Read Discord Direct Messages

Immutable Catalog Entry

This descriptor comes from the active versioned Portal catalog.

READdiscord.read_private_messages

• Contract tier: agent_ready
• Risk: read
• Catalog version: discord-2026.07.12.3
• Descriptor hash: 8026654f553321ee0b4fe479a908fcecd1617ce5a5302f821d4af87ae616e09b

Use this when you need recent DM history and DM access is enabled. This reads direct-message history without changing state through Discord's API and returns recipient/channel IDs and recent message records. It requires a configured Discord bot and guild with the relevant permissions.

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-read-private-messages-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.read_private_messages",
    "arguments": {
      "user_id": "user_id_123",
      "count": "count_example"
    }
  }
}

Arguments Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "read_private_messages input",
  "required": [
    "user_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "count": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Count",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Maximum records to return as a positive decimal string within the tool's limit."
    },
    "user_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "User Id",
      "description": "Discord user snowflake identifying the member or DM recipient."
    }
  },
  "description": "Validated input for the Discord MCP read_private_messages tool."
}

Output Schema

{
  "oneOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "ok",
        "data",
        "meta"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": true
        },
        "data": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "count": {
              "type": [
                "integer",
                "null"
              ],
              "description": "Provider data field count returned by read_private_messages."
            },
            "messages": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {},
              "description": "Provider data field messages returned by read_private_messages."
            }
          },
          "description": "recipient/channel IDs and recent message records",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "meta": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "duration_ms",
            "rate_limit",
            "warnings"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "guild_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "warnings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "thread_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "channel_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "rate_limit": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            },
            "request_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "duration_ms": {
              "type": "integer",
              "minimum": 0
            }
          },
          "description": "Safe execution metadata containing no credentials or raw headers.",
          "additionalProperties": true
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "ok",
        "error",
        "meta"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": false
        },
        "meta": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "duration_ms",
            "rate_limit",
            "warnings"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "guild_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "warnings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "thread_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "channel_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "rate_limit": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            },
            "request_id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "duration_ms": {
              "type": "integer",
              "minimum": 0
            }
          },
          "description": "Safe execution metadata containing no credentials or raw headers.",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        "error": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "type",
            "message"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "type": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "diagnostics": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            },
            "required_perms": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "discord_error_code": {
              "type": "integer"
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  ],
  "title": "Discord MCP provider result",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Normalized success or semantic-error response; ok=false is a failed call."
}

Code Examples

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer mad_live_***' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-read-private-messages-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.read_private_messages",
    "arguments": {
      "user_id": "user_id_123",
      "count": "count_example"
    }
  }
}'

Node.js

const response = await fetch('https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-read-private-messages-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.read_private_messages",
    "arguments": {
      "user_id": "user_id_123",
      "count": "count_example"
    }
  }
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

url = 'https://portal.madpanda3d.com/api/mcp'
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer mad_live_***',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "discord-read-private-messages-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "discord.read_private_messages",
    "arguments": {
      "user_id": "user_id_123",
      "count": "count_example"
    }
  }
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=60)
print(response.json())

Example Responses

200 Success

{
  "ok": true,
  "message": "Tool discord.read_private_messages executed successfully.",
  "note": "Response shape varies by MCP tool. Inspect live responses for exact fields."
}

502 Upstream Error

{
  "ok": false,
  "classification": "upstream_http_error",
  "message": "Upstream MCP returned a non-success status."
}