Look up startups across SEC Form D, GitHub, Hacker News, Companies House, YC, and Wikidata in one command — including the SEC fundraising data hidden behind paid Crunchbase tiers. Trigger phrases: `look up this startup`, `research <company>`, `what does <company> do`, `form D for <company>`, `is <co

<! GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT. This file is a verbatim mirror of library/developer tools/company goat/SKILL.md, regenerated post merge by tools/generate skills/. Hand edits here are silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead. See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli skills/". Company GOAT — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the company goat pp cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: company goat pp cli version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH . Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When to Use This CLI Use Company GOAT when an agent or human needs structured company research data on a small or midsize startup — fundraising, engineering signal, mention timeline, legal entity, domain age — without paying for Crunchbase Pro. Best for one company at a time deep research. Not for bulk discovery (sources don't scale to thousands of queries) and not for global private market funding graph queries (no source has that for free). The killer feature: SEC Form D, free Most US startups raising priced equity rounds (Series Seed → Series C, Reg D 506(b)/506(c)) file Form D with the SEC within 15 days of first sale. The filing names the issuer, the offering amount, the exemption claimed, and the related persons (officers, directors, promoters). Crunchbase Pro charges $999/year for a wrapper around this same source; this CLI extracts it directly from EDGAR for free. Reach for funding when an agent needs to verify a US startup's actual fundraising history rather than quote Crunchbase Free's empty "undisclosed" rows. Coverage at a glance SEC Form D / funding / funding trend — US only. Reg D priced rounds. Pre Series A SAFEs are not covered. Empty filings + a coverage note is the expected response for non US companies, pre priced round companies, and companies that just haven't filed yet. When Form D is empty, funding falls back to a broader EDGAR full text search and surfaces mentions binned by signal class: subsidiary (10 K parent mentions), debt (Venture Lending and Leasing portfolio mentions), acquisition (8 K parent disclosures), and other. funding who also searches across all form types, not just Form D. Disambiguation: EDGAR's full text search matches by name fragment, so "Notion" hits both Notion Labs and Notion Capital VC. The result includes cik summaries and is ambiguous: true whenever multiple distinct CIKs match. Re call with cik <id (CIK from the summary) to filter to the correct entity. The compound commands ( snapshot , compare , signal ) propagate the ambiguity flag through their output and refuse to synthesize a side by side number when ambiguous — the agent decides which CIK is correct using broader context (Wikidata founders, GitHub org alignment, the user's intent) and re runs funding cik to confirm. signal surfaces Form D match is ambiguous as its own signal class so cross source consistency checks aren't trusted blindly. Companies House / legal region uk — UK Ltd / PLC only. Requires COMPANIES HOUSE API KEY (free at developer.companieshouse.gov.uk). GitHub / engineering — Any public org. Optional GITHUB TOKEN raises rate limits from 60/hr to 5000/hr. Hacker News / mentions / launches — Algolia full text search across HN since 2007. No auth. mentions returns both a year month histogram AND the top N stories sorted by points (use top N to widen, default 5). launches is the Show HN only flavor — use it for "did this company ever post a Show HN" questions; use mentions for "what do people say about this company on HN." YC directory / yc — YC backed companies only. Wikidata / wiki — Sparse on early stage; mostly useful for established companies. RDAP / DNS / domain — Any registered domain. When Not to Use This CLI Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. Multi source orchestration snapshot — Look up a company across SEC Form D, GitHub, Hacker News, Companies House, YC, Wikidata, and DNS in one command — rendered as a unified terminal summary in seconds. When you need to evaluate a startup quickly, this is the one command that tells you whether they raised, are shipping code, are talked about, and are legitimate — without 8 browser tabs. signal — Surface suspicious cross source patterns. Example: 'Form D says raised $5M in 2024 but GitHub org has 0 commits since 2022' or 'YC entry says Active but website domain expired'. When deciding whether to engage with a startup, this command flags zombie companies and stale fundraising stories without you having to open every tab. Killer feature funding — See structured SEC Form D filings for a US private company — offering amount, filing date, exemption claimed (Reg D 506(b) vs 506(c)), related entities, and state of incorporation. When an agent needs to verify a US startup's actual fundraising history, this is the single most reliable free signal. Avoid agents quoting Crunchbase Free's empty 'undisclosed' rows. funding trend — Time series of Form D filings for a company across years — shows fundraising cadence and gaps. Useful for spotting 'they haven't raised