List contacts
Customers and suppliers saved in Lexware Office, searchable by name or email.
MCP tool lexware_office_read → list_contacts
read
Searches the saved contacts by name, email or customer number and returns the ID, role, billing address and email. Einmalkontakte, the one-off names kept only on a document, are not saved contacts and do not appear here.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query string | string | Part of a name, email address or customer number. |
| role enum | enum | customer or vendor. Default: both. |
| limit integer | integer | 1 to 100. Default: 50. |
| cursor string | string | Next page cursor from the previous call. |
tools/call
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "lexware_office_read",
"arguments": {
"operation": "list_contacts",
"arguments": {}
}
}
}Example response
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
}
],
"structuredContent": {
"contacts": [
{
"contact_id": "c_4f2a91",
"name": "Nordlicht Design GmbH",
"role": "customer",
"customer_number": "10042",
"email": "buchhaltung@nordlicht.example",
"city": "Hamburg"
}
],
"next_cursor": null
},
"isError": false
}