Genealogy Research Recipes

Fact-checked recipes that keep an AI assistant from the usual genealogy mistakes, for DNA evidence and for record searches. One Agent Skill, packaged for Claude, Hermes Agent and OpenClaw, by Kinprove. No Kinprove account is needed to read the recipes.

Install

Claude Code — run in a session:

/plugin marketplace add Kinprove/genealogy-research-recipes
/plugin install genealogy-research-recipes@kinprove

Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app — open Customize → Plugins → Add → Add marketplace, enter Kinprove/genealogy-research-recipes, then add genealogy-research-recipes.

Hermes Agent — install and explicitly enable the native plugin:

hermes plugins install Kinprove/genealogy-research-recipes --no-enable
hermes plugins enable genealogy-research-recipes

After enabling, ask the agent to discover the plugin with skills_list and load genealogy-research-recipes:genealogy-research-recipes with skill_view. Skill-only plugins can become available in an open chat; start a new session only if discovery has not refreshed. A Hermes Gateway restart is not required for this skill bundle.

Agent tool calls (not shell commands):

skills_list(category="plugin")
skill_view(name="genealogy-research-recipes:genealogy-research-recipes")
skill_view(
    name="genealogy-research-recipes:genealogy-research-recipes",
    file_path="recipes/ai-for-dna-research.md",
)

Use a relative file_path for a recipe, its corresponding sources/ file, or another bundled resource. For example, ask: "Load the Kinprove recipes, read recipes/xdna-phasing-judgment.md, and distinguish what my X-DNA evidence can support from what still needs verification."

Native plugin skills are read-only, namespaced and explicitly loaded; Hermes does not add them to the automatic system-prompt skill index. Existing skills with the same bare name remain separate. The plugin needs no Python dependencies, API keys or Kinprove account and does not configure the optional MCP connector.

Update the installed plugin with:

hermes plugins update genealogy-research-recipes

OpenClaw — install the native plugin:

openclaw plugins install git:github.com/Kinprove/genealogy-research-recipes

OpenClaw asks you to confirm the source and the plugin's skills. Restart the Gateway after installing. The genealogy-research-recipes skill then loads like any other OpenClaw skill, with every recipe file beside it. The plugin registers no tools or hooks, needs no Node dependencies, API keys or Kinprove account and does not configure the optional MCP connector.

Update the installed plugin with:

openclaw plugins update genealogy-research-recipes

Registries and provenance

These are separate distribution surfaces; adding a native adapter does not register the package in another host's public catalog.

Claude: this repository already supplies its own kinprove marketplace in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json. It is not a claim of inclusion in a separate Anthropic-curated directory.
Hermes: installation by Kinprove/genealogy-research-recipes works without a catalog entry. The Hermes plugin catalog accepts a separate, human-reviewed PR pinned to an exact commit. An open PR is not admission; use the repository install above until the entry is listed. After admission, install by genealogy-research-recipes and enable it as above. Catalog updates move only to a newly reviewed pin, not to an arbitrary branch tip.
OpenClaw: ClawHub publication is separate from GitHub installation. For a published Kinprove release, use the explicit registry source:
```
openclaw plugins install clawhub:@kinprove/genealogy-research-recipes
```
Check the publisher, version and source commit on ClawHub before installing. If that release is not available, use the GitHub install above. The OpenClaw runtime plugin ID and update target remain genealogy-research-recipes.

To make a direct Hermes repository install reproducible, add --ref <full-commit-sha> to the install command. Public catalog inclusion does not mean a package is maintained by the host or has received a full security audit.

The native adapters expose bundled instructions, not automatic access to your DNA accounts or records. They do not make service calls, install an MCP server, store credentials, send telemetry, or start background jobs. Individual recipes can describe optional services and commands; executing those still requires the host's appropriate tools, permissions and any service-specific credentials.

Publishing to ClawHub (maintainers)

Use a clean checkout of the reviewed commit, with all host manifest versions synchronized. Publish under the ClawHub kinprove owner using an account with access to that owner. The @kinprove/ package scope must match it.

npx --yes clawhub@0.23.3 package validate . --out ../clawhub-validation --json
npx --yes clawhub@0.23.3 package publish . --family code-plugin --owner kinprove --dry-run --json

Check that the dry-run reports code-plugin, the intended version and the exact reviewed commit before making a separately authorized live publication. Keep --family code-plugin: Claude manifests coexist in this repository, so automatic family detection can choose a Claude bundle instead of the native OpenClaw package. The npm artifact deliberately includes native OpenClaw code and the complete skill/resources/license tree, not the other hosts' adapters or development files.

A successful dry-run is not a public release. Authenticate securely, publish the same clean commit with the same flags (without --dry-run), and verify its ClawHub publication/security-check status before announcing availability. Do not publish to npm merely because this package uses an npm-style scoped name.

Recipes

DNA reasoning: unknown parentage and WATO, AI for DNA research, Y-DNA and mtDNA, X-DNA and phasing
DNA sites: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, GEDmatch, MyHeritage DNA, DNA Painter
Evidence: evidence and proof, AI for documents
Jewish and Russian Empire: name and registration changes, emigrant origins, JewishGen, Beider given names, HebrewBooks
Record sites: Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, Newspapers.com, Geni, U.S. census, U.S. immigration

Each recipe's sources are in sources/.

Kinprove MCP (optional)

Add https://api.kinprove.io/mcp/v1 as an MCP connector so the agent can read your own Kinprove matches and projects.

genealogy-research-recipes

README