Read and write Nutshell CRM leads, accounts (companies) and contacts (people), and log notes, over Nutshell's JSON-RPC API.
Nutshell ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 13 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.
io.w6w.nutshellNutshell is a sales CRM built around Leads, Accounts (companies) and Contacts (people), reached entirely through a single JSON-RPC endpoint rather than REST resource URLs. This app covers the lifecycle a workflow actually needs on each: create, read, find/search, and update, plus logging a note against any of the three (or against a scheduled activity).
Every write follows Nutshell’s own optimistic-concurrency model — updating a record requires the rev you last read it at, and Nutshell refuses a stale write rather than silently overwriting a concurrent change, so the update actions surface that rev requirement directly rather than hiding it.
Good for creating a Lead when a deal is qualified elsewhere, syncing company and contact records with an outside directory, searching for a Lead or Account by name before creating a duplicate, or dropping an activity note onto a record from another tool.
Three routes to the same 13 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Nutshell'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.
create-contact Create a new Contact (person). Nutshell requires at least a name, phone, or email — a totally empty Contact is rejected.
create-lead Create a new Lead. Every field is optional — an empty Lead still gets the default sales process attached.
find-accounts Search Accounts (companies) by open-Lead status or tag, with an escape hatch for any other documented query key (account type, industry, territory, origin).
find-contacts Search Contacts (people) associated with an Account or a Lead, or by tag.
find-leads Search Leads by status, account, contact, milestone (stage) or website Lead number, with an escape hatch for any other documented query key.
get-lead Fetch one Lead by its internal ID. Note this is NOT the same as the Lead number shown on the website (e.g. "Lead-1000") — use Find Leads with a number query for that.
update-account Edit an Account's name, description, or append a note. Requires the Rev from your last read of this Account.
update-contact Edit a Contact's name, description, or append a note. Requires the Rev from your last read of this Contact.
update-lead Edit a Lead: description, stage, confidence, pending flag, or an appended note. Requires the Rev from your last read of this Lead.
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 Nutshell's real ids.
{
"manifestVersion": "2",
"name": "nutshell-example",
"steps": [
{
"id": "add-note",
"uses": {
"app": "io.w6w.nutshell",
"action": "add-note",
"connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
},
"with": {
"entityType": "<entityType>",
"entityId": "<entityId>",
"note": "<note>"
}
}
]
}add-note create-account create-contact create-lead find-accounts +8 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 Nutshell, 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 Nutshell. The Workflow tab is where this app's
real ids are.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { 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: "add-note",
payload: {
entityType: "<value>",
entityId: "<value>",
note: "<value>",
},
});
if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value); npm install -g @w6w/cli w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action add-note --payload '{"entityType":"<value>","entityId":"<value>","note":"<value>"}' Give an AI agent Nutshell — without giving it Nutshell'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.nutshell#add-note",
"input": {
"entityType": "<entityType>",
"entityId": "<entityId>",
"note": "<note>"
}
}
}
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 Nutshell connections to sign
with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.
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.
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.
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.
Nutshell'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. Nutshell itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).
Nutshell declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
Reads the "Nutshell application" component from status.nutshell.com — the component covering app.nutshell.com, which also serves this app's JSON-RPC endpoint. Other components on that page (marketing email, business card scanner, support chat) are unrelated to the API and are not reported here.