Us National Archives

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US National Archives Catalog (NARA): search the federal government's permanent records — descriptions of documents, photographs, film, maps and artifacts from every agency and presidential library, with direct links to the digitised page images where they exist.

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Tools

nara_record

Fetch one US National Archives Catalog record in full by its NAID (National Archives Identifier, the number in a catalog.archives.gov/id/ URL). Returns title, scope and content note, dates, access and

No parameters required.

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nara_digital_objects

List the digitised files attached to one US National Archives Catalog record — scanned page images, PDFs, audio and video — with a direct, public-domain download URL, file type and size for each. Use

No parameters required.

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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/us-national-archives/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/us-national-archives/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"nara_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("nara_search", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("us national archives catalog (nara): search the federal government's permanent records — descriptions of documents, photographs, film, maps and artifacts from every agency and presidential library, with direct links to the digitised page images where they exist");