Volanea

Email infrastructure for AI agents — transactional sending, marketing campaigns, and lifecycle automation over a single contact graph.

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What it can do

Volanea Get Project Status: Call this FIRST in any integration session. Returns the project's plan, reputation, key mode (test vs live) plus a fingerprint of the key in use, sending domains with verif
Volanea Get Api Reference: Authoritative REST API reference for writing integration code into the user's app. Base URL: https://api.volanea.com — auth is `Authorization: Bearer <secret key>`; sends ac
Volanea List Resources: List existing resources of one kind — use to find ids and avoid duplicating work. `contact_fields` returns custom contact data fields with usage counts and `event_names` return

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Email infrastructure for AI agents — transactional sending, marketing campaigns, and lifecycle automation over a single contact graph.

Built so an agent can verify its own work. Every "did that actually work?" question has a tool that answers honestly: render a template without sending it, read a delivery back from the log, replay a signed webhook against your endpoint, run a workflow and see each step it executed.

Tools document how they fail, not just what they accept. A 200 does not mean delivered. A batch send returns 200 even when every message failed. volanea_track_event reports which workflows it actually triggered — an empty list means your event name has a typo, which is otherwise indistinguishable from a working integration.

Safe by default. Test keys render and log but never deliver, even by accident. Campaigns are created as drafts — there is deliberately no tool that sends one. Cleanup previews unless you confirm, and only ever touches artifacts it created itself.

What's here

Discover — project status, REST API reference, resource listings
Build — templates, segments, workflows, campaign drafts, webhook endpoints, sending domains
Verify — template rendering, test sends, delivery log, workflow runs, webhook deliveries, and whether a specific address can actually be mailed

Bring your own Volanea API key. Use an sk_test_… key while building: everything renders and logs, nothing is delivered.

