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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. Use this skill whenever the user asks about YC-backed startups, a YC batch, YC companies in a sector or tag or that are hiring, the Y Combinator portfolio, or startup and venture research that draws on YC data. Read-only.

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# Y Combinator Reader (Read-Only)

If your host has not already executed the shell probes below (for example, in Codex), run the commands inside the `!` wrappers with its shell tool before choosing a setup path. Use the actual output; if shell access is unavailable, report that limitation.

Fetches Y Combinator company data from the [yc-oss/api](https://github.com/yc-oss/api), an unofficial open-source API that indexes all publicly launched YC companies. The data is sourced from YC's Algolia search index and updated daily via GitHub Actions.

**This is a read-only data source.** It provides company profiles, batch listings, industry/tag breakdowns, hiring status, and diversity data. No write operations exist — the API serves static JSON files.

**No authentication required.** The API is public and free. Just use `curl` to fetch JSON endpoints.

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