marketingskills/tools/integrations/resend.md

Resend

Developer-friendly transactional email service with modern API.

Capabilities

Integration	Available	Notes
API	✓	Simple REST API for sending emails
MCP	✓	Available via Resend MCP server
CLI	✓	Official Resend CLI
SDK	✓	Official SDKs for Node.js, Python, Go, etc.

Authentication

• Type: API Key
• Header: Authorization: Bearer {api_key}
• Get key: API Keys section in Resend dashboard

CLI

Install

npm install -g resend-cli

Setup

resend login
# or set env var: RESEND_API_KEY=re_xxx

Common commands

# Send a test email
resend emails send --from hello@example.com --to user@example.com --subject "Test" --text "Hello"

# List recent emails
resend emails list

# Get email status
resend emails get <email_id>

# List domains
resend domains list

# Add a domain
resend domains create --name example.com

# Verify a domain
resend domains verify <domain_id>

# List API keys
resend api-keys list

# Create an API key
resend api-keys create --name "Production"

Common Agent Operations

Send email

POST https://api.resend.com/emails

{
  "from": "hello@example.com",
  "to": ["user@example.com"],
  "subject": "Welcome!",
  "html": "<h1>Welcome to our app!</h1>"
}

Send with React template

POST https://api.resend.com/emails

{
  "from": "hello@example.com",
  "to": ["user@example.com"],
  "subject": "Welcome!",
  "react": "WelcomeEmail",
  "props": {
    "name": "John"
  }
}

Get email status

GET https://api.resend.com/emails/{email_id}

List emails

GET https://api.resend.com/emails

Send batch emails

POST https://api.resend.com/emails/batch

[
  {
    "from": "hello@example.com",
    "to": ["user1@example.com"],
    "subject": "Welcome User 1"
  },
  {
    "from": "hello@example.com",
    "to": ["user2@example.com"],
    "subject": "Welcome User 2"
  }
]

List domains

GET https://api.resend.com/domains

Verify domain

POST https://api.resend.com/domains/{domain_id}/verify

Node.js SDK

Install

npm install resend

Usage

import { Resend } from 'resend';

const resend = new Resend('re_xxx');

await resend.emails.send({
  from: 'hello@example.com',
  to: 'user@example.com',
  subject: 'Welcome!',
  html: '<h1>Welcome!</h1>'
});

With React Email

import { WelcomeEmail } from './emails/welcome';

await resend.emails.send({
  from: 'hello@example.com',
  to: 'user@example.com',
  subject: 'Welcome!',
  react: WelcomeEmail({ name: 'John' })
});

Email Statuses

• queued - Email queued for delivery
• sent - Email sent to recipient server
• delivered - Email delivered
• opened - Email opened (if tracking enabled)
• clicked - Link clicked (if tracking enabled)
• bounced - Email bounced
• complained - Marked as spam

Webhook Events

Event	When
email.sent	Email sent
email.delivered	Email delivered
email.opened	Email opened
email.clicked	Link clicked
email.bounced	Email bounced
email.complained	Spam complaint

When to Use

• Sending transactional emails
• Welcome emails, password resets
• Receipt and notification emails
• Developer-friendly email integration
• React-based email templates
• Quick CLI testing of email flows without writing code

Rate Limits

• Free: 100 emails/day, 3,000/month
• Pro: 100 emails/second
• Higher limits on scale plans

Relevant Skills

• email-sequence
• onboarding-cro