How to connect ContactOut to Hermes Agent
Connect ContactOut to Hermes with ClawLink: paste your ContactOut key once and 25 tools work from chat. No MCP server to run, nothing stored on your machine.
ContactOutAPI KEYMCPContactOut provides professional profile enrichment, contact discovery, people and company search, email verification, usage reporting, and campaign management APIs.. Once connected, Hermes Agent can read and act on ContactOut from chat — pairing, token refresh, and tool wiring handled for you.
Most guides for giving Hermes Agent ContactOut access start with registering your own OAuth app or pasting API keys into env files, then leave the token refresh and tool wiring to you. ClawLink gives Hermes a more practical ContactOut setup: pair once in the browser and your always-on Hermes agent can act on ContactOut for you, reading and doing real work on your behalf with no auth, token refresh, or tool wiring to build yourself.
Copy this prompt into Hermes to install the plugin and pair your account.
Set up ClawLink for Hermes and tell me when it's ready.
1. Install the plugin:
hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable
2. Start pairing. It prints an approval link, so show me the link and stop, don't wait:
hermes clawlink begin
3. I'll approve it in my browser, then reply "approved".
4. When I say approved, finish setup:
hermes clawlink finish
5. Then run `hermes clawlink test` and tell me whether ClawLink is ready.Setup
It takes three steps to connect Hermes to ContactOut.
1Install and pair
Install the ClawLink plugin, then pair Hermes with a one-time browser approval:
hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable- 2
Connect ContactOut
Paste your API key in the dashboard.
- 3
Use it from chat
Ask Hermes Agent: "What can you do with ContactOut?"
Install by command
The prompt above walks Hermes through this. By hand, it is four commands and a browser approval:
hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable
hermes clawlink begin # prints an approval link — open it and approve
hermes clawlink finish # after approving in the browser
hermes clawlink testThen connect ContactOut in the ClawLink dashboard — paste your ContactOut API key once.
Verify the connection by asking Hermes:
Use ContactOut to check linkedin contact availability and walk me through the result in plain English.
Using a different agent?
The Hermes plugin is one client of ClawLink's MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent that can run a shell command pairs with the same ClawLink account through the CLI:
npx -y @useclawlink/cli loginlogin opens the same browser approval and stores a credential locally. Once ContactOut is connected in the dashboard, that agent calls the same 25 ContactOut tools over MCP. Full setup for MCP clients and shell agents: connect apps to any AI agent.
ContactOut MCP for Hermes
Looking for a ContactOut MCP server for Hermes Agent? ClawLink connects ContactOut to Hermes Agent and exposes 25 ContactOut tools your agent can call over MCP, with hosted auth and nothing to run or maintain yourself. Using OpenClaw instead? The OpenClaw ContactOut integration works the same way.
What the Hermes Agent ContactOut integration can do
25 ContactOut tools are ready for Hermes Agent once the account is connected.
All 25 ContactOut tools for Hermes
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
Check linkedin contact availability contactout_check_linkedin_contact_availability | Check whether a LinkedIn profile has a personal email, work email, or phone without revealing |
Count people contactout_count_people | Estimate matching people and available personal emails, work emails, and phones from |
Enrich companies by domain contactout_enrich_companies_by_domain | Return company profiles for 1-30 domains; each found company consumes a search credit |
Enrich linkedin profile contactout_enrich_linkedin_profile | Return a professional profile for a regular LinkedIn profile URL, optionally including contact |
Enrich person contactout_enrich_person | Find and enrich one person using a LinkedIn URL, email, or phone; alternatively, provide a name |
Enrich person by email contactout_enrich_person_by_email | Return a professional profile matched from an email address, optionally requesting real-time |
Find linkedin profile by email contactout_find_linkedin_profile_by_email | Resolve an email address to its matching LinkedIn profile URL |
Get API usage stats contactout_get_api_usage_stats | Return ContactOut API credit usage and quotas for a billing month |
Get bulk email verification job contactout_get_bulk_email_verification_job | Get the status and available per-email results of an asynchronous bulk email-verification job |
Get campaign contactout_get_campaign | Return one campaign's sequence steps and optionally its performance statistics |
Get hashed email identifiers contactout_get_hashed_email_identifiers | Return unordered SHA-256 hashes of normalized personal emails found for 5-100 distinct LinkedIn |
Get linkedin contact info contactout_get_linkedin_contact_info | Reveal email and optionally phone contact information for one regular LinkedIn profile URL |
Get linkedin contact info batch contactout_get_linkedin_contact_info_batch | Synchronously reveal contact information for 1-100 LinkedIn profiles; may consume email and |
Get linkedin contact info batch job contactout_get_linkedin_contact_info_batch_job | Get the status and available results of an asynchronous LinkedIn contact-info batch job |
List campaigns contactout_list_campaigns | Return one page of email campaigns and their lifecycle statuses |
List decision makers contactout_list_decision_makers | Return one page of key decision makers for the best-matching company |
Search companies contactout_search_companies | Return one page of companies matching identity, size, location, industry, technology, revenue |
Search people contactout_search_people | Return one page of professional profiles matching person, role, employer, education, location |
Verify email contactout_verify_email | Check one email address for valid, invalid, accept-all, disposable, or unknown deliverability |
Create bulk email verification job contactout_create_bulk_email_verification_job | Queue asynchronous deliverability verification for 1-100 email addresses, optionally delivering |
Create linkedin contact info batch job contactout_create_linkedin_contact_info_batch_job | Queue asynchronous contact discovery for 1-1000 LinkedIn profiles, optionally delivering |
Add campaign recipients contactout_add_campaign_recipients | Add 1-100 recipients to an existing campaign |
Remove campaign recipients contactout_remove_campaign_recipients | Destructively remove 1-100 recipients from an existing campaign by email |
Start campaign contactout_start_campaign | Start a draft ContactOut campaign or resume a stopped campaign |
Stop campaign contactout_stop_campaign | Stop a running ContactOut campaign, interrupting its outreach |
Try it: find the ContactOut tool you need
Browse the 25 ContactOut tools
Click any tool to see exactly what Hermes can do and copy a ready-to-use prompt.
