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HTML Email Playbook

NPM · EMAIL-PLAYBOOK-MCP · 2 COMPONENTS · SCANNED SEP 20

Teaches AI to write HTML email that renders in Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail. 19 rules, 6 comps.

0 this week 84 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Supply Chain Security98
  • No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
  • No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
  • No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
  • 31 of 95 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency45
Schema Quality & AI Usability80
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Tool/resource definitions use about 321 tokens (~80/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management93
  • Stability observed for 28 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

How do I install the HTML Email Playbook MCP server?

HTML Email Playbook runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y email-playbook-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

npm · email-playbook-mcp

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp -- npx -y email-playbook-mcp
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "email-playbook-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "email-playbook-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
# add to Codex CLI
codex mcp add osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp -- npx -y email-playbook-mcp
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "email-playbook-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg email-playbook-mcp
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "email-playbook-mcp"]
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "email-playbook-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y email-playbook-mcp
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "osamahassouna-email-playbook-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "email-playbook-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Changelog

Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.

  • 20 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 18 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 16 Sept 26 −3
    • Stability: pass → 0.80 functional
  • 15 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 13 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 11 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 9 Sept 26 −3
    • Security disclosure: unverified → fail functional
    • Stability: pass → 0.80 functional
  • 8 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
    • Security disclosure: fail → unverified functional
Diagnostics

Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.

Captured 20 Sept 2026 · Analysed npm/email-playbook-mcp@0.6.3

Provenance No attestation

The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.

Result No attestation
Ecosystem npm

Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →

Dependencies 95 packages
Packages resolved 95
Stale 31
Tree resolution Complete

Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →

MCP tools · 4 exposed · ~321 tokens

The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →

Tool Tokens
get_component ~84

Return the full record for a single component: title, description, narrative body, the primary HTML pattern, list of slots (placeholders the model should fill), VML/responsive flags, and all code examples. Use after list_components to fetch the actual HTML pattern to paste into an email.

NameTypeReqDescription
namestringyesComponent name. Get the list from list_components first.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_playbook_rules ~78

Return the full rule pages for a given category. Each rule includes the title, description, markdown body explaining the rule, and any HTML/CSS code examples from the playbook. Use this to teach a model the exact patterns for a specific concern (e.g., responsive layout).

NameTypeReqDescription
categorystringyesWhich rule category to fetch.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_categories ~99

List all rule categories in the Email Playbook with a one-line description and page count. Categories are: structure (head/body container/header/body/footer), compatibility (Outlook MSO, RTL, responsive), production (Gmail clipping, dark mode, preheader, bulletproof buttons), ai-generation (constraints for AI emitters). For reusable components, use list_components instead — they live in a separate dimension and are not returned by get_playbook_rules.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_components ~60

List all reusable email components in the playbook with their metadata: name, subcategory (layout/media/interactive/text), description, whether they require Outlook VML, and whether they are responsive. Use this first to discover what components exist before calling get_component.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the HTML Email Playbook MCP server?

HTML Email Playbook is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.OsamaHassouna/email-playbook-mcp. Teaches AI to write HTML email that renders in Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail. 19 rules, 6 comps. This page covers its npm package (email-playbook-mcp).

Is the HTML Email Playbook MCP server safe to use?

HTML Email Playbook scores 84 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

What tools does the HTML Email Playbook MCP server expose?

HTML Email Playbook exposes 4 tools: list_categories, get_playbook_rules, list_components, get_component. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 321 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Is the HTML Email Playbook MCP server still maintained?

HTML Email Playbook is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

What licence is the HTML Email Playbook MCP server under?

HTML Email Playbook declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.