Server tool list (23)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

volanea_get_project_status	Call this FIRST in any integration session. Returns the project's plan, reputation, key mode (test vs live) plus a fingerprint of the key in use, sending domains with verification status, webhook endpoints, resource counts, and setup hints for what is still missing. Use it to plan the integration before creating anything — and check `apiKey.fingerprint` against the key the app is configured with, so you know you are inspecting the same project.
volanea_get_api_reference	Authoritative REST API reference for writing integration code into the user's app. Base URL: https://api.volanea.com — auth is `Authorization: Bearer <secret key>`; sends accept an `Idempotency-Key` header. Use this instead of guessing endpoint shapes or SDK names. THREE MODES, and the default is the expensive one: `{ resource, indexOnly: true }` lists every operation's id, method, path, and one-line summary with NO schemas (a few KB); `{ resource, operations: [ids] }` returns full request/response schemas for just those operations, plus only the schemas they reference; `{ resource }` alone returns the entire resource, which for Campaigns or Contacts is 40-50 KB of one reply. Start with indexOnly, then expand the two or three operations you are actually going to call — every byte of a reference dump re-enters your context on every later turn.
volanea_list_resources	List existing resources of one kind — use to find ids and avoid duplicating work. `contact_fields` returns custom contact data fields with usage counts and `event_names` returns product event names already seen; call those before writing segment conditions or workflow triggers so they reference things that actually exist.
volanea_setup_domain	Add a sending domain and/or check its DNS. First call registers the domain and returns the DNS records (ownership TXT, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, tracking) for the user to install. Call again after they are installed to run a live DNS check — the domain becomes `verified` once ownership + DKIM + SPF resolve. Safe to call repeatedly.
volanea_get_template	Read ONE template in full — subject, HTML body, fromEmail, type, version, and the {{variables}} it expects. volanea_list_resources and volanea_create_template both return summaries WITHOUT the body, so this is the only way to see the actual content; that split is deliberate, because echoing a full HTML body into every listing costs thousands of tokens you cannot act on. Use it to inspect or restyle existing content, and to check which placeholders a send must supply before calling /v1/send. Do NOT use it to discover ids — volanea_list_resources { templates } is far cheaper for that. Returns 404 for an unknown id rather than an empty template, so a typo fails loudly.
volanea_render_template	Render a template with sample variables and return the resulting subject and HTML, plus any {{placeholders}} that went unsubstituted — WITHOUT sending anything or writing a row to the send log. Use this while iterating on copy; use volanea_send_test_email only when you want a real logged message to inspect with volanea_check_delivery.
volanea_create_template	Create a reusable email template with {{variable}} placeholders. Idempotent by name: an existing template with the same name is updated instead (content changes snapshot a new version, old versions are retained). You have the user's codebase — match their product name, tone, and brand colors rather than writing generic copy. The reply is a summary — id, version, and the `detectedVariables` a send must supply — not the body you just sent; read the stored HTML back with volanea_get_template if you need it.
volanea_create_segment	Create a dynamic audience segment from a condition tree (membership recomputes automatically). ALWAYS run once with `dryRun: true` first — that returns the live member count and a sample of matching contacts without creating anything, so you can confirm the filter does what you intended. Idempotent by name.
volanea_get_workflow	Read ONE workflow in full — the complete node/edge graph with every node's config and canvas position, plus per-node run counts. volanea_list_resources { workflows } returns summaries only. Read the stored graph with this before editing it via volanea_update_workflow, so you send back a modification of what is actually saved rather than a guess.
volanea_create_workflow	Create an event-triggered automation workflow from a node/edge graph. Created as a DRAFT — verify it with volanea_test_workflow, then activate explicitly via volanea_update_workflow { status: 'active' }. Idempotent by name. Triggers: "event:<name>" (a product event sent to POST /v1/events or the volanea_track_event tool), "contact.created", "segment:enter:<segmentId>", "segment:exit:<segmentId>".
volanea_update_workflow	Update a workflow by id — edit the graph/trigger, or set status to 'active' (start processing live events) or 'paused'. Activation is deliberately separate from creation so a human-reviewable draft always exists first. `graph` replaces the stored graph wholesale, so read it with volanea_get_workflow first if you are amending one.
volanea_test_workflow	END-TO-END TEST for an automation. Enrolls a contact (created if it does not exist) into an ACTIVE workflow, waits briefly, then returns the per-step run log — which nodes ran, their outcomes, and where the contact is now waiting. Use this to prove a workflow actually works before telling the user it is done. Activate the workflow first with volanea_update_workflow { status: 'active' }.
volanea_track_event	Send a product event exactly as the user's app would (POST /v1/events). Auto-creates the contact if unknown, and SYNCHRONOUSLY fires any workflow whose trigger is `event:<name>` plus any matching webhooks — so this is how you verify an event-triggered automation for real. Also useful to seed a test contact — but note that a contact created this way is tagged as a test artifact and is EXCLUDED from segment evaluation and campaign audiences, so it will never appear in a volanea_create_segment dryRun count or a campaign's recipient list, whatever its fields say. System prefixes (email./contact./segment./workflow.) are reserved.
volanea_check_recipient	Answer "can I actually send to this address?" before writing or debugging a send path. Checks BOTH gates the send pipeline applies, because they are separate records and checking only one gives a confidently wrong answer: a SUPPRESSION record (hard bounce, complaint, unsubscribe, manual block) stops every send including transactional, and a CONTACT marked unsubscribed separately stops marketing-type sends only. An address with a clean suppression list is still skipped as "unsubscribed" if its contact opted out. Returns which gate would close and why. Read-only — it never suppresses, unsubscribes, or creates anything.
volanea_send_test_email	Render and send a test message — either a saved template (`templateId` + sample `variables`) or ad-hoc `subject`/`html`. ALWAYS forced into test mode: the message renders, logs, and is fully inspectable via volanea_check_delivery, but is never delivered to a real inbox, even when authenticated with a live key. Use it to verify content renders correctly, then read it back with volanea_check_delivery.
volanea_check_delivery	Inspect the send log to verify what actually happened. With `emailId`, returns that message's status, rendered HTML (truncated), engagement counters, and any error — the way to confirm a volanea_send_test_email rendered correctly. Without it, lists recent messages, optionally filtered by recipient, status, or source (transactional/campaign/workflow/inbound) — useful to confirm a workflow actually sent its email.
volanea_create_webhook_endpoint	Register an endpoint in the user's app to receive Volanea events, and get back its `whsec_…` SIGNING SECRET — you need that secret to write the signature-verification code into their codebase (see volanea_get_api_reference { resource: 'Webhooks' } for the X-Volanea-Signature scheme). Idempotent by URL. Events are matched by pattern, e.g. ["email.*", "contact.created"]; omit to receive everything. The URL must be reachable from the public internet: deliveries are made from Volanea's servers, so http://localhost:3000 or a private LAN address receives nothing — tunnel the dev server (ngrok, cloudflared) and register the tunnel URL instead.
volanea_test_webhook_delivery	Send a REAL signed test delivery to a registered endpoint and return what the endpoint answered — status code, response body, and the exact X-Volanea-Signature header sent. This is how you prove the signature-verification code you wrote actually verifies, rather than assuming it does. Creates a delivery row, so it also shows up in the endpoint's delivery log.
volanea_create_campaign_draft	Create a campaign as a DRAFT for the user to review and send from the dashboard. This tool never sends — there is deliberately no send tool, because a mistaken broadcast reaches the entire audience. Audience: 'all' contacts, a 'segment' (segmentId), or an ad-hoc 'filter' condition tree. Optional A/B subject test via abSubjectB + abSamplePct.
volanea_cleanup_test_data	Remove the test artifacts YOU created in this project — the templates, segments, workflows, webhook endpoints, and campaign drafts made through this MCP server, plus any contacts it auto-created while enrolling or tracking. It can only ever touch those: anything a human made through the dashboard or REST API is invisible to it, and resources you merely UPDATED (idempotent creates that matched an existing name) are never removed. Runs as a preview by default — call with { confirm: true } to actually delete. Use this at the end of an integration session so a production project isn't left holding your scaffolding.
volanea_update_webhook_endpoint	Change an existing webhook endpoint — flip `enabled`, repoint `url` after a tunnel restarts, or change which events it subscribes to. This closes a real gap: volanea_get_project_status will happily report an endpoint as `enabled: false`, and without this tool the only way to act on that was a raw REST call, so the server could diagnose a problem it could not fix. Partial update — omitted fields are left alone. The signing secret is never rotated by this call, so existing verification code keeps working.
volanea_delete_resource	Permanently delete ONE resource by id. Deliberately mirrors volanea_list_resources so the two read as a pair, and deliberately previews unless you pass `confirm: true` — the same shape as volanea_cleanup_test_data, because an agent should have to say twice that it means to destroy something. Use volanea_cleanup_test_data instead when tidying up after yourself: it only ever touches artifacts this server created, whereas this deletes anything you name, including resources a human built. Deleting a segment does NOT delete its contacts; deleting a template does NOT recall mail already sent with it; deleting a workflow strands any contact currently mid-run.
volanea_report_missing_tool	Report that this server lacks a tool you needed, so the gap gets closed instead of silently worked around. Call it at the moment you fall back to a raw REST call, tell the user to do something by hand in the dashboard, or abandon an approach because no tool covered it — those are the three signals that matter, and none of them is visible to anyone unless you say so. IMPORTANT: this records feedback and changes NOTHING about the project; it does not create the missing capability, retry your last call, or unblock you. After calling it, carry on with the REST API — volanea_get_api_reference has the endpoint you need. Costs one call and is always safe: it is write-free and reads no project data.