Gravatar Lookup SkillGravatar Lookup Skill

OnlineCredit Usage:1 per callTool:GravatarLookupSkill

The tool

Let your agent fetch Gravatar profiles. Call it as an MCP tool to resolve an email to its public Gravatar profile and avatar.

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit MCP server, this appears in its tool list as GravatarLookupSkill. It is read-only and open-world: it fetches, it never mutates anything on your side, so most clients will call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call
{
  "name": "GravatarLookupSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "email": "[email protected]"
  }
}

What that looks like in a conversation

You don't name the tool — the model picks it. Asking about [email protected] in the terms this source covers is enough for it to reach for GravatarLookupSkill on its own.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth — the client opens a browser once and there is no key to paste into a config file.

Client config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Endpoint
https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp

Per-client setup — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made.

ArgumentTypeExampleDescription
emailRequiredstring[email protected]The email address to lookup the Gravatar profile of

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client can read fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" on success and error is null; a null field means the value wasn't available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result
{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "profileUrl": "https://gravatar.com/apiverve",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/08ccd5c0bdd88b0ac13f776a4f7914db",
    "photos": [
      {
        "value": "https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/08ccd5c0bdd88b0ac13f776a4f7914db",
        "type": "thumbnail"
      }
    ],
    "displayName": "APIVerve",
    "aboutMe": "APIVerve stands out as a premier source for cloud-based API and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions catering to developers, startups and products.",
    "currentLocation": "United States",
    "company": "APIVerve",
    "contactInfo": [
      {
        "type": "contactform",
        "value": "apiverve.com/contact"
      }
    ],
    "accounts": [
      {
        "domain": "x.com",
        "display": "@apivervehq",
        "url": "https://x.com/apivervehq",
        "verified": true,
        "name": "X"
      },
      {
        "domain": "github.com",
        "display": "apivervehq",
        "url": "https://github.com/apivervehq",
        "verified": true,
        "name": "GitHub"
      },
      {
        "domain": "calendly.com",
        "display": "apiverve",
        "url": "https://calendly.com/apiverve",
        "verified": true,
        "name": "Calendly"
      }
    ],
    "username": "apiverve",
    "accountCount": 3,
    "verifiedAccountCount": 3
  }
}

Fields

Fields marked Premium need a paid plan. On a plan without them the key is absent rather than wrong, so a model never reasons over a substituted value.
FieldTypeExampleDescription
profileUrlstringhttps://gravatar.com/apiverveDirect URL to the user's Gravatar profile
thumbnailUrlstringhttps://0.gravatar.com/avatar/08ccd5c0bdd88b0ac13f776a4f7914dbURL to the user's Gravatar avatar thumbnail image
photosPremiumarray[1]list of rowsArray of photos linked to the Gravatar profile
photos.0.valuestringhttps://0.gravatar.com/avatar/08ccd5c0bdd88b0ac13f776a4f7914db
photos.0.typestringthumbnail
displayNamestringAPIVerveThe user's display name from Gravatar profile
aboutMestringAPIVerve stands out as a premier source for cloud-based API and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions catering to developers, startups and products.User's biography or about me text from Gravatar
currentLocationstringUnited StatesUser's current location from Gravatar profile
companystringAPIVerveUser's company or organization name from Gravatar
contactInfoPremiumarray[1]list of rowsAlways empty. Gravatar's v3 profile API no longer returns contact information; the field is retained for compatibility
contactInfo.0.typestringcontactform
contactInfo.0.valuestringapiverve.com/contact
accountsPremiumarray[3]list of rowsLinked social accounts and services
accounts.0.domainstringx.com
accounts.0.displaystring@apivervehq
accounts.0.urlstringhttps://x.com/apivervehq
accounts.0.verifiedbooleantrue
accounts.0.namestringX
usernamestringapiverveGravatar username associated with email address
accountCountPremiumnumber3Total number of linked social media accounts
verifiedAccountCountPremiumnumber3Number of verified linked social media accounts

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors with a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code.

StatusWhat it means
400 / 422The arguments didn't validate. The message names the offending one.
401The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
403Out of credits. Not a bad key — the month's allowance is spent.
404This skill isn't part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
429Brief rate limit. Retrying after a moment succeeds.

Other ways to use Gravatar Lookup Skill

Set up Gravatar Lookup Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an X-API-Key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerveReference →
Use it in Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheetsReference →

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to tell the agent to use GravatarLookupSkill?

No. The tool's name and description are in the model's context once the server is connected, so it selects the tool when the question calls for it. Naming it explicitly works too and is useful when you want to force the call.

Does connecting the server expose every tool at once?

Yes — one connection lists the whole VerveKit catalog. Clients with a tool budget can usually filter the list; the credit cost is per call, so an unused tool costs nothing.

What does a call cost?

1 credit each time the tool actually runs. A model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Is there a REST version of this?

Yes — the same source is available as a plain HTTPS endpoint on APIVerve, linked above. Same data, same credits, same account.

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