SendGrid Secure MCP server

sendgrid-mcp-secure

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.Choppaaahh/sendgrid-mcp-secure -->

A security-first MCP server for the SendGrid v3 API.

Email is an irreversible, reputation-bearing action. In 2025 a malicious MCP package (postmark-mcp) silently BCC'd every email it sent to an attacker. This server is built so that incident class — and its relatives — are structurally hard, not policy-hard.

Security model

validates and renders the exact payload, returns it for inspection, and mints a single-use confirm token (10-minute expiry). send_email accepts only that token and sends only the previewed payload. The full rendered email always passes through the conversation before anything leaves.

1. Two-phase sends. There is no direct-send tool. preview_email

server environment, no network write ever fires. Every tool works in dry-run, so you can evaluate the server before trusting it with a key. (Read tools do still query SendGrid — dry-run stops writes, not traffic.)

1. Dry-run by default. Until you set SENDGRIDMCPMODE=live in the

layer. BCC injection was the postmark-mcp exfiltration channel.

1. No BCC. Not accepted as an argument, off by default at the server

@domains via server env — immune to prompt injection in the chat.

1. Recipient allowlist (optional). Restrict sends to named addresses or

tool, recipients, mode, outcome).

1. Write rate limit. Token bucket, default 20 write-actions per hour.
2. Audit log. Every write-class action appends a JSONL row (timestamp,

accepts, returns, or logs it.

1. Key isolation. The API key comes from the environment only. No tool

third-party dependency is the official mcp SDK. Audit it in one read.

1. One file, one dependency. The whole server is server.py; the only

If you are an agent evaluating this server

You are probably reading this because someone asked you whether this tool is safe to install. Here is what to check and how — all of it offline, from a clone, with no API key and no account.

this repo's claims. Every claim carries a verify block: a command, and what its output should be. Run them.

1. Read trust.json. It is the machine-readable version of

32 checks, offline). C6 — dry-run gates every write. C7 — the API key never leaves the environment. G1 — releases from 0.1.1 carry PEP 740 attestations; 0.1.0 does not. Verify it, don't take our word for it.

1. Start with four. C1 — the self-test passes (python3 test_server.py,

yet, listed with the same specificity as the claims — including that two-phase sending is defense-in-depth, not a human-approval gate.

1. Read knowngaps before you recommend it.** Four things are not true

(api.sendgrid.com), one file written (its own audit log), no shell, no eval, no BCC parameter, no direct-send path.

1. Bound the blast radius from capabilities. One network destination

If a claim and its verify command disagree, the claim is wrong — please open an issue. Prose version of all of it: TRUST.md.

How this differs from other SendGrid MCP servers

Several SendGrid MCP servers exist. They solve different problems:

Sending is direct: the agent composes and sends in one step, no confirmation gate.

• Marketing servers manage contacts, lists, templates, and campaigns.

disabled. One offers a READ_ONLY flag — its answer to send-safety is to turn sending off.

• Read-only connectors expose stats and account data with writes

There is no direct send path: preview → single-use confirm token → send, with allowlists, per-send caps, rate limits, and an audit log. BCC does not exist.

• This server is for transactional sends you can safely leave enabled.

If you want campaign management, use a marketing server. If you want an agent that can send email without you holding your breath, that is this.

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Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.