> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getsales.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Search pipeline stages

> A team's pipeline stages. Pin filter object (person | company). The resolver a stage name goes through before any people or companies filter: name eq or q (LIKE over name) for a label the user said, key eq for a system anchor; category in slices the funnel, key is_null true = the custom stages. page_size 0 returns the count alone. Objects per stage: get_pipeline_stages_metrics; the people or companies of a category: search_people or search_companies with filter pipeline_stage_category.

Contract:
- MCP tool `search_pipeline_stages`, registry package `mcp.playtables/pipeline_stages`, mount `playtables.pipeline`.
- Operation `search`, response envelope `search`.
- Flags: read only.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/playtables/openapi.yaml post /api/pipeline-stages/search
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: 'GetSales public contract: gs.service.playtables'
  description: >-
    The data platform and the outreach engine: tables of people and companies,
    their enrichment columns, cells and runs, the data sources that feed them,
    sender profiles, the stoplist, the activity feed, the credit ledger, and the
    multichannel workflows with their per-person journeys and tasks.


    GENERATED. This document is projected from the Zod MCP tool registry in
    `product/mcp/gs.mcp` (one tool per public endpoint, 1:1). Do not edit it by
    hand; edit the tool definition and regenerate with `pnpm openapi:public`.


    Surface: the public `/api` contract of `gs.service.playtables`, 142
    operations. This is the only OpenAPI document the platform publishes.
    Internal (`/internal`) and health endpoints are deliberately absent: they
    are not part of any contract, they can change without notice, and the
    service source is their only description.


    Conventions:

    - Auth is a bearer JWT, optionally narrowed by the `Team-SID` header.

    - Every success body is an MCP envelope: `success: true` plus one typed
    `operation` shape (`search`, `get`, `create`, `update`, `delete`, `metrics`,
    `group_by`, `action`), and a `meta` block with `trace_id` for support.

    - Every failure is the same `McpError` envelope with a code from a fixed
    16-code taxonomy, so a client maps errors once.

    - Lists page with `page_size` (0 to 500, default 50) plus an opaque forward
    `cursor`; `page_size: 0` returns counts only.

    - On `GET` and `DELETE`, object-valued query parameters (`filter`, `sort`)
    travel as JSON text and array-valued ones repeat as `name[]=value`.

    - The MCP-only `_meta` field (usage analytics) never reaches the backend and
    is not part of this contract.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: GetSales
    url: https://getsales.io
    email: support@getsales.io
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://getsales.io/terms
servers:
  - url: https://beta.getsales.io/playtables/v1
    description: >-
      Production (the gateway path on the beta ring; the origin is provisioned
      per DEPLOY_MAP.md)
security:
  - BearerJwt: []
    TeamSid: []
tags:
  - name: activities
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/activities`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.journeys`.
  - name: activity_objects
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/activity_objects`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.people`.
  - name: companies
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/companies`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.people`.
  - name: credit_ledger_entries
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/credit_ledger_entries`, served on MCP
      mount `id.billing`.
  - name: data_source_items
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/data_source_items`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.sources`.
  - name: data_sources
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/data_sources`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.sources`.
  - name: notes
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/notes`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.pipeline`.
  - name: people
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/people`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.people`.
  - name: pipeline_stages
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/pipeline_stages`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.pipeline`.
  - name: plays
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/plays`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.pipeline`.
  - name: playtable_field_values
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/playtable_field_values`, served on MCP
      mount `playtables.columns`.
  - name: playtable_fields
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/playtable_fields`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.columns`.
  - name: playtable_runs
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/playtable_runs`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.columns`.
  - name: playtable_views
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/playtable_views`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.tables`.
  - name: playtables
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/playtables`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.tables`.
  - name: result_pages
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/result_pages`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.tables`.
  - name: sender_profiles
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/sender_profiles`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.sources`.
  - name: stoplist_entries
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/stoplist_entries`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.stoplist`.
  - name: tags
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/tags`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.pipeline`.
  - name: workflow_attachments
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/workflow_attachments`, served on MCP
      mount `playtables.workflows`.
  - name: workflow_records
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/workflow_records`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.journeys`.
  - name: workflow_sources
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/workflow_sources`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.workflows`.
  - name: workflow_tasks
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/workflow_tasks`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.journeys`.
  - name: workflow_versions
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/workflow_versions`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.workflows`.
  - name: workflows
    description: >-
      Registry package `mcp.playtables/workflows`, served on MCP mount
      `playtables.workflows`.
paths:
  /api/pipeline-stages/search:
    post:
      tags:
        - pipeline_stages
      summary: Search pipeline stages
      description: >-
        A team's pipeline stages. Pin filter object (person | company). The
        resolver a stage name goes through before any people or companies
        filter: name eq or q (LIKE over name) for a label the user said, key eq
        for a system anchor; category in slices the funnel, key is_null true =
        the custom stages. page_size 0 returns the count alone. Objects per
        stage: get_pipeline_stages_metrics; the people or companies of a
        category: search_people or search_companies with filter
        pipeline_stage_category.


