ai.verifox/email-verifier

Verifox MCP Server

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Claude and other AI assistants the Verifox API — verify email deliverability and find business emails, both single and in bulk.

Quick start (published package)

Add to your Claude Desktop config (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json) or Claude Code MCP config — no install needed, npx fetches it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "verifox": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "verifox-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "VERIFOX_API_KEY": "foxkey_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Get a free API key (1,000 credits) at **https://verifox.ai/dashboard/api**. Restart Claude Desktop and ask it to "verify these emails".

Tools

Verify and find are async for large lists: the bulk tools wait ~55s inline, and hand back a jobId to finish via get_job if a job runs longer. Cached verifications cost 0 credits.

Local development

Run straight from source with Bun (no build):

cd mcp
bun install

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "verifox": {
      "command": "bun",
      "args": ["run", "/FULL/PATH/TO/Verifox-api/mcp/src/index.ts"],
      "env": {
        "VERIFOX_API_URL": "https://api.verifox.ai",
        "VERIFOX_API_KEY": "foxkey_your_key_here"

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "verifox": {
      "command": "bun",
      "args": ["run", "/FULL/PATH/TO/Verifox-api/mcp/src/index.ts"],
      "env": {
        "VERIFOX_API_URL": "https://api.verifox.ai",
        "VERIFOX_API_KEY": "foxkey_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}
````

`VERIFOX_API_URL` defaults to `https://api.verifox.ai` when unset. For local
development against the API on port 8001, set it to `http://localhost:8001`.

### 3. Restart Claude Desktop

The tools will appear in Claude's tool list.

## Remote (HTTP) mode

The same server also runs as a **streamable-HTTP** MCP endpoint (for Smithery,
claude.ai connectors, and other remote MCP clients). Set `MCP_TRANSPORT=http`
(or a `PORT`) and it listens on `POST /mcp` with a `GET /health` check:

```bash
MCP_TRANSPORT=http PORT=8080 node dist/index.js
# or: docker build -t verifox-mcp . && docker run -p 8080:8080 verifox-mcp

In HTTP mode the Verifox API key is read per request from the Authorization: Bearer <foxkey> header (also accepts x-api-key or ?api_key=) — so one hosted endpoint serves many users, each on their own credits.

Usage Examples

In Claude Desktop, just ask:

• "Scan stripe.com for security issues"
• "Check if john@google.com is a valid email"
• "Score these emails: admin@stripe.com, test@mailinator.com, john.doe@microsoft.com"
• "Find the email for Patrick Collison at stripe.com"
• "Run OSINT on tesla.com — find subdomains and emails"
• "Test the email server for turnix.co"
• "Check DMARC policy for google.com"

Environment Variables

Generate a foxkey_* key from the Verifox dashboard (API Keys). The key authenticates every tool call and is the account whose Fox Credits are charged (verify and find cost 1 credit each; scoring and DNS scans are free).