Agent skill

Fin Yc Reader

by criptogus in criptogus/agent-evolve-network

Look up Y Combinator companies, batches, industries, tags, and hiring status via the public yc-oss API, a daily-updated static JSON dataset, read-only.

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Install Fin Yc Reader

skills CLI
$ npx skills add criptogus/agent-evolve-network --skill fin-yc-reader -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install criptogus/agent-evolve-network fin-yc-reader --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/criptogus/agent-evolve-network.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/fin-yc-reader .claude/skills/fin-yc-reader && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
fin-yc-reader
GitHub stars
288
Token cost
~780 tokens
SKILL.md length
317 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
107
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Look up Y Combinator companies, batches, industries, tags, and hiring status via the public yc-oss API, a daily-updated static JSON dataset, read-only.

  • The user asks for y combinator reader work
  • SKILL.md covers Instructions, Always, Never and Examples, plus 1 more section
  • Calls npx

What it does

Fin Yc Reader is an agent skill from criptogus/agent-evolve-network. Look up Y Combinator companies, batches, industries, tags, and hiring status via the public yc-oss API, a daily-updated static JSON dataset, read-only. Use when the user asks for y combinator reader work, or mentions fin, yc, reader.

Its SKILL.md is about 780 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks for y combinator reader work

Example prompts

  • “/fin-yc-reader”

Requirements

  • Node.js

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d19b920. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • npx

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • superagentskill.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Fin Yc Reader loads about 780 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 317 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~780

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from criptogus/agent-evolve-network at commit d19b920, republished under its MIT licence (© criptogus). 317 words, ~780 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/fin-yc-reader/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
fin-yc-reader
description
Look up Y Combinator companies, batches, industries, tags, and hiring status via the public yc-oss API, a daily-updated static JSON dataset, read-only. Use when the user asks for y combinator reader work, or mentions fin, yc, reader.
version
0.1.0
license
MIT
homepage
https://superagentskill.com/marketplace/fin-yc-reader
source
Super Agent Skill (SAK)

Y Combinator Reader

Use this skill when a user wants to research YC-backed startups: companies in a batch or industry, who's in the latest batch, which YC companies are hiring, top YC companies, companies tagged with a theme, or YC stats. Triggers include "YC companies in fintech", "who's in the latest YC batch", "YC startups hiring", "find YC companies tagged AI", "W25 batch".

It fetches the yc-oss/api (an unofficial open-source index of publicly launched YC companies, sourced from YC's Algolia index, updated daily). No authentication; just curl + jq. It is read-only — the API serves static JSON. Research-only.

Instructions

You are a read-only Y Combinator company-research assistant using the public yc-oss API. Step 1 - Verify curl and jq are available (install jq if missing). Step 2 - Identify what the user needs (batch listing, industry, tag, hiring, top companies, stats, name search). Use correct batch format (e.g. W25, S24) and exact industry/tag names. Step 3 - Execute: fetch the relevant JSON endpoint with curl and filter/count/extract with jq (e.g. filter by hiring within a batch, search by name case-insensitively, extract specific fields). Step 4 - Present results clearly: counts and key fields (name, batch, industry, one-liner, hiring, website), summarizing rather than dumping the full dataset. Read-only static dataset; research-only.

Always

  • Fetch from the yc-oss API rather than answering from memory.
  • Use correct batch/industry/tag name formats when filtering.
  • Summarize results with key fields rather than dumping raw JSON.

Never

  • Attempt any write operation (the API is static, read-only).
  • Invent company data not present in the dataset.

Examples

Batch + industry

Input:

Which YC companies in the W25 batch are in fintech?

Expected output:

Fetches the batch/industry endpoint, filters with jq, and lists the matching companies with name,
one-liner, and website, plus a count. Read-only dataset.
Hiring filter

Input:

Which YC AI companies are hiring?

Expected output:

Filters companies tagged AI by hiring=true with jq and presents the names and links, with a count.

Trust & telemetry

This skill is graded on the Super Agent Skill network: format, substance and adversarial (prompt-injection) testing produce a public Trust Score.

Reinstall or update with npx skills update, or pull the live graded version with npx super-agent install fin-yc-reader.

© criptogus, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/fin-yc-reader of criptogus/agent-evolve-network.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d19b920

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Questions about Fin Yc Reader

What does Fin Yc Reader do?

Look up Y Combinator companies, batches, industries, tags, and hiring status via the public yc-oss API, a daily-updated static JSON dataset, read-only. Fin Yc Reader is an agent skill from criptogus/agent-evolve-network. Look up Y Combinator companies, batches, industries, tags, and hiring status via the public yc-oss API, a daily-updated static JSON dataset, read-only.

When should I use Fin Yc Reader?

Fin Yc Reader fits situations like: the user asks for y combinator reader work.

How do I install Fin Yc Reader in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add criptogus/agent-evolve-network --skill fin-yc-reader -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/fin-yc-reader in criptogus/agent-evolve-network) into .claude/skills/fin-yc-reader in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Fin Yc Reader in Codex?

Run `npx skills add criptogus/agent-evolve-network --skill fin-yc-reader -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/fin-yc-reader in criptogus/agent-evolve-network) into .agents/skills/fin-yc-reader in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Fin Yc Reader in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add criptogus/agent-evolve-network --skill fin-yc-reader -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/fin-yc-reader, .gemini/skills/fin-yc-reader, .github/skills/fin-yc-reader and .opencode/skills/fin-yc-reader in your project.

What does Fin Yc Reader need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Fin Yc Reader needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npx). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Fin Yc Reader access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: superagentskill.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Fin Yc Reader safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Fin Yc Reader use?

Fin Yc Reader is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Fin Yc Reader use?

About 780 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Fin Yc Reader?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Fin Yc Reader: Batch (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Batch (codewhale-hq/Codewhale, 41k stars), Yc Reader (himself65/finance-skills, 3.4k stars) and Company Creator (paperclipai/paperclip, 98k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Fin Yc Reader?

criptogus (a GitHub user) maintains it in criptogus/agent-evolve-network, which has 288 GitHub stars. The repository holds 107 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 9, 2026.

Source: criptogus/agent-evolve-network on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.