How to integrate Postmark MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Postmark to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Postmark agent that can send a password reset email to user, get delivery status for last 10 emails, list all bounced emails from today through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Postmark account through Composio's Postmark MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Postmark to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Postmark agent that can send a password reset email to user, get delivery status for last 10 emails, list all bounced emails from today through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Postmark account through Composio's Postmark MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Postmark
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Postmark as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Postmark operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

What is the Postmark MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Postmark MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Postmark account. It provides structured and secure access to transactional email sending and analytics, so your agent can perform actions like delivering transactional emails, monitoring delivery status, managing templates, and analyzing engagement metrics on your behalf.

  • Automated transactional email delivery: Let your agent send password resets, confirmations, and notification emails with high deliverability and reliability.
  • Template management and customization: Enable your agent to create, update, or select dynamic email templates for consistent, branded communications.
  • Email delivery status monitoring: Ask your agent to track sent messages, check delivery receipts, and identify bounced or failed emails in real time.
  • Engagement and analytics tracking: Have your agent retrieve open and click data, analyze engagement trends, and provide actionable insights from your email campaigns.
  • Suppression list and recipient management: Direct your agent to manage suppression lists, process unsubscribes, and maintain healthy recipient lists automatically.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Postmark project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Postmark.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Postmark
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['postmark'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only postmark.
  • The router checks the user's Postmark connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Postmark.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Postmark tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Postmark. Help users perform Postmark operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Postmark and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Postmark operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Postmark.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Postmark and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['postmark'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Postmark. Help users perform Postmark operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Postmark MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Postmark.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Postmark action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Archive Message Stream

Tool to archive a message stream (soft delete).

Check Spam Score

Tool to assess the spam score of a raw email via the SpamCheck API.

Create Inbound Rule

Tool to create a new inbound rule trigger to block email from a specific sender or domain.

Create Message Stream

Tool to create a new message stream.

Create Suppressions

Tool to add email addresses to the suppression list for a message stream.

Create Template

Tool to create a new email template.

Create Webhook

Tool to create a new webhook configuration for Postmark.

Delete Inbound Rule

Tool to delete a specific inbound rule trigger.

Delete Suppressions

Tool to remove email addresses from the suppression list for a message stream.

Delete Template

Tool to delete a template by its ID or alias.

Delete Webhook

Tool to delete a specific webhook.

Edit Server

Tool to update settings for the current Postmark server.

Edit Template

Tool to update an existing Postmark template by its ID.

Edit Webhook

Tool to update an existing webhook’s URL or triggers.

Get Bounce Counts

Tool to get total counts of emails that have been returned as bounced.

Get Bounces

Tool to retrieve a list of bounces for a server with optional filters.

Get Browser Platform Usage

Tool to retrieve browser platform usage statistics for clicked links.

Get Browser Usage

Tool to retrieve browser usage statistics for clicked links.

Get Click Counts

Tool to retrieve total click counts across all links in emails.

Get Clicks By Browser Family

Tool to retrieve click statistics grouped by browser family.

Get Clicks by Location

Tool to get an overview of which part of the email links were clicked from (HTML or Text).

Get Delivery Stats

Tool to retrieve delivery statistics.

Get Email Client Usage

Tool to retrieve statistics on email clients used to open emails.

Get Email Open Counts

Tool to retrieve counts of opened emails.

Get Message Stream

Tool to retrieve details of a specific message stream by its ID.

Get Opens by Platform

Tool to retrieve email open statistics by platform type.

Get Outbound Overview

Tool to retrieve outbound email statistics overview.

Get Sent Counts

Tool to retrieve total count of emails sent out.

Get Server

Tool to retrieve details of the current Postmark server.

Get Spam Complaints

Tool to retrieve counts of spam complaints.

Get Template

Tool to retrieve details of a specific template by its ID.

Get Tracked Email Counts

Tool to retrieve counts of emails with tracking enabled.

Get Webhook

Tool to retrieve details of a specific webhook by its ID.

List Inbound Rules

Tool to list all inbound rules (triggers) configured for blocking senders.

List Message Streams

Tool to list all message streams for a Postmark server with optional type and archive filtering.

List Outbound Message Clicks

Tool to list clicks for outbound messages with filtering options.

List Outbound Message Opens

Tool to retrieve opens for outbound messages with filtering options.

List Suppressions

Tool to retrieve the suppression list for a message stream with optional filtering.

List Templates

Tool to list all templates for a Postmark server.

List Webhooks

Tool to list all webhooks configured for your Postmark account.

Search Inbound Messages

Tool to search inbound messages received with optional filtering.

Search Outbound Messages

Tool to search outbound messages with filtering by recipient, tag, status, and date range.

Send Batch Templated Emails

Tool to send multiple templated emails in a single batch API call.

Unarchive Message Stream

Tool to unarchive a previously archived message stream.

Update Message Stream

Tool to update a message stream configuration in Postmark.

Validate Template

Tool to validate a Postmark template.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Postmark MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Postmark tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Postmark and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Postmark tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Postmark scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Postmark data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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