Goldseam is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 43 tools.
38 services: certifications, the KSA Dictionary, CourseShelf for every IPEDS postsecondary school.
Uptime history
13 days of history
13 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
43
Tools
read from the server
290 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 142
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 10 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
21 Sep
4 tools appeared
assemble_my_formal_education, assemble_my_work_and_credentials, assert_my_life_experiences and 1 more
21 Sep
a tool changed version
19 Sep
a tool appeared
comparability_for_learning_unit
18 Sep
a tool changed version2 times that day
17 Sep
a tool changed version
16 Sep
a tool changed version5 times that day
15 Sep
a tool changed version4 times that day
15 Sep
3 tools appeared
compare_destinations, find_transitions, will_my_credits_transfer
15 Sep
2 tool descriptions were rewritten
find_comparability, get_comparability
15 Sep
2 tools disappeared
compare_destinations, find_transitions
and 125 more, back to 10 September 2026
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run in your terminal
claude mcp add goldseam --transport http https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"goldseam": {
"url": "https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.goldseam]
url = "https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"goldseam": {
"url": "https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"goldseam": {
"url": "https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 43
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
certifications
certifications_for_occupation
What certifications serve this occupation? SOC-keyed lookup (dashed SOC accepted with or without the O*NET .00 suffix).
certifications_for_program
Broad academic cross-reference by instructional program (CIP). A deliberately broader, lower-precision question than an occupation lookup — never its peer (contract § 4).
search_certifications
Which certification is this prose name? Start here for any plain question — a trade, field, job, skill, or company in everyday words. Returns candidates with ids, issuers, and source basis — candidates rather than a single guess when the name is ambiguous; the ids feed the other certification tools.
comparability
comparability_for_learning_unit
Where does this course land at other schools, and what lands on it (exams included)? The published transfer rules for one course: the rules CourseShelf holds first (a school's own catalog, CourseAtlas), then CourseAtlas's direct rules read live. Each rule names its source authority, source_url and band; comparable, never equivalent. What lands on a course is answered from the held rules only.
find_comparability
Which comparability bundles (published transfer rules) are held? Optional receiving institution UNITID, agreement id, or a learning unit that appears as a source or substitute. Answers none held when the build holds none.
get_comparability
One comparability bundle: its row (credits awarded published beside any parse), the receiving institution, and its source and substitute courses, each resolved or stated unresolved.
programs
find_programs
Which programs match these words, across institutions? Program or award words (optionally one institution's UNITID) answer with each program's award, CIP, published credit figure verbatim, edition, source page and institution.
programs_for_institution
What programs does this institution publish? Award, credential class, CIP, the published credit figure verbatim, catalog edition, the captured page each came from, and the checklist ids to pass to get_checklist.
search_programs_and_learning_units
Which programs or courses match, and where? Words, a subject (CIP family, or unknown), a course subject prefix, a credential class, an award as published, and a school's state, city, type or UNITID answer with product cards (name, award, length and college when held, school and city, subject, checklist size, and what the program leads to through the CIP-SOC crosswalk) and the counts to refine by. Courses across every school need words of 3 or more characters; words held by very many courses need a state, city or school.
assemble
assemble_my_formal_education
Read a person's transcripts into their evidence package: each file's text and status, its courses and exams as rows, and the items will_my_credits_transfer takes (courses as { unitid or school, code }; AP, CLEP and IB exams with a score). Ask the person for each transcript and the school it came from. Several transcripts are read side by side. A school several schools' names fit is answered with the candidates, and nothing is read. Nothing is stored: the answer returns the package for the agent to keep.
assemble_my_work_and_credentials
Read a person's resume, LinkedIn export, certificates, military records and apprenticeship records into their evidence package: each file's text and status, and the credential signals the certificate, military and apprenticeship documents carry. Ask the person for each file. This assembles; the Selfie is my_selfie_ksa_view. Nothing is stored: the answer returns the package for the agent to keep.
