MCP Server

Inbox Management

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Inbox management for the executive assistant across two mailboxes — drafting, labelling, threading, filters, and out-of-office.

A work in progress

We've published these resources in the hope they're useful — you're welcome to copy or use anything you find on this site. We're still working through each record to optimise it for completeness and accuracy, so some entries are fuller than others for now.

What it does

Inbox management for the executive assistant across two mailboxes — drafting, labelling, threading, filters, and out-of-office. By design it can draft but never send.

Tools it exposes

Connects to Gmail. Each tool below is a single, well-defined capability — described in plain language.

Draft_CreateCreate an email draft, optionally as a reply in a thread.Connects to: Gmail · drafts
Draft_DeleteDelete a draft.Connects to: Gmail · drafts
Draft_GetRead a single draft.Connects to: Gmail · drafts
Draft_Get_ManyList drafts in the mailbox.Connects to: Gmail · drafts
Label_CreateCreate a custom label.Connects to: Gmail · labels
Label_DeleteDelete a custom label.Connects to: Gmail · labels
Label_GetRead a label's details.Connects to: Gmail · labels
Label_Get_ManyList all labels.Connects to: Gmail · labels
Message_Add_LabelApply labels to a message.Connects to: Gmail · messages
Message_GetRead a single message.Connects to: Gmail · messages
Message_Get_ManySearch and list messages.Connects to: Gmail · messages
Message_Mark_ReadMark a message read.Connects to: Gmail · messages
Message_Mark_UnreadMark a message unread.Connects to: Gmail · messages
Message_Remove_LabelRemove labels from a message.Connects to: Gmail · messages
Thread_Add_LabelApply labels to a whole conversation.Connects to: Gmail · threads
Thread_GetRead a conversation thread.Connects to: Gmail · threads
Thread_Get_ManySearch and list conversations.Connects to: Gmail · threads
Thread_Remove_LabelRemove labels from a conversation.Connects to: Gmail · threads
Thread_TrashMove a conversation to Trash.Connects to: Gmail · threads
Thread_UntrashRestore a trashed conversation.Connects to: Gmail · threads
Send_As_ListList verified send-as aliases.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Send_As_GetRead one send-as alias.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Send_As_UpdateUpdate an alias's name, signature, or reply-to.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Vacation_GetRead the out-of-office responder settings.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Vacation_UpdateSet or clear the out-of-office responder.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Filter_ListList inbox filters.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Filter_GetRead one filter.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Filter_CreateCreate a filter with criteria and actions.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Filter_DeleteDelete a filter.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Forwarding_Address_ListList verified forwarding addresses.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Auto_Forwarding_GetRead the auto-forwarding configuration.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Auto_Forwarding_UpdateEnable, disable, or change auto-forwarding.Connects to: Gmail · settings
Get_Brand_Voice_GuidelinesPull the brand-voice and email conventions to write on-brand.Connects to: brain.entries

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This server was built with FastMCP and Python by our MCP agent, to spec. In practice it takes well under thirty minutes of hands-on direction — agents are genuinely good at building these. The value is in the design: each server exposes only the endpoints we want, with clear descriptions and parameters tuned to our goals.

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