` = the signal WAS measured (its value is in `rawSignals`) but the ranking population is too small to place it; do not render this as "no evidence". `insufficient_evidence` = this developer did not produce enough activity to measure it. `no_family_data` = its whole signal family was unavailable. `not_percentile` = the signal is not the kind of thing that gets ranked.
signalPopulations object | null

Per graded signal, WHICH substrate its percentile was ranked against. THE field to read before quoting any percentile: a report mixes substrates, so one sentence never covers all of them, and a `dive_population` percentile is a coarser claim than a `benchmark_grid` one. Absent on reports produced before this was recorded.
pointsSpent number required

GitHub API quota consumed by the whole round this report was part of, not by this developer alone. Divide by `roundLogins` for an average, and say that you did.
requestCount number required

Upstream requests made by the whole round, shared by every developer in it. Divide by `roundLogins` for an average.
roundLogins number required

How many developers shared the round. The divisor for `pointsSpent` and `requestCount`.
startedAt string required

When the research started, as an ISO 8601 instant.
finishedAt string required

When the research finished, as an ISO 8601 instant.
contributionDepth object | null

Contribution depth beyond owned repositories: AUTHORED work and MERGED-FOR-OTHERS work, counted separately and never summed, from public work only. Absent on reports produced before this field existed, and absent means unknown, never zero.
- windowFrom string | null
  
  Start of the window the authored PR counts cover. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
- windowTo string | null
  
  End of the window the authored PR counts cover. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
- commitsAuthored number | null
  
  AUTHORED work: public commits GitHub credits to the developer across the years the research read. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- authoredPrs number | null
  
  AUTHORED work: pull requests the developer opened, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- authoredPrsMerged number | null
  
  AUTHORED work: of those, how many were merged by anyone, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- authoredPrsMergedExternal number | null
  
  AUTHORED work: merged PRs they authored in repositories they do not own, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- authoredPrsMergedByOthers number | null
  
  AUTHORED work: merged PRs they authored that someone else (not a bot) merged, which is outside validation, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- selfMergedPrs number | null
  
  AUTHORED work: merged PRs they authored and merged themselves, which shows write access rather than validation, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- mergedForOthers number | null
  
  MERGED-FOR-OTHERS work: other people’s PRs the developer merged, read from the latest 50 merged PRs of each repository they own or hold write access to. Never added to the authored counts. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- reviewsGiven number | null
  
  REVIEW work: reviews they gave on other people’s PRs, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- reviewsGivenExternal number | null
  
  REVIEW work: reviews they gave in repositories they do not own, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- externalRepos number | null
  
  AUTHORED work: distinct repositories they do not own with at least one merged PR they authored, over about the trailing two years of public activity. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  min 0
- yearly array | null
  
  Public activity by calendar year, oldest first. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  - year number required
    
    The calendar year.
  - commits number | null
    
    AUTHORED commits GitHub credited to them that year. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - prs number | null
    
    Pull requests they AUTHORED that year. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - reviews number | null
    
    Reviews they gave on other people’s PRs that year. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
- prs array | null
  
  A sample of PRs the developer AUTHORED, at most 60, each saying who merged it. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  
  max 60 items
  - repo string required
    
    The repository as `owner/name`.
  - number number required
    
    The PR number in that repository.
  - title string | null
    
    The PR title. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  - merged boolean | null
    
    Whether the PR was merged. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  - mergedAt string | null
    
    When it was merged, as an ISO 8601 instant. Null when unmerged. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
  - changedFiles number | null
    
    How many files the PR touched. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - mergedBy string | null
    
    `self` when the developer merged their own PR (write access, not outside validation), `other` when another person merged it, `bot` when automation did. Null when unmerged or unknown.
    
    selfotherbot
  - reviewsReceived number | null
    
    How many reviews other people left on this PR. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
- fileMix object | null
  
  Files touched by extension and by top-level directory in the developer’s own merged PRs. Absent when the report predates the file mix; null when the research could not read the file lists (unknown, never an empty mix).
  - samplePrs number | null
    
