# pp-company-goat

Pulls company data from SEC Form D, GitHub, Hacker News, Companies House, YC and Wikidata in one command. Useful before a deal, a hire or an intro.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 796 installs · ★ 2076
- Author: Trevin Chow
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/HEAD/cli-skills/pp-company-goat/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pp-company-goat

## What it does

The skill installs the `company-goat-pp-cli` binary and teaches the agent to drive it. The main command is `snapshot`: it runs a company through SEC Form D, GitHub, Hacker News, Companies House, YC, Wikidata and DNS, then prints a terminal summary. `signal` looks for cross-source contradictions, like a Form D round that doesn't match a GitHub org with no commits since 2022.

Form D is the part worth caring about. US startups raising priced equity rounds (Series Seed through Series C, Reg D 506(b)/506(c)) file the form with the SEC within 15 days of first sale — issuer, offering amount, exemption claimed, related persons. Crunchbase Pro charges $999 a year to wrap that same source; this CLI reads EDGAR directly. Reach for `funding` when you want a real round history instead of the empty "undisclosed" rows on Crunchbase Free.

Before anything else, confirm the binary is on `$PATH`: `company-goat-pp-cli --version`. UK lookups need a free `COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY`; GitHub takes an optional `GITHUB_TOKEN` that lifts the rate limit from 60 to 5000 requests an hour. Form D coverage is US-only and priced rounds only, so pre-Series-A SAFEs won't show up. EDGAR matches on a name fragment, which means "Notion" hits both Notion Labs and Notion Capital — when several CIKs match, the result carries `is_ambiguous: true`, and `snapshot`, `compare` and `signal` refuse to synthesize a side-by-side number until you narrow it with `--cik <id>`.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-company-goat -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/pp-company-goat/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/pp-company-goat/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-company-goat -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/pp-company-goat/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-company-goat -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/pp-company-goat/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-company-goat
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/pp-company-goat/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-company-goat -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library --path cli-skills/pp-company-goat
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/pp-company-goat/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-company-goat -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/HEAD/cli-skills/pp-company-goat/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- verify a US startup's fundraising history without paying for Crunchbase Pro
- tell a live company from a zombie by commit and mention recency
- chart how often a company comes up on Hacker News over the years
- find the legal entity and status of a UK company in Companies House
- compare two startups on rounds, code and chatter in a single run

## Example prompts
- run a snapshot for stripe.com and tell me about their rounds and commits
- check signal for acme-corp.com — does Form D match GitHub activity?
- look up Form D for this company and narrow by CIK if there are several matches

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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# 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 `$HOME/.local/bin` on macOS/Linux and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin` on Windows:
   ```bash
   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install company-goat --cli-only
   ```
2. Verify: `company-goat-pp-cli --version`
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on `$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):

```bash
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