ZoneMender - Unofficial Cloudflare DNS, Email Auth, BIMI, DMARC, SPF, Email Routing & MCP Server for AI Agents

An independent Cloudflare DNS, DMARC, BIMI, SPF, Email Routing, and Wrangler-friendly MCP toolkit for developers, operators, and AI agents.

ZoneMender scans a Cloudflare zone, computes a diff of desired vs current DNS / Email Routing / BIMI / DMARC / SPF configuration, and applies fixes only after explicit approval. It is built for people who want an AI agent to help with Cloudflare safely: scan first, show the plan, then write only when the owner approves.

It works three ways:

• CLI: run zonemend locally with a scoped Cloudflare token.

• Library: import the zero-dependency engine into your own app.

• Remote MCP Worker: deploy the included Worker with Wrangler so Claude, Codex, Cursor, or another MCP client can call Cloudflare DNS tools through a locked endpoint.

ZoneMender is especially useful for Cloudflare operators who need repeatable DNS hygiene across many zones: SPF cleanup, DMARC enforcement, BIMI records, MX checks, DKIM discovery, Cloudflare Email Routing, TXT verification records, safe DNS upserts, and audit logs for every approved write.

Unofficial Cloudflare tool. ZoneMender is made by AMH - Artificial Mind Hive, operated by Service Pricer LLC. It is independent, third-party, open-source software. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or made by Cloudflare, Inc. "Cloudflare" and "Wrangler" are referenced only to describe compatibility with Cloudflare's platform and official developer tooling. You are responsible for every DNS, Email Routing, DMARC, BIMI, SPF, or Worker change you approve and apply.

What ZoneMender handles

ZoneMender is focused on the Cloudflare zone tasks that regularly break launches, email trust, brand display, and AI-agent workflows:

• DNS record scan, lookup, create, update, no-op detection, and guarded delete.

• SPF detection and planning so you do not accidentally create multiple SPF records.

• DMARC parsing and policy updates that only change the fields you asked for.

• BIMI TXT setup with a DMARC enforcement gate.

• DKIM discovery so the report can tell whether sender keys exist.

• MX and Cloudflare Email Routing checks.

• Email Routing destination/rule setup with verified-destination protection.

• Audit logs for applied changes.

• MCP endpoint deployment on Cloudflare Workers with Wrangler secrets.

• AI-agent safety defaults: dry-run first, diff display, no token in tool args, no accidental deletes.

This is not meant to replace every Cloudflare feature. It is the narrow, safe lane for the zone/email-auth work an operator or AI agent should be allowed to do.

Related MCP server: @archawat/mcp-cloudflare

Examples are operator recipes

The examples below are intentionally direct. They are not toy examples. They show the exact dry-run -> review -> apply pattern users should follow when fixing real domains.

Why build this with Wrangler?

Wrangler is Cloudflare's official developer CLI. ZoneMender can run without Wrangler as a local CLI/library, but Wrangler is the right path when you want a remote MCP server because it deploys the Worker, stores secrets, tails logs, and manages Cloudflare bindings from the same toolchain Cloudflare documents.

Use Wrangler when you want:

• a hosted MCP endpoint for agents and teammates;

• Worker secrets for CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN and MCP_ACCESS_KEY;

• Cloudflare Pages/Workers deployment checks;

• observability through Cloudflare logs;

• a repeatable production setup instead of local-only scripts.

Use the plain CLI when you only need one local terminal to scan or fix a zone.

Safety model (the whole point)

1. Dry-run by default. Every mutating function takes an options object and only writes when { apply: true } is passed. The CLI is dry-run unless you add --apply. A dry-run returns the planned change plus a before/after diff and writes nothing.

2. Scan before write. Apply paths re-fetch current state and return a before/after diff, so you always see exactly what will change.

3. Never delete as a side effect. Deleting a DNS record requires an explicit deleteDnsRecord(..., { confirm: true }) call (CLI: --force). An apply never deletes anything.

4. Token hygiene. The Cloudflare API token is read only from process.env.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN. It is never logged, never written to the audit log, and never included in thrown error messages — any token-looking substring is redacted defensively.

