Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE).

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Install Education Data Explorer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill education-data-explorer -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-explorer --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-explorer .claude/skills/education-data-explorer && 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-explorer
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~6k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,106 words
Files
6 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE).

  • Works in 7 steps: Identify data level → Identify relevant data source(s) → Check available endpoints → …
  • Map questions to data
  • SKILL.md covers What is the Education Data…, Reference File Structure, Decision Trees and Quick Reference: Data Levels, plus 11 more sections
  • Reaches educationdata.urban.org

What it does

Education Data Explorer is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE). Use to map questions to data. Load before education-data-query — discovery here, download there.

Its SKILL.md is about 6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including reference files (for example `references/colleges-endpoints.md`, `references/districts-endpoints.md` and `references/metadata-api.md`).

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

  • Map questions to data

Example prompts

  • “Use the education-data-explorer skill to discover education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD…”
  • “/education-data-explorer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify data level
  2. Identify relevant data source(s)
  3. Check available endpoints
  4. Review variables and filters
  5. Check years available
  6. Understand source context (RECOMMENDED)
  7. Plan query

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 json and 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 Explorer loads about 6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~25k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,106 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~25k

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 2,106 words (~6,042 tokens).

“Discovers available education data from the Urban Institute Education Data Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, and join keys for schools, districts, and colleges (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE, and more). Use during discovery and scoping phases when identifying what data…”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
education-data-explorer
metadata.audience
research-planner
metadata.domain
data-access

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (references) in skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/skills/education-data-explorer of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/colleges-endpoints.md
  • references/districts-endpoints.md
  • references/metadata-api.md
  • references/schools-endpoints.md
  • references/variable-codes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Education Data Explorer

What does Education Data Explorer do?

Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE). Education Data Explorer is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE).

When should I use Education Data Explorer?

Education Data Explorer fits situations like: map questions to data.

How do I install Education Data Explorer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Education Data Explorer in Codex?

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

Can I use Education Data Explorer 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-explorer -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-explorer, .gemini/skills/education-data-explorer, .github/skills/education-data-explorer and .opencode/skills/education-data-explorer in your project.

What does Education Data Explorer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Education Data Explorer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Education Data Explorer 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 Explorer 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 Explorer use?

Education Data Explorer 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 Explorer use?

About 6k 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 19k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Education Data Explorer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Education Data Explorer: Exploring Endpoint Execution Logs (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars), Explorer (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Agent Scout Explorer (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars) and Discover Plugins (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Education Data Explorer?

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.