VBOUT marketing automation: contact lists, contacts, tags, email campaigns, social channels and goals.
VBOUT ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 26 actions, 3 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.
io.w6w.vboutVBOUT is an all-in-one digital marketing platform: email marketing, marketing automation, social media publishing, landing pages and a CRM-style contact timeline. This app drives its REST API from a workflow, centred on the email-marketing surface.
Manage contact lists, create, update, sync, move and delete contacts (with list custom fields), tag contacts, record custom timeline activities and read a contact’s timeline. Read email campaigns and their open, bounce, unsubscribe and click statistics, audiences and email templates, plus connected social channels, social link statistics and conversion goals.
Authentication is a single VBOUT API key, sent as the key query parameter by the host so a workflow never handles it. Health checks cover API reachability and credential validity; VBOUT publishes no status page and no usage endpoint, and both are declared as such.
Three routes to the same 26 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from VBOUT's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.
campaign-stats-get Return open, bounce, unsubscribe and click statistics of a campaign.
contact-get-by-email Find a contact by email address, optionally within one list.
A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the
connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the
workflow spec, carrying VBOUT's real ids.
{
"manifestVersion": "2",
"name": "vbout-example",
"steps": [
{
"id": "activity-add",
"uses": {
"app": "io.w6w.vbout",
"action": "activity-add",
"connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
},
"with": {
"id": "<id>",
"description": "<description>",
"datetime": "<datetime>"
}
}
]
}activity-add app-get audience-list campaign-get campaign-list +21 more actions available
Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An
app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the
address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account,
so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for VBOUT, then fill in
the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the
parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed
from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but
nothing in it is specific to VBOUT. The Workflow tab is where this app's
real ids are.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";
// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();
const envelope = await client.run({
urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
action: "activity-add",
payload: {
id: "<value>",
description: "<value>",
datetime: "<value>",
},
});
if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value); npm install -g @w6w/cli w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action activity-add --payload '{"id":"<value>","description":"<value>","datetime":"<value>"}' Give an AI agent VBOUT — without giving it VBOUT's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.
One tool call{
"name": "w6w_invoke",
"arguments": {
"ref": "app:io.w6w.vbout#activity-add",
"input": {
"id": "<id>",
"description": "<description>",
"datetime": "<datetime>"
}
}
}
Every tool names its target with a single ref. The
app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the
host resolves which of the caller's VBOUT connections to sign
with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.
The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.
Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.
Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.
VBOUT's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.
The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. VBOUT itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).
VBOUT declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
Unauthenticated GET https://api.vbout.com/1/app/me.json. A JSON answer in VBOUT's documented response envelope passes (even an auth error) — it proves the API and its auth layer are answering. Credential validity is the derived `auth:*` check's job.