checklists
checklists_requiring_learning_unit
Which checklists require this course? Each requirement item that resolved to it, with its checklist id, award and group heading. Items that did not resolve to a course are never guessed into this list.
find_checklists
Which checklists — the generic itinerary of requirements for an award — does this institution publish? Optional award words or a program id narrow them; pass one to get_checklist.
compare
compare_destinations
Line up 2 to 6 destination occupations side by side from one occupation: the bridge size (credential only, or the program bridges' awards as published), O*NET demand (median wage, outlook, bright outlook) and the evidence classes of the roads. Each cell is copied or counted, never scored.
compare_program_checklists
Compare what a program takes at several institutions: for each IPEDS UNITID, that institution's published checklist for the program (requirement groups, items, published credit strings — the work effort) beside its published tuition and fee policy (the cost). Schedule is stated not held. Nothing is summed or computed by the service; an institution, checklist, or cost the catalogs do not hold is stated as such.
institution
find_institution
Which institution is this? A name fragment or an IPEDS UNITID answers with the institution's identity, sector, identifiers with their sources, and how many programs, checklists, and learning units its published catalog holds here. A state lists that state's institutions by name; with no name and no state, the answer is the states that hold institutions, each with its count.
get_institution
Everything held about one institution: its identity row, identifiers, addresses, websites, accreditations, relationships, identity history, published costs and calendar dates, each table under its own name, with counts of its programs, courses, checklists, catalogs, policies and agreements and the service that lists each. Contacts name people and are not served.
learning
get_learning_unit
One course whole: its row, prerequisites and corequisites, aliases, terms offered, articulation statements and comparable members — each linked course resolved or stated unresolved, never guessed — plus the transfer frameworks it maps to.
learning_units
What courses does this institution publish? Filter by subject abbreviation, course code (spaces and case ignored), or title words; each course carries its published credit string verbatim (ranges stay ranges), edition, and the captured page.
transfer
find_transfer_frameworks
Which statewide or compact transfer frameworks are held? Optional name or jurisdiction words. Answers none held when the build holds none.
get_transfer_framework
One transfer framework: its row, authority, codes with their meanings, and the courses mapped to it (resolved).
agreement
get_agreement
One agreement: its row, its parties (organizations resolved), and the pathways, comparability bundles and checklists that cite it. Signatories name people and are not served.
agreements
find_agreements
Which articulation or transfer agreements are held? Optional title words, or an institution's UNITID as a party. Answers none held when the build holds none.
assert
assert_my_life_experiences
Record what a person says they have done outside school and work (family, clubs, sports, faith, travel, self-taught projects, challenges) in their evidence package, each placed in a Selfie dimension by the KSA classifier or left unresolved, never defaulted. These are the person's own statements, kept apart from formal education. Nothing is stored: the answer returns the package for the agent to keep.
catalog
get_catalog
One catalog edition: its row, the institutions that use it (and whom it is shared from), and how many programs it holds.
catalogs
find_catalogs
Which published catalog editions are held for this institution? Each catalog's edition year, format and source. Answers none held when the build holds none.
certification
get_certification
Everything held about one certification: issuer and issuer domain, occupations served, exam and renewal requirements, education-or-experience routes, Credential Engine registry identity where held, and the basis and source URL for the claim.
checklist
get_checklist
What does this award require? One checklist: its requirement groups (every header and full item count), each group's items with published credit strings, alternatives, and — where an item resolved to a course — that course's own code, title, and published credits, attributed to the course. Items come in pages across the groups; the answer states items_total and next_item_offset. Every row names the captured page it came from.
courseshelf
get_courseshelf_summary
What does CourseShelf hold? From the records published with the build, read as published and never computed: per catalog area, how many institutions have loaded content and how many records were loaded; every table's row count; organizations by sector; the census of the whole index with its verdicts; and per-state counts and per-school verdicts where the build publishes them. Anything not published for this build is said so.