Example prompts
Use ContactOut to check linkedin contact availability and walk me through the result in plain English.
Use ContactOut to count people and walk me through the result in plain English.
Use ContactOut to enrich companies by domain and walk me through the result in plain English.
Use ContactOut to enrich linkedin profile and walk me through the result in plain English.
ClawLink vs. building it yourself
The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want ContactOut working from chat.
| Manual | ClawLink | |
|---|---|---|
| Credential handling | Collect, validate, store, and rotate the ContactOut API key yourself, then make sure every tool call uses the right account. | Users complete the hosted ClawLink setup once and the connected ContactOut account becomes available to the agent without you building credential management. |
| Ongoing maintenance | You own refresh logic, permission debugging, environment config, and every provider-specific edge case for ContactOut. | ClawLink handles the repetitive integration plumbing so your team can focus on the workflow instead of the infrastructure. |
| Agent usability | You still need to expose the right ContactOut actions to the runtime in a format your agent can reliably use. | 25 tools for ContactOut are already exposed through ClawLink, so the agent can read and act from chat immediately. |
ClawLink vs. Composio
Composio also exposes ContactOut to AI agents. It is developer infrastructure: Python and TypeScript SDKs, an MCP server, and a catalog past 1,000 apps, aimed at teams shipping agent products. ClawLink is built for Hermes Agent users instead. You install the plugin once, connect ContactOut in the browser, and the 25 tools above work from chat. There is no SDK and no config file, and the ContactOut key you paste at setup is stored server-side rather than kept in your environment. Choosing between them? Read the full Composio alternatives comparison.
Troubleshooting
Hermes paired but still can't use ContactOut
Pairing is a two-step handshake: run hermes clawlink begin, approve the link in your browser, then run hermes clawlink finish. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run hermes clawlink begin again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with --enable, then verify with hermes clawlink test.
Connection succeeds but no tools appear
Reconnect ContactOut from the dashboard, then start a fresh chat if the runtime still has the old tool catalog loaded.
"Tool schema not loaded yet" error when calling ContactOut tools
ContactOut tool schemas load on demand the first time a tool runs and are cached after that, so this error usually clears on its own: wait a few seconds and retry the same request. If every ContactOut call keeps failing with it in a fresh chat, reconnect from the dashboard, and contact support if it still persists — that pattern points to a configuration problem on our side, not something you can fix by reconnecting again.
ContactOut returns 403 or "permission denied" on one action while others work
Two usual causes. The connected account may not have access to the specific workspace, inbox, store, or project in the request — check that first. If access looks right, the agent may have sent a placeholder value (like "YOUR_ID" or an example id from documentation) instead of a real one: ask it to run a list or search tool first, then retry the action with a real id from those results. Most failures at this stage are one of these two, not ClawLink bugs.
API key setup works but results look incomplete
Double-check that the API key for ContactOut has the right scopes or account access. A valid key can still be too limited for some reads or writes.
FAQ
Is there a Hermes Agent ContactOut integration?
Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect Hermes to ContactOut: link your ContactOut account once in the browser and Hermes Agent can call the ContactOut API through 25 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling.
How do I connect ContactOut to Hermes with ClawLink?
Install the plugin with hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable, then pair once: run hermes clawlink begin, approve the link in your browser, and run hermes clawlink finish. Connect ContactOut in the dashboard and Hermes can use it from the next message — no config files, and the ContactOut key you paste is stored server-side instead of in your environment.
How long does it take to connect ContactOut to Hermes Agent?
About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to ContactOut in the dashboard, authenticate, and Hermes Agent can use it from the next chat message.
Why use ClawLink instead of wiring ContactOut up myself?
The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want ContactOut working from chat.
Hermes paired but still can't use ContactOut
Pairing is a two-step handshake: run hermes clawlink begin, approve the link in your browser, then run hermes clawlink finish. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run hermes clawlink begin again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with --enable, then verify with hermes clawlink test.
