FrankKi

FrankKi MCP

Hosted, remote MCP server. Nothing to install, nothing to self-host. Point your agent at https://mcp.frankki.app (remote, streamable-http, OAuth 2.1 or API key). This repository is the public manifest, documentation and changelog for that server; the server itself is closed-source and runs on our own infrastructure, which is why there is no src/ directory here.

Physical mail for AI agents. With one tool call, FrankKi MCP lets an agent send a real, printed letter to a physical address anywhere in the world. Compose, price, send, and track. The document is printed, franked, and delivered by postal partners worldwide.

This is the official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for FrankKi. It is built for B2B and developer use: give your agents, backends, and automated workflows the ability to put real letters in the mail, at scale, worldwide.

Website: frankki.app · MCP for humans and agents: frankki.app/mcp (English: frankki.app/en/mcp)

Contents

• What is FrankKi MCP?
• Why physical mail via MCP?
• What your agent can do
• Quick start for humans
• Quick start for AI agents
• Authentication
• Wallet and pricing
• Safety and human-in-the-loop
• Sandbox
• Compliance
• How a send actually works
• Discovery and server manifest
• Documentation
• FAQ
• Links

What is FrankKi MCP?

FrankKi MCP is the agent-native interface to FrankKi's physical mail infrastructure. FrankKi composes, prints, and physically mails letters. This server exposes that capability to software: your model drafts a letter and sends it, and a real document arrives at the recipient's address.

Delivery is worldwide, handled by our postal partners in each destination country. It is primarily a B2B and developer product: if you are building an assistant, an ops automation, or a backend that needs to produce and dispatch physical correspondence, this is your physical-output layer.

Why physical mail via MCP?

Some things still have to arrive on paper: formal and legal notices, transactional and compliance mail, contract confirmations, dunning and reminders, customer onboarding, official correspondence. These workflows usually dead-end at "now a human prints this and walks to a postbox." FrankKi MCP removes that step. The same agent that drafts the letter can send it, worldwide, and track delivery.

Typical uses:

• Dunning and payment reminders
• Cancellations, terminations, objections, and other formal notices
• Contract and order confirmations
• Customer and account notifications
• Onboarding and welcome letters
• Any workflow whose last step must be a physical letter

What your agent can do

The server exposes a focused, scoped tool set. The core send flow:

Beyond the core flow there are tools for attachments, letterheads and signatures, sender profiles, send presets, scheduled sends, order cancellation, posting receipts (Einlieferungsbeleg), client (Mandanten) lookups, and GoBD/DATEV archive exports. The full list with scopes and side effects: docs/tools.md. The authoritative, versioned list is always what the server returns from the MCP tools/list method.

Composition is text-first: you provide the letter content and the recipient, and FrankKi produces the correctly laid-out document (DIN 5008 by default). Attachments are supported. Sending a pre-rendered arbitrary PDF is intentionally not part of the platform.

Quick start for humans

You do not clone or self-host anything. The FrankKi MCP server is hosted. You point your MCP client at it and authenticate.

1. Get access. Create a partner account and issue a key from the dashboard at frankki.app/mcp. Fund your wallet, or use the sandbox first (no real mail).

2a. Claude Desktop and clients with native remote support. Add a custom connector pointing at the endpoint. OAuth runs in your browser on first use:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "frankki": {
      "url": "https://mcp.frankki.app"
    }
  }
}

2b. Clients that only speak stdio (older Claude Desktop, some Cursor setups). Bridge with mcp-remote:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "frankki": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.frankki.app"]
    }
  }
}

2c. Headless with an API key (no interactive browser). Pass the key as a bearer header:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "frankki": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.frankki.app",
        "--header", "Authorization: Bearer ${FRANKKI_API_KEY}"
      ]
    }
  }
}

2d. Claude Code. One command:

claude mcp add --transport http frankki https://mcp.frankki.app

Restart the client, and your model can now send letters. Ask it something like: "Send this payment reminder to the address on file, but show me the price first."

Step-by-step guides for Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, the OpenAI Agents SDK, and LangChain: docs/clients.md.

Quick start for AI agents

The server is standard streamable HTTP MCP. Discovery, endpoint, and auth in one place:

• Endpoint: https://mcp.frankki.app
• Registry name: app.frankki/letters (published in the Official MCP Registry, version 1.0.0)
• Auth metadata: https://mcp.frankki.app/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (OAuth 2.1, dynamic client registration) or a static bearer API key
• Machine-readable overview: https://frankki.app/llms.txt

TypeScript

import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index.js";
import { StreamableHTTPClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/streamableHttp.js";

const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
  new URL("https://mcp.frankki.app"),
  { requestInit: { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.FRANKKI_API_KEY}` } } }
);

const client = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" });
await client.connect(transport);

const { tools } = await client.listTools();
console.log(tools.map((t) => t.name));

const price = await client.callTool({
  name: "shipping_quote",
  arguments: { recipientCountry: "US", deliveryType: "standard" },
});

