Open Campus Advisor
https://api.opencampusadvisor.org/mcp ↗
Description
Live academic data across 101 US colleges and universities — directly inside Claude. Search real course catalogs updated every 60 minutes, find faculty with active NIH grants, compare schools head-to-head on any topic, navigate from a career goal to the exact courses and professors that get you there. 19 tools covering course search, faculty research, degree requirements, career outcomes, and cross-school comparison. Set your student profile once and every subsequent call filters and ranks results automatically completed courses removed, results ranked by your career targets and interests. Used for: choosing between schools, planning a semester, finding a research advisor, verifying prerequisites, mapping a path from "I want to work in climate policy" to the specific courses and funded labs at Yale, Columbia, and MIT that lead there.
What our measurements say
Open Campus Advisor is a remote MCP server published at api.opencampusadvisor.org. It has been probed 6 times since 9/10/2026. It answered in 6 of them (100.0%), a near-uninterrupted record. Median response time is 1,185 ms, a delay an agent will notice. It exposes a broad tool surface of 20 tools. On the protocol side it still runs 2025-11-25 and has not moved to the newer spec.
Agent readability score
Can an LLM agent pick the right tool here — names, descriptions and parameter clarity are assessed.
Agent readability score
Strengths
- Tool names explicitly reflect their functions (e.g., 'set_student_context', 'get_course_details')
- Descriptions often include usage context (e.g., 'use a slug as the 'school' parameter')
- Specialized tools for niche tasks like REU programs and academic path mapping
Weaknesses
- Truncated descriptions (e.g., 'IMPORTANT: For broad interdisciplinary topics...' cut off mid-sentence)
- Some parameter requirements are implied rather than explicitly stated (e.g., 'always provide a department code')
- Potential overlap between 'search_courses' and 'search_all_schools' for cross-school comparisons
search_faculty_research— Description cut off mid-sentence, losing critical context about interdisciplinary topic handlinglist_courses_for_freshmen— No explicit mention of parameter requirements in descriptionsearch_all_schools— Ambiguous parameter handling for 'topic' input without schema reference
Verdict
Event narrative
Risk: medium
- 2026-09-10T21:16:35.016Z — era changed from 'auth-gated' to 'legacy' · system transitioned to legacy mode
- 2026-09-11T05:44:28.819Z — complianceScore set from null to 100 · achieved full compliance
Advice
Schema compliance
tools/list structure, inputSchema validity, and a functional smoke test — the components of the 0-100 score.
- tools/list schema valid
- inputSchema is valid JSON Schema
- Smoke test not run this round
- Cold-start: cold 201ms → warm 196ms (penalty 5ms)
Availability history
Event log
Derived by comparing consecutive probes — changes in era, protocol version, build and reachability.
- Server build: — → 2.0.8
- Supported versions: — → 2025-11-25
- Era changed: Auth-gated → Legacy
- Added to watch — era: Auth-gated
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