5. Scoped token only. Use a least-privilege scoped API token. Do not use the Global API Key.

6. BIMI precondition. setupBimi first checks the domain's DMARC policy. If p is missing or none, it refuses to write in apply mode (BIMI is not honored below enforcement) unless you pass { force: true }. In dry-run it warns.

7. Audit log. Every apply appends one JSON line to an audit log (default ./zonemender-audit.log) with { ts, action, domain, record, before, after } — never the token.

Quick setup

For the fastest path, start with SETUP.md. It explains the CLI path, the Wrangler-hosted MCP path, and the phone-first WALO workflow. See ROADMAP.md for the next upgrades.

Install

npm install zonemender
# or run the CLI without installing:
npx zonemender scan example.com

Requires Node.js >= 18 (for the built-in global fetch). No other dependencies.

Create a scoped Cloudflare API token (least privilege)

1. Cloudflare dashboard → My Profile → API Tokens → Create Token.

2. Choose Create Custom Token.

3. Under Permissions, add exactly these three:

   • Zone → Zone → Read

   • Zone → DNS → Edit

   • Zone → Email Routing Rules → Edit

4. Under Zone Resources, select Include → Specific zone → your domain (not "All zones").

5. (Recommended) set a TTL and/or Client IP Address Filtering.

6. Continue → Create Token, then copy the token value once (it is shown only at creation; if lost, roll it).

Do not use the Global API Key — it has access to everything, cannot be scoped or time-limited, and there is only one per account.

Provide the token

Put it in your environment (never in a CLI argument or in code):

export CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN="your-scoped-token"

or copy .env.example to .env and fill it in:

cp .env.example .env
# then load it however you prefer (e.g. `set -a; . ./.env; set +a`)

zonemender reads CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN from the environment only.

CLI usage

zonemend <command> <domain> [options]

Global flags: --apply (perform the write; default is dry-run), --force (BIMI DMARC override / delete), --audit <path> (audit log location), -h/--help.

Everything is a dry-run until you add --apply. BIMI needs a hosted SVG Tiny-PS logo URL that you supply via --logo (and, for Gmail/Apple Mail display, a VMC/CMC via --vmc).

Worked example — three real jobs

Assume a scoped token is exported and each domain is a zone in your account.

(a) Add default._bimi TXT to example.com

First, dry-run (writes nothing — shows the diff):

zonemend bimi example.com --logo https://example.com/bimi/logo.svg

BIMI for example.com (DMARC p=quarantine, enforcing=true):
  new record: v=BIMI1; l=https://example.com/bimi/logo.svg
  action: create (dry-run)
  record: TXT default._bimi.example.com
  - before: (record does not exist)
  + after:  content="v=BIMI1; l=https://example.com/bimi/logo.svg" ttl=1
  warn: No VMC/CMC supplied (a=). Gmail and Apple Mail require a VMC/CMC to display the logo; Yahoo/AOL do not.

Dry-run only. Re-run with --apply to write this change.

Then apply:

zonemend bimi example.com --logo https://example.com/bimi/logo.svg --apply

If example.com's DMARC were still at p=none, the apply would be blocked with an error telling you to raise DMARC first (or pass --force). Fix DMARC, then set BIMI.

(b) Add default._bimi TXT to example.org

Dry-run:

zonemend bimi example.org --logo https://example.org/bimi/logo.svg

Apply once the diff looks right:

zonemend bimi example.org --logo https://example.org/bimi/logo.svg --apply

(For broad display in Gmail/Apple Mail, host a VMC/CMC and add --vmc https://example.org/bimi/vmc.pem.)

(c) Change _dmarc.example.org from p=none to p=quarantine

Dry-run first — note it changes only p, preserving your existing rua:

zonemend dmarc example.org --policy quarantine --rua mailto:dmarc@example.org --pct 25

DMARC none -> quarantine for example.org:
  new record: v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:dmarc@example.org; pct=25
  action: update (dry-run)
  record: TXT _dmarc.example.org
  - before: content="\"v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc@example.org\"" ttl=1
  + after:  content="\"v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:dmarc@example.org; pct=25\"" ttl=1
  changed fields: content

Dry-run only. Re-run with --apply to write this change.

