MCP server that lets AI agents run real user interviews and retrieve themes and quotes.
MCP server that lets AI agents run real user interviews and retrieve themes and quotes. Exposed over MCP by the usercall mcp mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Usercall MCP lets AI agents run user interviews via voice calls and return structured insights with themes and verbatim quotes.
The server ships on npm as pnpm, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
create_study — Creates an interview study and returns an interview_link to share with participantsupdate_study — Updates an existing study. Use this to increase interview slots, add/update media, or disable the linkget_study_status — Response includes interview progress fields, including completed_interviews and target_interviewsget_study_results — Summary/full responses include study progress fields and analysis outputdelete_study — Permanently deletes a study and all associated data (recordings, transcripts). Releases unused reserved creditsYou will need one environment variable: USERCALL_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Usercall MCP's toolset — create_study, update_study, get_study_status and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by junetic; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| create_study | Creates an interview study and returns an interview_link to share with participants. |
| update_study | Updates an existing study. Use this to increase interview slots, add/update media, or disable the link. |
| get_study_status | Response includes interview progress fields, including completed_interviews and target_interviews. |
| get_study_results | Summary/full responses include study progress fields and analysis output. |
| delete_study | Permanently deletes a study and all associated data (recordings, transcripts). Releases unused reserved credits. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"usercall": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@usercall/mcp"],
"env": {
"USERCALL_API_KEY": "your_key_here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| USERCALL_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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