yc-reader
Look up Y Combinator companies and batches from the public yc-oss API, a static JSON dataset refreshed daily: company profiles, batch rosters (e.g. W25, S24), companies by industry or tag, top companies, who is hiring, founder-diversity lists, and overall YC stats.
Install / Use
npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill yc-readerInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Education & ResearchSupported Platforms
Our assessment of yc-reader
yc-reader scores 86/100 on our quality scale, 172nd of 263 Education & Research skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 3,348 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 31 days ago, so yc-reader is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
yc-reader compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than yc-reader; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yc-reader (this skill)by himself65 | 86 | 3.3k | 31d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.9k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 74.0k | 1d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| last30days-skillby mvanhorn | 100 | 63.1k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| crawl4aiby unclecode | 100 | 84.4k | 3d ago | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install yc-reader?
- Run
npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill yc-reader. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does yc-reader work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is yc-reader safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is yc-reader still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 31 days ago, so yc-reader is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.