Softwareheritage

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Software Heritage MCP.

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

origin_status

Report whether one repository URL is archived, and as of when. Returns the most recent visit that produced a usable snapshot: the visit date, the snapshot id, and the visit type (git, hg, svn, npm, py

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origin_visits

List the archive's visit history for one repository URL, newest first: when each capture ran, what it produced, and whether it succeeded ("full"), partially succeeded, or failed ("not_found" — the ori

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revision

Fetch one archived commit by its Software Heritage revision id (the 40-hex id, which for a git repository is the git commit sha). Returns the commit message, author and committer with their dates, the

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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/softwareheritage/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/softwareheritage/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"origin_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("origin_search", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("software heritage mcp");