How to connect Composio to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Composio account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to generate a step-by-step workflow plan, check active connections for all toolkits, download public S3 file to local path, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Connecting Composio to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Composio through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

The Composio MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Composio account. It provides structured and secure access to your connected tools, so your agent can plan workflows, orchestrate complex actions, manage integrations, and execute cross-tool automations on your behalf.

• Automated workflow planning and execution: The agent can generate and run step-by-step plans for complex, multi-tool use cases—ensuring tasks are completed reliably, even when they span multiple services.
• Connection management and discovery: Effortlessly check the status of multiple toolkit connections, discover what integrations are active, and manage how your agent connects to different services.
• Tool and dependency exploration: Ask your agent to map out tool dependencies, discover related tools, and understand which tools work best together for your workflow.
• Direct code and command execution: Let the agent run code snippets or shell commands in supported environments, tying together automation across your stack.
• Bulk and parallel operations: Use specialized tools for parallel execution or to handle many similar tasks at once—speeding up large automations by making multiple calls in a single workflow.