# Degreed MCP for AI Agents MCP

> Degreed connects your AI agent directly to a major LXP system. It lets you search training catalogs by keyword, track specific employee skill profiles against defined company taxonomies, and monitor completion records for entire departments through conversation.

## Overview
- **Category:** productivity
- **Price:** Free
- **Tags:** upskilling, skill-tracking, content-discovery, learning-pathways, employee-development, corporate-training

## Description

Instead of navigating multiple dashboards and manually compiling reports on who finished what course, let your AI client do the heavy lifting. This MCP gives you a full view into your organization's learning landscape. You can ask complex questions—like 'Who needs training in Python by Q3?' or 'What are our top three skill gaps right now?'—and get immediate, structured answers. It pulls together data on available content, current skill levels, and individual progress plans into one conversational stream. Everything is managed through the Vinkius catalog, giving you access to this powerful LXP integration without needing complex coding endpoints. This means your agents can finally give you deep insights into talent development, making learning oversight a simple conversation.

## Tools

### get_content_details
Retrieves deep metadata, skill tags, and duration information for a specific learning item.

### get_user_profile
Pulls the full profile data for a user, including their assigned skill ratings and active pathways.

### list_active_learners
Lists users who have recently completed learning items within your Degreed workspace.

### list_learning_content
Returns general metadata for all available learning content, such as titles and providers.

### list_learning_pathways
Lists curated learning paths, including their stated objectives and total required duration.

### list_learning_plans
Returns active learning plans, detailing target completion dates and linked core competencies.

### list_defined_skills
Provides the standardized taxonomy of skills and competencies used across your entire organization for talent mapping.

### list_user_completions
Generates a history report showing all learning items completed by one user, including timestamps and earned points.

### list_degreed_users
Lists every registered user in your Degreed organization, along with their professional titles and system IDs.

### search_learning_catalog
Searches the entire learning catalog by keywords to provide a ranked list of relevant materials.

## Prompt Examples

**Prompt:** 
```
What's going on with the 'Engineering' team? Who finished their core security module?
```

**Response:** 
```
**Learning Progress Report: Engineering**

*   **Completed Learners:** 14 out of 20 members have completed the Security Fundamentals course.
*   **Top Performers (Last 7 Days):** John Doe, Jane Smith. Both earned 50 skill points in 'Network Security'.
*   **Next Up:** The remaining six employees need to complete the advanced module next week.
```

**Prompt:** 
```
I need a list of all learning paths for our new managers.
```

**Response:** 
```
Here are the top three active leadership pathways available:

1.  **Leadership Foundations**: Objective: Build team management skills. Duration: 4 weeks.
2.  **Conflict Resolution Mastery**: Objective: Improve difficult conversation handling. Duration: Self-paced (8 hours).
3.  **Budgeting for Non-Finance Leads**: Objective: Understand P&L basics. Duration: 2 weeks.
```

**Prompt:** 
```
Show me all content related to 'Python' and its details.
```

**Response:** 
```
I found 5 items matching 'Python'. Here are the top results:

*   **Intro to Pandas:** Type: Course. Provider: DataCorp. Duration: 4 hours.
*   **Advanced Python Security:** Type: Article. Provider: Internal L&D. Duration: 10 minutes.
*   **ML Basics with Python:** Type: Video. Provider: TechStream. Duration: 90 minutes.
```

## Capabilities

### Search for Learning Content
The agent finds courses, articles, and videos across the entire Degreed catalog based on keywords or topics.

### Analyze User Skill Profiles
You can review a user's full skill data, seeing their assigned ratings and current learning progress within the system.

### List Available Learning Materials
The agent pulls metadata for all content available in the catalog, including course types and external links.

### Track User Completion Records
Get a full history of every learning item a specific user has finished, along with completion dates and earned skill points.

### Identify Core Skill Sets
It retrieves the standardized list of skills and competencies defined by your organization for talent mapping purposes.

### Monitor Learning Goals
The agent lists active learning plans, showing target completion dates and associated required competencies.

## Use Cases

### Onboarding New Hires
A new manager needs to know what training resources are available for the 'Sales' department. They ask the agent, which uses `search_learning_catalog` and `list_defined_skills`, getting a prioritized list of mandatory courses and skill gaps in minutes.

### Quarterly Skill Audit
The HR director needs to know if any team has enough senior developers trained on 'React.js'. The agent runs `list_defined_skills` and then checks multiple user profiles using `get_user_profile`, providing a summary of proficiency levels.

### Pathway Completion Check
A team lead needs to check if three employees are on track for their certification goals. The agent pulls data from `list_learning_plans` and combines it with completion history via `list_user_completions`.

### Content Discovery for a Project
A department head starts a project and needs to know which existing training materials cover 'GDPR compliance' and 'Cloud Architecture'. The agent uses `search_learning_catalog` and then calls `get_content_details` on the top results.

## Benefits

- Instantly map skills gaps. Instead of manually cross-referencing spreadsheets, you can ask the agent to compare a team's current skill ratings against required competencies defined by `list_defined_skills`.
- Stop wasting time on simple data retrieval. Use `search_learning_catalog` to find specific courses in seconds, providing titles and content types without needing to click through dozens of search filters.
- Get a full picture of individual performance. The agent processes `get_user_profile` to give you not just skill ratings, but also active pathway details and progress percentages for any employee.
- Monitor team momentum automatically. With tools like `list_active_learners`, you can quickly identify who finished what recently, letting managers focus on follow-up instead of tracking completion records.
- Orchestrate entire development cycles. You can review structured goals using `list_learning_plans` and track how close a user is to meeting their target competency dates.

## How It Works

The bottom line is, you talk to your AI client like talking to an L&D coordinator; it does the data querying and reporting for you.

1. Connect the Degreed MCP to your preferred AI client.
2. Authorize access using your specific Degreed Client ID and Secret keys.
3. Use natural language prompts—like asking about a team's skill gaps or finding courses on 'Cloud Security'—and the agent performs the lookup.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**How does the Degreed MCP help me find out what skills my team is missing?**
It lets you run deep skill gap analyses by comparing your current workforce profiles against the standardized list of company competencies. You get a clear, actionable report on exactly where training needs to focus.

**Can I use the Degreed MCP to check if an employee finished mandatory training?**
Absolutely. The agent checks your user's completion history and active learning plans, confirming if they met their required goals or listing when they need to finish next.

**Is the Degreed MCP useful for finding specific courses quickly?**
Yes. You don't have to use search filters; you just ask your agent a question, and it searches the entire catalog (courses, articles, videos) using keywords for you.

**What kind of data can I pull about an employee from the Degreed MCP?**
You get more than just names. You receive detailed skill ratings, a full list of competencies they hold, and their active progress status on learning pathways.

**Does this MCP help me manage content for different departments?**
Yes. It lets you filter the available content and skills using the defined taxonomy, so you can scope your search to specific teams or functional areas.