Search people
People profiles that match a name or email.
MCP tool planning_center_read → search_people
read
Searches People for the text you give and returns the matching profiles, best match first. Use person_id with get_person and add_person_note. You only get profiles your account can see in People.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query string required | string | Name or email address to search for. |
tools/call
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "planning_center_read",
"arguments": {
"operation": "search_people",
"arguments": {
"query": "query"
}
}
}
}Example response
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
}
],
"structuredContent": {
"people": [
{
"person_id": "48215",
"name": "Dana Whitfield",
"email": "dana@example.org"
},
{
"person_id": "48990",
"name": "Dana Whitfield-Cole",
"email": "dana.wc@example.org"
}
]
},
"isError": false
}