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Openfda

io.github.pipeworx-io/openfda
OpenFDA MCP — wraps the openFDA API (free, no auth required)
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Tools (48)

ask_pipeworx
PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for questions about current or historical data: SEC filings, FDA drug data, FRED/BLS economic statistics, government records, USPTO patents, ATTOM real estate, weather, clinical trials, news, stocks, crypto, sports, academic papers, or anything requiring authoritative structur
ask_pipeworx_beta
Beta version of ask_pipeworx: identical universal router (same 5,543 tools, same arguments, same response shape) with candidate routing improvements enabled live whenever one is under test. No candidate is active right now (the last was retired on outcome evidence 2026-07-26), so this currently matc
ask_pipeworx_grounded
Hallucination-resistant answer mode for high-stakes reads. Same routing as ask_pipeworx — picks the right tool from 5,543 across 1459 sources, fills arguments, fetches the data — then EXTRACTS the answer using ONLY what the tool result contains. Returns {answer, evidence (verbatim quote), confidence
search_within
Semantic search INSIDE a fetched record. Pass the text you already pulled (e.g. a SEC 10-K body, an article, a long tool result) plus a natural-language query; get back the top-N passages with character offsets and similarity scores. Use when the record is too big to cram into the prompt — search_wi
deep_research
ACCOUNT REQUIRED (free — sign in via GitHub at https://pipeworx.io/signup; depth:"thorough" needs a paid plan). If you are not signed in, use ask_pipeworx instead — it works on every tier. Grounded multi-source research across Pipeworx's 1459 STRUCTURED data sources (SEC filings, FRED/BLS economics,
discover_tools
Find tools by describing the data or task. Use when you need to browse, search, look up, or discover what tools exist for: SEC filings, financials, revenue, profit, FDA drugs, adverse events, FRED economic data, Census demographics, BLS jobs/unemployment/inflation, ATTOM real estate, ClinicalTrials,
resolve_entity
"What's the ticker for…" / "find the CIK for…" / "what's the LEI for…" / "what's the RxCUI for…" / "look up the ID for…" / "what is X's official identifier" / "who owns X" / "is X a subsidiary of Y" — resolve a user-spoken NAME to the canonical/official identifiers other tools require as input. Use
compare_entities
"Compare X and Y" / "X vs Y" / "X versus Y" / "which is bigger / better / larger / more profitable" / "rank these companies" / "head to head" — side-by-side comparison of 2–5 companies or drugs in ONE parallel call. ALWAYS PREFER over sequential single-pack lookups when comparing entities. type="com
subscribe
Create a proactive monitoring subscription to a live-data event stream. Returns the new subscription id. Requires a Pipeworx OAuth account (anonymous + BYO cannot persist subscriptions). Supported types: "sec_8k" (8-K filings matching ticker + item codes — e.g. items:["5.02"] = officer change), "pol
unsubscribe
Cancel a subscription by id. Ownership is enforced — you can only cancel your own subscriptions. The row is deactivated (not deleted) so its historical events stay available via recent_alerts.
list_subscriptions
List the caller's active subscriptions. Returns id, type, params, created_at, last_fired_at, fire_count for each. Use this to review what you're monitoring before adding more or to find an id to cancel.
