Advice Slip
Sometimes you just need a nudge in the right direction. This pack taps the Advice Slip API — a crowd-curated collection of short, practical life advice — and lets you pull random slips, search by topic, or fetch a specific one by ID.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
random_advice |
Returns a single random piece of advice |
search_advice |
Full-text search across all advice slips by keyword |
get_advice |
Retrieve a specific advice slip by its numeric ID |
When to reach for this
- A user asks for motivation or a pick-me-up during a conversation
- Building a "tip of the day" widget or notification
- Searching for advice on a specific topic like "money", "friendship", or "patience"
- Populating placeholder content with real human-written sentences
Quick example
Searching for advice about sleep:
curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/advice/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_advice","arguments":{"query":"sleep"}}}'
Response shape:
{
"total_results": 3,
"slips": [
{ "id": 87, "advice": "Get enough sleep." },
{ "id": 143, "advice": "Don't use your phone before bed..." }
]
}
MCP client config
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx-advice": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/advice/mcp"]
}
}
}
Good to know
- The API caches random results for 2 seconds, so rapid consecutive calls to
random_advicemay return the same slip - Search is case-insensitive and matches partial words
- No auth needed, free for everyone