Python

from mcp import ClientSession
from mcp.client.streamable_http import streamablehttp_client

url = "https://mcp.frankki.app"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {FRANKKI_API_KEY}"}

async with streamablehttp_client(url, headers=headers) as (read, write, _):
    async with ClientSession(read, write) as session:
        await session.initialize()
        tools = await session.list_tools()
        print([t.name for t in tools.tools])

Authentication

Two modes, pick per client:

• OAuth 2.1 for interactive clients (Claude Desktop, IDEs). The consent screen shows what the agent is allowed to do, and read-only scopes are granted by default. Best when an end user connects their own FrankKi account.
• API key (bearer token) for headless agents, servers, and CI. Issue and rotate keys in the dashboard. Each key can carry a spending limit and an allowed-tools scope, so a key that may look up prices does not have to be a key that may spend money.

Wallet and pricing

FrankKi runs on a prepaid wallet. You top it up (via Stripe), and each send draws from the balance. No surprise post-paid invoices, and an out-of-credit agent simply cannot spend.

• Pricing depends on the destination country. A domestic letter within Germany starts at 3,49 EUR; international sends are priced per destination.
• Registered mail and other service levels are available where the destination supports them.
• Volume tiers (Staffelpreise) reduce the per-letter price at scale.

Always call shipping_quote for the live, exact figure before order_send. Prices are authoritative from the server, never hardcode them.

Safety and human-in-the-loop

Sending physical mail is irreversible and costs money, so the platform is cautious by default:

• Honest annotations. order_send and order_send_batch are annotated as destructive; read tools as read-only. Your agent can gate on this, and order_send accepts a maxCostEuros cap that aborts the send if the live price exceeds it.
• Approval before dispatch. Sends enter the approval queue. The user decides in the signed-in portal through the returned approval link. The prepared OAuth hardening allows agent approval only after a separate, explicit self-approval grant. See the authorization contract and release status.
• Per-key spending limits and tool scopes. Cap what an automated key can spend, and restrict which tools it may call.
• Preview before commit. letter_create_draft returns a rendered preview and shipping_quote returns the cost, so an agent or a human can confirm before order_send.

Sandbox

Test the full flow without mailing anything. Request a sandbox key from the dashboard, point at the same endpoint, and you get a funded test wallet. Composition, pricing, and status all behave like production, but no paper is printed and no charge is made. Build and demo your integration end to end, then swap in a live key.

Compliance

Enterprise and EU-grade, for teams that need it:

• GoBD-compliant archiving of every send, with retrievable receipts.
• DATEV and generic DMS exports for accounting and document management.
• DSGVO / GDPR: letter data is processed in the EU.
• Platform and messages available in English and German.

How a send actually works

1. Your agent calls letter_create_draft with the text and a recipient. FrankKi renders a professionally formatted document.
2. shipping_quote returns the exact cost for that destination. The agent, or a human via the approval queue, confirms.
3. order_send queues the letter for approval. Show its approval link to the user; fulfillment follows an authorized decision.
4. FrankKi prints the letter and hands it off for delivery worldwide via our postal partners.
5. Status flows back through order_status: printed, posted, and, where supported, delivered. order_einlieferungsbeleg returns the posting receipt.

Discovery and server manifest

For directories and registries, this repo publishes server.json (Official MCP Registry schema, name app.frankki/letters) and a repo-level llms.txt for AI-assisted discovery.

Found this server through an MCP directory? The canonical source of truth is always frankki.app/mcp.

Documentation

FAQ

Is the letter really printed and mailed, or is it email? Real paper. It is printed, franked, and delivered by postal partners. This is not email.

Which countries can it deliver to? Worldwide. Use shipping_quote to confirm reach and cost for a specific destination.

Do I host the server? No. FrankKi hosts it. This repo is documentation, server.json, and examples. You connect a client or agent to the hosted endpoint.

Is this for consumers or businesses? Primarily B2B and developer use: agents, backends, and automated workflows that need to dispatch physical mail at scale.

What if my agent goes rogue? It cannot spend beyond the wallet balance or a key's spending limit, sensitive letters can be forced through a human approval queue, and destructive tools are clearly annotated. Start in the sandbox.

Is there an API without MCP? Yes, FrankKi also exposes a REST API. The MCP server is the agent-native front door. See frankki.app/mcp.

Links

• Homepage: https://frankki.app
• MCP for humans and agents: https://frankki.app/mcp · https://frankki.app/en/mcp
• Machine-readable overview: https://frankki.app/llms.txt
• Endpoint: https://mcp.frankki.app
• Registry name: app.frankki/letters (published in the Official MCP Registry, version 1.0.0)

Built by the team behind FrankKi: physical mail infrastructure for software, so your agents and workflows can send real letters worldwide without ever touching a printer.