generated: '2026-09-19'
method: searched
source:
- https://developers.live-direct-marketing.online/authentication
- https://developers.live-direct-marketing.online/quickstart
- https://developers.live-direct-marketing.online/limits
- https://check.live-direct-marketing.online/llms.txt
- openapi/live-direct-marketing-online-ldm-v3-openapi.json
summary: 'Neither product publishes a sandbox ENVIRONMENT or magic test values: LDM keys "look like ldm_<64 hex
  chars> — one format, no separate live/test prefix" and every call goes to production. What LDM offers instead
  is a graduated live account — a PENDING workspace whose auto-issued key can read everything and draft safely but
  cannot send — plus an unusually large set of read-only dry-run operations that rehearse the dangerous step (sending)
  without performing it. Inbox Check is free to use without signup within daily limits, which is its own kind of
  sandbox: real seed mailboxes, no cost, no credentials.'
sandbox:
  present: false
  test_mode: false
  test_key_prefix: null
  test_credentials: false
  test_data: null
  time_simulation: false
  fixtures_or_triggers: false
  separate_host: The LDM contract declares https://api.dev.live-direct-marketing.online (Development) and http://127.0.0.1:3000
    (Local) alongside Production. api.dev resolves to a different IP and serves /api/docs-json (653 KB, an older
    build) but /health returns 404 and no docs mention it; it is the provider's own dev tier, not a customer sandbox.
graduated_live_access:
  ldm:
    pending_account:
      how: POST /api/auth/register with channel mcp|a2a|form (or the MCP ldm_terms → ldm_register tools) returns
        an ldm_* key in the same response
      scopes: SAFE_AGENT_SCOPES — "read-all + safe drafts; no email:send / mailing:write"
      limits: 50 MB database quota (403 on writes over quota); 3 signups per hour per IP; auto-activation 1 per
        hour platform-wide, else questionnaire + admin approval
      credit: signupCreditUsd 50 (GET /api/public/pricing); "The $50 signup credit and your balance don't expire"
      payment: payment.mode "demo", gateway "none" — no real money can be charged while the beta runs
      source: https://developers.live-direct-marketing.online/api-registration
    older_sdk_sandbox_scope: The GitHub README of @live-direct-marketing/sdk (0.2.0-beta.2) described a "sandbox"
      key scope in which every messages.send was held for moderation (500 messages/month) until the key was promoted
      to "approved". The current docs no longer use that vocabulary; recorded as history.
  inbox_check:
    free_tier: 3 tests per email per day, 10 per IP per day, no signup, results retained 7 days
    self_issued_key: basic tier — 100 tests/day, 1,000/month, no screenshots
    source: https://check.live-direct-marketing.online/llms.txt
dry_run_operations:
  note: Read-only or no-send operations the provider documents for rehearsing a write. Every operationId below exists
    in openapi/live-direct-marketing-online-ldm-v3-openapi.json.
  operations:
  - operationId: CampaignsController_sendReadiness
    method: GET
    path: /api/campaigns/{id}/send-readiness
    description: '"Dry-run all send gates for a campaign: status, breaker, send window, sender pool, routing, inbox-check,
      due READY rows. Read-only, nothing is sent."'
  - operationId: EmailAccountsController_testSend
    method: POST
    path: /api/email-accounts/{id}/test-send
    description: '"Dry-run probe of the real send transport ... Never sends a real message." Rate-limited 1 per
      5 s per account.'
  - operationId: TrackingController_simulateClick
    method: POST
    path: /api/tracking/simulate-click
    description: '"Dry-run the cloaking decision for a link ... WITHOUT logging an event or moving counters."'
  - operationId: InboundRulesController_testRules
    method: POST
    path: /api/inbound-rules/test
    description: Dry-run synthetic inbound message against active rules
  - operationId: MailRoutingController_testRules
    method: POST
    path: /api/mail-routing-rules/test
    description: Dry-run a synthetic email against active routing rules
  - operationId: CampaignsController_backfillHistoricUnsubscribes
    method: POST
    path: /api/campaigns/backfill-historic-unsubscribes
    description: dryRun (default true) only lists rows, no write
  - operationId: CampaignsController_send
    method: POST
    path: /api/campaigns/{id}/send
    description: limit=1 for a first test send — a real send, kept to one recipient by convention
  - operationId: AgentGuideController_campaignSenderCapability
    method: GET
    path: /api/v1/agent-guide/campaign-sender-capability
    description: '"SDR capability preflight (read-only) ... a receipt required before a campaign write"'
  operationId_check: every operationId above verified by method+path lookup in the harvested contract on 2026-09-19