own-domain-mcp

One command to give a family their own-domain email — provisioned end to end on the MCP → API path, idempotently, for the whole fleet.

Every family/service account is registered under that family's own domain (service@theirdomain, owner@theirdomain). For those addresses to actually receive vendor sign-up and verification mail, the domain needs Cloudflare Email Routing: a verified destination, MX records, and a forward rule. This server does all of it via the Cloudflare REST API.

Why MCP → API (and why we keep it that way)

Direct API is the path; the browser is the last resort.

• Deterministic & fast. A REST call is one round trip with a known result. Driving the Cloudflare dashboard with simulated clicks (cliclick + screenshots) is slow, brittle, and breaks on any UI change. The day this tool was born, expanding one API token's scope had to be done by clicking dashboard dropdowns because Cloudflare won't let a token widen its own scope — that pain is exactly what we never want to repeat for a repeatable task.

• Least privilege. A scoped API token (Zone Email Routing Rules + DNS, Account Email Routing Addresses) can do everything here except first-time enable. No full logged-in session, no password, no 2FA in the loop.

• Composable forever. Because it's an MCP wrapping the API, the agent/fleet calls it the same way every time, and it composes into the unified super-mcp.

The one honest gap

Cloudflare does not grant the first-time POST /email/routing/enable (and the /email/routing settings GET) to scoped API tokens. This tool:

1. tries the scoped token,

2. falls back to a global API key if one is configured (CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL + CLOUDFLARE_GLOBAL_API_KEY, or Keychain cloudflare-global-api-key) — keeping enable on the API path too,

3. otherwise reports enable: blocked with guidance and still sets the catch-all/rules, which activate the instant routing is enabled (one dashboard click, once per zone).

Everything else — destinations, catch-all, rules, status — is pure scoped-token API.

Related MCP server: MCP AWS SES Email Server

Tools

Policy / safety

config/own-domains.json (env-overridable):

• forwardTo — the inbox every address forwards to (e.g. you@example.com).

• mode — catch_all (forward every address) or addresses (only owner@, service@).

• exclude — zones never touched. Empty by default; add any zone you never want catch-all'd to a personal inbox (e.g. a medical/PHI domain, or shared infrastructure).

• include — optional allowlist; when empty, all zones except exclude are eligible.

Config

npm install && npm run build
claude mcp add own-domain -- node /path/to/own-domain-mcp/dist/index.js

Credentials (env first, then macOS Keychain):

• Scoped token: OWN_DOMAIN_CF_TOKEN / CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN, or Keychain cloudflare-api-token / cloudflare-email-routing-token (account from CLOUDFLARE_KEYCHAIN_ACCOUNT or $USER).

• Optional global key (enable only): CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL + CLOUDFLARE_GLOBAL_API_KEY, or Keychain cloudflare-global-api-key.

Env overrides: OWN_DOMAIN_FORWARD_TO, OWN_DOMAIN_MODE, OWN_DOMAIN_CONFIG, OWN_DOMAIN_ACCOUNT_ID.

npm test   # unit tests (mock fetch, no live API)