The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the Uk Gazette listing page.
UK Gazette MCP — The Gazette (www.thegazette.co.uk), the UK's official
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
gazette_search_notices | Search The Gazette — the UK's official public record of statutory notices (London, Edinburgh and Belfast editions, archive back to 1665). Full-text search plus filters for notice category, publication date range, edition, and location. Covers company events (liquidations, administrations, winding-up petitions, name changes), personal insolvency, deceased estates, road/planning orders, honours, state and royal notices. Use for "official UK notices about X", "gazette notices for company Y", "road closure orders near Z". Example: gazette_search_notices({ query: "Tesco", category: "corporate insolvency" }) |
gazette_insolvency_notices | Search official UK insolvency notices in The Gazette — the statutory public record where liquidations, administrations, winding-up petitions and orders, bankruptcy orders, creditors' meetings, and notices to creditors MUST be published. The go-to source for "is UK company X in liquidation/administration", monitoring company distress, or tracking personal bankruptcies. Search by company name or Companies House number (both are indexed). scope narrows to "corporate" or "personal" insolvency. Example: gazette_insolvency_notices({ company: "Wilko", scope: "corporate" }) |
gazette_deceased_estates | Search UK deceased-estates notices in The Gazette (Trustee Act 1925 s.27 notices) — executors advertise a death so creditors and claimants can come forward before the estate is distributed. Used for probate research, tracing an estate, checking whether a death notice was placed, and finding the claim deadline. Filter by name, date of death, claim expiry date, or location. Example: gazette_deceased_estates({ name: "John Smith", died_after: "2026-01-01" }) |
gazette_get_notice | Get the structured record for one Gazette notice by its ID (from any gazette search tool, or a thegazette.co.uk/notice/ URL). Returns the notice type, publication date, gazette edition and issue, companies named (with Companies House numbers), people, addresses with coordinates, related legislation, and key dates. Example: gazette_get_notice({ notice_id: "4123456" }) |
gazette_notice_categories | Browse The Gazette's notice-category taxonomy — the category codes accepted by gazette_search_notices. Optionally filter by a search word. Categories span companies (insolvency, name changes, mergers), people (bankruptcy, deceased estates, honours), environment & infrastructure (planning, roads, property), state/royal/church notices, and money (pensions, coinage). Example: gazette_notice_categories({ search: "insolvency" }) |
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-gazette/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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