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

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_advice may return the same slip
• Search is case-insensitive and matches partial words
• No auth needed, free for everyone