Genealogy for VS Code

com.eacpartners/genealogy

Reads and edits local GEDCOM/BegatAll over stdio. Living people shown unless you hide them.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Genealogy in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "genealogy-mcp-hide-living",
      "description": "GENEALOGY_MCP_HIDE_LIVING",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "genealogy-mcp-show-living",
      "description": "GENEALOGY_MCP_SHOW_LIVING",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "genealogy-mcp-allow-commit",
      "description": "GENEALOGY_MCP_ALLOW_COMMIT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "genealogy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@eacpartners/genealogy-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GENEALOGY_MCP_HIDE_LIVING": "${input:genealogy-mcp-hide-living}",
        "GENEALOGY_MCP_SHOW_LIVING": "${input:genealogy-mcp-show-living}",
        "GENEALOGY_MCP_ALLOW_COMMIT": "${input:genealogy-mcp-allow-commit}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

Genealogy in other clients

Genealogy MCP server