recent_alerts
Pull fired events from your subscription feed. Returns the most recent alerts the evaluator has written to your persisted feed — each carries source, citation_uri (pipeworx:// when available), and the raw event payload. Filter by type (e.g. "sec_8k") and/or since (ISO timestamp). Set mark_read:true
entity_profile
"Tell me about X" / "research Acme" / "brief me on Tesla" / "what does Apple do" / "company profile for Microsoft" / "give me the rundown on NVDA" / "everything you know about $TICKER" — full cross-source profile of a US public company in ONE parallel call. ALWAYS PREFER over chaining single-pack SE
recent_changes
"What's new with X" / "latest on Y" / "what happened to Z this week / month / quarter" / "updates on Acme" / "news on Tesla recently" / "what's happening with Apple" — change feed for a company in the last N days/weeks/months in ONE parallel call. Fans out to SEC EDGAR (filings since `since`), GDELT
validate_claim
"Is it true that…" / "fact check" / "verify the claim that…" / "did X really…" / "was Y actually…" / "confirm or refute" / "true or false" — natural-language claim verification against authoritative sources. Use whenever the agent needs to check whether something a user said is factually correct. Co
scan_dependency
Composite "should I add this npm package to my project" check in ONE call — fans out across deps.dev (license + advisories + version history) and bundlephobia (gzipped/minified bundle size, dependency count, ESM/tree-shake support). Use whenever an agent asks "is X safe / popular / small" or "what d
bet_research
Research a Polymarket bet by pulling the relevant Pipeworx data for it in one call. Pass a market slug ("will-bitcoin-hit-150k-by-june-30-2026"), a polymarket.com URL, or a question text. The tool resolves the market, classifies the bet, fans out to category-specific data packs in parallel, and retu
polymarket_arbitrage
Find arbitrage opportunities on Polymarket via monotonicity violations + partition-sum checks. Call with NO args for a `trending_scan` of the top ~200 markets by weekly volume; pass `event` for the strongest per-event partition_check, or `topic` for a themed cross-event scan. `event` (recommended fo
polymarket_edges
Scan top Polymarket markets and return opportunities where Pipeworx data disagrees with market price. Built for "what should I bet on today" — agents discover opportunities without paging hundreds of markets. FIVE MODEL FAMILIES grouped into three response segments under by_segment: (1) MODEL_DRIVEN
polymarket_kalshi_spread
Cross-venue spread between Kalshi and Polymarket for the same resolving question. The two venues sometimes price the same outcome 2-25pp apart because their participant pools differ — when the bet shapes are equivalent that delta is a real signal, when they aren't the tool says so. TWO MODES: (1) `t
polymarket_fill_risk
Realizable-vs-theoretical edge check against live CLOB order-book depth. REQUIRES one of `market` (single-market mode) or `event` (basket/partition mode). SINGLE-MARKET: pass a market slug/URL + side (buy_yes|sell_yes|buy_no|sell_no, default buy_yes) + size_usd (default 1000 — max spend on buys, tar
polymarket_edge_tracker
Edge persistence and decay telemetry built from daily polymarket_edges snapshots. Answers "how long has this edge existed and is it shrinking?" — a fresh wide edge and a 3-week-old wide edge are different trades (the latter is wide for a reason nobody is willing to take). Args: days (lookback, defau
pipeworx_trending
What other AI agents are calling on Pipeworx right now. Returns the top tools, top packs, and total call volume over a recent window (24h, 7d, or 30d). Useful for: (1) discovering what data sources are hot for current events, (2) confirming a popular tool is the canonical choice before asking your o
suggest_questions
What can I ask Pipeworx? / what is Pipeworx good for? / what can you do? / give me ideas / show me examples / getting started / what data do you have? — the onboarding entry point for an agent that just connected and wants to know what is worth asking. Returns category-bucketed example questions (co
generate_llms_txt
Generate a production-ready llms.txt file for any URL so AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) can index the site cleanly. Fetches the page, extracts title/description/key links, and emits the standard llms.txt markdown format. Output is a single text blob ready to drop at site-root/llms.txt. Us
ai_visibility_check
Probe one or more LLMs for what they know about a business / brand / product / topic and score visibility (0-100) per model. Default model is Workers AI Llama-3.3-70b (free); pass `_apiKey` to also probe Anthropic (BYO key — you pay Anthropic directly for those calls). Returns per-model {score, conf
scan_competitor_ai_presence
Compare AI visibility across multiple entities side-by-side. Probes each entity (your brand + N competitors) with ai_visibility_check, ranks by score, surfaces which is most/least recognized. Useful for competitive AI-marketing audits: "does Claude know about us as well as our competitors?". Returns
pipeworx_feedback
Tell the Pipeworx team something is broken, missing, or needs to exist. Use when a tool returns wrong/stale data (bug), when a tool you wish existed isn't in the catalog (feature/data_gap), or when something worked surprisingly well (praise). ONLY for tools served by this Pipeworx connection — if th
remember
Save data the agent will need to reuse later — across this conversation or across sessions. Use when you discover something worth carrying forward (a resolved ticker, a target address, a user preference, a research subject) so you don't have to look it up again. Stored as a key-value pair scoped by
recall
Retrieve a value previously saved via remember, or list all saved keys (omit the key argument). Use to look up context the agent stored earlier — the user's target ticker, an address, prior research notes — without re-deriving it from scratch. Scoped to your identifier (anonymous IP, BYO key hash, o
forget
Delete a previously stored memory by key. Use when context is stale, the task is done, or you want to clear sensitive data the agent saved earlier. Pair with remember and recall.
