PowerSchool SIS MCP Server & Agent Skill

What is the PowerSchool SIS API, and what can an agent read from it?

A district-installed plugin declares the data it may read and gets OAuth client credentials for data exchange, including named PowerQueries. The SIS is also 1EdTech-certified as a OneRoster 1.1/1.2 REST provider for rostering and gradebook.

• API: PowerSchool SIS plugin data access (PowerQueries); OneRoster 1.1 and 1.2 REST provider (REST)
• Access: Issued by your administrator
• Authentication: OAuth 2.0 client credentials (per plugin)

A district admin installs and enables the plugin; PowerSchool auto-generates its client ID and secret (Data Provider Configuration). The developer API reference sits in PowerSource, which requires a PowerSchool login.

Each data-exchange plugin gets an auto-generated client ID and secret that the external system uses to obtain an access token. Data is limited by the plugin's access request and the school access an admin configures.

What can an agent read from PowerSchool SIS?

• Schools and academic sessions — Orgs, schools and terms through the certified OneRoster rostering provider.
• Students, teachers and staff — User records through OneRoster rostering or plugin data access, limited to what the plugin requests.
• Classes and enrollments — Course sections and student/teacher enrollments through OneRoster rostering.
• Gradebook line items and results — Certified OneRoster Gradebook Pull (1.1 and 1.2) and Assessment Results Profile pull (1.2).
• PowerQuery result sets — Core, state-reporting and custom PowerQueries a plugin is granted; results depend on page permissions.

What can an agent write to PowerSchool SIS?

• Gradebook line items and scores — Certified OneRoster 1.1 Gradebook Push: an external app writes assignments and scores into the SIS gradebook. Confirm with the user first.

Student education records protected by FERPA, including demographics, enrollment and grades; may include state-reporting identifiers and special-program data.

How do I connect PowerSchool SIS to an AI agent over MCP?

As of October 2026 we found no MCP server published by PowerSchool itself.

The practical path is to host a small MCP server that wraps the PowerSchool SIS plugin data access (PowerQueries); OneRoster 1.1 and 1.2 REST provider, or to give the agent the calls directly with the SKILL.md below.

On ibl.ai an MCP connection is three records, and a working integration always needs all three:

1. Register the server — POST …/mcp-servers/ with its URL, a transport (sse, websocket or streamable_http) and an auth_type of none, token or oauth2.
2. Create a connection that holds the credential, scoped to the whole organization (platform), to a single agent, or to each user (user).
3. Enable it on the agent — mcp-tool in tool_slugs and the server id in mcp_servers. Both lists are replaced, not merged, so read the settings first.

For an API key or a service credential, one token connection at platform scope serves the whole organization; scope a connection to a single agent when that agent needs narrower access than the rest.

The field reference is in MCP server connections, and the /iblai-api-agent-mcp skill runs all three steps from a coding agent.

What does the PowerSchool SIS agent skill do?

The PowerSchool SIS skill is one SKILL.md file named iblai-connect-powerschool-sis. It gives an agent the auth conventions, what to read, which writes need a person's confirmation, the ibl.ai MCP wiring, example prompts and guardrails.

Download the PowerSchool SIS SKILL.md

Save it as .claude/skills/iblai-connect-powerschool-sis/SKILL.md, or in your agent's skills folder. The ibl.ai platform skills it calls come from one install:

This connector skill is a starting point maintained on ibl.ai, not part of the iblai/vibe repository.

It was checked against PowerSchool's documentation on October 20, 2026. Test it against your own PowerSchool SIS setup before you rely on it.

What can I ask a PowerSchool SIS agent to do?

• “List every student enrolled in Algebra I sections at Lincoln Middle School this term”
• “Pull this quarter's gradebook scores for 7th-grade science and flag missing assignments”
• “Run the attendance PowerQuery our plugin has access to and summarize chronic absences”
• “Push the unit test scores from our assessment app into the PowerSchool gradebook”

How do I run a PowerSchool SIS agent on ibl.ai?

Agentic OS is where the agent runs on ibl.ai: it holds the PowerSchool SIS MCP connection, the model the agent uses, its instructions and its conversation history.

On ibl.ai you own all the code and the data, run it model-agnostic across any LLM, and pay with no per-seat pricing — so you can deploy anywhere, from your own cloud to a fully air-gapped network.

• AI agents for K-12 — what ibl.ai deploys in this sector

Which ibl.ai agents work with PowerSchool SIS data?

• School Administrator — K-12
• Family Communicator — K-12

Which ibl.ai platform skills does a PowerSchool SIS agent use?

• /iblai-api-agent-mcp — MCP connectors for ibl.ai agents, end to end
• /iblai-vibe-agent-mcp — Add the agent MCP tab (Model Context Protocol connector management with featured connectors, custom connectors, OAuth,…
• /iblai-api-agent-tool — Enable or disable an ibl.ai agent's tools via the platform API

What else should I know before connecting PowerSchool SIS to an AI agent?

Which other data sources can an AI agent connect to alongside PowerSchool SIS?

Which other K-12 systems have a connector?

• 1EdTech OneRoster — Rostering and gradebook data standard
• Blackboard Learn — Learning management system
• Canvas LMS — Learning management system
• ClassLink — Rostering and single sign-on platform
• Clever — Rostering and single sign-on platform
• D2L Brightspace — Learning management system
• Google Classroom — Learning management system
• Infinite Campus — Student information system
• Moodle LMS — Learning management system
• Schoology — Learning management system
• Seesaw — Elementary learning platform
• Skyward — Student information system

Every connector, grouped by sector, is on the connectors hub.