Cala Skill

Cala pre-processes the world's public information and serves it as structured data for AI agents. Instead of scraping web pages, your agent queries Cala and gets back typed, sourced JSON — for any real-world entity.

What Cala covers

  • Organizations — companies, startups, investment firms, educational institutions, stock exchanges. Query by sector, location, funding stage, employee count, revenue, or any combination. Traverse ownership chains, subsidiaries, and parent companies.
  • People — founders, executives (CEO, CTO, COO), board members, investors. Find who runs a company, who sits on a board, or which people have moved between organizations.
  • Funding & investment — funding rounds by series, amount, date, and investor. Portfolio lookups for VC and PE firms. Investor co-investment patterns.
  • M&A & corporate events — acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, SEC filings, and other corporate actions with sourced dates.
  • Industries & markets — sector-level data, competitive landscapes, and cross-industry relationships.
  • Laws & regulations — legislation and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, EU AI Act, etc.) with scope, definitions, and requirements.
  • Countries & regions — geopolitical entities, economic profiles, sovereign funds, and country-level relationships.
  • Products — named products, their makers, launch dates, and entity relationships.
  • Events & awards — conferences, summits, industry awards, and their participants or recipients.

All responses include sources with URLs and data freshness dates.

Prerequisites

You need a Cala API key to use this skill: https://console.cala.ai/api-keys

Installing the skill

The skill file (SKILL.md) gives your agent the knowledge it needs to query Cala effectively — what tools exist, how to use them, and how to handle edge cases.

npx skills add cala-ai/cala-skill

This installs the skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Amp, Codex, and more in one step.

Connecting to Cala

The skill alone gives your agent the instructions — pairing it with a live Cala connection lets your agent actually execute queries in real time. This combination is the recommended setup.

MCP (recommended):

For clients with native HTTP MCP support (Cursor, VS Code):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Cala": {
      "url": "https://api.cala.ai/mcp/",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-KEY": "YOUR_CALA_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

For Claude Desktop and other clients:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Cala": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.cala.ai/mcp/",
        "--header",
        "X-API-KEY: YOUR_CALA_API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Full setup guide: https://docs.cala.ai/integrations/mcp

REST API:

Base URL: https://api.cala.ai/v1
Auth header: X-API-KEY: <your-key>
Full spec: https://api.cala.ai/openapi.json

Tools

Once connected, your agent has access to five tools:

Tool Use
knowledge_query Filter and list entities by criteria
knowledge_search Open-ended questions with cited answers
entity_search Fuzzy name → UUID lookup
retrieve_entity UUID → full structured profile
entity_introspection Discover available fields for an entity

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