GoldSeam

One address where an AI gets sourced answers about learning and work.

https://goldseam.ksaworks.com/mcp

No account. No key. 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.

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 intelligence — it is authoritative information about schools, programs, requirements and credentials. GoldSeam supplies that underneath, wherever the person already is: assistant-agnostic by design, so a new surface is new reach rather than a new integration. It is the connecting layer of the learning-to-earning marketplace AcademyOne is building.

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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.

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What it answers

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.

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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.

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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 guidedbyacademyone@gmail.com.

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.