pingwa MCP Server

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pingwa is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. 71 installs a week from pypi. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 23 Jul 2026.

Zero-setup WhatsApp notifications + human-in-the-loop for AI agents — text 'join', send in 60s.

Installs per day peak 38 · avg 12 · -22% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 71%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

166 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check pingwa every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pingwa --transport http https://pingwa.dev/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://pingwa.dev/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pingwa]
url = "https://pingwa.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pingwa": {
      "url": "https://pingwa.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pingwa": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pingwa.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

ask

ask

Ask the human a question on WhatsApp and BLOCK until they reply (or timeout). `text` is the question. `buttons` (optional, up to 3) render as tappable reply buttons; omit them to invite a free-text answer the human types on their phone — use this to let the human steer you mid-task. `timeout` is seconds to wait (max 90). Returns the human's reply (free text and/or the chosen option). On timeout, returns a note — the question was delivered and the answer is still retrievable via `check_replies`.

notify

notify

Send a WhatsApp notification to the account owner's own phone. `text` is the message (1-1024 chars). `image_url` (optional) is a public https image link — a screenshot, chart or diff — delivered as an image with `text` as the caption when the user's 24h window is open (otherwise text only). Returns a confirmation with the queued message id; raises an actionable error on quota/auth.

replies

check_replies

Pull inbound WhatsApp messages the human sent to pingwa (out-of-band instructions, or late answers to an `ask`). `since` is a cursor from a previous call (pass it back to get only newer messages); `wait` long-polls up to that many seconds for something to arrive. Returns the messages and a new cursor.

status

check_status

Show the pingwa account's plan, remaining monthly quota, and whether the free 24h WhatsApp reply window is currently open.

upgrade

upgrade

Get a link to upgrade the account to Pro (raises the monthly quota). Returns a Stripe Checkout URL for the human to open and pay — no pingwa password needed, the card is handled by Stripe. If the account is already Pro, returns a billing-portal URL to manage or cancel instead.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://pingwa.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	213 ms	14 min ago

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pingwa — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can pingwa do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask, check_replies, check_status, notify, upgrade. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is pingwa working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 166 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect pingwa?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does pingwa need an API key?

No. pingwa completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is pingwa?

It answers our handshake in 166 ms on average, which is faster than 79% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

How many people use pingwa?

The pypi package pingwa was installed 71 times in the last week. Week over week that is -22%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is pingwa open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at pingwa.dev, which runs on its operator's own terms.