Compatible with every major AI agent and IDE
What is the Campaign Monitor MCP Server?
Connect your Campaign Monitor account to any AI agent and take full control of your professional email marketing and audience engagement workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Audience Orchestration — List and manage your subscriber lists programmatically, retrieving detailed metadata and health statistics (active, unsubscribed, bounced) in real-time
- Subscriber Lifecycle — Programmatically add or update people in your lists, including managing custom fields and re-subscription status directly from your agent
- Campaign Architecture — Monitor sent and scheduled email campaigns across multiple clients to maintain high-fidelity oversight of your digital outreach
- Performance Intelligence — Access real-time campaign analytics including opens, clicks, and engagement metrics to coordinate your marketing strategy
- Multi-Tenant Visibility — Retrieve complete directories of sub-accounts (clients) and their associated lists to perfectly coordinate agency or enterprise environments
How it works
- Subscribe to this server
- Retrieve your API Key from Campaign Monitor (Account Settings > API Key)
- Start managing your email marketing pipeline from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual scrubbing through subscriber exports or slow UI navigation. Your AI acts as your dedicated email operations and audience coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Marketing Managers — instantly retrieve campaign results and update subscriber segments using natural language commands
- Growth Marketers — automate the ingestion of new leads and monitor list health without leaving your workspace
- Agency Leads — orchestrate email operations across multiple client accounts through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (7)
Create or update a subscriber
Get campaign performance
Get subscriber list health
Get profile for a subscriber
List your account clients
List recent email campaigns
List lists for a client
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Campaign Monitor tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 7 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 7 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
Campaign Monitor in Windsurf
Campaign Monitor and 4,000+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Campaign Monitor to Windsurf through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 4,000+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Campaign Monitor in Windsurf
The Campaign Monitor MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 7 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Windsurf only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.

* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Campaign Monitor for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the Campaign Monitor MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my Campaign Monitor API Key?
Log in to your account, click on your profile (top right), navigate to Account Settings > API Key, and copy your unique token.
Can I manage multiple clients via AI?
Yes! The list_clients tool retrieves all sub-accounts, and you can use their IDs to manage lists and campaigns specifically for each client.
Does it support real-time campaign analytics?
The get_campaign_analytics tool retrieves the most current engagement metrics (opens, clicks, unsubscribes) directly from the platform.
How does Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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