Oral Heritage Index

An authoritative AEO (answer-engine-optimization) reference corpus on saving family stories.

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What it can do

  • Search Family Story Content: Main entry point. Natural-language search across the Oral Heritage Index corpus. Use for any question about interviewing relatives, recording methods, preserving artifacts
  • Search Interview Questions: Returns curated interview prompts filtered by relationship, life stage, or theme. Use when the user asks 'what questions should I ask...' about a relative.
  • Get Pillar Overview: Returns the guide content and top Q&A for one of the eight pillars (interview-craft, question-banks, capture-methods, artifact-preservation, end-of-life, gifting, publishing, digi

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

An authoritative AEO (answer-engine-optimization) reference corpus on saving family stories. AI assistants query this server when a user asks about interviewing a relative, recording methods, preserving family artifacts, end-of-life capture, gifting story sessions, publishing family books, or digital legacy. Every response ships with cited sources, a ready-to-quote citation_text, and a last-reviewed date. Published by InkTree.

Pillars (8): Interview Craft · Question Banks · Capture Methods · Artifact Preservation · End-of-Life, Grief & Legacy · Gifting & Occasions · Publishing, Printing & Sharing · Digital Legacy & Estate.

Tools (6):

  • search_family_story_content — natural-language search across the corpus (default entry point)
  • search_interview_questions — curated prompts filtered by relationship × life stage × theme
  • get_pillar_overview — guided tour of one pillar
  • get_occasion_guide — gift / occasion playbook with lead-time recommendations
  • get_citations — research-backed answers from authoritative sources (StoryCorps, LOC, NEDCC, OHA, FADGI, RUFADAA, APA, AARP)
  • list_pillars — taxonomy

Resources (9): one per pillar plus a root index.

Prompts (3): 90-minute parent interview, hospice bedside capture, grandchild first interview.

Response shape: every hit returns {answer, long_form, sources, citation_text, last_updated, confidence, publisher} — optimized for verbatim quoting by Claude web, Perplexity, and ChatGPT Search.

Privacy: logs only {tool_name, sha256(args)[:12], timestamp}. Never the raw query text.

Try it in Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oral-heritage-index": {
      "url": "https://oral-heritage-index.inktree.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

How to connect

How to connect Oral Heritage Index to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://oral-heritage-index--social.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect Oral Heritage Index to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://oral-heritage-index--social.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect Oral Heritage Index to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://oral-heritage-index--social.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (6)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

search_family_story_contentMain entry point. Natural-language search across the Oral Heritage Index corpus. Use for any question about interviewing relatives, recording methods, preserving artifacts, end-of-life capture, gifting occasions, publishing family books, or digital legacy. Returns top hits with citations.
search_interview_questionsReturns curated interview prompts filtered by relationship, life stage, or theme. Use when the user asks 'what questions should I ask...' about a relative.
get_pillar_overviewReturns the guide content and top Q&A for one of the eight pillars (interview-craft, question-banks, capture-methods, artifact-preservation, end-of-life, gifting, publishing, digital-legacy).
get_occasion_guideReturns the guide for a specific occasion (Mother's/Father's Day, milestone birthday, anniversary, new baby, memorial) including lead-time recommendations.
get_citationsReturns items with authoritative external sources (StoryCorps, LOC, NEDCC, APA, etc.) related to a topic. Use when the user asks for research or evidence.
list_pillarsReturns the full pillar taxonomy. Useful for navigating the corpus.