Vendor Signals

Vendor Signals — what your accounts just shipped

Changelog entries, release notes and product announcements for 31 tracked software vendors, dated and linked, joinable by domain against a target list.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1684+ live data sources.

The GTM read

"This account just shipped X" is a reason to reach out. That is the unit here — a dated, sourced change attached to a vendor — not developer news, which dev-feeds already carries.

Tools

Auth

Keyless.

The distinction this pack is built around

"Tracked but quiet" and "not tracked" are different answers, and a seller acts differently on each. Returning an empty list for both would make an unwatched account look like a dormant one.

• Tracked and quiet → found: true, count: 0 plus a note saying it is a real quiet period.
• Not tracked → found: false, reason: "vendor_not_tracked" and an explicit statement that this is missing coverage, not missing activity.
• Feed currently failing → flagged on the response, because an empty result then means unknown, not inactive.

vendor_signal_sweep returns quiet_vendors for the same reason: a vendor in neither list is not tracked at all.

Scope

Structured publisher feeds only — changelog RSS/Atom and GitHub releases. Deliberately not a general web-diffing crawler. Titles, summaries and links are stored; full page content is never retained.

Vendor list: vendor_doc_sources (seeded by scripts/ingest-vendor-signals.mjs --seed). Schema: supabase/migrations/*_vendor_signals.sql.

Things the next person would otherwise rediscover

• A dead feed does not error — it returns zero entries and looks healthy. Slack's changelog feed answers HTTP 200 with text/html and no entries; six of thirty candidates behaved this way (Cloudflare, Linear, Twilio, Datadog, Atlassian, Slack on their first-guess URLs). Every candidate was probed before seeding, and the poller treats zero parseable entries as a failure, not a quiet success, so a rotted feed surfaces in vendor_coverage instead of silently reporting "no changes" forever.
• GitHub releases.atom is the reliable fallback when a vendor has no changelog feed — https://github.com/<org>/<repo>/releases.atom works for most vendors with a public SDK, and is how Twilio, Linear, Datadog and Slack are covered here.
• Vercel's feed returns ~1,500 entries where most return 10. Any per-source assumption of a small page is wrong.
• Prefer: return=minimal answers 201 with an empty body, not 204 — code that switches on 204 alone will try to parse nothing.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vendor-signals": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/vendor-signals/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/vendor-signals/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 1684+ 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

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/vendor_recent_changes \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"vendor":"stripe","days":30}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/vendor_recent_changes. 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": {
    "vendor-signals": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-vendor-signals"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-vendor-signals

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 Vendor Signals data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT