Mirrors & Indexes
Every external mirror, registry, and indexer that carries an artifact published by VC Deal Flow Signal. One canonical directory, useful for citing the right host, building reverse link maps, or discovering an indexer you haven't hit yet.
Methodology paper
| Registry | Format | Note |
|---|---|---|
| SSRN (canonical) ssrn.com/abstract=6606558 | PDF + abstract HTML | Primary host. Free download. DOI-resolvable. |
| Crossref api.crossref.org/works/10.2139/ssrn.6606558 | JSON metadata | Authoritative DOI metadata. Used by every academic indexer downstream. |
| Semantic Scholar www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=A+Longitudinal+Panel+of+GitHub+Engineering+Velocity | HTML + S2 API | AI-readable abstract + citation graph. |
| OpenAlex openalex.org/works/W7154916891 | JSON metadata | Open scholarly graph. Three IDs: Work, Preprint, Dataset. |
| Unpaywall api.unpaywall.org/v2/10.2139/ssrn.6606558?email=signals@gitdealflow.com | JSON metadata | is_oa=true. Free PDF resolvable from Unpaywall extension. |
Public dataset
| Registry | Format | Note |
|---|---|---|
| VC Deal Flow Signal (canonical) signals.gitdealflow.com/api/dataset.jsonl | NDJSON, CC BY 4.0 | Newline-delimited JSON. Fresh on every build. |
| Zenodo (DataCite) zenodo.org/records/19650920 | Versioned snapshot, ZIP | Long-term archival. DataCite DOI. CC BY 4.0. |
| Kaggle Datasets www.kaggle.com/datasets/thedatanerd2026/vc-deal-flow-signal | ZIP + Kaggle Notebooks integration | Kaggle file checksums + update history. |
| DCAT 3 catalog signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/dataset.json | JSON-LD | DataCatalog + Dataset + Distribution descriptor. |
Q&A corpus
| Registry | Format | Note |
|---|---|---|
| VC Deal Flow Signal (NDJSON) signals.gitdealflow.com/qa.jsonl | NDJSON, CC BY 4.0 | 200+ Q&A pairs. Filterable by ?category= for topic-specific RAG. |
| VC Deal Flow Signal (single JSON) signals.gitdealflow.com/qa.json | JSON, CC BY 4.0 | Single-document variant with deep-link anchors. |
| VC Deal Flow Signal (CSV) signals.gitdealflow.com/qa.csv | CSV, CC BY 4.0 | Spreadsheet-importable variant. |
MCP server
| Registry | Format | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Glama (A-Tier, 4.9/5.0 across 6 tools) glama.ai/mcp/servers/kindrat86/mcp-deal-flow-signal | MCP catalog listing | Top MCP discovery surface for our category. (Smithery delisted 2026-05-03, needs HTTP gateway wrap.) |
| VC Deal Flow Signal (canonical HTTP) signals.gitdealflow.com/api/mcp/rpc | MCP / Streamable HTTP | Live JSON-RPC endpoint. Five tools, no auth. |
| Cursor Directory cursor.directory/plugins/vc-deal-flow-signal-mcp-1 | MCP plugin manifest | Listed for one-click install in Cursor. |
| npm registry www.npmjs.com/package/@gitdealflow/mcp-signal | Node package | npx @gitdealflow/mcp-signal, stdio + HTTP both supported. |
Source repository
| Registry | Format | Note |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub (canonical) github.com/kindrat86/mcp-deal-flow-signal | Git + MIT licensed | Public source for the MCP server, browser extension, and infra. |
Browser extension
| Registry | Format | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome Web Store chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hehkgipiamajnnlpkfhpeoeaoaogmknn | Manifest v3 | GitHub momentum badge on Crunchbase + Wellfound. Reviewed by Google. |
Knowledge entity
| Registry | Format | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139376302 | Wikidata item | Cross-graph identity. sameAs links to every mirror above. |
| VC Deal Flow Signal, knowledge-graph.json signals.gitdealflow.com/knowledge-graph.json | JSON-LD | Canonical entity graph for retrieval pipelines. |
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