How to integrate Resend MCP with Claude Code

Manage your Resend directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns. You can do this in two different ways: Via Composio Connect - Direct and easiest approach Via Composio SDK - Programmatic approach with more control

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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

Manage your Resend directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns.

You can do this in two different ways:

  1. Via Composio Connect - Direct and easiest approach
  2. Via Composio SDK - Programmatic approach with more control

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Why use Composio?

  • Only one MCP URL to connect multiple apps with Claude Code with zero auth hassles.
  • Programmatic tool calling allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Handling Large tool responses out of LLM context to minimize context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so LLMs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

Connecting Resend to Claude Code using Composio

1. Add the Composio MCP to Claude

Terminal

2. Start Claude Code

bash
claude

3. Open your MCP list

bash
/mcp

4. Select Composio and click on Authenticate

Select Composio and click Authenticate

5. This will redirect you to the Composio OAuth page. Complete the flow by authorizing Composio and you're all set.

Composio OAuth authorization page
Composio authorization complete
Ask Claude to connect to your account and authenticate via the link

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.

Connecting Resend via Composio SDK

Composio SDK is the underlying tech that powers Rube. It's a universal gateway that does everything Rube does but with much more programmatic control. You can programmatically generate an MCP URL with the app you need (here Resend) for even more tool search precision. It's secure and reliable.

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

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1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Claude Pro, Max, or API billing enabled Anthropic account
  • Composio API Key
  • A Resend account
  • Basic knowledge of Python or TypeScript
2

Install Claude Code

bash
# macOS, Linux, WSL
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

# Windows PowerShell
irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

# Windows CMD
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd

To install Claude Code, use one of the following methods based on your operating system:

3

Set up Claude Code

bash
cd your-project-folder
claude

Open a terminal, go to your project folder, and start Claude Code:

  • Claude Code will open in your terminal
  • Follow the prompts to sign in with your Anthropic account
  • Complete the authentication flow
  • Once authenticated, you can start using Claude Code
Claude Code initial setup showing sign-in prompt
Claude Code terminal after successful login
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here

Create a .env file in your project root with the following variables:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio (get it from Composio dashboard)
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management (use any unique identifier)
5

Install Composio library

npm install @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio TypeScript library to create MCP sessions.

  • @composio/core provides the core Composio functionality
  • dotenv loads environment variables from your .env file
6

Generate Composio MCP URL

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['resend'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http resend-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Create a script to generate a Composio MCP URL for Resend. This URL will be used to connect Claude Code to Resend.

What's happening

  • We import the Composio client and load environment variables
  • Create a Composio instance with your API key
  • Call create() to create a Tool Router session for Resend
  • The returned mcp.url is the MCP server URL that Claude Code will use
  • The script prints this URL so you can copy it
7

Run the script and copy the MCP URL

node --loader ts-node/esm generate_mcp_url.ts
# or if using tsx
tsx generate_mcp_url.ts

Run your TypeScript script to generate the MCP URL.

  • The script connects to Composio and creates a Tool Router session
  • It prints the MCP URL and the exact command you need to run
  • Copy the entire claude mcp add command from the output
8

Add Resend MCP to Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http resend-composio "YOUR_MCP_URL_HERE" --headers "X-API-Key:YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"

# Then restart Claude Code
exit
claude

In your terminal, add the MCP server using the command from the previous step. The command format is:

  • claude mcp add registers a new MCP server with Claude Code
  • --transport http specifies that this is an HTTP-based MCP server
  • The server name (resend-composio) is how you'll reference it
  • The URL points to your Composio Tool Router session
  • --headers includes your Composio API key for authentication

After running the command, close the current Claude Code session and start a new one for the changes to take effect.

9

Verify the installation

bash
claude mcp list

Check that your Resend MCP server is properly configured.

  • This command lists all MCP servers registered with Claude Code
  • You should see your resend-composio entry in the list
  • This confirms that Claude Code can now access Resend tools

If everything is wired up, you should see your resend-composio entry listed:

Claude Code MCP list showing the toolkit MCP server
10

Authenticate Resend

The first time you try to use Resend tools, you'll be prompted to authenticate.

  • Claude Code will detect that you need to authenticate with Resend
  • It will show you an authentication link
  • Open the link in your browser (or copy/paste it)
  • Complete the Resend authorization flow
  • Return to the terminal and start using Resend through Claude Code

Once authenticated, you can ask Claude Code to perform Resend operations in natural language. For example:

  • "Create a new contact for my newsletter"
  • "List all domains connected to my account"
  • "Cancel a scheduled marketing email"

Complete Code

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

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['resend'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http resend-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Resend with Claude Code using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Resend directly from your terminal using natural language commands.

Key features of this setup:

  • Terminal-native experience without switching contexts
  • Natural language commands for Resend operations
  • Secure authentication through Composio's managed MCP
  • Tool Router for dynamic tool discovery and execution

Next steps:

  • Try asking Claude Code to perform various Resend operations
  • Add more toolkits to your Tool Router session for multi-app workflows
  • Integrate this setup into your development workflow for increased productivity

You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom workflows, or building automation scripts that leverage Claude Code's capabilities.

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. Claude Code 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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