CounselorAI
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College-access writing and financial-aid analysis tools for counselors, students, and families.
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- 100.0% over the last 24 hours
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- Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-11-25
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Scored across 13 tools
Most tools target distinct tasks, and the descriptions explicitly delineate tricky pairs (rec vs letterlens vs revision, letterlens vs humanize). Some residual overlap remains: aid and awardlens both analyze financial aid outcomes, and humanize can look similar to revision for prose work, though context guidance helps separate them.
Names are almost all single-token lowercase concept words (aid, appeal, fafsa, rec, revision, translate), with underscore only for genuine two-word concepts (account_balance, quote_call). The convention is predictable, though it is noun-style rather than a verb_noun action pattern.
13 tools is well within the ideal range and each maps to a clear step in the counselor workflow (credit check, budget preview, profile, drafting, review, revision, translation). No filler tools are apparent.
The surface covers the full counselor lifecycle: profiling, aid explanation, award-letter breakdown, FAFSA planning, appeals, rec drafting, critique, revision, scholarship research, and translation, plus cost tooling. Minor gaps exist, such as no persistence/retrieval of prior student records or explicit multi-school comparison beyond aid.
Available Tools
13 toolsaccount_balanceCheck remaining creditsARead-onlyInspect
Free. Returns the credits left on this API key. Call it before a long run of billed calls.
Inputs: no named parameters.
aidAid estimate explainerAInspect
Explain what a family is likely to see across a list of schools and why, in plain language. An explanation for a counselor to walk a family through, never an official determination, and the output says so.
Cost: about 73 credits (~$0.073) per call.
Inputs: income, context, schoolCount, studentName, +3 more.
appealFinancial aid appeal letterAInspect
Draft a financial aid appeal letter to a college financial aid office. Call this when a family needs to ask for a review of an award: income dropped, an expense appeared, another school offered more, or the FAFSA was wrong. Returns the letter, not advice on whether to appeal. Runs a 5-step drafting pipeline, so it is the most expensive tool here and the slowest, typically 30 to 60 seconds.
Cost: about 353 credits (~$0.353) per call.
Inputs: keyDetails (required), length, status, competing, +7 more.
awardlensRead an award letterARead-onlyInspect
Break down one to three financial aid award letters: what is grant, what is loan, what is work-study that has to be earned, what the supported net price is, and what renewal conditions are buried in the language. Identifies missing facts and questions for the aid office. With more than one letter it compares them side by side. Read-only.
Cost: about 173 credits (~$0.173) per call.
Inputs: letter1 (required), letter2, letter3, studentName, +1 more.
fafsaFAFSA checklistAInspect
Produce a FAFSA action checklist for one student, keyed to their grade, dependency status and income band. Answers the process question a family actually has: what do we do, in what order, by when. Does not compute an award.
Cost: about 87 credits (~$0.087) per call.
Inputs: grade, notes, income, schools, +4 more.
humanizeHumanize reader-facing textARead-onlyInspect
Rewrite reader-facing prose so it sounds direct, specific, and personal without changing facts or inventing a voice. Use it for outreach, emails, letters, posts, and narrative copy. It preserves quoted text and checks the result against the source. It does not evade or promise to beat AI detectors. Do not use it for code, SQL, JSON, legal text, or technical specifications.
Cost: about 413 credits (~$0.413) per call.
Inputs: text (required), audience, strength, preserveFormatting.
letterlensReview a letterARead-onlyInspect
Analyze a finished recommendation letter and return specific fixes: what is vague, what is asserted without evidence, what reads as generated. Read-only and far cheaper than drafting. Use it to critique a draft, not to rewrite one, and use revision to apply the fixes.
Cost: about 93 credits (~$0.093) per call.
Inputs: letterText (required), focus, purpose.
profileStudent profile summaryAInspect
Turn raw counselor notes into a structured student profile. Run this first when working one student across several tools: it is cheap, and its output is good input for the relationship, traits and story fields on rec, or keyDetails on appeal.
Cost: about 87 credits (~$0.087) per call.
Inputs: tags, goals, grade, major, +7 more.
quote_callQuote a tool call before paying for itARead-onlyInspect
Free. Validates the input for a tool and returns the exact credit hold a real call would take at your price, plus whether your balance covers it. Use it to budget before a billed call or to lint an input for free.
Inputs: tool (required), input.
recLetter of recommendationAInspect
Draft a letter of recommendation from counselor notes. Call this to WRITE a letter. To critique one that already exists, call letterlens instead, which is much cheaper. Runs the same 5-step pipeline as appeal.
Cost: about 369 credits (~$0.369) per call.
Inputs: traits (required), major, story, purpose, +10 more.
revisionRevise a draftAInspect
Apply one instruction to an existing letter and return the revised text. Pair it with letterlens: review to find the problems, revise to fix them. Changes only what the instruction asks for.
Cost: about 97 credits (~$0.097) per call.
Inputs: currentText (required), instruction (required).
scholarshipScholarship research linksAInspect
Search for current scholarship pages to review. A page in the result is a research lead, not a verified match. Confirm program terms, deadline, and student eligibility on the sponsor page before advising the student. Live web search makes this slower and costlier than the other analysis tools.
Cost: about 165 credits (~$0.165) per call.
Inputs: gpa, grade, major, notes, +4 more.
translateTranslate for familiesARead-onlyInspect
Translate counselor-facing output into a family's language, holding the financial aid terms in English on purpose. FAFSA, Pell, SAI, COA and the loan names stay untranslated so a family can match what the school actually sends them against what they were told. Read-only.
Cost: about 173 credits (~$0.173) per call.
Inputs: sourceText (required), targetLang (required).
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