Gov Auctions

liveGovernmentPhysics

Government physical-asset auctions — surplus, seized/forfeited, and tax-deed property agencies sell to the public (GovDeals, AllSurplus, IRS seized property): search active lots, lots closing soon, one lot's detail, sold-price history, and coverage stats. Distinct from gsa-auctions (live GSA federal-surplus API).

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Tools

auctions_search

Search live US government auction lots for physical assets sold to the public — surplus vehicles, heavy equipment, real estate, electronics — from state/local governments (GovDeals, AllSurplus) and IR

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Response

auctions_closing_soon

Live government auction lots ordered by soonest close time — the "what can I still bid on before it ends" view across all sources (GovDeals, AllSurplus, IRS). Optionally filter by state, asset_type, o

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Response

auction_lot_details

Full details for a single government auction lot, looked up by its source + source_lot_id (as returned by auctions_search) or by its listing URL. Returns title, description, category, location, bid, c

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Response

auctions_sold_comps

Historical SOLD prices for government auction items — the final hammer price of closed lots, which no upstream site keeps but Pipeworx retains. Use to answer "what do seized pickup trucks actually sel

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Response

auctions_coverage

Which government-auction data is currently available: per-source active lot counts and data freshness (when each source was last refreshed). Use to gauge coverage and how current the data is before re

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Response

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gov-auctions/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Call a tool

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gov-auctions/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"auctions_search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("auctions_search", {});

ask_pipeworx

// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("government physical-asset auctions — surplus, seized/forfeited, and tax-deed property agencies sell to the public (govdeals, allsurplus, irs seized property): search active lots, lots closing soon, one lot's detail, sold-price history, and coverage stats");

Related packs

Other Pipeworx packs in the same categories (Government, Physics):

MCP Config

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-gov-auctions": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gov-auctions/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}