gedcom-skills

Use when the user asks to generate, build, or write a genealogy report, ancestor report, ancestry report, or family tree report from a GEDCOM file — particularly one organized by generation with categorized immigrant tables (e.g., "report all my ancestors back N generations", "make a markdown report of [person]'s ancestry", "list immigrants in my tree by region", "build a colonial ancestors report"). Outputs a single markdown file with Ahnentafel-numbered generations, optional alternate family trees for FAMC conflicts, and tables grouped by region of origin and (optionally) by colonial-era status.

Use when the user asks to find, search, look up, query, list-matching, locate, or filter records in a GEDCOM file (`.ged` or `.gdz`); when the user asks about specific people, families, dates, or places ("find everyone named Smith", "who was born between 1900 and 1910", "people who died in Boston"); or when the user asks about ancestors, descendants, parents, children, siblings, cousins, ahnentafel, or Sosa numbers ("ancestors of @I1@", "first cousins of John Smith", "siblings of @I7@", "ahnentafel for @I1@", "anyone with conflicting parents"). Handles GEDCOM 5.5.1, 5.5.5, and FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0+.

Use when the user asks to read, open, summarize, inspect, view, parse, or describe a GEDCOM file (`.ged` or `.gdz`), or asks "what's in this family tree", "show me this genealogy file", "list everyone in this GEDCOM", "show record @I1@", "what version is this GEDCOM", or wants a JSON dump of GEDCOM contents. Handles GEDCOM 5.5.1, 5.5.5, and FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0+; preserves encoding, BOM, and extension tags.

Use when the user asks to edit, modify, change, update, set, alter, fix, correct, add, remove, or delete a record, value, name, date, or any field in a GEDCOM file (`.ged`). Examples that should trigger this skill: "change the name on @I1@", "set the birth date for John Smith", "add a NOTE to this record", "remove the @VOID@ ASSO from @I1@", "create a new INDI", "delete record @I7@". Preserves round-trip fidelity — only the targeted line is rewritten — and never modifies the input file unless `--in-place` is passed. Handles GEDCOM 5.5.1, 5.5.5, and FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0+.