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agent-mail-mcp

by postalform

agent-mail-mcp - Send physical mail from an AI agent

An open MCP server for physical mail. Use PostalForm to create reviewable mail drafts, hosted checkout sessions, validate-only quotes, and explicitly approved agent-payable mail through MPP (Machine Payment Protocol) or x402 physical mail.

This repo is the reference implementation and example pack for terms like "send physical mail from an AI agent", "MCP server for physical mail", "agent-payable mail", "x402 physical mail", "pay for mail with x402", and "MPP mail".

Quick Start

Run the local stdio MCP server:

npm install
npm run server

Or configure an MCP client to run it from npm after publication:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-mail": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@postalform/agent-mail-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

The local server exposes safe agent-mail tools:

Tool

Purpose

Side effect

agent_mail_discovery

Returns PostalForm MCP, OpenAPI, x402, A2A, and docs URLs

Read-only

list_postalform_tools

Lists live PostalForm remote MCP tools

Read-only

validate_letter_mail

Validates and quotes a letter machine-order payload

No payment, printing, or mailing

create_letter_checkout_draft

Creates an unpaid hosted-checkout draft

No mail is sent until checkout is reviewed and paid

Related MCP server: MultiMail

Remote PostalForm MCP

If your client supports remote streamable HTTP MCP servers, you can connect directly:

https://postalform.com/mcp

For most agents, the default pattern should be:

draft -> preview -> approve/pay -> send -> track

Hosted checkout is the safer default for chat-style assistants because the owner reviews the PDF, sender, recipient, mailing options, and price before PostalForm prints or posts real mail. The local confirm_create_unpaid_draft flag is a soft client-side guard for creating an unpaid draft, not proof of human payment approval.

Validate Before Paying

Validate a machine-order payload without sending mail:

POSTALFORM_VALIDATE_EXAMPLE=1 npm run rest:validate-letter

Direct MPP (Machine Payment Protocol) or x402 machine payment should only be used when the runtime already has explicit owner approval, a spend limit, and retry-safe request IDs.

Examples

Path

What it demonstrates

examples/01-claude-mcp

Claude Desktop and Claude Code setup for a local agent-mail MCP server

examples/02-send-a-letter

Creating an unpaid PostalForm checkout draft for one letter

examples/03-x402-paywalled-send

Validate-first x402 and MPP machine-order payloads

examples/04-langchain-tool

Wrapping PostalForm validation as a LangChain-style tool

examples/05-openai-responses-mcp

OpenAI Responses API remote MCP configuration

Discovery

Canonical PostalForm URLs:

Field

URL

MCP endpoint

https://postalform.com/mcp

Developer docs

https://postalform.com/developers

Agent guide

https://postalform.com/agents

OpenAPI

https://postalform.com/openapi.json

MCP registry manifest

https://postalform.com/.well-known/mcp/server.json

MCP server card

https://postalform.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

A2A Agent Card

https://postalform.com/.well-known/agent-card.json

x402 discovery

https://postalform.com/.well-known/x402

LLM overview

https://postalform.com/llms.txt

Run the live discovery check:

npm run check:discovery

Repository Map

Path

Purpose

src/server.mjs

Local stdio MCP server for agent-mail discovery, validation, and unpaid checkout drafts

.well-known/mcp.json

Repo-level MCP discovery descriptor

manifest/mcp-server.json

Directory-ready local MCP server descriptor

manifest/x402-payment.json

x402 physical mail payment descriptor

docs/quickstart.md

First-run guide

docs/tools-reference.md

Tool behavior and side-effect reference

docs/machine-payments.md

MPP and x402 guidance

docs/compliance.md

Abuse, privacy, and approval guidance

docs/directory-listing.md

Copy-paste directory listing fields

Directory-Ready Summary

PostalForm is a remote MCP server and physical-mail API for AI agents. Agents can create reviewable mail drafts from PDFs, text, HTML, Markdown, RTF, or form payloads, return hosted checkout for human approval, or use owner-approved MPP/x402 machine-payment flows to pay for and track real postal mail.

Safety Defaults

  • Prefer hosted checkout for chat-style agents.

  • Require approval before sharing private documents, addresses, or payment credentials.

  • Use stable request_id values for direct machine-payment retries.

  • Show a PDF preview when available before payment.

  • Enforce spend limits outside the model prompt.

  • Do not use PostalForm for spam, harassment, illegal content, checks, keys, packages, notarization, process serving, or legal advice.

Maintainers

Maintained by PostalForm and Gabriel Garrett (ggaabe), who also maintains rrule-temporal.

License

MIT

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Maintenance

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