Search Contacts

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This lossless descriptor comes from the active Portal catalog and is enhanced with reviewed examples.

READghl.search_contacts

• Contract tier: agent_ready
• Risk: read
• Catalog version: 2026-07-12.2
• Descriptor hash: 78a015397f357cc82912c74cae616b4b0ce74a50416a170cfc9a9fb36e053e5b

Find contacts by query, email, or phone.

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "ghl-search-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.search_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "john",
      "limit": 10
    }
  }
}

Arguments Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "email": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter by email address"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Maximum number of results (default: 25)"
    },
    "phone": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter by phone number"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Search query string"
    },
    "tenantId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Tenant ID from list_tenants."
    }
  }
}

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-search-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.search_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "john",
      "limit": 10
    }
  }
}'

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-search-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.search_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "john",
      "limit": 10
    }
  }
}),
});
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-search-contacts-example",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ghl.search_contacts",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "john",
      "limit": 10
    }
  }
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=60)
print(response.json())

Example Responses

200 Success

{
  "ok": true,
  "contacts": [
    {
      "id": "cont_01",
      "firstName": "John",
      "lastName": "Doe",
      "email": "john@example.com"
    }
  ]
}

401 Unauthorized

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": "invalid_token"
}

422 Validation Error

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": "validation_error",
  "message": "limit must be between 1 and 100"
}