since 2022' silently. Use this when an agent needs to summarize a company's fundraising arc, not just the latest round. funding who — Show every Form D filing that names a given person (officer, large holder). Reveals serial founders, repeat advisors, prolific investors. Use when an agent needs to map who's behind a constellation of startups, or verify a founder's actual filing history. Local state that compounds search — Search the YC directory by free text + batch and industry filters. Free text matches against name, one liner description, industry, and location. An agent tasked with 'find a YC fintech with "agent" in the description' has a one shot query rather than scrolling the YC directory. compare — Two snapshots aligned column by column for direct comparison. Free in this CLI; paid feature elsewhere. When evaluating two competing startups, this is the one shot comparison that doesn't require flipping between tabs. Command Reference filings — SEC EDGAR Form D filings — the primary data source for US private fundraising disclosure company goat pp cli filings — Fetch all SEC submissions for a given CIK (Central Index Key). Used as the seed call when resolving a company's... Hand written commands company goat pp cli resolve <name or domain — Resolve a company name to a canonical domain. Returns numbered candidates if ambiguous; pick N or domain to... company goat pp cli funding <co — SEC EDGAR Form D filings + YC batch lookup. Shows offering amount, filing date, exemption claimed, related entities... company goat pp cli engineering <co — GitHub org metadata: repo count, contributor count, commit cadence, top languages. company goat pp cli launches <co — Show HN posts about this company, sorted by points. Includes launch year for spotting dead vs. active launches. company goat pp cli mentions <co — Hacker News mention timeline: monthly histogram of mentions over time via Algolia full text search. company goat pp cli legal <co — Legal entity lookup. UK via Companies House (optional COMPANIES HOUSE API KEY); US via SEC EDGAR Form D issuer... company goat pp cli yc <co — Y Combinator directory entry if the company was YC backed: batch, status, location, description. company goat pp cli wiki <co — Wikidata company facts: founded date, founders, HQ, industry, key people. Sparse on early stage startups. company goat pp cli domain <co — Domain age via RDAP/WHOIS, DNS records, and CNAME based hosting hint (Vercel/Netlify/Heroku/Cloudflare Pages/AWS/GCP). company goat pp cli snapshot <co — Fan out across all 7 sources in parallel and render a unified summary. The headline command. Uses cliutil.FanoutRun... company goat pp cli compare <a <b — Two snapshots side by side, aligned by section. For evaluating which of two startups looks healthier. company goat pp cli search <query — Search the YC directory by free text + batch and industry filters. Cross source FTS5 over the synced store is on the v1 roadmap; today this is YC only. company goat pp cli signal <co — Cross source consistency check. Flags suspicious patterns like 'raised in 2024 but no GitHub commits since 2022'.... company goat pp cli funding trend <co — Time series of Form D filings over time. Useful for charting a startup's fundraising cadence. company goat pp cli sync — Pull syncable resources (YC directory and any other configured) into local SQLite. Use resources to pick a subset. Subsequent reads with data source local query offline. Finding the right command When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly: which resolves a natural language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to help or use a narrower query. Recipes Quick due diligence on a US startup Fan out across all 7 sources and render a unified summary. Use domain to skip name resolution and go straight to the canonical entity. Each source returns {status, data, note, elapsed} so partial failures are visible. Find every SEC filing for a founder Returns every Form D filing where this person is named — useful for mapping serial founders and repeat investors. Compare two competing startups Aligns snapshots side by side; agent readable. Use for tradeoff analysis. Build a research database Pulls the YC directory and any other syncable resources into local SQLite, then full text searches the synced index. Subsequent reads can use data source local to query offline. Surface suspicious patterns Cross source consistency check — flags cases like 'raised $X in 2024 but GitHub silent since 2022' that no single source would catch. Auth Setup No required keys. Three optional environment variables expand coverage and rate limits: COMPANY PP CONTACT EMAIL=you@example.com — Sent in the SEC EDGAR User Agent header to comply with EDGAR's fair access policy. Recommended for any non trivial use of funding / funding trend / snapshot . GITHUB TOKEN — Raises GitHub API rate limit from 60/hr to 5000/hr. gh auth token works. Used by engineering , snapshot . COMPANIES HOUSE API KEY — Required for legal region uk . Register free at developer.companieshouse.gov.uk and create a REST application. SEC EDGAR requests are paced and retried automatically. The CLI honors Retry After , backs off on 429/5xx responses, and exits with code 7 if SEC continues throttling after retries. Run company goat pp cli doctor to verify which of these are detected. Agent Mode Add agent to any co

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