Pipeworx Docs

Pipeworx connects AI agents to live, primary-source data through one MCP URL: SEC filings, FDA records, FRED economic series, property data, clinical trials, patents, weather, and hundreds of other sources — 5,411 tools across 1,404 sources in total. Your agent never carries all of that at once; it sees a small set of gateway tools and the catalog is routed at runtime.

These docs are here to get you connected, help you get good answers, and explain how things work when you want the detail.

Connecting

Add the gateway to any MCP client’s config:

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

Then ask your agent a question that needs current data, for example:

“What is the US trade deficit with China?” “Get Apple’s latest 10-K filing.” “What are the side effects of Ozempic?”

The gateway picks the right tool, fills in the arguments, runs it against the source, and returns the answer with a citation. There is nothing else to set up, and no key is needed to start.

If you’d like a gentler on-ramp, Pipeworx 101 walks you from a blank client to your first cited answer in about ten minutes. Per-client setup steps live in Getting started.

What to expect

  • Answers come from the institutions that publish the data — SEC, FDA, FRED, Census, EPA, ClinicalTrials.gov and their peers — not from web pages about them.
  • Entities in the most-cited sources — SEC filings, FRED series, clinical trials, patents, papers — have a stable pipeworx:// URI your agent can keep as a citation, and every response carries its source and fetch time in _meta.
  • Some questions span several sources. Tools like compare_entities do that fan-out in one call so your agent doesn’t have to chain requests.
  • Pipeworx implements the full MCP protocol — Tools, Resources, and Prompts — so clients that understand more than tool-calling get more.

Finding your way

  • Getting started — connect your client, then teach your agent to reach for live data.
  • Recipes — copy-paste prompts for real jobs: company research, drug safety, patents, housing.
  • Concepts — how routing, caching, citations, and the context tax actually work.
  • API Reference — every pack and every tool, generated from source.

Limits

Anonymous use is 50 calls a day per IP — enough to evaluate honestly. A free account raises that, and paid plans remove the cap; current numbers are on the pricing page.

When something goes wrong

Error responses try to explain themselves: each carries worked examples, alternative tools, and a retry hint in _meta, so agents usually self-correct. If something still looks broken or missing, the pipeworx_feedback tool goes straight to us, and we read it daily.

Last reviewed August 3, 2026