        Contract:

        - MCP tool `search_pipeline_stages`, registry package
        `mcp.playtables/pipeline_stages`, mount `playtables.pipeline`.

        - Operation `search`, response envelope `search`.

        - Flags: read only.
      operationId: search_pipeline_stages
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchPipelineStagesRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: '`search` success envelope.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchPipelineStagesResponse'
        4XX:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/McpClientError'
        5XX:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/McpServerError'
components:
  schemas:
    SearchPipelineStagesRequest:
      type: object
      description: Request body of `search_pipeline_stages`.
      properties:
        filter:
          type: object
          properties:
            q:
              type: string
              maxLength: 128
              description: >-
                Free text over name (MySQL LIKE, prefix/infix - a small per-team
                list, no FULLTEXT).
            sid:
              type: object
              properties:
                eq:
                  type: string
                  minLength: 18
                  maxLength: 18
                  pattern: ^cr_ps_
                  description: Pipeline stage sid (cr_ps_…).
                in:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                    minLength: 18
                    maxLength: 18
                    pattern: ^cr_ps_
                    description: Pipeline stage sid (cr_ps_…).
              additionalProperties: false
              description: >-
                Prefix-validated cr_ps_ sid(s) - also the point-lookup path (no
                get tool).
            object:
              type: object
              properties:
                eq:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - person
                    - company
              additionalProperties: false
              description: >-
                Which pipeline. Pin it on nearly every call: the person and
                company lists are separate and reading both at once is almost
                never what was asked.
            category:
              type: object
              properties:
                eq:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - cold
                    - approaching
                    - engaging
                    - positive
                    - nurture
                    - negative
                    - disqualified
                in:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                      - cold
                      - approaching
                      - engaging
                      - positive
                      - nurture
                      - negative
                      - disqualified
              additionalProperties: false
              description: >-
                Funnel bucket - category.in:['positive','nurture'] slices the
                winnable end of the funnel; category.eq:'approaching' the stages
                where we reached out and nothing came back.
            key:
              type: object
              properties:
                eq:
                  type: string
                in:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                is_null:
                  type: boolean
              additionalProperties: false
              description: >-
                Stable system anchor. key.eq resolves one system stage to its
                sid; is_null:true = the custom stages only.
            name:
              type: object
              properties:
                eq:
                  type: string
                in:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
              additionalProperties: false
              description: >-
                Exact label lookup (resolve a stage name the user said into a
                sid); substring matching goes through q.
            created_at:
              type: object
              properties:
                gte:
                  type: string
                lte:
                  type: string
                gt:
                  type: string
                lt:
                  type: string
              additionalProperties: false
              description: ISO 8601 range; combine bounds in one object.
            deleted_at:
              type: object
              properties:
                gte:
                  type: string
                lte:
                  type: string
                is_null:
                  type: boolean
              additionalProperties: false
              description: 'Default scope is { is_null: true } (live stages).'
          description: >-
            Field filters, ANDed: {field: {eq | ne | in | nin | gte | lte | gt |
            lt | is_null}}; q inside it is free text. Omit for every row.
        sort:
          type: object
          properties:
            field:
              type: string
              enum:
                - order
                - name
                - created_at
              description: The column to order by.
            direction:
              type: string
              enum:
                - asc
                - desc
              description: asc or desc; default desc.
          required:
            - field
          description: One column and its direction; omit for the default order.
        page_size:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 500
          description: 0..500, default 50; 0 = counts only, 1 = the first row.
        cursor:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: pagination.next_cursor of the previous page.
    SearchPipelineStagesResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          enum:
            - true
        operation:
          type: string
          enum:
            - search
        items:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              item:
                type: object
                properties:
                  sid:
                    type: string
                    description: >-
                      Pipeline stage sid (cr_ps_…) - the value
                      people.pipeline_stage_sid / companies.pipeline_stage_sid
                      store.
                  team_sid:
                    type: string
                    description: Owning team (ts_tm_…, external - gs.service.id).
