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Let an agent operate a project

minket-mcp lets an agent such as Claude operate a project: domains, keys, logs and events, sending with a dry run, suppressions, webhook replays, received mail and contact lookups.

minket-mcp is a Model Context Protocol server over stdio. An agent connected to it can check a domain's DNS, read request logs and the event feed, send mail after a dry run, manage suppressions, replay webhooks, read received mail and look contacts up. Every tool is a call to the TypeScript SDK, and every input schema is the API's own zod schema, so a tool accepts exactly what the API accepts.

Connect it

Shell
pnpm --filter @minket/mcp build      # writes apps/mcp/dist/bin.mjs
claude mcp add minket -e MINKET_API_KEY=minket_test_... -- node /path/to/minket/apps/mcp/dist/bin.mjs

MINKET_BASE_URL points it at another API address. Other clients take the same command in their configuration:

JSON
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "minket": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/minket/apps/mcp/dist/bin.mjs"],
      "env": { "MINKET_API_KEY": "minket_test_..." }
    }
  }
}

Choose the key

The key decides what the agent can do, so give it the narrowest that does the job:

Key The agent can
Test (minket_test_…) Read the project and send test mail; it changes nothing live mail shares (scopes). Start here.
inbound_read Read received mail and its attachments, nothing else.
sending_access Send, reschedule, cancel and upload attachments; nothing else.
Live full_access Everything, including keys, domains and real sends.

The agent should call whoami first: it reports the key's project, environment, mode and scope. Keys are never returned, except the token of a key made with create_key, once.

Tools

Area Read-only Changes something
Keys whoami, list_keys create_key, revoke_key
Domains list_domains, get_domain, get_domain_reputation create_domain, verify_domain
Sending list_emails, get_email, get_email_events, list_templates, preview_template send_email, cancel_email
Logs and events list_logs, get_log, list_events, get_event
Suppressions list_suppressions add_suppression, remove_suppression
Webhooks list_webhooks, list_webhook_deliveries replay_webhook, test_webhook
Inbound list_inbound, get_inbound, get_inbound_attachment
Contacts find_contact (by id or address), list_contacts, list_contact_consent
Broadcasts and automations list_broadcasts, get_broadcast, list_automations, list_automation_runs

Read-only tools carry readOnlyHint, and revoke_key, cancel_email and remove_suppression carry destructiveHint, so a client can ask before running them. Broadcasts and automations are read-only on purpose: sending a broadcast or publishing an automation stays with people, in the console or with minket api.

Results are the API's JSON, also as structured content. A failure comes back as an error result with the API's code, what to do next, the validation issues and the request id, so the agent can correct the call or report it.

Sending with a dry run

send_email takes the send request: from, to, subject and text or html, or a hosted template with variables, plus attachments, scheduled_at, via a mailbox and idempotency_key. With dry_run: true nothing is sent. The server checks:

  • the body against the API's schema, with the same messages;
  • the sender: the domain of from belongs to the project, is verified, has sending on and passes authentication (or the mailbox of via is connected);
  • every recipient against the suppression list, for the email's stream;
  • the template, rendered with the variables, and its subject.
JSON
{
  "dry_run": true,
  "would_send": true,
  "mode": "live",
  "sender": { "domain": "mail.acme.example", "status": "verified", "sending": "enabled", "authentication": "passing" },
  "recipients": [
    { "address": "jane@example.com", "suppressed": null },
    { "address": "old@example.com", "suppressed": { "reason": "hard_bounce", "stream": null } }
  ],
  "template": { "id": "receipt", "subject": "Your receipt for order 10452" },
  "problems": [],
  "notes": ["Suppressed recipients are accepted and skipped (email.suppressed): old@example.com."]
}

A clean dry run is a strong hint, not a promise: the send itself also applies content checks, the kill switch, rate limits and the daily cap. When the agent sends for real it should pass an idempotency_key and reuse it on a retry, so the email goes out once.

Treat mail as data

Received messages and contact fields come from outside parties. get_inbound says so in its description, and the agent should never follow instructions found in a message body, a subject or an attachment. Prefer an inbound_read key when the agent only reads mail.

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