Agent skill

Education Data Source Ipeds

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

IPEDS — primary federal postsecondary data (~6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, aid, admissions, HR.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Education Data Source Ipeds

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill education-data-source-ipeds -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-source-ipeds --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-source-ipeds .claude/skills/education-data-source-ipeds && 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-source-ipeds
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~6k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,161 words
Files
9 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

IPEDS — primary federal postsecondary data (~6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, aid, admissions, HR.

  • Business, Finance & HR work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers What is IPEDS?, Reference File Structure, Decision Trees and Quick Reference: Survey…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Education Data Source Ipeds is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. IPEDS — primary federal postsecondary data (~6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, aid, admissions, HR. For college/university analysis. Grad rates = first-time full-time; finance needs GASB/FASB care.

Its SKILL.md is about 6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 9 other files, including reference files (for example `references/completions-data.md`, `references/data-quality.md` and `references/enrollment-data.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR. 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

  • Business, Finance & HR work in your project

Example prompts

  • “Use the education-data-source-ipeds skill to iped — primary federal postsecondary data (~6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions…”
  • “/education-data-source-ipeds”

Requirements

  • Python 3

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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • nces.ed.gov

    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 Source Ipeds loads about 6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~38k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,161 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~70
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
~38k

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 2,161 words (~6,035 tokens).

“IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) — the primary federal data system for ~6,500 U.S. postsecondary institutions, comprising 12+ annual survey components: enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, financial aid, admissions, human resources, and institutional characteristics (1980-present, varies by component). Use…”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
education-data-source-ipeds
metadata.audience
any-agent
metadata.domain
data-source
metadata.skill-authored
2026-02-09
metadata.skill-last-updated
2026-02-09

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (references) in skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/skills/education-data-source-ipeds of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/completions-data.md
  • references/data-quality.md
  • references/enrollment-data.md
  • references/finance-data.md
  • references/financial-aid.md
  • references/graduation-rates.md
  • references/institution-identifiers.md
  • references/survey-components.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Education Data Source Ipeds

What does Education Data Source Ipeds do?

IPEDS — primary federal postsecondary data (~6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, aid, admissions, HR. Education Data Source Ipeds is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. IPEDS — primary federal postsecondary data (~6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, aid, admissions, HR.

When should I use Education Data Source Ipeds?

Education Data Source Ipeds fits situations like: business, Finance & HR work in your project.

How do I install Education Data Source Ipeds in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Education Data Source Ipeds in Codex?

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

Can I use Education Data Source Ipeds 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-source-ipeds -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-source-ipeds, .gemini/skills/education-data-source-ipeds, .github/skills/education-data-source-ipeds and .opencode/skills/education-data-source-ipeds in your project.

What does Education Data Source Ipeds need to run?

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

Does Education Data Source Ipeds access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: nces.ed.gov. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Education Data Source Ipeds 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 Source Ipeds use?

Education Data Source Ipeds 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 Source Ipeds 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 32k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Education Data Source Ipeds?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Education Data Source Ipeds: Technical Analyst (tradermonty/claude-trading-skills, 3k stars), Theme Detector (tradermonty/claude-trading-skills, 3k stars), Creating Financial Models (Chen-zexi/open-ptc-agent, 729 stars) and Stock API (zhangxiangliang/stock-api, 2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Education Data Source Ipeds?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 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.