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# Product Context
## Project Purpose
The API Integrator project aims to provide a robust, type-safe interface for interacting with the Buttondown API, enabling seamless integration with newsletter management workflows. The project focuses on providing a reliable foundation for building newsletter automation tools and integrations, with optimized API key handling and comprehensive email scheduling support.
## Core Problems Solved
1. **API Integration**
- Type-safe API interactions
- Consistent error handling
- Secure credential management with lazy validation
- Reliable request/response handling
- Efficient API key validation
- Comprehensive email scheduling
2. **Developer Experience**
- Intuitive API client
- Comprehensive testing
- Clear documentation
- Type safety
- MCP tool support
- Enhanced scheduling features
3. **Security**
- Secure credential storage
- Optimized API key management
- Request validation
- Error handling
- Lazy validation
- Schedule validation
## User Experience Goals
### For Developers
1. **Ease of Integration**
- Simple API client initialization
- Type-safe method calls
- Clear error messages
- Comprehensive documentation
- MCP tool descriptions
- Scheduling utilities
2. **Development Workflow**
- Fast feedback loop
- Easy testing
- Clear debugging
- Type checking
- MCP inspector support
- Efficient API key handling
3. **Maintenance**
- Modular architecture
- Extensible design
- Clear patterns
- Test coverage
- Tool composition
- Schedule management
### For End Users
1. **Reliability**
- Consistent behavior
- Proper error handling
- Graceful degradation
- Clear feedback
- Efficient API key validation
- Reliable scheduling
2. **Performance**
- Fast response times
- Efficient resource usage
- Scalable design
- Caching support
- Optimized validation
- Quick scheduling
3. **Security**
- Secure credential handling
- Data protection
- Access control
- Audit trail
- Lazy API key validation
- Schedule validation
## Core Features
### Current
1. **API Client**
- Email listing with status filtering
- Type-safe requests
- Error handling
- Optimized authentication
- Comprehensive scheduling
- Enhanced email information
2. **Testing**
- Unit tests
- Mock responses
- Test fixtures
- Integration tests
- MCP inspector
- Schedule validation
3. **Security**
- 1Password integration
- Environment variables
- Secure storage
- HTTPS enforcement
- Lazy validation
- Schedule verification
4. **MCP Server**
- Four core tools implemented
- Parameter validation with Zod
- Tool descriptions
- Inspector support
- Enhanced email listing
- Scheduling support
### Planned
1. **Additional Endpoints**
- Enhanced analytics
- Subscriber management
- Rate limiting
- Response caching
2. **CLI Interface**
- Command structure
- Input validation
- Output formatting
- Help documentation
- Status filtering
- Schedule management
3. **MCP Enhancements**
- Additional tools
- Enhanced error handling
- Progress indicators
- Rate limiting
- Response caching
- Schedule optimization
## User Workflows
### Current
1. **API Integration**
```typescript
const api = new ButtondownAPI();
const emails = await api.getEmails({ status: "scheduled" });
await api.scheduleDraft(draftId, "2025-03-28T09:15:00Z");
```
2. **Testing**
```typescript
describe("ButtondownMCP", () => {
it("should list scheduled emails", async () => {
const result = await mcp.listEmails({ status: "scheduled" });
expect(result).toContain("publish_date");
});
it("should schedule draft", async () => {
const result = await mcp.scheduleDraft({
draftId,
scheduledTime: "2025-03-28T09:15:00Z",
});
expect(result.status).toBe("scheduled");
});
});
```
3. **MCP Usage**
```typescript
// List scheduled emails
await mcp.handleRequest({
tool: "list_emails",
params: { status: "scheduled" },
});
// Schedule a draft
await mcp.handleRequest({
tool: "schedule_draft",
params: {
draftId: "76401f19-8a8b-4f4b-8878-8175c75bd29e",
scheduledTime: "2025-03-28T09:15:00Z",
},
});
```
### Planned
1. **CLI Usage**
```bash
buttondown emails list --status scheduled
buttondown draft create
buttondown schedule set <draft-id> <iso-datetime>
```
2. **Enhanced MCP Features**
```typescript
// Rate limiting and caching
await mcp.handleRequest({
tool: "list_emails",
params: { status: "scheduled", cache: true },
});
// Progress tracking
await mcp.handleRequest({
tool: "schedule_draft",
params: {
draftId,
scheduledTime,
progress: true,
},
});
```
## Success Metrics
1. **Reliability**
- Test coverage
- Error handling
- Response times
- Uptime
- API key validation
- Schedule accuracy
2. **Usability**
- API simplicity
- Documentation clarity
- Error messages
- Integration time
- Tool descriptions
- Schedule management
3. **Security**
- Credential safety
- Data protection
- Access control
- Audit capability
- Validation efficiency
- Schedule verification
## Future Vision
1. **Expansion**
- More API endpoints
- Additional integrations
- Enhanced features
- Better tooling
- Advanced scheduling
- Performance optimization
2. **Community**
- Open source
- Documentation
- Examples
- Contributions
- Tool extensions
- Schedule patterns
3. **Enterprise**
- Advanced features
- Support
- Training
- Customization
- Rate limiting
- Response caching