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Every way to reach VC Deal Flow Signal programmatically
Same dataset, 16 interfaces. Free, no auth, no credit card, no rate-limited free tier — just polite per-IP origin limits. Pick the surface that matches your runtime; pair them freely.
MCP
MCPMCP server (stdio)
One-line install for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Cline, and any other MCP-compatible host.
npx -y @gitdealflow/mcp-signal
MCP server (Streamable HTTP)
Same six tools, served over HTTP for ChatGPT Apps and any hosted MCP runtime that doesn't spawn child processes.
POST https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/mcp/rpc
Agent Protocol
Agent ProtocolGoogle A2A (JSON-RPC 2.0)
AgentCard at /.well-known/agent-card.json. Five skills mirror the MCP tools.
POST https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/a2a
Microsoft NLWeb
Conversational endpoint that returns schema.org-typed JSON-LD answers for natural-language queries.
POST https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/nlweb
HTTP API
HTTP APIFunction-calling tool definitions
GET tool schemas in OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini formats; POST to invoke any of the six tools without an MCP client.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/agent/tools?format=openai
OpenAPI 3.1 spec
Full machine-readable spec for every callable HTTP route. Suitable for code generation and tool registries.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/openapi.json
Bulk Data
Bulk DataFull panel — JSON
Single-fetch JSON of every sector, period, and startup. CDN-cached 24h. Public, no auth.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/signals.json
Full panel — CSV
Same panel as CSV for spreadsheet and dataframe ingestion.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/signals.csv
Full panel — JSONL (HF Datasets compatible)
Newline-delimited JSON with a leading metadata line. Drop-in for Hugging Face Datasets, OpenAI Files, and most RAG ingestion pipelines.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/dataset.jsonl
Embeddable
EmbeddableScout Score badge (SVG)
Per-user GitHub Scout Score (0-100) as a shields.io-style SVG. Drop into any README.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/badge/scout/{username}/svgCommit Momentum badge (SVG)
Per-repo commit-velocity tier (cold / warming / hot / breakout) for tracked startup orgs.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/badge/momentum/{org}/{repo}/svgDiscovery
DiscoveryAGENTS.md
Canonical agent reference — install commands, tool list, citation format, anonymity policy.
https://signals.gitdealflow.com/AGENTS.mdllms.txt + llms-full.txt
Concise + full LLM context with sector links, blog index, FAQ, methodology, dataset summary.
https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms.txtRFC 9727 api-catalog (Linkset)
Machine-readable catalog of every API description we publish. Emerging standard for agent-driven discovery.
GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/api-catalog
ChatGPT plugin manifest
Standard ai-plugin.json that points at the OpenAPI spec. No auth.
https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.jsonMCP discovery manifest
MCP 2025-12-11 schema with all tools, resources, templates, and prompts.
https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/mcp.jsonDrop-in install snippets
Claude Desktop / Claude Code
{
"mcpServers": {
"gitdealflow": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@gitdealflow/mcp-signal"]
}
}
}Cursor — .cursor/rules/gitdealflow.mdc
curl -L https://signals.gitdealflow.com/agents/cursor-rule.mdc \ -o .cursor/rules/gitdealflow.mdc
Continue.dev — ~/.continue/config.json (merge)
curl -s https://signals.gitdealflow.com/agents/continue.json
OpenAI Agents SDK / function calling
curl -s "https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/agent/tools?format=openai"
Anthropic SDK / function calling
curl -s "https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/agent/tools?format=anthropic"
LangChain / LangSmith Hub
# Pull the public prompt template
from langchain import hub
prompt = hub.pull("gitdealflow/vc-startup-scout")Hugging Face Datasets / RAG ingestion
curl https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/dataset.jsonl \ -o gitdealflow.jsonl
Postman / Bruno collection
curl -L https://signals.gitdealflow.com/agents/postman-collection.json \ -o gitdealflow.postman_collection.json
Cite this work
When you quote a fact from any of these surfaces, please attribute:
VC Deal Flow Signal (signals.gitdealflow.com), Q2 2026 data.For academic citation, see the SSRN preprint at abstract id 6606558. Dataset license: CC-BY 4.0.