First-party app
VBOUT

VBOUT

VBOUT marketing automation: contact lists, contacts, tags, email campaigns, social channels and goals.

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About

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.

App id
io.w6w.vbout
Version
0.1.0
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Marketing · Email

Overview

VBOUT 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.

Build with VBOUT

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.

Add Contact Activity

activity-add

Record a custom activity on a contact's timeline.

Get Account

app-get

Return the business details of the account the API key belongs to.

List Audiences

audience-list

Return all audiences.

Get Email Campaign

campaign-get

Return one email campaign by ID.

List Email Campaigns

campaign-list

Return email campaigns, filtered by state.

Get Campaign Stats

campaign-stats-get

Return open, bounce, unsubscribe and click statistics of a campaign.

Create Contact

contact-create

Add a contact to a list.

Delete Contact

contact-delete

Delete a contact from a list.

Get Contact

contact-get

Return one contact by ID.

Get Contact By Email

contact-get-by-email

Find a contact by email address, optionally within one list.

List Contacts

contact-list

Return the contacts of a list.

Move Contact

contact-move

Move a contact from one list to another.

Sync Contact

contact-sync

Create or update a contact, matched by email address.

Get Contact Timeline

contact-timeline-get

Return the activity timeline of a contact.

Update Contact

contact-update

Update a contact by ID.

List Email Templates

email-template-list

Return the account's email templates.

List Goals

goal-list

Return all conversion goals.

Create Contact List

list-create

Create a contact list.

Delete Contact List

list-delete

Delete a contact list.

Get Contact List

list-get

Return one contact list by ID.

List Contact Lists

list-list

Return all email-marketing contact lists.

Update Contact List

list-update

Update a contact list. The vendor requires the name on every edit.

List Social Channels

social-channel-list

Return the connected social media channels.

List Social Post Stats

social-stats-list

Return click/track statistics of posted social links.

Add Tag

tag-add

Add tag(s) to a contact.

Remove Tag

tag-remove

Remove tag(s) from a contact.

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>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Add Contact Activity

    perform
    activity-add
  • Get Account

    read
    app-get
  • List Audiences

    read
    audience-list
  • Get Email Campaign

    read
    campaign-get
  • List Email Campaigns

    read
    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.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { 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);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
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.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

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.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

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.

A durable workflow in one call

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.

Health-aware discovery

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).

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Health checks

VBOUT declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

VBOUT platform status

dependency

API reachable

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.

quota

API quota headroom