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25ShellAudience · generalComplexity · 1/5LicenseSetup · easy

TL;DR

An AI assistant skill that instantly answers whether a product has a student discount or how to apply for a university edu email, based on 249 indexed articles.

Mindmap

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  root((edu radar skill))
    What it does
      Answers student discount questions
      Answers edu email application questions
      Indexes 249 how to articles
    Tech stack
      Shell scripts
      Python
      BeautifulSoup
    Use cases
      Check product student discounts
      Find university edu email programs
      Weekly auto refresh index
    Audience
      Students
      AI assistant users

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Ask an AI assistant whether a specific product offers a student or education discount.

REASON 2

Find out which universities let you apply for an edu email address and how.

REASON 3

Get official application steps and pricing sourced from an indexed set of how-to articles.

REASON 4

Keep the discount and application knowledge base refreshed weekly on macOS.

What's in the stack?

ShellPythonBeautifulSoup

How it stacks up

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LanguageShellShellShell
Setup difficultyeasyhardeasy
Complexity1/53/52/5
Audiencegeneraldeveloperwriter

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

The optional weekly auto-refresh script requires curl, Python 3, and the beautifulsoup4 and lxml packages.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

Wtf does this do

This project is an agent skill, a plugin for AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Codex, and ZCode, that lets those assistants instantly answer two kinds of questions: whether a product has an educational or student discount, and which universities let you sign up for an edu email address and how to do it. The knowledge behind it comes from indexing 249 how-to articles from a Chinese site called edumails.cn, covering 158 articles about education pricing for products such as Replit, Notion, Figma, JetBrains tools, ChatGPT, and Adobe, and 91 articles about applying for edu email addresses at specific universities in the United States and elsewhere. Once installed, you can ask a plain-language question inside your AI assistant, such as whether a certain app offers a student discount or which American colleges let outsiders apply for an edu email, and the skill matches your question against its index, reads the relevant article, and answers with the discount price, application steps, and a link back to the original source. It is designed to answer only from what is in its indexed articles rather than making things up. It installs either through the skills command-line tool, which detects which AI assistant you are using and places the skill in the right folder automatically, or by cloning the repository directly into your assistant's skills directory. On macOS, it can also register a weekly scheduled job that refreshes its article index automatically, using a small script that relies on curl and Python's BeautifulSoup library. The author is explicit that this tool only points to official, publicly available discount programs and legitimate university application channels, and is not meant to help anyone fake student status, forge documents, or buy or sell unauthorized edu email accounts. It is released under the MIT license.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Install this skill and ask it whether Replit or Figma offers a student discount.
Prompt 2
Ask this skill which US universities allow outsiders to apply for an edu email address.
Prompt 3
Explain how this skill's catalog.json and references folder work together to answer a question.
Prompt 4
Show me how to set up the weekly automatic refresh script for this skill on macOS.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is dingyi-edu-radar-skill?

An AI assistant skill that instantly answers whether a product has a student discount or how to apply for a university edu email, based on 249 indexed articles.

What language is dingyi-edu-radar-skill written in?

Mainly Shell. The stack also includes Shell, Python, BeautifulSoup.

What license does dingyi-edu-radar-skill use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is dingyi-edu-radar-skill to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is dingyi-edu-radar-skill for?

Mainly general.

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