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# get_draft

> Read a staged draft back exactly as it will be sent, blind-copied recipients included.

Reads a staged draft back: its sender, every recipient including `bcc`, the subject, whether it is threaded onto a conversation, the first 500 characters of the body, and every attached file with its `blobId`. Use it to confirm what [`create_draft`](/reference/mcp/create-draft) or [`update_draft`](/reference/mcp/update-draft) actually staged before sending.

[`get_email`](/reference/mcp/get-email) deliberately can't do this job. It renders a message through the cleaning pipeline (markdown out, whatever the sender put in) and never shows `bcc`, because a received message has none. A draft needs the literal staged fields.

For messages that have already been sent or received, use [`get_email`](/reference/mcp/get-email).

## Parameters

<ParamField body="draftId" type="string" required>
  The draft id, as returned by [`create_draft`](/reference/mcp/create-draft) or the most recent [`update_draft`](/reference/mcp/update-draft).
</ParamField>

## Example

```json Call theme={null}
{ "draftId": "M5109" }
```

```text Result theme={null}
Draft (not sent):
draftId: M5109
from: Dana Okonjo <dana@langmail.me>
to: Nadia Bram <nadia@example.org>
cc: carl@example.org
bcc: archive@example.org
subject: Re: Quarterly numbers
threadId: T77
threading: In-Reply-To/References set — this message continues an existing conversation
body (text): Confirmed — the Q2 figures are final.
attachments (1):
  1. Q2-figures.pdf — application/pdf — 284.1 KB — blobId: Gd4f21c
```

The attachments section lists every file the draft carries. The `blobId` on each line is the handle to pass back to [`update_draft`](/reference/mcp/update-draft): supplying `attachments` replaces the list wholesale, so an edit that means to *add* a file lists these alongside the new one. Drafts with no files omit the section.

A line may instead say the file has **no blobId, so it cannot be re-attached**. That happens for a draft written by another client whose attachment the server exposes without a retrieval handle: the file is really there and [`send_draft`](/reference/mcp/send-draft) will deliver it, but [`update_draft`](/reference/mcp/update-draft) cannot carry it onto the rewritten message and refuses the edit rather than dropping it. Edit that draft in Langmail.

## Errors

* `Draft not found: <id>` — no such message.
* `<id> is not a draft — it has already been sent or received.` — read it with [`get_email`](/reference/mcp/get-email) instead.