agent-tooling

# OpenHeritage agent tooling

Public, cross-agent integration files for [OpenHeritage](https://openheritage.online/en/agents), a collaborative genealogy and cultural-heritage platform.

OpenHeritage brings together Ukraine's largest public collection of memorial, grave, and archival document data.

This repository connects compatible AI agents to OpenHeritage in two complementary ways:

- a remote, anonymous, read-only MCP server for live public-record search;
- five portable Agent Skills with domain guidance, safe REST fallbacks, and canonical OpenHeritage links.

No API key is required for public search.

## Ukrainian heritage data at scale

- **Memorials and graves:** discover memorial profiles, grave sites, cemetery records, cemetery photographs, map locations, and transcriptions.
- **Archival documents:** search repositories, sources, digitized documents, page images, XML, transcriptions, and indexed entries with their provenance.

These records are connected through canonical OpenHeritage pages, so agents can move from a discovery lead to the relevant cemetery, memorial, source, or document without treating search results as proof.

## MCP endpoint

```text
https://openheritage.online/mcp
```

The endpoint uses MCP Streamable HTTP and exposes:

- `search_records`
- `search_memorials`
- `search_cemeteries`
- `search_sources`
- `search_documents`
- `search_repositories`

Use the root [`.mcp.json`](.mcp.json) with clients that support project or plugin MCP configuration.

## Add OpenHeritage to your agent / Додайте OpenHeritage до свого агента

### English

Use the MCP connection for live, public OpenHeritage search. Add the skills as well when you want your agent to receive focused guidance for memorials, graves, archival documents, historical photos, and genealogy research.

**Codex**

```bash
codex mcp add openheritage --url https://openheritage.online/mcp
npx skills add OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
```

**Gemini CLI**

```bash
gemini mcp add --scope user --transport http openheritage https://openheritage.online/mcp
gemini skills install https://github.com/OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
```

**Claude Code** — install the complete plugin, which includes both the MCP server and skills:

```bash
claude plugin marketplace add OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
claude plugin install agent-tooling@openheritage
```

If you only need live search in Claude Code, use this instead:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user openheritage https://openheritage.online/mcp
```

Start a new chat after installation. In an open Claude Code session, run `/reload-plugins` after installing the plugin. Do not install both the Claude plugin and its separate MCP entry unless you intentionally want duplicate configuration.

### Українською

Підключіть MCP, щоб агент міг шукати публічні записи OpenHeritage у реальному часі. Додайте також навички, якщо хочете, щоб агент отримав спеціальні інструкції для роботи з меморіалами, могилами, архівними документами, історичними фотографіями та генеалогічними дослідженнями.

**Codex**

```bash
codex mcp add openheritage --url https://openheritage.online/mcp
npx skills add OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
```

**Gemini CLI**

```bash
gemini mcp add --scope user --transport http openheritage https://openheritage.online/mcp
gemini skills install https://github.com/OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
```

**Claude Code** — встановіть повний плагін: він містить і MCP-сервер, і навички.

```bash
claude plugin marketplace add OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
claude plugin install agent-tooling@openheritage
```

Якщо в Claude Code потрібен лише пошук, використайте натомість:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user openheritage https://openheritage.online/mcp
```

Після встановлення почніть новий чат. Якщо ви встановили плагін у вже відкритій сесії Claude Code, виконайте `/reload-plugins`. Не встановлюйте одночасно плагін Claude та окремий запис MCP, якщо навмисно не хочете дублювати конфігурацію.

### Claude Code

Add the public OpenHeritage marketplace, then install the complete plugin:

```bash
claude plugin marketplace add OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
claude plugin install agent-tooling@openheritage
```

Connect only the MCP server:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user openheritage https://openheritage.online/mcp
```

To load the complete plugin from a checkout:

```bash
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/agent-tooling
```

The repository includes a Claude Code manifest at [`.claude-plugin/plugin.json`](.claude-plugin/plugin.json).

### Codex and other Agent Skills clients

Install the portable skills from GitHub with a compatible Agent Skills installer:

```bash
npx skills add OpenHeritageOnline/agent-tooling
```

The repository also includes a Codex manifest at [`.codex-plugin/plugin.json`](.codex-plugin/plugin.json). Plugin-aware hosts can load the repository checkout directly and use its bundled `.mcp.json`.

Every Agent Skills-compatible host can also discover the five published skills from the [OpenHeritage Agent Skills index](https://openheritage.online/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json). For an MCP host without plugin support, add the `openheritage` entry from [`.mcp.json`](.mcp.json) to its user or project MCP configuration.

## Skills

| Skill | Best for |
|---|---|
| `openheritage` | Broad searches across all public OpenHeritage domains |
| `openheritage-archives` | Sources, documents, repositories, collections, files, pages, entries, and exports |
| `openheritage-photos` | Historical photos, media variants, photo maps, corrections, and people on photos |
| `openheritage-memorials` | Memorials, cemeteries, cemetery photos, maps, statistics, and exports |
| `openheritage-researches` | Public genealogy research projects, questions, hypotheses, places, and evidence |

The same versioned skill documents are also published from the OpenHeritage website:

- [Agent Skills discovery index](https://openheritage.online/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json)
- [Umbrella OpenHeritage skill](https://openheritage.online/.well-known/agent-skills/openheritage/SKILL.md)

## MCP Registry

[`server.json`](server.json) publishes the remote server as `io.github.OpenHeritageOnline/public-search` in the official MCP Registry. The GitHub Actions workflow publishes it when an `mcp-v*` tag is pushed:

```bash
git tag mcp-v2.9.6
git push origin mcp-v2.9.6
```

The workflow uses GitHub OIDC, so it requires no stored token or domain-verification private key. Registry versions are immutable: bump `server.json` before creating a later tag.

## Safety

- Treat search results as discovery leads, not proof of identity or family relationship.
- Respect record visibility and copyright restrictions.
- Do not crawl, bulk-enumerate, or collect profile/contact data.
- Prefer canonical OpenHeritage pages when sharing results with a user.
- Use authenticated or mutating REST workflows only when the user explicitly requests them.

## Source of truth

The production skill documents are maintained in the main OpenHeritage application repository under `sources/FrontendServer/AgentSkills/`. Keep the copies in `skills/` byte-for-byte synchronized when releasing a new version.