Lamar University

AIEP Explorer MCP endpoint

Degree programs, the federal occupations they lead to, and the skills those occupations actually demand, served over the Model Context Protocol.

Endpoint

https://aiepmcp.igl.dev/mcp

Streamable HTTP, stateless JSON. POST JSON-RPC 2.0. A GET on the same URL returns server info and the tool list.

Connecting

Any MCP client that supports a remote HTTP server. For a client that expects a config block:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiep-explorer": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiepmcp.igl.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

No key, no sign-in. The catalog tools are read-only over published federal data.

What it serves

284 Lamar degree programs, each with a six-digit CIP 2020 code and a stated match confidence
311 federal occupations with full profiles: durable skills, AI-era skills, the real named software, domain knowledge and regulations, credentials, the BLS median wage and ten-year projection, and a link back to the O*NET source
38 emerging roles that have no federal occupation code yet, labelled as forecasts
1,413 CIP to SOC relationship rows, each recording how it was joined and against which pinned crosswalk release

Tools

Tool	What it answers
`aiep_catalog_overview`	What is here, where it came from, what not to over-claim
`aiep_search_programs`	Find programs by name, college, level, delivery, CIP or occupation
`aiep_get_program`	One program in full: CIP, occupations, skills, overview, provenance
`aiep_list_program_occupations`	The raw crosswalk rows behind a program, for an audit trail
`aiep_get_occupation`	One occupation in full, plus the programs that feed it
`aiep_search_skills`	Which programs name a given skill, and how strongly
`aiep_search_jobs`	Live postings by title, keywords, location, employment type
`aiep_get_job_details`	One posting in full: description, requirements, benefits
`aiep_get_resume`	The connected account holder's own experience
`aiep_get_company_data`	Employer research: satisfaction, pay, culture, reviews
`aiep_posting_reality_scan`	Runs a program's occupations against live postings and reports what hiring is actually happening nearby

The five job tools require a jobs API credential configured on this deployment. Until one is set they return setup instructions rather than failing silently. Every other tool works now.

Where the data comes from

Occupations reach a program through the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, a joint NCES and BLS product. The version is pinned in the data and returned by aiep_catalog_overview, so evidence inventories stay auditable across review cycles.

Four things to know before quoting any of it:

The crosswalk is theoretical, not empirical. Matches come from CIP and SOC content descriptions plus federal statistician judgment, not from what graduates actually did.
The relationship is many to many by design. One CIP maps to several occupations and one occupation to several programs.
The six-digit CIP codes were assigned by name matching against the CIP 2020 dictionary, constrained by the four-digit codes from College Scorecard field-of-study data. Each program carries a confidence value. Confirm against Lamar's own IPEDS Completions reporting before treating a code as official.
Nothing is padded. A program showing two occupations is showing what is real for it. One program has no federally coded occupation at all, and the tools say so rather than inventing one.