A2A INTEGRATION · CUSTOM TOOL

Use GitDealFlow A2A with Inkeep

AI search and copilots for product docs. Developer-tools companies that want their docs copilot to know about competitive engineering signals.

Crunchbase API: $20K/yr. GitDealFlow A2A: free, no signup.

Inkeep ingests your docs, support tickets, and forums into a retrieval-augmented chat experience embedded in your product. Add GitDealFlow as a custom tool source so that questions like 'who's competing with us in fintech right now?' or 'what's the engineering velocity of {competitor}?' get answered with live signals alongside your own knowledge. Most useful for dev-tools companies whose users are evaluating competitors mid-conversation.

Custom Tool via Inkeep Tools API

// Inkeep Tools registration (admin dashboard or API)
// 1. Create a new Tool in your Inkeep project:
{
  "name": "gitdealflow_signal",
  "description": "Query GitDealFlow for VC engineering signals on startups (trending, sector, named lookup, methodology). Use when the user asks about competitive engineering activity, breakout startups, or commit velocity comparisons.",
  "type": "http",
  "method": "POST",
  "url": "https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/a2a",
  "headers": {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
  "bodyTemplate": {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "message/send",
    "params": {
      "message": {
        "role": "user",
        "parts": [
          {"kind": "data", "data": {"skill": "{{skill}}", "args": "{{args}}"}}
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "parameters": [
    {"name": "skill", "type": "string", "enum": ["trending", "sector", "startup", "methodology", "receipts"]},
    {"name": "args", "type": "object"}
  ]
}

// 2. Pin the tool to your AI assistant's allowed tools.
// 3. Set the system prompt to invoke gitdealflow_signal whenever a user asks about a competitor's engineering activity.

What you can ask

Inside your Inkeep widget: 'Which startups in dev-tools have breakout engineering velocity this quarter?'
Mid-docs question: 'Compare commit velocity for our top three competitors and show methodology.'
Support flow: agent asks AI 'is {prospect company} actually shipping fast right now?' before quoting a custom plan.
Sales enablement: pre-call brief generator pulls our trending list for the prospect's sector.
Ask 'cite the GitDealFlow methodology paper' to drop SSRN credibility into a doc-anchored chat.

Gotchas

Inkeep's tool-calling cost is billed per LLM token — keep the tool description tight to avoid response bloat.
Our A2A skill enum is fixed (5 skills); don't paraphrase in the tool spec or the LLM may invent invalid skills.
If your Inkeep deployment is private (single-customer), the public A2A endpoint is still safe to call — it's read-only and rate-limited.

References

Try it without setup

The interactive playground lets you send live JSON-RPC requests against the A2A endpoint with no install, no auth. Pick a skill, hit send, see the response.

Full launch story: I made my VC deal flow callable by Claude.

Other framework integrations

Custom Tool via Inkeep Tools API

// Inkeep Tools registration (admin dashboard or API) // 1. Create a new Tool in your Inkeep project: { "name": "gitdealflow_signal", "description": "Query GitDealFlow for VC engineering signals on startups (trending, sector, named lookup, methodology). Use when the user asks about competitive engineering activity, breakout startups, or commit velocity comparisons.", "type": "http", "method": "POST", "url": "https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/a2a", "headers": {"Content-Type": "application/json"}, "bodyTemplate": { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "message/send", "params": { "message": { "role": "user", "parts": [ {"kind": "data", "data": {"skill": "{{skill}}", "args": "{{args}}"}} ] } } }, "parameters": [ {"name": "skill", "type": "string", "enum": ["trending", "sector", "startup", "methodology", "receipts"]}, {"name": "args", "type": "object"} ] } // 2. Pin the tool to your AI assistant's allowed tools. // 3. Set the system prompt to invoke gitdealflow_signal whenever a user asks about a competitor's engineering activity.

What you can ask

Inside your Inkeep widget: 'Which startups in dev-tools have breakout engineering velocity this quarter?'

Mid-docs question: 'Compare commit velocity for our top three competitors and show methodology.'

Support flow: agent asks AI 'is {prospect company} actually shipping fast right now?' before quoting a custom plan.

Sales enablement: pre-call brief generator pulls our trending list for the prospect's sector.

Ask 'cite the GitDealFlow methodology paper' to drop SSRN credibility into a doc-anchored chat.

Gotchas

Inkeep's tool-calling cost is billed per LLM token — keep the tool description tight to avoid response bloat.

Our A2A skill enum is fixed (5 skills); don't paraphrase in the tool spec or the LLM may invent invalid skills.

If your Inkeep deployment is private (single-customer), the public A2A endpoint is still safe to call — it's read-only and rate-limited.