Ex-USSR Kinship Research

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What it does

This is an instruction pack (an "agent skill") that you copy into Claude Code or Codex. After that you describe your family question and the assistant searches church books, civil, military, deportation and repression records from the former Soviet Union, keeps a log of every search and separates what is proven from what is a guess. The instructions are in Russian but the assistant answers in your language. You need the AI assistant already installed, plus Python 3 for the helper scripts and a Chrome-type browser for the PDF report.

How easy it is to install

C · install 1 or 2 tools · Windows

Installing is one git clone into the assistant's skills folder, but you must already have Claude Code or Codex and Python 3, and the case scripts are run by typing commands in a terminal.

Numbers on GitHub

Stars: 1,404on Oct 31, 2026
Downloads: —all releases
Growth: +1,404stars in 6 days

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Facts

Runs on: Windows, macOS, Linux
You need to install: Python, Other tools
Disk space: not determined
Accounts or keys: None
Cost: Free · The skill is free (MIT). The AI assistant you run it in, and some archives or record sites, may cost money.
License: MIT (Permissive)
Last update: Oct 31, 2026

Risk signals (4)

Attentionagent sends email on your behalf
README.md: "Draft and, when authorized, send focused requests to archives, libraries, universities and museums using available email or official web tools" and "it does not ask again for an already authorized send" — once you authorize it, the assistant can send messages without asking each time.
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Attentionagent browses and attempts captcha
README.md: "The agent may try an actual CAPTCHA once through normal controls in its internal browser when supported and allowed"; it also browses FamilySearch and GWAR through your existing logged-in session.
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Infohandles sensitive personal data
README.md mentions deportation, repression, adoption and DNA findings, and asks you to keep case files outside the Git folder; init_case.py refuses to create a case inside the skill folder.
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Infovery new project
Project facts: repository created 2026-10-25, already 5 releases by 2026-10-27, 1013 stars.
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Evidence is shown in its original language.

What Radar could not check

Whether the Python scripts and the PDF builder work on Windows paths and browsers
Whether the assistant really follows the privacy rules the instructions describe
Whether using the FamilySearch and GWAR helpers fits those sites' terms of use in your country
How good the archive and jurisdiction lists are for each of the 15 republics
What the AI assistant will cost you in tokens for a long research case