Vessel Tracking

live Reference

Vessel Tracking — live worldwide ship positions from AIS.

3 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

live_ships_in_area

Live ship positions right now in a geographic area, from AIS radio broadcasts — what vessels are

No parameters required.

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live_ship_position

Where is a specific ship right now — live AIS position for one or more vessels by MMSI number.

No parameters required.

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ais_coverage_check

Does live AIS tracking actually work at this location? Listens at a point and reports whether any

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/vessel-tracking/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/vessel-tracking/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"live_ships_in_area","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("live_ships_in_area", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("vessel tracking — live worldwide ship positions from ais");