@pipeworx/forager

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Forager MCP, wraps the Forager person-phone-lookup API (forager.ai)

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Install @pipeworx/forager

The server’s own address, for the clients that take one directly. Or connect Ahel once and every client you use reads it from one address, with the account kept on Ahel rather than in each client’s config.

  • Claude Code

    claude mcp add --transport http --scope user pipeworx-forager 'https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp'

    Run it once in your project, then open /mcp to approve any sign-in the server asks for.

  • Claude Desktop

    https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp

    Add a custom connector in Settings, paste this address, and approve the sign-in.

  • Cursor

    cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=pipeworx-forager&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2dhdGV3YXkucGlwZXdvcnguaW8vZm9yYWdlci9tY3AifQ==

    Open the link and Cursor adds the server at that address.

  • ChatGPT

    https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp

    In Settings, enable Developer mode, create an MCP app, and paste this address. Your plan and workspace must allow custom apps.

  • Codex

    codex mcp add pipeworx-forager --url 'https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp'

    Run it once, then sign in with codex mcp login pipeworx-forager if the server asks for an account.

From the project's README

As published by pipeworx-io/mcp-forager in README.md.

Find a person's phone number from their LinkedIn profile URL, via Forager (forager.ai). Part of enrich-waterfall's new enrich_find_phone finder rotation (fleet #2860).

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1743+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

  • forager_find_phone(linkedin_url?, person_id?, _accountId, _apiKey) — phone number + type. Requires BOTH a Forager account id and an API key.

Auth

BYO only. Pass your Forager account id as _accountId and your API key as _apiKey (header X-API-KEY, with the account id as a PATH segment: /api/{account_id}/...). Both are on your Forager dashboard. No platform key (D4).

Data sources

  • https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/

Verification notes (fleet #2860, 2026-10-08, no vendor key held) — THIS PACK HAS THE WEAKEST CONFIRMATION IN THE BATCH

  • The URL path is confirmed live. Every auth shape tried against .../phone_numbers/ with account id "0" returns HTTP 403 (never 404), so the path and the account-id-in-path convention are real.
  • The header name is NOT independently confirmed. No header, X-API-KEY: invalidkey123, Authorization: Api-Key invalidkey123, and Authorization: Bearer invalidkey123 all return the byte-identical {"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}. A placeholder-key probe cannot tell "wrong header" apart from "right header, garbage key" when the server's generic-scheme message is this generic. X-API-KEY is used here because that is what search results describing Forager's own docs name, but this is the one auth shape in this batch that should be treated as a hypothesis, not a confirmed fact, until a real key either works or returns a DIFFERENT 401/403 body.
  • The request/response body fields are a best-effort guess, not a confirmed schema. We could not read docs.forager.ai's own schema page for this specific endpoint (only sibling endpoints — detail lookup, reverse-by-email, reverse-by-phone, role search — turned up in what we could fetch). This pack sends {"linkedin_url": ...} or {"person_id": ...} and reads a phone_numbers array (string or {number, type} objects) back, by analogy with Forager's REST conventions elsewhere. If a real key gets a 200 with a different shape, findPhone() in src/index.ts is the only place that needs fixing.
  • Not verified (no key held), and more load-bearing than usual for this pack: the auth header name, the request body field name, the response field name, and whether _accountId is even the right concept (vs. the account id being derivable from the key itself).

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "forager": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1743+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

This pack takes your own API key (_apiKey) — we don't front one for it, so there's no curl here that would run without it. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/forager_find_phone. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "forager": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-forager"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-forager

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Forager data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

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License

MIT

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Delivery
forager MCP server → your Ahel connector (mcp.ahel.ai) → your AI.
Item type
mcp-server
Key
io-github-pipeworx-io-forager
Source
github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-forager
Hosted endpoint
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp