activate_agent_inbox
ChatGPTStart or resume the onboarding Question in the private room the human chose during authorization. If recipient_not_ready, ask the human to install or update PingRoom from install_url, open the app, sign in, and enable notifications before retrying. Read question.id, then call wait_for_handoff only while state is pending and within a bounded local deadline. Success is answered with activation_completed true. Any other terminal result is incomplete: stop polling that attempt, then call activate_agent_inbox again for one numbered retry. The stamp requires native phone receipt before the human answer.
ask_question
ChatGPTAsk a person a question with 2-4 tappable options, then block on their answer (pair with wait_for_answer). Delivered as a push they can answer from the lock screen or in-app; the first valid answer wins. Rate-limited.
broadcast
ChatGPTSend a custom ping to a room the account belongs to. Pass data.checklist.items to send a checklist the room ticks through together; read the ticks back as checklist_state. Rate-limited. Not available in personal rooms (use trigger_quick_action there).
cancel_question
ChatGPTWithdraw a still-pending question you asked.
connection_info
ChatGPTVerify the current connection: owner.id is the human public User ID, handle identifies the robot, and home_room is its delivery room. After login or reconnect, match owner.id and handle to the approved account and robot before sending. A mismatch means stop and reload or restart the MCP client. Includes a credential-protected latest-pings feed and token-free install URL; never send credentials to the install URL.
create_handoff
ChatGPTHand work to exactly one human as either an acknowledgement or a tappable question. The server verifies that one of the recipient's current devices supports the complete Handoff action before creating anything.
create_public_room
ChatGPTCreate a publicly discoverable room with a unique @handle. Counts toward the free-plan five-room cap.
create_room
ChatGPTCreate a new private room owned by the authenticated account. Free accounts may own up to five rooms. If this agent was granted every room and has no delivery room yet, the new room becomes its delivery room — where its handoffs and direct questions land.
create_webhook
ChatGPTCreate an incoming webhook for a room the account owns. The bound account must be Pro. Returns the secret trigger URL — treat it as a credential.
delete_attachment
ChatGPTDelete an attachment this agent uploaded that is not yet claimed by a ping.
delete_webhook
ChatGPTDelete an incoming webhook (by id) from a room the account owns.
disconnect
ChatGPTRevoke this authenticated robot connection, including its access and refresh credentials and room memberships. Use only when the human explicitly requests logout, disconnection, or reconnection. Call BEFORE clearing local credentials or running MCP logout/login. It affects only the current connection and accepts no account or robot selector. After login, restart or reload the MCP client, then match connection_info owner.id and handle to the approved account and robot before sending.
get_approval
ChatGPTFetch the current status of an approval request without blocking.
get_attachment
ChatGPTFetch an attachment visible to this agent as base64 content plus metadata. Results over the connector size limit return attachment_too_large — fetch those via the agent REST API instead.
get_handoff
ChatGPTFetch the authoritative current state of one Handoff without blocking.
get_live_status
ChatGPTRead back the current state of a live stream you created, so a restarted producer can reconcile instead of starting a duplicate. Only returns streams started by this credential, within the last 24 hours. Returns notification_id and correlation_id, then the stored display state (state, progress, message, category, template, accent_override, eta_at, deadline_at, duration_seconds, metrics, prompt, options, left, right, center, steps, current_step), action_state, and updated_at. Fields you never set come back as null rather than being omitted, so a matchup/metrics/countdown/question stream can be resumed without re-sending content.
get_notification
ChatGPTFetch one visible ping by notification id, including its current action_state and, once anything on its data.checklist is checked, checklist_state.
get_question
ChatGPTFetch the current state of a question without blocking.
get_room
ChatGPTFetch a single room by its invite code, including members and quick actions.
join_room
ChatGPTJoin a room using its invite code. Include the password only if the room is protected.
list_handoffs
ChatGPTList a bounded page of this agent's Handoffs, newest first. Omit state (or use open) for unresolved work; use all for history and page while has_more is true.
list_notifications
ChatGPTList a bounded page of recent pings across approved rooms, newest first. Use page to continue while has_more is true.
list_questions
ChatGPTList a bounded page of questions you asked, newest first. Optionally filter by state; use page while has_more is true.
list_quick_actions
ChatGPTList the quick actions configured for a room.
list_room_icons
ChatGPTList the room-icon catalog (icon ids, tags, and categories). Call this before create_room / create_public_room / create_webhook to pick a valid icon id, and to interpret icon values returned by reads.
list_rooms
ChatGPTList the rooms the authenticated account belongs to.
list_webhooks
ChatGPTList the incoming webhooks (with their trigger URLs) for a room the account owns.
live_status
ChatGPTStart, update, or end a live progress card on the room members' lock screen (an iOS Live Activity / Android live update). Reuse the same correlation_id for every ping of one stream: the first ping starts the card and sends one alert, further "running" pings move it silently, and the first "done"/"failed" sends one completion alert and ends it. Free accounts get a small number of NEW streams per day; updates and the final ping of an open stream are never charged; a first ping that is already "done"/"failed" counts as a new stream.
request_approval
ChatGPTAsk the human to approve or reject an action, then block on their answer (pair with wait_for_approval). Delivered as a push to the connected human only, so like a direct ask_question to them it needs no trigger permission in the room; public and personal rooms are refused. Rate-limited.
rotate_handle
ChatGPTRotate this agent's public handle — kill-switch for a leaked handle.
set_avatar
ChatGPTSet this agent's avatar. Must be one of the PingRoom bot avatars.
trigger_quick_action
ChatGPTPress a room quick action, notifying its members. Rate-limited. Read the action's input_type first (list_quick_actions): location needs data.location, link needs data.url, file/photo/pdf need attachment_ids — a press without the matching detail is a 422 quick_action_input_required.
update_quick_action
ChatGPTConfigure a numbered quick-action slot for a room the account owns. Sends a background room refresh to room members' devices.
update_quick_actions
ChatGPTConfigure several of a room's quick-action slots in one call. Prefer this over repeated update_quick_action: each single-slot write wakes room members' devices with its own background refresh, so setting up four Pings one at a time spends four of a finite daily push budget on one operation. Slots you do not list are left exactly as they are, so this is also the right tool for editing a single Ping.
update_webhook
ChatGPTUpdate an incoming webhook (by id) on a room the account owns — e.g. change its icon, title, message, or sound.
upload_attachment
ChatGPTUpload a small file (max ~90 KiB over MCP; Pro account required) and get an attachment id to include in broadcast or ask_question via attachment_ids. Larger files: use the PingRoom CLI or agent REST API.
wait_for_ack
ChatGPTLong-poll a generic acknowledgement-required ping until its confirmation rule is met (any: first confirmation; all: every original eligible recipient), it expires, or the timeout elapses. Questions use wait_for_answer instead.
wait_for_answer
ChatGPTLong-poll a question until it is answered or expires. Returns the state and, once answered, the chosen option value + label and the responder.
wait_for_approval
ChatGPTLong-poll an approval request until the human decides or it expires. Returns the status and, once decided, the chosen option.
wait_for_handoff
ChatGPTLong-poll a Handoff until the human resolves it, it expires, or the bounded timeout elapses. For the onboarding Question returned by activate_agent_inbox, success requires an answered result with activation_completed true; use a bounded local deadline and treat any terminal answer without that stamp as incomplete.
wait_for_notification
ChatGPTLong-poll for the next ping. Blocks until one arrives or the timeout elapses — the real-time inbound channel for an agent. The agent's own sends are excluded.
