Get Smart List Contacts

Immutable Catalog Entry

This descriptor comes from the active versioned Portal catalog.

READghl.get_smart_list_contacts

• Contract tier: legacy
• Risk: read
• Catalog version: 2026-07-12.2
• Descriptor hash: 9807e7a498c2c3f679509ad8382946f858ba3499f3eb5ac27e6f06fde1a6590e

Emulate Smart Lists by returning contacts that match tag filters through the public Contacts API. This tool does not create saved GHL UI Smart Lists/contact views because current official Contacts API docs do not expose a saved-view write endpoint. GHL category: Contacts. This is a read-only GHL API operation.

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ghl-get-smart-list-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.get_smart_list_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "tags": [],
      "limit": 1,
      "query": "query_example",
      "tenantId": "tenantId_123",
      "matchMode": "any",
      "locationId": "locationId_123",
      "startAfter": 1,
      "startAfterId": "startAfterId_123",
      "strictTenant": false
    }
  }
}

Arguments Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "tags"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Tags that define the Smart List"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Maximum number of results (default: 25)"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional search query string"
    },
    "tenantId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Tenant ID from list_tenants."
    },
    "matchMode": {
      "enum": [
        "any",
        "all"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "any",
      "description": "Require any or all tags to match"
    },
    "locationId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Location ID override (uses default if not provided)"
    },
    "startAfter": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Pagination cursor (timestamp)"
    },
    "startAfterId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pagination cursor (contact ID)"
    },
    "strictTenant": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": true,
      "description": "Require tenantId to match locationId routing (default: true)."
    }
  }
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "ok",
    "data",
    "error",
    "meta"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "ok": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the GHL MCP operation completed successfully."
    },
    "data": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "object",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {}
        },
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "number"
        },
        {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Tool-specific GHL or local navigation result when ok is true."
    },
    "meta": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Safe execution, routing, and timing metadata.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "error": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "object",
          "additionalProperties": true
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Safe error details when ok is false; credential values are never returned."
    }
  },
  "description": "Normalized GHL MCP response envelope.",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

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": "ghl-get-smart-list-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.get_smart_list_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "tags": [],
      "limit": 1,
      "query": "query_example",
      "tenantId": "tenantId_123",
      "matchMode": "any",
      "locationId": "locationId_123",
      "startAfter": 1,
      "startAfterId": "startAfterId_123",
      "strictTenant": false
    }
  }
}'

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": "ghl-get-smart-list-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.get_smart_list_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "tags": [],
      "limit": 1,
      "query": "query_example",
      "tenantId": "tenantId_123",
      "matchMode": "any",
      "locationId": "locationId_123",
      "startAfter": 1,
      "startAfterId": "startAfterId_123",
      "strictTenant": false
    }
  }
}),
});
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": "ghl-get-smart-list-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.get_smart_list_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "tags": [],
      "limit": 1,
      "query": "query_example",
      "tenantId": "tenantId_123",
      "matchMode": "any",
      "locationId": "locationId_123",
      "startAfter": 1,
      "startAfterId": "startAfterId_123",
      "strictTenant": false
    }
  }
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=60)
print(response.json())

Example Responses

200 Success

{
  "ok": true,
  "message": "Tool ghl.get_smart_list_contacts 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."
}