🍉 mcp-watermelon

MCP server for Watermelon.ai — the AI-powered customer support platform. Exposes all 13 public API endpoints as MCP tools, enabling AI assistants to manage contacts, conversations, messages, custom fields, and webhooks.

🍉🍉🍉 DISCLAIMER 🍉🍉🍉

This is an unofficial, community-built project. It is not endorsed, supported, or affiliated with Watermelon.ai — yet. We built this because we love what they're building and believe MCP integration makes their platform even more powerful. If you're from Watermelon and reading this: let's talk! 🍉

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🍉 Installation

Requires Python 3.12+ and uv.

git clone https://github.com/cdit-dev/mcp-watermelon.git
cd mcp-watermelon
uv sync

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🍉 Configuration

Set your Watermelon API credentials as environment variables:

export WATERMELON_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export WATERMELON_SECRET_KEY="your-secret-key"

Don't have a Watermelon account? Sign up here. Then get your API credentials from the dashboard under Settings → API.

Claude Desktop / Claude Code

Add to your MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "watermelon": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["--directory", "/path/to/mcp-watermelon", "run", "server"],
      "env": {
        "WATERMELON_API_KEY": "your-api-key",
        "WATERMELON_SECRET_KEY": "your-secret-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Docker / Container Deployment

docker compose up -d

Set credentials in .env (see .env.example). The container runs on streamable-http transport at port 8002 by default.

🍉 Available Tools

🍉 Contacts (5 tools)

🍉 Conversations (2 tools)

🍉 Messages (2 tools)

🍉 Custom Fields (1 tool)

🍉 Webhooks (3 tools)

🍉 Use Cases

For Any Watermelon User

🍉 Conversational customer support monitoring

"Show me all open conversations" → "Summarize the last 5 messages in conversation X" → "Send a follow-up message"

🍉 Contact management via natural language

"Create a contact for Jane Doe, email jane@example.com, company Acme Corp" → "Search for contacts at Acme" → "Update Jane's phone number"

🍉 Webhook automation setup

"Set up a webhook to notify me when new conversations come in" → "Update the webhook URL to point to my new endpoint"

For Agencies & Platform Builders

🍉 Contact sync with your CRM Use n8n or Zapier to keep contacts in sync between Watermelon and your CRM. When a new contact appears in Watermelon (via webhook), create/update it in your CRM. When a CRM contact is tagged as "support-active", push it to Watermelon with custom fields.

🍉 AI-first support inbox Watermelon's AI chatbot handles first-line conversations. The MCP server lets Claude monitor conversation quality, flag escalations, and send human-assisted responses — all from the same interface you use for everything else.

🍉 Customer conversation intelligence Pull all conversations, analyze sentiment and topics with Claude, generate weekly support digests. Turn your support inbox into actionable business intelligence.

🍉 Multi-client webhook orchestration For each client workspace, set up Watermelon webhooks that feed into your automation platform. New conversation → Slack notification. Conversation resolved → update CRM deal. Message received → log to client timeline.

🍉 Support-driven content ideas Pull customer conversations, use Claude to identify recurring questions and pain points, then turn those into FAQ articles, blog posts, or video content.

🍉 With Future API Extensions

These use cases become possible if Watermelon expands the public API (see GAP_ANALYSIS.md):

🍉 API Coverage

This server covers 100% of the Watermelon public API (13 endpoints). See GAP_ANALYSIS.md for a detailed analysis of what platform features are and aren't accessible via the API.

🍉 About Watermelon

Watermelon.ai is an AI-powered customer support platform that helps businesses automate conversations across channels. If you're not using Watermelon yet, try it out here — they offer a 25% first-year partner/affiliate program too.

🍉 License

MIT

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