fda_drug_events
Search FAERS adverse event reports by drug name, MedDRA reaction term, or date range. Returns report counts, reaction types, seriousness levels, and dates. Natural multi-word reaction phrasing is retried against MedDRA preferred-term word order before an empty result is reported. FAERS reports do no
fda_drug_approvals
Find FDA-approved drugs by brand name, active ingredient, or application number. To find generic versions of a drug, search by active ingredient using products.active_ingredients.name (NOT openfda.generic_name — that field only works in the label endpoint). IMPORTANT: drug names in the FDA database
fda_novel_approvals
Most recent novel drug approvals — the newest drugs approved by the FDA. Use for "what is the most recent novel drug the FDA approved", "latest FDA drug approvals", "recently approved new drugs or biologics this month/year". Returns original NDA/BLA approvals (generics excluded by default) sorted ne
fda_drug_labels
Get FDA drug labeling (SPL) by drug name OR by INDICATION. This is the tool for "what drugs are approved to treat <condition>" — it searches the indications_and_usage text, which the drugsfda approvals endpoint does NOT carry. Query by brand/generic name (openfda.brand_name:"HUMIRA"), or by indicate
fda_drug_recalls
Search FDA drug recalls and enforcement actions by drug name or reason — returns recall classification, date, reason and enforcement status. A multi-word search is tried as ALL terms first and falls back to ANY term when nothing matches all of them; the response says which happened in match_mode, so
fda_drug_shortages
Search the FDA Drug Shortages database by generic or brand name, manufacturer, status, or an advanced openFDA query. Returns national supply records and available FDA dates; reason and other details are sparse in the upstream data. This is not local pharmacy inventory or medical advice.
fda_shortage_changes
FDA drug-shortage records ordered by update_date, newest first, then restricted to the requested look-back window. Use for recently updated, discontinued, or resolved national shortages; this does not imply availability at any specific pharmacy or hospital.
fda_complete_response_letters
Search FDA-disclosed Complete Response Letters for drug and biologic applications. Defaults to letter_type "COMPLETE RESPONSE"; optionally include other letter types in the same dataset. Returns the application’s current approval_status, letter metadata, an excerpt, and the official document URL.
fda_crl_detail
Retrieve one FDA Complete Response Letter by application number and optionally letter date. Returns the FDA-disclosed letter text and document URL. Confidential commercial and trade-secret material may be redacted by FDA.
fda_food_recalls
Search FDA FOOD recall / enforcement reports (openFDA /food/enforcement) — product recalls, reasons, classification, recalling firm, distribution, and status. Use for food-safety / recall-history questions (distinct from fda_drug_recalls which covers drugs).
fda_event_counts
Aggregate adverse events by reaction type, patient age, or outcome. Returns top reactions for a drug and event trends over time.
fda_warning_letters
Search FDA WARNING LETTERS — official enforcement letters FDA sends firms for violations (CGMP, adulterated/misbranded products, unapproved claims). Answers "FDA warning letters for <company>", "recent FDA warning letters about supplements/devices". Full-text search over ~3,600 letters (company name
fda_faers_signal_summary
Calculate report-level FAERS disproportionality routing metrics for one drug/reaction pair using a 2×2 reporting table. The reaction argument matches one whole MedDRA preferred term, so a broad word like "neuropathy" counts only reports filed under that exact term and not the specific terms containi
fda_faers_reaction_profile
Summarize the most frequently co-reported FAERS reactions plus serious/non-serious report counts for a drug. Counts are spontaneous reports with duplicates, co-medications, and reporting bias—not event rates or proof of causation.
fda_faers_trend
Aggregate daily FAERS report counts into calendar months for a drug and optional reaction over a bounded date window. The reaction argument matches one whole MedDRA preferred term, so a broad word like "neuropathy" counts only reports filed under that exact term and not the specific terms containing
fda_application_history
Retrieve one Drugs@FDA NDA, ANDA, or BLA application and return its products and chronological submission-action history. Submission codes require regulatory interpretation and do not by themselves establish approval scope, exclusivity, or current marketing.
fda_postmarket_risk_profile
Combine a drug’s FAERS reporting profile, label warning fields, and FDA recall records for review routing. This is not a validated safety comparison, causal assessment, incidence estimate, or substitute for FDA communications and clinical review.

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Category: AI & LLM · Last checked: 2026-08-15T10:08:22Z

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