NCCS — Form 990 data for private nonprofit colleges (Portal: IPEDS-matched, 1993-2016).

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Install Education Data Source Nccs

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill education-data-source-nccs -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-nccs --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-nccs .claude/skills/education-data-source-nccs && 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-nccs
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~4.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,527 words
Files
6 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

NCCS — Form 990 data for private nonprofit colleges (Portal: IPEDS-matched, 1993-2016).

  • Works in 4 steps: Fetch data via… → Filter and clean → Link to IPEDS using unitid and year… → …
  • IRS financial depth needed
  • SKILL.md covers What is NCCS?, Reference File Structure, Decision Trees and Quick Reference: NCCS Datasets…, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Education Data Source Nccs is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. NCCS — Form 990 data for private nonprofit colleges (Portal: IPEDS-matched, 1993-2016). Revenue, expenses, assets, endowment, governance beyond IPEDS. Use when IRS financial depth needed. Portal ends 2016; public institutions excluded (no Form 990).

Its SKILL.md is about 4.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including reference files (for example `references/education-relevance.md`, `references/form-990.md` and `references/nonprofit-data.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

  • IRS financial depth needed

Example prompts

  • “/education-data-source-nccs”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

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

  1. Fetch data via fetch_from_mirrors("nccs/colleges_nccs_all")
  2. Filter and clean
  3. Link to IPEDS using unitid and year columns
  4. Analyze — See variable definitions for meaning and limitations

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

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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 Nccs loads about 4.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~24k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,527 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~69
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~24k

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 1,527 words (~4,166 tokens).

“National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) Form 990 data for private nonprofit colleges and universities (Portal mirror: IPEDS-matched institutions, 1993-2016). Use when IRS-based financial data — revenue, expenses, assets, endowment details — or governance information (board composition, executive compensation) is…”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
education-data-source-nccs
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 5 other files (references) in skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/skills/education-data-source-nccs of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/education-relevance.md
  • references/form-990.md
  • references/nonprofit-data.md
  • references/ntee-codes.md
  • references/variable-definitions.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Education Data Source Nccs

What does Education Data Source Nccs do?

NCCS — Form 990 data for private nonprofit colleges (Portal: IPEDS-matched, 1993-2016). Education Data Source Nccs is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. NCCS — Form 990 data for private nonprofit colleges (Portal: IPEDS-matched, 1993-2016).

When should I use Education Data Source Nccs?

Education Data Source Nccs fits situations like: IRS financial depth needed.

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

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

How do I install Education Data Source Nccs in Codex?

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

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

What does Education Data Source Nccs need to run?

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

Does Education Data Source Nccs access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Education Data Source Nccs 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 Nccs use?

Education Data Source Nccs 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 Nccs use?

About 4.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 17k 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 20k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Education Data Source Nccs?

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Who maintains Education Data Source Nccs?

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.