pingwa MCP Server

by grzgrzgrz3 Your server? Claim it

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pingwa is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. 68 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 29 · avg 12 · -24% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 84%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

209 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

pingwa does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pingwa": {
      "url": "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

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

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PINGWA_KEY (pingwa API key (send 'join' on WhatsApp to the service number — see https://pingwa.dev)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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	217 ms	1 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 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 209 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 with the file path 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 209 ms on average, which is faster than 65% of all working MCP servers we measure. 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 68 times in the last week. Week over week that is -24%. 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?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.