    Merged PRs the developer AUTHORED whose file lists were read. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - reposSampled number | null
    
    Repositories those PRs came from. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - filesTouched number | null
    
    Changed files counted, after exclusions. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - filesExcluded number | null
    
    Changed files dropped as vendored, generated or lockfiles. Absent or null means unknown, never zero.
    
    min 0
  - extensions array of object required
    
    Files touched by extension, most files first, at most 20 keys, counted from the changed-file PATHS of merged PRs the developer AUTHORED (never line counts), with vendored, generated and lockfile paths excluded.
    
    max 20 items
    
    key string required
    
    In `extensions`: the lowercased final extension without the dot (`ts`, `rs`), a known bare file name (`dockerfile`, `makefile`), or `(none)` for other files with no extension. In `directories`: the lowercased top-level directory, or `/` for a file at the repository root.
    
    filesTouched number required
    
    Changed files under this key across the sampled authored PRs.
    
    min 0
    
    prs number required
    
    Sampled authored PRs with at least one changed file under this key.
    
    min 0
  - directories array of object required
    
    Files touched by top-level directory, most files first, at most 20 keys, counted from the changed-file PATHS of merged PRs the developer AUTHORED (never line counts), with vendored, generated and lockfile paths excluded.
    
    max 20 items
    
    key string required
    
    In `extensions`: the lowercased final extension without the dot (`ts`, `rs`), a known bare file name (`dockerfile`, `makefile`), or `(none)` for other files with no extension. In `directories`: the lowercased top-level directory, or `/` for a file at the repository root.
    
    filesTouched number required
    
    Changed files under this key across the sampled authored PRs.
    
    min 0
    
    prs number required
    
    Sampled authored PRs with at least one changed file under this key.
    
    min 0
narrative DeepResearchNarrative required

The written narrative of THIS report snapshot: the top summary (`persona`) and the activity, code and social paragraphs. Null when it has not been written yet, which is a normal state and never an error: it is generated off the hot path when the research job completes, a read that finds it missing or incomplete kicks the generation, and `narrativePending` is true until the complete prose is stored. Stored against the report row.
- persona string required
  
  The pitch: three to five sentences on what this developer is like to hire, written from this report and the engine’s read of their public work. A reading of a body of work, not a score: it asserts no employer, no title, no seniority and no location.
  
  max 640 chars
- sections object required
  
  The three supporting sections, each a paragraph. Each is nullable only while the narrative is still being completed: `narrativePending` says whether the missing ones are coming.
  - activity string | null required
    
    How they work: their rhythm, and what having them on a team looks like.
    
    max 640 chars
  - code string | null required
    
    The work itself: what recurs in it, and what they build with it.
    
    max 640 chars
  - social string | null required
    
    How they work with other people, as their public work evidences it.
    
    max 640 chars
narrativePending boolean required

True while the narrative is missing, missing a section, or being rewritten (an older version is served meanwhile) AND is still being written: render the prose that is there, a placeholder for any missing piece, and read again shortly. False once all four current pieces are stored, and also false when they cannot be written (the retries for this report are spent), so a placeholder never waits forever.

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  -H 'Authorization: Bearer vamo_sk_YOUR_KEY'

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Example response

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    "visibility": 1,
    "reachable": 1,
    "productionMaturity": 1,
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        "provider": "string",
        "url": "https://example.com"
      }
    ]
  },
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    "totalPullRequestContributions": 3,
    "totalPullRequestReviewContributions": 3,
    "calendar": [
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      }
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      "primaryLanguage": "Rust",
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          "size": 1
        }
      ],
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        "string"
      ],
      "stars": 1,
      "forks": 1,
      "pushedAt": "2026-01-15T09:30:00Z",
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      }
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    "string"
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    "windowTo": "string",
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          "prs": 1
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      ]
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      "code": "string",
      "social": "string"
    }
  },
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}