Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets.

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Install Education Data Context

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill education-data-context -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills education-data-context --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/skills/education-data-context .claude/skills/education-data-context && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
education-data-context
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~5.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,123 words
Files
7 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets.

  • Works in 7 steps: Compare state assessment scores across… → Use IPEDS graduation rates to represent… → Assume Scorecard earnings represent all… → …
  • Interpreting Portal data before analysis
  • SKILL.md covers Why Data Context Matters, Data Provenance: The Education…, Reference File Structure and Decision Trees, plus 6 more sections
  • Reaches educationdata.urban.org

What it does

Education Data Context is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets. Coded values (-1/-2/-3), year definitions, grade encoding, suppression, licensing, cross-source joins. Use when interpreting Portal data before analysis. Routes to source-specific skills.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including reference files (for example `references/ccd-context.md`, `references/crdc-context.md` and `references/data-relationships.md`).

It sits in Data & Analytics. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Interpreting Portal data before analysis

Example prompts

  • “/education-data-context”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Compare state assessment scores across states (EDFacts)
  2. Use IPEDS graduation rates to represent all students
  3. Assume Scorecard earnings represent all graduates
  4. Calculate statistics without filtering coded values
  5. Compare 2020-2021 data to prior years without noting COVID
  6. Merge data across years assuming stable identifiers
  7. Assume Portal rate variables are on a 0-100 percentage scale

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • educationdata.urban.org

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Education Data Context loads about 5.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~23k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,123 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.9k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~23k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,123 words (~5,923 tokens).

“Data origin, caveats, and interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Education Data Portal datasets. Use when interpreting Portal coded values (-1/-2/-3 missing/not-applicable/suppressed), understanding year definitions (fall vs. academic year), applying correct grade encoding (grade=-1 means Pre-K, not missing), assessing suppression rates…”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
education-data-context
metadata.audience
any-agent
metadata.domain
data-documentation

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (references) in skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/skills/education-data-context of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/ccd-context.md
  • references/crdc-context.md
  • references/data-relationships.md
  • references/edfacts-context.md
  • references/ipeds-context.md
  • references/scorecard-context.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Education Data Context

What does Education Data Context do?

Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets. Education Data Context is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets.

When should I use Education Data Context?

Education Data Context fits situations like: interpreting Portal data before analysis.

How do I install Education Data Context in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill education-data-context -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/skills/education-data-context in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/education-data-context in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Education Data Context in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill education-data-context -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/skills/education-data-context in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/education-data-context in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Education Data Context in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill education-data-context -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/education-data-context, .gemini/skills/education-data-context, .github/skills/education-data-context and .opencode/skills/education-data-context in your project.

What does Education Data Context need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Education Data Context is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Education Data Context access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: educationdata.urban.org; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Education Data Context safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Education Data Context use?

Education Data Context has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Education Data Context use?

About 5.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 24k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 17k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Education Data Context?

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Who maintains Education Data Context?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,542 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.