First-party app
Cognito Forms

Cognito Forms

Read Cognito Forms' forms and schemas, and create, read, update and delete form entries via the Cognito Forms REST API.

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About

Cognito Forms ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 12 actions, 1 health check, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.cognitoforms
Version
0.1.0
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Forms & Surveys · Productivity

Overview

Cognito Forms is an online form builder for data collection, workflow automation and payments. This app covers the day-to-day work of running a form once it’s published: list the forms an integration can see, read a form’s schema to learn what fields an entry accepts, then create, read, update and delete individual entries against that schema.

Beyond entries, it covers the bulk-import lifecycle (upload a spreadsheet of entries and poll the import’s status), reading a generated entry document or an uploaded file back out, uploading a new file for attachment to an entry, and toggling a form’s public link availability window.

A fit for routing new form submissions into another system, keeping a form’s data in sync with a downstream store, bulk-loading historical records, or pausing a form’s public link during a maintenance window — without needing the form-building capabilities that stay in Cognito Forms’ own designer.

Build with Cognito Forms

Three routes to the same 12 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Cognito Forms's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Import Entries

entries-import

Bulk create, update or delete entries from an uploaded spreadsheet.

Create Entry

entry-create

Submit a new entry to a form.

Delete Entry

entry-delete

Permanently delete a single entry.

Get Document

entry-document-get

Retrieve a document generated for an entry (e.g. a filled-in PDF template).

Get File

entry-file-get

Retrieve a file that was uploaded to an entry.

Get Entry

entry-get

Retrieve a single entry's field data.

Update Entry

entry-update

Update an existing entry's field data.

Upload File

file-upload

Upload a file, returning a File ID to attach to an entry within 48 hours.

Get Many Forms

form-get-many

List the forms in your organization that this API key can access.

Get Form Schema

form-get-schema

Retrieve the field schema for a form — types, descriptions and valid values.

Set Public Link Availability

form-public-link-availability-set

Set the start/end window a form's public link is open, and its unavailable message.

Get Import Status

import-status-get

Check the progress and result of a bulk entry import.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Cognito Forms's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "cognitoforms-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "entries-import",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.cognitoforms",
        "action": "entries-import",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "formId": "<formId>",
        "file": "<file>",
        "importMode": "<importMode>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Import Entries

    perform
    entries-import
  • Create Entry

    perform
    entry-create
  • Get Document

    read
    entry-document-get
  • Get File

    read
    entry-file-get
  • Get Entry

    read
    entry-get

+7 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Cognito Forms, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Cognito Forms. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "entries-import",
  payload: {
    formId: "<value>",
    file: "<value>",
    // fileName: "<value>",
    importMode: "<value>",
    // email: "<value>",
    // matchEntriesUsing: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action entries-import --payload '{"formId":"<value>","file":"<value>","importMode":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Cognito Forms — without giving it Cognito Forms's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.cognitoforms#entries-import",
    "input": {
      "formId": "<formId>",
      "file": "<file>",
      "importMode": "<importMode>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Cognito Forms connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Cognito Forms's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Cognito Forms itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Cognito Forms declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Cognito Forms platform status

Atlassian Statuspage rollup for status.cognitoforms.com, with per-component detail. Unauthenticated and unsigned.