Dex ACTION
Create or Update Contact
Adds a new contact or updates an existing one if the email address already exists in the Dex system. See the documentation
- Action
- Writes data
- Destructive
- API key
- SDK
- MCP
IMPLEMENTATION
Call this tool
Connect a user's Dex account once, then configure and run Create or Update Contact from your backend or agent.
import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"
const pd = new PipedreamClient({
projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
projectEnvironment: "production",
})
const result = await pd.actions.run({
id: "dex-create-update-contact",
externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
configuredProps: {
dex: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
email: "Email",
firstName: "First Name",
},
})
console.log(result)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "dex-create-update-contact",
"configured_props": {
"dex": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" },
"email": "Email",
"firstName": "First Name"
}
}'// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
{
requestInit: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
"x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
"x-pd-environment": "production",
"x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
"x-pd-app-slug": "dex",
},
},
},
)
const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)
const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "dex-create-update-contact",
arguments: {
email: "Email",
firstName: "First Name",
},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
email Email | string | The email of the contact Required |
firstName First Name | string | The first name of the contact Optional |
lastName Last Name | string | The last name of the contact Optional |
phoneNumber Phone Number | string | The phone number of the contact Optional |
jobTitle Job Title | string | Job title of the contact Optional |
description Description | string | Description of the contact Optional |
education Education | string | Education of the contact Optional |
imageUrl Image URL | string | Image URL of the contact Optional |
linkedin LinkedIn | string | LinkedIn URL of the contact Optional |
twitter Twitter | string | Twitter URL of the contact Optional |
instagram Instagram | string | Instagram URL of the contact Optional |
telegram Telegram | string | Telegram URL of the contact Optional |
birthdayYear Birthday Year | string | Birthday year of the contact Optional |
REFERENCE
Tool details
Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.
- Registry key
- dex-create-update-contact
- Version
- 0.0.3
- App
- Dex
- Authentication
- API key
- Read-only
- No
- Destructive
- Yes
- Open world
- Yes
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