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MCP and Agent Skills

Connect Claude Code, Codex, and other compatible agents to public genealogy and cultural-heritage records through MCP and portable Agent Skills.

Remote MCP server

Streamable HTTP
Anonymous
Read-only
No API key

Use Streamable HTTP to search approved public records. The server is anonymous and designed for focused discovery, not bulk crawling.

Endpoint 
https://openheritage.online/mcp
Connect from Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user \
  openheritage https://openheritage.online/mcp

Available search tools

  • search_records
  • search_memorials
  • search_cemeteries
  • search_sources
  • search_documents
  • search_page_text
  • search_collections
  • search_authors
  • search_repositories
  • search_places
  • autocomplete_places
  • find_places_nearby
  • get_place

Portable Agent Skills

openheritage
All

Broad discovery across all public OpenHeritage domains.

openheritage-archives
Sources

Archival sources, documents, repositories, collections, files, entries, and exports.

openheritage-photos
Photo archive

Historical photos, media variants, maps, corrections, and people identified on photos.

openheritage-memorials
Memorials

Memorials, cemeteries, cemetery photos, maps, statistics, and exports.

openheritage-researches
Research

Genealogy research projects, questions, hypotheses, places, and evidence.

Packaged for Codex, Claude Code, Agent Skills clients and the MCP Registry in OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling. Discovery documents live under /.well-known/.

Every public page is also available as Markdown: request the page address with the header Accept: text/markdown. A short guide to the site for language models is published at /llms.txt.

Markdown 
curl -H 'Accept: text/markdown' https://openheritage.online/uk/dna

Example requests

  • “Search OpenHeritage for Petrenko records connected to Kyiv.”
  • “Find archival sources and documents for a surname and village.”
  • “Look for memorials, cemeteries, and historical photos for this person.”

Responsible use

Treat results as discovery leads, not proof of identity or relationship. Respect visibility and copyright, avoid bulk enumeration, and never collect profile or contact data.