scf-round-watcher

name

scf-round-watcher

description

Surface current and recent Stellar Community Fund (SCF) round activity. Use when a user says "current SCF round", "what's happening with SCF", "active SCF submissions", "should I apply to SCF this round", "SCF deadline", "who is applying to SCF right now", "SCF round status", or "show me this round's submissions". Fetches live data from communityfund.stellar.org and cross-references with the LumenLoop ecosystem DB to flag repeat builders and category trends.

What this skill does

1. Find the active round

Fetch https://communityfund.stellar.org/awards. The currently open round has status "Submission". Extract its rec ID from the round's link (/awards/<rec-id>).

The site is a client-rendered React app — plain curl returns mostly empty HTML. Use the WebFetch tool (Claude Code built-in) which handles client-rendered pages via its parsing layer:

WebFetch(
  url="https://communityfund.stellar.org/awards",
  prompt="Find the round with status 'Submission' (currently open). Return its name (e.g., 'SCF #44'), its rec-id from the link (/awards/<rec-id>), the deadline date, and the maximum award amount."
)

If WebFetch isn't available in the runtime, fall back to a headless-browser fetch (e.g., playwright or puppeteer via uvx) — curl alone won't get rendered content for this site.

2. Get the round's submissions

Fetch https://communityfund.stellar.org/awards/<round-rec-id>. Parse the submissions list — each entry has: project name, requested amount, status.

If a "See All" link is present, follow it for the full list (not just the first 11 visible on the round page).

3. Enrich each submission with project detail

For each submission, follow its "view" link → /project/<submission-rec-id>. Fetch in parallel (5 at a time, polite to the server). Extract: project description, category, team members + GitHub links, Stellar integration summary, requested amount.

4. Cross-reference repeat builders

Load ~/.claude/skills/data/lumenloop/projects.json (or fetch from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lumenloop/stellar-ecosystem-db/main/... if missing).

For each submission team, check if any team's project is already in the LumenLoop DB. If yes, flag them as repeat builder with their past SCF rounds and total prior funding.

4.5 Cross-reference Stellar dev history (Electric Capital)

Load ~/.claude/skills/data/electric-capital/stellar-repos.json (~9000 repos). For each submission's GitHub org/user (extracted from team links on /project/<rec-id>), count how many Stellar-tagged repos that org has.

Bucket:

• Stellar veteran: org has 5+ Stellar repos in Electric Capital → likely a serious builder
• First Stellar project: 0-1 Stellar repos → fresh to the ecosystem (positive: new blood; risk: less Stellar-native context)
• Bootcamp graduate: repos are mostly whitebelt/orangebelt/etc → graduated Stellar's training program, applying directly after

This often reveals more than the LumenLoop check alone, because LumenLoop only catalogs projects with SCF history; many serious builders have GitHub activity but no funded project yet.

5. Summarize for the user

Format as:

## SCF Round #<N> — <STATUS>
Deadline: <DATE> (<X days remaining>)

### Top facts
- <N> submissions visible
- Total requested: $<sum>K
- Top 3 categories: <category 1> (N), <category 2> (N), <category 3> (N)
- Repeat builders: <N> teams previously funded by SCF
- First-timers: <N>

### Notable submissions

| Project | Asks | Category | Builder status | What they do |
|---------|------|----------|----------------|--------------|
| ... | $X K | ... | repeat / first-time | one-line description |

### Patterns this round
<2-3 sentences on what categories or themes are dominant>

5.5 Optional: thesis-alignment flagging

For each active submission, optionally cross-reference with:

• ~/.claude/skills/data/ideas/a16z-big-ideas-2025.json — does this submission ride an a16z 2025 thesis (RWA, agentic payments, prediction markets, etc.)?
• ~/.claude/skills/data/ideas/yc-requests-for-startups.json — does YC explicitly want something in this category?

Submissions that hit BOTH Stellar ecosystem-fit AND broader investor thesis are 2x more likely to win the round. Flag them as "thesis-aligned" in the summary table.

6. Close with next-step suggestions

If user is considering applying:

• Route to scf-prescreen-checker to test their idea against the prescreen filter
• Route to scf-competitor-analyst if they're worried about overlap with other submissions
• Route to scf-submission-drafter if ready to draft

If user is researching:

• Offer to deep-dive any specific submission
• Offer to compare against the last 3 rounds (grep historical scf.awarded_round patterns in projects.json)

Constraints

• Be polite to communityfund.stellar.org — sequential fetches or low concurrency (5 max)
• Cache fetched data in ~/.stellar/cache/scf-round/<rec-id>.json for the session
• If the site is down or returns non-200, report cleanly and suggest the user visit communityfund.stellar.org directly. Do not fabricate data.
• If dates aren't visible on the page, say "deadline not extractable from page" — don't speculate
• The active-round detection assumes exactly one round has status "Submission" at a time. If multiple or none, surface that as a finding