crosswalk
crosswalk_code
What does this code cross to? Auto-detects the family — dotted CIP (52.0201) or dashed SOC (11-1021, O*NET .00 suffix accepted) — and answers the other family's codes and titles from the federal CIP-SOC crosswalk.
expand
expand_term
What is this word, upward? Walks the WordNet is-a (hypernym) chain meaning to parent meaning, from the word's KSA-mapped sense toward its broader categories, so every step stays in the sense it started in. Each step carries its definition (gloss) and synonyms.
issuers
list_issuers
The issuing organizations, optionally filtered by a name query.
occupations
occupations_for_certification
What occupations does this certification serve?
pathway
get_pathway
One pathway: its row and the checklist and agreement it links. Contacts name people and are not served.
pathways
find_pathways
Which pathways are held? Optional title words, an agreement id, or a checklist id. Answers none held when the build holds none.
policies
find_policies
Which academic policies does this institution publish (transfer credit, prior learning, tuition and fees …)? Optional words narrow them. Answers none held when the build holds none.
policy
get_policy
One published academic policy: its section, verbatim text, page, edition and source.
program
get_program
One program whole: its row, identifiers, offerings (campus resolved), its institution, and the checklists that lead to its award — pass one to get_checklist.
related
related_certifications
What else serves the same occupation? Traverses on SOC only — a certification sharing solely an instructional program (CIP) is not related (contract § 4).
resolve
resolve_term
Where does a word place in the KSA model? The KSA Dictionary is the shared vocabulary that defines the terms a learner uses to assert what they know, do, and are — and the terms a learning offering uses to express what it comprises — so both sides resolve to the same identifiers, never spelling matches. Answers from three linked layers (governed lexicon, O*NET content model, WordNet-derived index), each placement attributed to its layer with provenance; the WordNet placement carries the word's definition (gloss) and synonyms.
selfie
my_selfie_ksa_view
The person's Selfie from their evidence package: the seven dimensions (skills, knowledge, abilities and more) as the evidence shows them, each item citing the file, the occupation O*NET describes, or the life experience it came from, plus what could not be placed. It mirrors, for the person to confirm, refine or reject; it is never a grade or a credit decision. The person's placements and dismissals in the package's selfie.learner_decisions are honored. Nothing is stored: the answer returns the package with the Selfie for the agent to keep.
transitions
find_transitions
Where can this occupation lead? For a SOC code: destination occupations, each with its typed roads (published by O*NET or by a credential serving both; mapped through the CIP-SOC crosswalk), each road with its source, basis and its class's karat; the bridges (credentials with their exam, education and experience conditions, and programs with checklists nearest the state given); and demand as O*NET publishes it. Roads only, no person data.
will
will_my_credits_transfer
Will my prior credits apply as credit at my target school? For each thing a person holds (an AP, CLEP or IB exam and its score, or a course taken at a school) the target school's own published transfer rules (CourseAtlas) and CollegeBoard's reported AP policy, in three states: covered (a rule carries it to a course at the target), missing (the target's own rule needs a higher score), unknown (no rule held; never a guess). Each covered item names the course it lands as, every rule with its minimum score and dates, how many rules agree, and the target's programs whose checklists require that course. A case to argue, not a verdict; recognition is the school's act.
Tools removed
Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.
courseshelf_rows
removed 11 Sep 2026
courseshelf_status
removed 11 Sep 2026
courseshelf_tables
removed 11 Sep 2026
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 238 ms | 13 min ago |
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Goldseam — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Goldseam do?
It exposes 43 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: assemble_my_formal_education, assemble_my_work_and_credentials, assert_my_life_experiences, certifications_for_occupation, certifications_for_program, checklists_requiring_learning_unit and 37 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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What is Goldseam mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around certifications, comparability and programs. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Goldseam working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 290 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Goldseam ever remove tools?
Yes. courseshelf_rows, courseshelf_status, courseshelf_tables are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
How do I connect Goldseam?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Goldseam need an API key?
No. Goldseam completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 43 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Goldseam?
It answers our handshake in 290 ms on average, which is faster than 55% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.