How to integrate Resend MCP with Autogen

This guide walks you through connecting Resend to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Resend agent that can create a new contact for your newsletter, list all domains connected to your account, cancel a scheduled marketing email through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Resend account through Composio's Resend MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Resend is a universal API for sending emails using a single, modern endpoint. It streamlines transactional and marketing email delivery for developers and teams.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Resend to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Resend agent that can create a new contact for your newsletter, list all domains connected to your account, cancel a scheduled marketing email through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Resend account through Composio's Resend 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 required dependencies for Autogen and Composio
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Resend
  • Wire that MCP URL into Autogen using McpWorkbench and StreamableHttpServerParams
  • Configure an Autogen AssistantAgent that can call Resend tools
  • Run a live chat loop where you ask the agent to perform Resend operations

What is AutoGen?

Autogen is a framework for building multi-agent conversational AI systems from Microsoft. It enables you to create agents that can collaborate, use tools, and maintain complex workflows.

Key features include:

  • Multi-Agent Systems: Build collaborative agent workflows
  • MCP Workbench: Native support for Model Context Protocol tools
  • Streaming HTTP: Connect to external services through streamable HTTP
  • AssistantAgent: Pre-built agent class for tool-using assistants

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

The Resend MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Resend account. It provides structured and secure access to your email sending and contact management capabilities, so your agent can perform actions like sending emails, managing audiences, creating domains, and handling contacts on your behalf.

  • Automated email delivery and scheduling: Ask your agent to send emails instantly or schedule them for later, and even cancel scheduled messages if needed.
  • Audience and contact management: Let your agent create, list, or delete audiences and individual contacts, keeping your recipient lists organized without manual effort.
  • Domain administration: Easily have your agent set up, list, or remove email sending domains, streamlining onboarding or maintenance for your email infrastructure.
  • Seamless recipient segmentation: Direct your agent to group contacts into audiences for targeted campaigns or communications, improving personalization and reach.
  • Bulk operations and cleanups: Enable your agent to quickly list, update, or delete multiple contacts, audiences, or domains to maintain a tidy and up-to-date email system.

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 step08 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

You will need:

  • A Composio API key
  • An OpenAI API key (used by Autogen's OpenAIChatCompletionClient)
  • A Resend account you can connect to Composio
  • Some basic familiarity with Autogen and Python async
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
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio python-dotenv
pip install autogen-agentchat autogen-ext-openai autogen-ext-tools

Install Composio, Autogen extensions, and dotenv.

What's happening:

  • composio connects your agent to Resend via MCP
  • autogen-agentchat provides the AssistantAgent class
  • autogen-ext-openai provides the OpenAI model client
  • autogen-ext-tools provides MCP workbench support

4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-composio-api-key
OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key
USER_ID=your-user-identifier@example.com

Create a .env file in your project folder.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY is required to talk to Composio
  • OPENAI_API_KEY is used by Autogen's OpenAI client
  • USER_ID is how Composio identifies which user's Resend connections to use
5

Import dependencies and create Tool Router session

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio

from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient
from autogen_ext.tools.mcp import McpWorkbench, StreamableHttpServerParams

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Resend session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["resend"]
    )
    url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • load_dotenv() reads your .env file
  • Composio(api_key=...) initializes the SDK
  • create(...) creates a Tool Router session that exposes Resend tools
  • session.mcp.url is the MCP endpoint that Autogen will connect to
6

Configure MCP parameters for Autogen

python
# Configure MCP server parameters for Streamable HTTP
server_params = StreamableHttpServerParams(
    url=url,
    timeout=30.0,
    sse_read_timeout=300.0,
    terminate_on_close=True,
    headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")}
)

Autogen expects parameters describing how to talk to the MCP server. That is what StreamableHttpServerParams is for.

What's happening:

  • url points to the Tool Router MCP endpoint from Composio
  • timeout is the HTTP timeout for requests
  • sse_read_timeout controls how long to wait when streaming responses
  • terminate_on_close=True cleans up the MCP server process when the workbench is closed
7

Create the model client and agent

python
# Create model client
model_client = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(
    model="gpt-5",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
)

# Use McpWorkbench as context manager
async with McpWorkbench(server_params) as workbench:
    # Create Resend assistant agent with MCP tools
    agent = AssistantAgent(
        name="resend_assistant",
        description="An AI assistant that helps with Resend operations.",
        model_client=model_client,
        workbench=workbench,
        model_client_stream=True,
        max_tool_iterations=10
    )

What's happening:

  • OpenAIChatCompletionClient wraps the OpenAI model for Autogen
  • McpWorkbench connects the agent to the MCP tools
  • AssistantAgent is configured with the Resend tools from the workbench
8

Run the interactive chat loop

python
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
print("Ask any Resend related question or task to the agent.\n")

# Conversation loop
while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    # Run the agent with streaming
    try:
        response_text = ""
        async for message in agent.run_stream(task=user_input):
            if hasattr(message, "content") and message.content:
                response_text = message.content

        # Print the final response
        if response_text:
            print(f"Agent: {response_text}\n")
        else:
            print("Agent: I encountered an issue processing your request.\n")

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Agent: Sorry, I encountered an error: {str(e)}\n")
What's happening:
  • The script prompts you in a loop with You:
  • Autogen passes your input to the model, which decides which Resend tools to call via MCP
  • agent.run_stream(...) yields streaming messages as the agent thinks and calls tools
  • Typing exit, quit, or bye ends the loop

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Resend and AutoGen:

