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Get a contact

An MCP tool from the Intercom API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Get a contact You can fetch the details of a single contact. {% admonition type="warning" name="Merged contacts" %} If a contact has been merged into another contact via the Merge endpoint (POST /contacts/merge)… [GET /contacts/{contact_id}]

Name on the gateway: intercom_api__show_contact · read-only.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
contact_id requiredstringcontact_id parameter

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:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "intercom_api__show_contact",
  "arguments": {
    "contact_id": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the Intercom API server directly, which lists 108 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
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 get a contact tool with contact_id set to ….

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