                  object:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                      - person
                      - company
                    description: >-
                      Which pipeline this stage belongs to: person (leads) |
                      company (accounts). Immutable after create.
                  name:
                    type: string
                    description: >-
                      Stage label (1..255), unique per (team, object) among live
                      rows, case-insensitively.
                  category:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                      - cold
                      - approaching
                      - engaging
                      - positive
                      - nurture
                      - negative
                      - disqualified
                    description: >-
                      Funnel bucket, one of seven: the grouping of the company
                      card and the grid, the chip colour, the funnel analytics
                      and the company derivation (positive > engaging >
                      approaching > nurture > negative > cold; a person on a
                      disqualified stage is not an active member of the
                      account). negative = a real no (Not interested);
                      disqualified = not a target, filtered out (Wrong Decision
                      Maker, Disqualified). Locked on a system stage (key !=
                      null).
                  created_by:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      actor_type:
                        type: string
                        enum:
                          - user
                          - support
                          - api_key
                          - system
                          - agent
                      actor_sid:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      team_sid:
                        type: string
                      actor_name:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: >-
                          The OAuth client that acted ("Claude", "n8n"); null
                          for a user, an API key or a system job.
                      oauth_client_sid:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: >-
                          The acting OAuth client (id_oc_*); null off the OAuth
                          path.
                      reason:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: >-
                          Why a system actor wrote the row
                          (snapshot_capture_job, ...); null otherwise.
                      permissions:
                        type: object
                        additionalProperties: {}
                        description: >-
                          Internal audit context: the grant set the actor held
                          at write time. Not a contract.
                      cluster_id:
                        type: integer
                        nullable: true
                        description: >-
                          Internal audit context: the cluster that served the
                          write.
                      trace_id:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: >-
                          Internal audit context: the trace id of the request
                          that wrote the row.
                    required:
                      - actor_type
                      - actor_sid
                      - team_sid
                      - permissions
                    description: >-
                      Actor that created the stage (AccessIdentityValue); the
                      seeded system stages carry the system identity.
                  key:
                    type: string
                    nullable: true
                    description: >-
                      Stable snake_case anchor on SYSTEM stages ('new_contact',
                      'company_opportunity', …), the target the auto-transition
                      engine resolves; null = a custom stage. key != null is
                      what makes a stage system: locked category, non-deletable.
                      Read-only.
                  order:
                    type: integer
                    nullable: true
                    description: >-
                      Position within its (team, object) pipeline, contiguous
                      1..N, and the forward-only rank for a person (a target
                      stage is only auto-entered when its order >= the current
                      one). 0 = pulled out of the ordering (a soft-deleted row).
                  created_at:
                    type: string
                    description: ISO 8601 UTC.
                  updated_at:
                    type: string
                    description: ISO 8601 UTC; bumped by rename / recategorize / reorder.
                  deleted_at:
                    type: string
                    nullable: true
                    description: ISO 8601 UTC; null = live (soft delete).
                required:
                  - sid
                  - team_sid
                  - object
                  - name
                  - category
                  - created_by
                  - key
                  - order
                  - created_at
                  - updated_at
                  - deleted_at
              included:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: {}
            required:
              - item
              - included
        pagination:
          type: object
          properties:
            next_cursor:
              type: string
              nullable: true
            has_more:
              type: boolean
            total_count:
              type: integer
              nullable: true
          required:
            - next_cursor
            - has_more
            - total_count
        applied_filters:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: {}
        includes:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        meta:
          type: object
          properties:
            trace_id:
              type: string
              description: UUID v7; same 128-bit value as the X-Trace-Id header.
            span_id:
              type: string
              pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{16}$
              description: 16 hex chars, root span of this request.
            timestamp:
              type: string
              description: ISO 8601 UTC (Y-m-dTH:i:sZ), response time.
