Oral Heritage Index MCP Server

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Oral Heritage Index is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Authoritative cited answers about saving family stories. Published by InkTree.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 94%

52 days agonow

93.4%

Uptime 24h

85 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

325 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Oral Heritage Index does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add oral-heritage-index --transport http https://oral-heritage-index.inktree.ai/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.oral-heritage-index]
url = "https://oral-heritage-index.inktree.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

citations

get_citations

Returns items with authoritative external sources (StoryCorps, LOC, NEDCC, APA, etc.) related to a topic. Use when the user asks for research or evidence.

family

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, end-of-life capture, gifting occasions, publishing family books, or digital legacy. Returns top hits with citations.

interview

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.

occasion

get_occasion_guide

Returns the guide for a specific occasion (Mother's/Father's Day, milestone birthday, anniversary, new baby, memorial) including lead-time recommendations.

pillar

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, digital-legacy).

pillars

list_pillars

Returns the full pillar taxonomy. Useful for navigating the corpus.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://oral-heritage-index.inktree.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	371 ms	6 min ago

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Oral Heritage Index — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Oral Heritage Index do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_citations, get_occasion_guide, get_pillar_overview, list_pillars, search_family_story_content, search_interview_questions. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Oral Heritage Index working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 85 of 91 checks got a reply (93.4%), average response time 325 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Oral Heritage Index still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Oral Heritage Index?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Oral Heritage Index need an API key?

No. Oral Heritage Index completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Oral Heritage Index?

It answers our handshake in 325 ms on average, which is faster than 53% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.