KalyanM45/PhD-Compass-Find-your-Supervisor ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a Python app called PhD Explorer that takes a student profile and finds the best PhD supervisors for them in a few target countries.

I want to give it a JSON file with the student’s background, skills, research interests, target countries, and intended intake, then have it search for real supervisors, check that they look like actual faculty, gather a little evidence like recent papers, grants, and related PhD listings, and then rank everyone into reach, target, and safety. It should also explain in one short sentence why each person is a good match.

Please make it run from a simple command line script, read input files from a data folder, and write the results as a timestamped JSON file in an output folder. Use the config file for things like scoring, limits, and API settings, and include sensible error handling and retries for the online data sources. If you need to look up current docs for the APIs or libraries, go ahead and do that.