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Retrieve a conversation
An MCP tool from the Intercom API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.
Retrieve a conversation You can fetch the details of a single conversation. This will return a single Conversation model with all its conversation parts. {% admonition type="warning" name="Hard limit of 500 parts" %} The… [GET /conversations/{conversation_id}]
Name on the gateway: intercom_api__retrieve_conversation · read-only.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
conversation_id required | string | The id of the conversation to target |
display_as | string | Set to plaintext to retrieve conversation messages in plain text. |
How to call it
Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:
{
"name": "intercom_api__retrieve_conversation",
"arguments": {
"conversation_id": "…"
}
}Or connect the Intercom API server directly, which lists 108 tools including this one:
claude mcp add --transport http hj-intercom-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/intercom-api \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Try asking
Use the retrieve a conversation tool with conversation_id set to ….