`service_status`

Pack: vies-eu · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/service_status for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

List all EU member states and whether each national VAT-checking service is currently Available or Unavailable, plus overall VIES (VoW) availability. Use this before/after a failed check_vat to tell a temporary national outage apart from a genuinely invalid VAT number.

Example call

Arguments

{}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/vies-eu/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"service_status","arguments":{}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('service_status', {});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

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

Connect to just the vies-eu pack

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

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

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