Claude Desktop Linked API retrieve_pending_requests

How to: Claude Desktop Linked API retrieve_pending_requests

client:Claude Desktop transport:streamable-http tool:retrieve_pending_requests

Add Linked API to Claude Desktop

01
Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkedapi-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.linkedapi.io/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

02
Save the file and restart Claude Desktop.
03
Ask for something retrieve_pending_requests does. Claude Desktop lists the server's tools on connect and calls retrieve_pending_requests itself — you do not invoke it by name.
04
If nothing happens, check the server is running and that Linked API's identifier in your config matches the one above exactly.

Claude Desktop has no remote transport in its config file, so this bridges through mcp-remote. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

Set these first

Linked API will not start until these are set, so retrieve_pending_requests never becomes available.

LINKED_API_TOKEN
IDENTIFICATION_TOKEN

Same tool, other clients

This list was read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling tools/list on 29 October 2026. It is what the server actually exposes, not what its listing claims.

Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. The registry stores tool names only; connect the server for its live schemas.

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