            duration_ms:
              type: integer
              minimum: 0
              description: Server-side wall clock.
            team_sid:
              type: string
              nullable: true
              description: >-
                The team this call ran in (the token team, or the team_sid
                override). Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20
                backends.
            actor_type:
              type: string
              nullable: true
              description: >-
                user | agent | api_key | system. Null when unauthenticated;
                absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.
          required:
            - trace_id
            - span_id
            - timestamp
            - duration_ms
        counts:
          type: object
          properties:
            total_count:
              type: integer
              minimum: 0
              description: Stages matching the filter (full filter scope, not the page).
            groups:
              anyOf:
                - type: object
                  additionalProperties: {}
                - type: array
                  items: {}
              description: >-
                Always empty - the stage list has no bounded group axis
                (research §Groupable fields). PHP serialises an empty map as [].
          required:
            - total_count
            - groups
      required:
        - success
        - operation
        - items
        - pagination
        - applied_filters
        - includes
        - meta
    McpError:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          enum:
            - false
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              enum:
                - validation_failed
                - nothing_to_update
                - not_found
                - relation_not_found
                - invalid_transition
                - limit_exceeded
                - payment_required
                - duplicate_rejected
                - conflict
                - delete_blocked
                - unauthorized
                - forbidden
                - rate_limited
                - internal_error
                - service_unavailable
                - not_implemented
            message:
              type: string
            recoverable:
              type: boolean
            suggestion:
              type: string
            field_errors:
              type: object
              additionalProperties:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    rule:
                      type: string
                    message:
                      type: string
                  required:
                    - rule
                    - message
            blockers:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                    description: >-
                      Machine-readable blocker type (active_flow, pending_tasks,
                      …).
                  severity:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                      - hard
                      - soft
                    description: >-
                      hard = external action required; soft = acknowledge is
                      enough.
                  description:
                    type: string
                  entity_sid:
                    type: string
                    nullable: true
                  count:
                    type: integer
                  resolution:
                    type: string
                    description: 'Hard: tool name to call. Soft: code for acknowledge[].'
                  resolution_hint:
                    type: string
                required:
                  - type
                  - severity
                  - description
                  - entity_sid
                  - resolution
                  - resolution_hint
            context:
              type: object
              additionalProperties: {}
          required:
            - code
            - message
            - recoverable
        meta:
          type: object
          properties:
            trace_id:
              type: string
              description: UUID v7; same 128-bit value as the X-Trace-Id header.
            span_id:
              type: string
              pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{16}$
              description: 16 hex chars, root span of this request.
            timestamp:
              type: string
              description: ISO 8601 UTC (Y-m-dTH:i:sZ), response time.
            duration_ms:
              type: integer
              minimum: 0
              description: Server-side wall clock.
            team_sid:
              type: string
              nullable: true
              description: >-
                The team this call ran in (the token team, or the team_sid
                override). Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20
                backends.
            actor_type:
              type: string
              nullable: true
              description: >-
                user | agent | api_key | system. Null when unauthenticated;
                absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.
          required:
            - trace_id
            - span_id
            - timestamp
            - duration_ms
      required:
        - success
        - error
  responses:
    McpClientError:
      description: >-
        MCP error envelope. `error.code` is one of validation_failed,
        nothing_to_update, not_found, relation_not_found, invalid_transition,
        limit_exceeded, payment_required, duplicate_rejected, conflict,
        delete_blocked, unauthorized, forbidden, rate_limited, not_implemented.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/McpError'
    McpServerError:
      description: >-
        MCP error envelope with `error.code` internal_error or
        service_unavailable.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/McpError'
  securitySchemes:
    BearerJwt:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: >-
        Access token issued by gs.service.id. Its `access_identity` claim
        carries `team_sid`, `actor_sid` and `actor_type`, and that team scope is
        authoritative.
    TeamSid:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Team-SID
      description: >-
        Team scope for tokens that do not carry one. Ignored when the token
        already names a team.

````

This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.