Then apply:

zonemend dmarc example.org --policy quarantine --rua mailto:dmarc@example.org --pct 25 --apply

Ramp safely. Only flip to quarantine after p=none + rua reports show all your legitimate mail is authenticating with alignment. Then widen --pct 25 → 50 → 100 over a couple of weeks before ever considering p=reject. pct is honored today but is being removed in the in-progress DMARCbis revision — treat it as current best practice, not forever.

Library usage (host apps)

zonemender exposes clean named exports so a host app can import and wrap it (add your own auth, approval UI, or multi-tenant token vault) — but it has no dependency on any host and runs perfectly standalone.

import {
  CloudflareClient,
  scanZone,
  applyDnsRecord,
  setDmarcPolicy,
  setupBimi,
  setupEmailRouting,
  planEmailAuth,
  appendAudit,
} from "zonemender";

const client = new CloudflareClient(); // reads CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN from env
// (you may also inject { token, fetch } — useful for tests)

// Read-only snapshot:
const snapshot = await scanZone(client, "example.com");

// Plan a DMARC flip (dry-run — writes nothing):
const plan = await setDmarcPolicy(client, "example.com", "quarantine", {
  rua: "mailto:dmarc@example.com",
  pct: 25,
});

// Apply it, then record the change yourself (you supply the timestamp):
const applied = await setDmarcPolicy(
  client,
  "example.com",
  "quarantine",
  { rua: "mailto:dmarc@example.com", pct: 25 },
  { apply: true }
);
appendAudit("./zonemender-audit.log", {
  ts: new Date().toISOString(),
  action: "dmarc.policy",
  domain: "example.com",
  record: applied.record,
  before: applied.before,
  after: applied.after,
});

Every mutating export is dry-run unless you pass { apply: true }, and pure logic never calls Date.now() — you (or the CLI) supply audit timestamps.

Public exports

• CloudflareClient, CloudflareError, redactToken

• resolveZoneId, resolveZone, scanZone

• listRecords, findRecord, applyDnsRecord, deleteDnsRecord

• getRoutingStatus, enableRouting, listDestinations, addDestination, listRules, getCatchAll, setupEmailRouting

• parseDmarc, buildDmarc, parseSpf, getDmarc, setDmarcPolicy, quoteTxt, unquoteTxt

• parseBimi, buildBimi, validateBimiSvgUrl, setupBimi

• planEmailAuth

• appendAudit, AUDIT_DEFAULT_PATH

Embedding in a platform

zonemender is a generic, open tool. A larger platform can import it to automate zone hygiene for its users (wrapping it with per-account tokens and an approval step), but it is completely standalone — the library and CLI run on their own with nothing but a scoped Cloudflare token.

Remote MCP server for Cloudflare DNS agents

worker/ is an optional Model Context Protocol server (a Cloudflare Worker) that exposes the same engine as tools over a URL, so any MCP client — an agent, Claude, Cursor — can scan_zone, plan_email_auth, set_dmarc_policy, setup_bimi, etc. by pointing at it.

Three deliberate hardening choices:

• The token is a Worker secret, never a tool parameter — so it never travels through an MCP client's logs or an agent's transcript.

• The endpoint itself is locked. Because these tools can mutate DNS, a public Worker URL must not be callable by anyone who finds it. Set MCP_ACCESS_KEY and the server rejects any request without Authorization: Bearer <MCP_ACCESS_KEY> (or an X-MCP-Key header). Deploying without it leaves the endpoint open — don't.

• Every mutating tool is dry-run by default; the caller must pass apply: true after seeing the diff. BIMI keeps its DMARC precondition.

npm run worker:generate-key                 # creates a strong MCP_ACCESS_KEY
cd worker
npx wrangler secret put CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN   # the scoped CF token the tools use
npx wrangler secret put MCP_ACCESS_KEY         # paste generated zm_ key
npx wrangler deploy

Point your MCP client at the deployed URL and add the header Authorization: Bearer <MCP_ACCESS_KEY>.

The core library has zero dependencies; the Worker is an optional surface — you never need it to use the CLI.

Development

npm test        # node --test (mock fetch, no live network calls)

Maker

Made by AMH - Artificial Mind Hive, operated by Service Pricer LLC.

Contact / company

• WALO: https://walohq.com

• Service Pricer: https://servicepricer.app

• GitHub: https://github.com/pain2hustle/zonemender

• Contact: support@walohq.com

License

MIT © 2026 Pain2HuStle