Ably MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Ably MCP or direct API to send messages, fetch channel presence, broadcast events, and manage subscriptions through natural language.

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Ably is a real-time messaging platform for live chat and data sync in modern apps. It offers global scale and rock-solid reliability for seamless, instant experiences.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Ably action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Query Batch Presence

This tool enables querying the presence states of multiple channels in a single API request.

Query Batch Presence History

This tool enables querying presence history for multiple channels in a single API request.

Delete Channel Subscription

This tool allows you to unsubscribe devices or clients from push notifications for specific channels.

Get Channel Details

This tool retrieves metadata and details for a specific channel in Ably.

Get Channel History

This tool retrieves the message history for a specified Ably channel.

Get Channel Presence

Tool to obtain the set of members currently present for a channel.

Get Message Versions

Tool to retrieve all historical versions of a specific message from an Ably channel.

Get Channel Presence History

This tool retrieves the history of presence messages for a specified channel in Ably.

Get Push Device Registration

Tool to get the full details of a device registration for push notifications.

Get Ably Service Time

This tool retrieves the current server time from Ably's service in milliseconds since the epoch.

Get Application Stats

This tool retrieves your application's usage statistics from Ably.

List Channels

Tool to enumerate all active channels in the Ably application.

List Push Channels

Tool to list all channels with at least one subscribed device.

List Push Channel Subscriptions

This tool retrieves a list of all push notification channel subscriptions.

List Registered Push Devices

Tool to list all devices registered for receiving push notifications in your Ably application.

Patch Push Device Registration

Tool to partially update specific attributes of an existing device registration in Ably's push notification system.

Batch Publish Messages

Tool to batch publish messages to multiple channels in parallel.

Publish Message to Channel

This tool will allow users to publish a message to a specified Ably channel using a POST request.

Publish Push Notification

Tool to publish a push notification directly to device(s) via Ably's Push Notifications API.

Batch Publish Push Notifications

Tool to batch publish push notifications directly to specific recipients.

Register Push Device

Tool to register a device for receiving push notifications in Ably.

Request Access Token

Request an access token for Ably authentication.

Unregister All Push Devices

Tool to unregister matching devices for push notifications.

Unregister Push Device

Tool to unregister a single device from push notifications in Ably.

Update Push Device Registration

Tool to update (upsert) a device registration for push notifications in Ably.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Ably MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK and Claude Agent SDK
2

Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

console.log("Creating Tool Router session...");
const { mcp } = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${mcp.url}`);
Initialize the Composio client and create a Tool Router session
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: mcp.url,
    headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key' }
  }
});

const tools = await client.tools();

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Get channel history for chat-room-1 from today' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(5)
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Ably API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Ably Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Get the last 20 messages from channel "chat-room-1"'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Ably actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Ably Integration

  • Supports both Ably MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Ably data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in API key handling and automatic credential storage
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Ably access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Ably
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Ably resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Ably requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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