SendGrid is a Communication MCP server that lets Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and any MCP-compatible AI agent send transactional and marketing email via SendGrid from AI agents through MCP. Install in 1 minute with mcpizy install sendgrid.
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Send transactional and marketing email via SendGrid from AI agents through MCP.
Official homepageConnect your SendGrid account once — MCPizy stores the credentials encrypted and uses them whenever you run a recipe in managed mode.
mcpizy install sendgridnpx -y @sendgrid/mcp-serversend_emailSend email via SendGrid API
Inputs
tostringrequiredfromstringrequiredsubjectstringrequiredcontentstringrequiredlist_templatesList dynamic email templates
send_with_templateSend an email using a dynamic template
Inputs
template_idstringrequiredtostringrequireddynamic_dataobjectoptionallist_contactsList contacts in the marketing lists
Works identically across clients. Only the config file path differs.
~/.claude.json{
"mcpServers": {
"sendgrid": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@sendgrid/mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"SENDGRID_API_KEY": "SG...."
}
}
}
}.cursor/mcp.json{
"mcpServers": {
"sendgrid": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@sendgrid/mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"SENDGRID_API_KEY": "SG...."
}
}
}
}~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json{
"mcpServers": {
"sendgrid": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@sendgrid/mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"SENDGRID_API_KEY": "SG...."
}
}
}
}Create an API key with Mail Send access
SENDGRID_API_KEYPaste any of these prompts into Claude Code, Cursor or another MCP-compatible client.
“Send a welcome email to [email protected] using template d-abc123”
Uses: send_with_template
“List all my dynamic templates”
Uses: list_templates
If SendGrid doesn't fit your stack, these Communication MCP servers solve similar problems.
The SendGrid MCP server is an Communication Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with Copilot, and other MCP-compatible AI agents send transactional and marketing email via SendGrid from AI agents through MCP. It exposes SendGrid's capabilities as tools the AI can call directly from your editor or CLI.
The fastest way is the MCPizy CLI: run `mcpizy install sendgrid` and MCPizy will add the server to your `.claude.json` automatically. You can also install it manually by adding an entry under `mcpServers` in `.claude.json` with the command `npx -y @sendgrid/mcp-server` and restarting Claude Code.
Yes. The SendGrid MCP server is free and open source (see the GitHub repository linked on this page). You may still need a SendGrid account or API key to connect the server to the underlying service, but the MCP layer itself has no MCPizy subscription cost.
Yes. Any MCP-compatible client works — including Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor (via `.cursor/mcp.json`), Windsurf, VS Code with Copilot Chat, and custom agents built on the MCP SDK. The same install command targets all of them; only the config file path differs.
Once installed, your AI agent can send transactional and marketing email via SendGrid from AI agents through MCP directly inside your conversation. Typical use cases include asking Claude Code or Cursor to run SendGrid operations, inspect results, chain SendGrid with other MCP servers (see our Workflow Recipes), and automate repetitive communication tasks without leaving your editor.