SendGrid Skills

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name: sendgrid description: SendGrid email platform integration for sending and receiving emails. Routes to sub-skills for outbound transactional emails (send-email) and receiving via Inbound Parse Webhook (sendgrid-inbound). Use when user mentions SendGrid, transactional email, email API, inbound email parsing, or email webhooks. Triggers on SendGrid, send email, receive email, email webhook, Inbound Parse, transactional email. requirements: env: - SENDGRID_API_KEY env_optional: - SENDGRID_FROM binaries: - curl - jq - node binaries_optional: - dig - nslookup metadata: openclaw: requires: env: - SENDGRID_API_KEY bins: - curl - jq - node notes: | Scripts operate on user-provided file paths (send-html-email.sh) and network endpoints (verify-inbound-setup.sh). Review scripts before executing. Use a SendGrid API key scoped to Mail Send only.

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SendGrid

Overview

SendGrid is an email platform for developers. This skill routes to feature-specific sub-skills.

Sub-Skills

| Feature | Skill | Use When | |---------|-------|----------| | Sending emails | send-email | Transactional emails, notifications, simple sends, dynamic templates | | Receiving emails | sendgrid-inbound | Inbound Parse Webhook, MX record setup, parsing incoming email |

Common Setup

API Key

Store in environment variable:

export SENDGRID_API_KEY=SG.xxxxxxxxx

SDK Installation

See send-email skill for installation instructions across supported languages.

When to use SendGrid vs other services

What's your use case?
├─ Transactional emails (receipts, notifications, password resets)
│  └─ SendGrid (send-email) ✅
├─ Marketing campaigns / bulk email
│  └─ Consider SendGrid Marketing Campaigns (outside this skill)
├─ Receiving emails programmatically
│  └─ SendGrid Inbound Parse (sendgrid-inbound) ✅
└─ Simple SMTP relay
   └─ SendGrid SMTP (outside this skill)

Resources

SendGrid Documentation

SendGrid Node SDK

Email API v3 Reference