# Product updates tools

> MCP tools for Product updates: product_updates_send.

- `product_updates_send`: Send a product updates digest

## `product_updates_send`

**Send a product updates digest.** Operation [`product_updates.send`](https://ownrecord.io/docs/reference/product-updates-send.md) · Organization level · permission `org:admin` · risk tier `write` · since M12

Emails a product updates digest (a summary of the changelog) to every user who opted in to product
updates, once per `issue`. Users who didn't opt in get nothing: product updates are marketing emails
(spec §46.5). Each email has the reader's link to turn product updates off.

Only in Ownrecord's platform organization, by its owners. A dry run tells how many people would get it.

Annotations: `readOnlyHint: false` · `destructiveHint: false` · `idempotentHint: false` · `openWorldHint: true`

### Arguments

| Argument          | Type            | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ----------------- | --------------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `issue`           | string          | yes      | –                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `subject`         | string          | yes      | (1–150 characters)                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| `intro`           | string          | yes      | (1–2000 characters)                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `items`           | array of object | yes      | (1–20 items)                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| `idempotency_key` | string          | no       | A unique string for this change. Retrying with the same key and arguments never acts twice. When left out, the server generates one and returns it in the result's `idempotency_key`. (1–255 characters) |
| `dry_run`         | boolean         | no       | true: check permissions and rules and compute the result, then roll everything back. Nothing is saved. (default `false`)                                                                                 |

- **Idempotency:** the result returns the `idempotency_key` used, yours or one the server generated. Retry with it: a call with the same key and arguments never acts twice (keys are kept for 24 hours).
- **Dry run:** supported. `dry_run: true` checks permissions and rules and computes the result, then rolls everything back.

### Errors

- [`permission_denied`](https://ownrecord.io/docs/reference/errors.md#permission_denied): This isn't the platform organization, or you aren't its owner.
- [`already_exists`](https://ownrecord.io/docs/reference/errors.md#already_exists): This issue was sent already.
- [`validation_failed`](https://ownrecord.io/docs/reference/errors.md#validation_failed): A field is missing or malformed, or too many people opted in for one call.

### Example

**November's digest**

Arguments:

```json
{
  "issue": "2026-11",
  "subject": "What's new in Ownrecord: November 2026",
  "intro": "Two changes this month.",
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Mollie",
      "summary": "Connect Mollie as your processor.",
      "url": "https://ownrecord.io/changelog"
    }
  ],
  "idempotency_key": "8d0c5f8e-4b7a-4e43-9b0f-2f6a0c1d9e21"
}
```

Result `output`:

```json
{
  "object": "product_update",
  "issue": "2026-11",
  "recipients": 42
}
```