vc-finder SKILL.md skillA
vc-finder from varnan-tech/opendirectory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add varnan-tech/opendirectory/vc-finder@git:20260916.a03d635Pins git:20260916.a03d635 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- varnan-tech/opendirectory
- Path
skills/vc-finder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260916.a03d635, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 21, 2026
- Size
- 45,277 bytes
- Repository stars
- 699
- License
- MIT
Takes a startup product URL or description, detects the industry and funding stage, identifies 5 comparable funded companies, searches who invested in those companies (Track A), finds VCs who publish investment theses about this space (Track B), and returns a ranked sourced list of relevant investors with deep-dives and outreach hooks. Use when asked to find investors for a startup, identify which VCs fund products like mine, research who backs companies in my space, build a VC target list, or…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# VC Finder Take a product URL or description. Detect industry and stage. Find 5 comparable funded companies. Run two research tracks: who invested in those comparables (Track A), and which VCs publish theses about this space (Track B). Return a sourced, ranked investor list with outreach hooks. --- **Zero-hallucination policy:** Every fact in the output must be traceable to a specific Tavily search result or the fetched product page. This applies to: - Comparable company names: must appear in Tavily search results, not AI training knowledge - VC fund names: must appear verbatim in Tavily search results - Check sizes, stage focus, portfolio companies: must come from search snippets, not AI knowledge - Fund overviews and thesis summaries: extracted from search snippets only. If a detail is not in the search data, write "not found in search data" -- do not fill from training knowledge. --- ## Common Mistakes | The agent will want to... | Why that's wrong | |---|---| | Add a16z or Sequoia because they are famous | A famous VC without evidence is noise. Only include VCs that appear in Tavily search results for this specific product. Name-dropping wastes the founder's time. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add varnan-tech/opendirectory/vc-finder@sha256:54111ae700ce2948The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.a03d635, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7l7itoiozm76fyqs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 21, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 74 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260916.a03d635 latest | 2026-09-16 | a03d635 | 45,277 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260423.4647499 | 2026-04-23 | 4647499 | 45,334 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260421.2ed0b85 | 2026-04-21 | 2ed0b85 | 27,379 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (45277 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
varnan-tech/opendirectory · 699 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7l7itoiozm76fyqs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varnan-tech/opendirectory/vc-finder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54111ae700ce2948acce4ed3d8d1aedc1f5108a9878b57bb4fbfb084c328a32f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.