OurFamilyWizard MCP
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| OFW_PASSWORD | No | Your OurFamilyWizard password (required for env-var auth path) | |
| OFW_USERNAME | No | Your OurFamilyWizard email address (required for env-var auth path) | |
| OFW_WRITE_MODE | No | Write protection level: 'none', 'drafts', or 'all' | all |
| OFW_CACHE_IDENTITY | No | Optional label for separate caches when using multiple accounts with fetchproxy | |
| OFW_ALLOW_MARK_READ | No | Set to 'false' to prevent marking messages as read | |
| OFW_CALENDAR_WRITES | No | Set to 'true' to enable calendar writes when OFW_WRITE_MODE is 'drafts' | |
| OFW_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY | No | Set to '1' to skip fetchproxy fallback, making missing credentials a hard error | |
| OFW_FETCH_UNREAD_BODIES | No | Set to 'true' to fetch unread message bodies during sync by default | |
| OFW_FRESHNESS_TTL_SECONDS | No | Cache freshness threshold in seconds | 300 |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": true
} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ofw_get_profileA | Get current user and co-parent profile information from OurFamilyWizard |
| ofw_get_notificationsA | Get OurFamilyWizard dashboard summary: unread message count, upcoming events, outstanding expenses. Note: updates your last-seen status. |
| ofw_list_message_foldersA | List OurFamilyWizard message folders (inbox, sent, etc.) and their unread counts. Fetched LIVE from OFW, so the counts are current. Returns folder IDs needed to call ofw_list_messages. Does NOT return message content. |
| ofw_list_messagesA | List messages from the local OurFamilyWizard cache. Supports filtering by folder, date range, and a substring query on subject+body. Pagination is offset-based but if you know what you want (a date range, a topic), prefer the filters over walking pages — the cache may have 1000+ messages. Returns an explicit |
| ofw_get_messageA | Get a single OurFamilyWizard message OR draft by ID. Reads from local cache when available; otherwise fetches from OFW — and for an UNREAD INBOX message that fetch marks it read and stamps a "First Viewed" time the co-parent can see, which is part of the record and cannot be undone. Pass allowMarkRead:false to refuse such a fetch instead (cached bodies, sent messages and already-read messages are unaffected, because none of them stamp anything). For ids that match a draft (in the drafts cache), the response carries folder="drafts" and the body/subject/recipients reflect the drafts cache (which ofw_sync_messages keeps fresh) — drafts have no |
| ofw_send_messageA | Send a message via OurFamilyWizard. To send an existing draft, pass messageId — subject/body/recipientIds become optional overrides (missing fields default to the draft's cached values) and the draft is deleted after sending. To send a fresh message, supply subject/body/recipientIds directly. draftId is the legacy spelling of messageId and works the same way. If replyToId is provided, the cache may rewrite it to the latest reply in the same thread (a note is included in the response when this happens). Attach files by passing their fileIds (from ofw_upload_attachment) in myFileIDs. After sending, the tool re-fetches the message from OFW to populate the local cache and link attachments to the new message id. |
| ofw_list_draftsA | List draft messages from the local OurFamilyWizard cache. Returns an explicit |
| ofw_save_draftA | Save a message as a draft in OurFamilyWizard. Recipients are optional. Pass messageId to replace an existing draft — note that under the hood this creates a NEW draft and deletes the old one (OFW's update-in-place endpoint silently no-ops while echoing the posted body, so we don't use it); the response.id will be the NEW id, not the messageId you passed, and the change is documented in a transparency NOTE in the response that also lists which fields (subject/body/recipients/replyToId/attachments) were carried over. If replyToId is provided, the cache may rewrite it to the latest reply in the thread (note included in response). Attach files by passing their fileIds (from ofw_upload_attachment) in myFileIDs. After saving, the tool re-fetches the draft from OFW to populate the local cache from authoritative server state, and the returned |
| ofw_delete_draftA | Delete a draft message from OurFamilyWizard. Also removes the draft from the local cache. Before deleting, the draft is re-read from OFW and the delete is REFUSED if it changed since you last read it (the current server body is returned so nothing is lost) — pass expectedRevision to assert which version you mean, or force:true to delete regardless. |
| ofw_get_unread_sentA | List sent messages that have not been read by one or more recipients. Reads from local cache. Returns |
| ofw_upload_attachmentA | Upload a local file to OurFamilyWizard's "My Files" so it can be attached to a message. Returns the fileId — pass that to ofw_send_message or ofw_save_draft in myFileIDs to attach it. The file is uploaded as PRIVATE (visible only to you) by default; pass shareClass:"SHARED" to share with co-parents directly via the My Files area. |
| ofw_download_attachmentA | Download an OFW message attachment by fileId and return content you can actually read. Inline delivery walks a ladder and returns the first rung that works: (1) host-renderable images (PNG/JPEG/GIF/WEBP) come back as ImageContent; (2) .xlsx/.csv/.tsv, .pdf, .docx, .pptx and text files come back as EXTRACTED CONTENT — per-sheet CSV, per-page/slide text, document text — in the response JSON under |
| ofw_sync_messagesA | Sync messages from OurFamilyWizard into the local cache. Returns counts per folder and a list of unread inbox messages whose bodies were NOT fetched (to avoid mark-as-read on OFW). Call ofw_get_message(id) on those to read them. EVERY call re-checks the newest page first, so new messages are picked up promptly even while an old-history backfill is still running; only then does it spend what is left of its budget advancing that backfill. Pass deep:true to walk all OFW pages instead of stopping at the first all-cached page (use to backfill suspected gaps). Sync is BOUNDED and RESUMABLE: on hosted deployments a per-call OFW-request budget (env OFW_SYNC_MAX_REQUESTS, or the maxRequests argument) caps how far one call walks; when the budget is hit the response reports done:false with a note — call again with the SAME arguments to resume. done:false means older history is still being backfilled; it does NOT mean recent messages are missing. Local installs are unbounded by default (done is always true). |
| ofw_check_freshnessA | Cheaply confirm whether the local cache still matches OurFamilyWizard, WITHOUT running a full sync. Use this before asserting anything about current state — especially "draft X is still sitting unsent". Costs one OFW request for the folder check plus one per messageId. For each folder it returns the live server count next to the cached count. For each id it returns a LIVE lifecycle |
| ofw_statusA | ONE live call that answers "where does everything stand?". This is the call that should back any status summary about drafts or specific messages — never session memory, and never a cached read alone. With no arguments it returns the FULL current draft inventory, verified against OurFamilyWizard. Pass ids and/or draftKeys to get each one's live lifecycle |
| ofw_list_eventsA | List OurFamilyWizard calendar events in a date range |
| ofw_create_eventA | Create a calendar event in OurFamilyWizard. Unless privateEvent is true, the event is immediately visible to the co-parent — there is no draft stage. |
| ofw_update_eventA | Update an existing OurFamilyWizard calendar event. Fetches the event, applies the given changes, and writes the merged result back (OFW has no partial update). |
| ofw_delete_eventA | Delete an OurFamilyWizard calendar event |
| ofw_get_expense_totalsA | Get OurFamilyWizard expense summary totals (owed/paid) |
| ofw_list_expensesB | List OurFamilyWizard expenses with pagination |
| ofw_create_expenseB | Log a new expense in OurFamilyWizard |
| ofw_list_journal_entriesB | List OurFamilyWizard journal entries |
| ofw_create_journal_entryB | Create a new journal entry in OurFamilyWizard |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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