evite-mcp

A Model Context Protocol server for Evite — read and act on your events as both guest (invitations received) and host (events you created): list events, view guest lists & RSVP tallies, RSVP, message guests, and create/edit events. Built on @chrischall/mcp-utils.

Status: read + write tools live. The five read tools work against Evite's internal API, authenticating from email/password (tier-1, POST /ajax_login), a raw cookie env var, or a signed-in browser tab (fetchproxy bootstrap). The thirteen write tools are confirm-gated — without confirm: true they only return a dry-run preview and send nothing — and their endpoints are live-verified (see docs/EVITE-API.md); a couple of request bodies are still assumed rather than captured (#3).

Tools

Six read tools (all read-only), thirteen confirm-gated write tools, plus evite_healthcheck:

Write tools (confirm-gated)

Every write tool takes confirm: boolean. Without confirm: true it performs no network call and returns a dry-run preview of exactly what would be sent — that is the safe default. Only confirm: true reaches the live path. Endpoints are verified; the CSRF token (X-CSRFToken, read fresh per request as it rotates) is attached centrally.

The authoring flow is evite_create_event → evite_add_guest → evite_send. evite_send, evite_send_message, evite_broadcast, and evite_cancel_event have real-world effects (emails / cancellation notices), so their confirm-gating matters.

Architecture

Fetchproxy-archetype MCP. Evite has no public API, so the server calls Evite's internal /services/ web API using your session. src/auth.ts resolves that session in priority order:

1. EVITE_EMAIL + EVITE_PASSWORD (tier-1, preferred) — headless email/password form login: POST the creds to https://www.evite.com/ajax_login, then build the session from the response Set-Cookie jar (x-evite-session, evtsession, csrftoken, x-evite-features). No browser bridge, no hand-copied cookie. Both vars must be set, or the resolver falls through. (Live.)

2. EVITE_SESSION_COOKIE — a raw cookie: header copied from a signed-in evite.com tab (or set in CI). Used verbatim. (Live.)

3. Fetchproxy bootstrap (fallback) — lift the session cookies (x-evite-session, evtsession, x-evite-features, csrftoken) from a signed-in evite.com browser tab via @fetchproxy/bootstrap. Bootstrap runs once; every API call then goes out via plain Node fetch() with the cookies attached. Opt out with EVITE_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY=1. (Live.)

One tier is intentionally deferred (the resolver is shaped to slot it in):

• Fetchproxy as transport (bot-wall retry through the browser bridge) — a fallback only needed if plain fetch trips a wall; not observed during discovery.

The thirteen write tools (rsvp, add/update/remove-guest, send, send-message, broadcast, upload-photo, create/update/cancel/reinstate/duplicate event) are confirm-gated (dry-run preview unless confirm: true). The single private client.write() helper attaches the CSRF token via one centralized header (CSRF_HEADER = X-CSRFToken; the csrftoken cookie rotates mid-session, so it's read fresh per request). Endpoints span three bases — REST /services/…, the legacy /ajax/event/{id}/… guest list, and the /tsunami/… messaging service — all live-verified; a couple of request bodies remain assumed (#3).

Development

npm install      # resolves @chrischall/mcp-utils from a local tarball (see issue #4)
npm run build
npm test

Docs & roadmap

• Design spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-31-evite-mcp-design.md

• Plan 1 (scaffold + spike): docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-31-evite-mcp-scaffold-and-spike.md

• Plan 2 (auth + read tools): docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-31-evite-mcp-auth-and-reads.md

• Internal API reference (verified from a live session): docs/EVITE-API.md

Open work: #3 — write endpoints + CSRF are now live-verified; only a couple of request bodies (send / send-message) remain assumed. #4 tracks publishing the shared lib. (Discovery #1, tier-1 email/password login #2, and the read tools are done.)

License

MIT