GoldSeam
The marketplace for teaching, training and learning — to explore, compare and engage with, through the AI you already use.
https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp
No authentication. No account. No sign-up. It is a public service, published by AcademyOne, Inc., the company behind KSAWorks.
GoldSeam speaks the Model Context Protocol over streamable HTTP. Every answer carries its source and the date of the snapshot that produced it, and an absence is stated as an absence rather than filled in.
What you can do here. Explore what postsecondary organizations offer — programs, courses, checklists, certifications, and the careers they lead to. Compare them on what actually differs: what a program requires, what your credits and exams may count as, what a certification takes. Engage — take an answer to the school that decides, with its source attached.
Why it exists. The advising conversation has moved. People ask the assistant on their phone, not a portal, and what is missing there is not authoritative information about teaching, training and learning — it is that the information is scattered across every institution that publishes it. GoldSeam puts it in one seam, wherever the person already is: assistant-agnostic by design, so a new surface is new reach rather than a new integration.
Connect it
In Claude — open Customize → Connectors, click + → Add custom connector, paste the address, click Add. Then in any chat press + → Connectors and switch GoldSeam on.
Using ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, VS Code or your own agent? Same address —
install/ has that client's steps, a mcp.json snippet, and a skill that teaches an AI
how to ask GoldSeam well.
No AI app at all? The same data answers questions in a browser at KSAWorks.
What it covers
CourseShelf — colleges and what they teach, from the institutions' own published catalogs. Identify a school by name or IPEDS UNITID, or list a state's; read its programs, its courses, its checklists (the requirements for an award), its catalogs and its published policies; search programs and courses across schools; compare two schools' checklists for the same program side by side.
GoldCheck — will my credits transfer. Give a course history or an exam score and see what a named school's own published rules and catalog say it may count as.
GoldRibbon — your own record. Hand your AI transcripts, a resume, certifications or military records, add life experiences in your own words, and get your Competency Selfie and what your prior learning may earn as credit against a named program's checklist. Your AI keeps the package; GoldSeam stores nothing.
Industry Certifications — search by a trade, field, job or company; everything held about one certification (issuer, occupations served, exam and renewal requirements, Credential Engine identity); the certifications that serve an occupation (SOC) or cross-reference an academic program (CIP); the issuing bodies.
Transitions — where a path can lead: the destinations reachable from where a person stands, and how they compare.
KSA Dictionary — the shared vocabulary. Resolve a word to where it places in the KSA model across a governed lexicon, the O*NET content model and a WordNet-derived index, each answer attributed to its layer; walk a word up its is-a chain; cross a program code to occupations and back; ask what the dictionary itself holds.
Each area has its own page under docs/areas/, and
examples/ holds real runs — the prompt as asked and the answer as returned, stamped
with the build and the data publish that produced it.
Reading an answer
| You see | It means |
|---|---|
| a named source | a school's own catalog page, a published rule, or the federal record |
| a snapshot date | which capture answered, so you always know how current it is |
| not held | we have not captured that yet. An honest gap, not an opinion |
| offline | the catalog service was unreachable at that moment. Try again |
GoldSeam never invents a school, a course or a requirement. If it cannot find one, it says so.
Coverage is uneven while catalogs are being captured, and the service publishes its own coverage
measure — ask it with get_courseshelf_summary. No number is written on this page, because the
service's own answer is always the current one.
Using it beyond a first look
Nothing is required to connect. Anonymous use carries a daily allowance; past it, the answer points at a free key-request form. A key is authorization to keep using the service, not authentication to reach it — it raises the allowance and names your organization in the usage record. Ask for one at https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/request-key.
Privacy
The usage record keeps counts only — no personal record, and nothing a person types. Evidence handed to GoldRibbon is held by your AI, not by this service. The full statement: ksaworks.com/privacy.html · see also SECURITY.md.
Support
Open an issue here, or write to [email protected].
What is in this repository
This repository is GoldSeam's public face: what the services answer, how to connect, worked examples and use cases. It does not contain the server's source.
server.json | the manifest published to the MCP Registry as com.ksaworks/goldseam |
docs/ | one page per area, how to read an answer, how to ask about coverage, use cases |
examples/ | recorded runs, each stamped with the build and publish that produced it |
install/ | per-client connection steps, the mcp.json snippet, the skill |
CHANGELOG.md | what changed for a person, at each release and each data publish |
Prose here is CC BY 4.0; snippets are MIT. See LICENSE.