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio

from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient
from autogen_ext.tools.mcp import McpWorkbench, StreamableHttpServerParams

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Resend session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["resend"]
    )
    url = session.mcp.url

    # Configure MCP server parameters for Streamable HTTP
    server_params = StreamableHttpServerParams(
        url=url,
        timeout=30.0,
        sse_read_timeout=300.0,
        terminate_on_close=True,
        headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")}
    )

    # Create model client
    model_client = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(
        model="gpt-5",
        api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
    )

    # Use McpWorkbench as context manager
    async with McpWorkbench(server_params) as workbench:
        # Create Resend assistant agent with MCP tools
        agent = AssistantAgent(
            name="resend_assistant",
            description="An AI assistant that helps with Resend operations.",
            model_client=model_client,
            workbench=workbench,
            model_client_stream=True,
            max_tool_iterations=10
        )

        print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
        print("Ask any Resend related question or task to the agent.\n")

        # Conversation loop
        while True:
            user_input = input("You: ").strip()

            if user_input.lower() in ['exit', 'quit', 'bye']:
                print("\nGoodbye!")
                break

            if not user_input:
                continue

            print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

            # Run the agent with streaming
            try:
                response_text = ""
                async for message in agent.run_stream(task=user_input):
                    if hasattr(message, 'content') and message.content:
                        response_text = message.content

                # Print the final response
                if response_text:
                    print(f"Agent: {response_text}\n")
                else:
                    print("Agent: I encountered an issue processing your request.\n")

            except Exception as e:
                print(f"Agent: Sorry, I encountered an error: {str(e)}\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Conclusion

You now have an Autogen assistant wired into Resend through Composio's Tool Router and MCP. From here you can:
  • Add more toolkits to the toolkits list, for example notion or hubspot
  • Refine the agent description to point it at specific workflows
  • Wrap this script behind a UI, Slack bot, or internal tool
Once the pattern is clear for Resend, you can reuse the same structure for other MCP-enabled apps with minimal code changes.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Contact To Segment

Add an existing contact to a segment in Resend.

Cancel Email

Cancel a scheduled email.

Create API Key

Create a new API key to authenticate communications with Resend.

Create Audience

Create a list of contacts.

Create Contact

Create a contact in Resend.

Create Contact Property

Tool to create a new contact property in Resend.

Create Contact V2

Tool to create a new contact in Resend.

Create Domain

Create a domain through the Resend Email API.

Create Template

Tool to create a new email template in Resend.

Create Topic

Tool to create a new topic to segment your audience.

Create Webhook

Tool to create a webhook to receive real-time notifications about email events.

Delete API Key

Remove an existing API key from Resend.

Delete Audience

Remove an existing audience.

Delete Contact

Delete a contact in Resend.

Delete Contact By ID

Tool to remove an existing contact by its ID.

Delete Contact Property

Remove an existing contact property from Resend.

Delete Domain

Delete a domain through the Resend Email API.

Delete Segment

Remove an existing segment.

Delete Template

Remove an existing template.

Delete Topic

Tool to remove an existing topic in Resend.

Delete Webhook

Remove an existing webhook.

Duplicate Template

Duplicate an existing template through the Resend Email API.

Get Contact

Tool to retrieve a single contact from Resend by ID or email.

Get Contact Property

Tool to retrieve a single contact property from Resend.

Get Email Attachment

Retrieve a single attachment from a sent email.

Get Segment

Retrieve a single segment by its ID.

Get Template

Retrieve a single template by ID or alias from Resend.

Get Topic

Tool to retrieve a single topic by its ID in Resend.

Get Webhook

Retrieve a single webhook for the authenticated user.

List All Contacts

Tool to retrieve a list of all contacts from Resend.

List API Keys

Tool to retrieve a list of API keys for the authenticated user.

List Audiences

List all audiences.

List Broadcasts

Tool to retrieve a list of broadcasts.

List Contact Properties

Tool to retrieve a list of contact properties from Resend.

List Contacts

List contacts in Resend.

List Contact Segments

Retrieve a list of segments that a contact is part of.

List Contact Topics

Retrieve a list of topic subscriptions for a contact in Resend.

List Domains

List all domains.

List Email Attachments

Tool to retrieve a list of attachments from a sent email.

List Emails

Tool to retrieve a list of emails sent by your team.

List Received Emails

Tool to retrieve a list of received emails for the authenticated user.

List Segments

Tool to retrieve a list of segments from Resend.

List Templates

Tool to retrieve a list of templates from Resend.

List Topics

Tool to retrieve a list of topics for the authenticated user.

List Webhooks

Retrieve a list of webhooks for the authenticated user.

Publish Template

Publish a template through the Resend Email API.

Remove Contact From Segment

Remove an existing contact from a segment.

Retrieve Audience

Retrieve a single audience.

Retrieve Contact

Retrieve a contact in Resend.

Retrieve Domain

Retrieve a single domain.

Retrieve Email

Retrieve a single email.

Send Batch Emails

Trigger up to 100 batch emails at once.

Send Email

Send an email using Resend.

Update Broadcast

Update an existing broadcast in Resend.

Update Contact

Tool to update an existing contact in Resend by ID or email.

Update Contact Property

Update an existing contact property in Resend.

Update Domain

Update an existing domain.

Update Email

Update a scheduled email.

Update Template

Tool to update an existing email template in Resend.

Update Topic

Tool to update an existing topic in Resend.

Update Webhook

Tool to update an existing webhook configuration.

Verify Domain

Verify a domain through the Resend Email API.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Autogen 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 Resend tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Resend 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 Resend data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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