Gov Competitive Intel

SEC filings, company news, federal contracts, and company profiles. 4 tools for competitive intelligence.

Security Scan

The skill's description, required binary, and runtime instructions are internally consistent, but it delegates execution to a third‑party MCP server (competitive-intel-mcp.apify.actor) which you should only trust if you verify its provenance.

Purpose & Capability

The skill claims to provide SEC filings, news, contracts, and profiles and its SKILL.md describes tools that map directly to those data sources. The declared required binary (mcporter) matches the setup instructions for adding a remote MCP server, so the requested capability is proportionate to the stated purpose.

Instruction Scope

Instructions do not ask the agent to read unrelated local files or environment variables, but they do tell you to add a remote MCP server URL (https://competitive-intel-mcp.apify.actor/mcp) and/or write that entry into ~/.openclaw/mcp.json. That delegates runtime tool behavior to a third party; the agent will send queries and accept responses from that remote server, which is expected for this skill but is a privacy/trust consideration.

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec and no code files — this is instruction-only. Risk from installation is low, but it requires the mcporter binary to already be present on the system.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables or credentials, consistent with its claim of using free public APIs. No unrelated secrets are requested.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill does not request 'always' or system-wide elevated privileges. However, the setup instructs adding a persistent entry to ~/.openclaw/mcp.json or running mcporter add, which stores the external MCP server configuration on disk and gives the agent persistent access to that server until you remove it.

Assessment

Before installing or enabling this skill: verify you trust the remote MCP server (competitive-intel-mcp.apify.actor) and the GitHub/homepage owner; confirm the provenance of the mcporter binary you already have; inspect or manually add the ~/.openclaw/mcp.json entry rather than blindly running commands; avoid sending sensitive or proprietary data in queries (the remote server will receive your queries); if you’re uncomfortable trusting a third party, run a local or organizational MCP endpoint that proxies only the specific public APIs you want to use.

Competitive Intelligence

Company research combining SEC filings, news, federal contracts, and comprehensive profiles.

Setup

mcporter add gov-intel --url https://competitive-intel-mcp.apify.actor/mcp --transport streamable-http

Or add to your OpenClaw MCP config (~/.openclaw/mcp.json):

{
  "servers": {
    "gov-intel": {
      "url": "https://competitive-intel-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

intel_company_filings

Search SEC EDGAR for a company's regulatory filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc).

Show Apple's recent SEC filings
Find Tesla 10-K annual reports

Parameters: companyName (required), formType, dateFrom (YYYY-MM-DD), dateTo, limit

intel_company_news

Search recent news articles about a company.

Show recent news about Microsoft
What's in the news about Nvidia?

Parameters: query (required), limit

intel_company_contracts

Search USASpending.gov for federal awards to a specific company.

Show federal contracts for Palantir
Find government grants to SpaceX

Parameters: companyName (required), awardType ("contracts", "grants", "loans", or "all"), dateFrom (YYYY-MM-DD), dateTo, limit, page

intel_company_profile

Get a comprehensive competitive intelligence snapshot combining filings, news, and contract data.

Build a competitive profile for CrowdStrike
Get full intel on Booz Allen Hamilton

Parameters: companyName (required)

Data Sources

• SEC EDGAR — Company regulatory filings
• Google News — Recent company news
• USASpending.gov — Federal contract awards

Use Cases

• Competitive analysis and benchmarking
• Vendor and partner due diligence
• Investment research
• Government contractor intelligence

All data from free public APIs. Zero cost. No API keys required.