About Outlook Contacts
Outlook Contacts is an MCP server for accessing contacts and people associated with a connected Microsoft 365 account. It supports address-book lookup, detailed contact retrieval, and relevance-ranked people search.
Key features
- 01List and keyword-search saved contacts
- 02Retrieve full contact details
- 03Search relevant colleagues and contacts
- 04Get the signed-in user profile
Use cases
- 01Find a saved contact by name or keyword
- 02Look up a contact's phone and company details
- 03Find a coworker outside the saved address book
- 04Confirm the connected account profile
MCP support
Exposes Microsoft 365 contact, people-search, and profile tools to MCP clients. It can run through the Pipeworx gateway or as a local stdio MCP server.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-outlook-contacts https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-outlook-contacts":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-outlook-contacts":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-outlook-contacts":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-outlook-contacts":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEmcp-outlook-contacts
Outlook Contacts (Microsoft 365) MCP Pack
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.
Tools
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
outlook_list_contacts | List contacts from an Outlook / Microsoft 365 address book. Returns compact contact records (name, email addresses, phone numbers, company, job title). Supports keyword search across the contact fields. Use to browse a user's saved Outlook / Microsoft 365 contacts. |
outlook_get_contact | Get the full details of a single Outlook / Microsoft 365 contact by its ID, including display name, all email addresses, business and mobile phone numbers, home address, company name, job title, and department. Use after outlook_list_contacts to read a contact from the address book in full. |
outlook_search_people | Search the people most relevant to the signed-in Outlook / Microsoft 365 user — colleagues, frequent email contacts, and people in their organization — ranked by relevance. Returns matching people with name, email addresses, job title, and company. Use to find a coworker or frequent contact by name even if they are not in the saved address book. |
outlook_get_profile | Get the signed-in user's Microsoft 365 / Outlook profile: display name, email address, and user principal name. Use to identify whose contacts and address book are connected. |
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"outlook-contacts": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/outlook-contacts/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1683+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
This pack runs against a connected microsoft account, so it needs a Pipeworx key: sign in at https://pipeworx.io/account, connect microsoft, then call POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/outlook_list_contacts with Authorization: Bearer <your Pipeworx key>. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/outlook_list_contacts. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"outlook-contacts": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-outlook-contacts"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-outlook-contacts
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Outlook Contacts data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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