How to connect Composio search 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 search account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find recent news about electric vehicles, search for top-rated hotels in Paris, get latest stock info for Apple, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Composio search is a unified web search toolkit spanning travel, e-commerce, news, financial markets, images, and more. It lets you and your apps tap into up-to-date web data from a single, easy-to-integrate service.

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Introduction

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 search account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find recent news about electric vehicles, search for top-rated hotels in Paris, get latest stock info for Apple, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Composio search 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.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

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

bash
https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Composio search account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Composio search or give it any Composio search-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Find recent news about electric vehicles"
  • "Search for top-rated hotels in Paris"
  • "Get latest stock info for Apple"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Composio search account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

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 search through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Composio search MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Composio search MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to the entire Composio Search suite. It provides structured and secure access to powerful web, travel, shopping, news, academic, and financial search tools, so your agent can perform actions like searching the web, finding events, locating places, pulling news, and fetching academic research on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive web and news search: Instantly ask your agent to fetch up-to-date web pages, breaking news, or current events using Google, DuckDuckGo, or news-specific search APIs.
  • Travel and local discovery: Let your agent find nearby hotels, flights, events, or map locations using Google Maps and events search for seamless travel planning and local exploration.
  • E-commerce and product lookup: Have your agent search for products, deals, and reviews across major retailers like Amazon and Walmart to help you shop smarter and faster.
  • Financial and market data retrieval: Direct your agent to pull real-time stock information, financial news, and market trends with just a query—no manual research needed.
  • Academic and scholarly research: Empower your agent to find relevant academic papers, citations, and scholarly articles using Google Scholar and Exa Answer for research-heavy tasks.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Amazon Product Search

Search Amazon for products across different country marketplaces.

Composio DuckDuckGo Search

The DuckDuckGoSearch class utilizes the Composio DuckDuckGo Search API to perform searches, focusing on web information and details.

Composio Google Events Search

Search for upcoming events, concerts, festivals, conferences, and other activities.

Composio Similarlinks

Perform a search to find similar links and retrieve a list of relevant results.

Fetch URL Content

Fetch and extract clean, readable page text (markdown) from public web pages (HTML content) using the Exa API.

Composio Finance Search

Get real-time stock prices, market data, financial news, and company information with historical analysis.

Flight Search

Search for flights with comprehensive pricing, schedule, and airline information.

Composio Google Maps Search

Performs a location-specific search via the Composio Google Maps Search API, returning results under `results.

Groq Chat Completion

Execute fast LLM inference using Groq's optimized hardware and API.

Hotel Search

Search for hotels and vacation rentals with comprehensive filtering and pricing.

Composio Image Search

The ImageSearch class performs an image search using the Composio Image Search API, targeting image metadata and URLs (not binary data) via Google Images.

Composio News Search

Search for the latest news articles and current events with smart filtering.

NPPES NPI Registry Lookup

Lookup US healthcare provider details from the CMS NPI Registry (NPPES) using an NPI number or search filters.

Composio Scholar Search

Scholar API scrapes Google Scholar search results via SERP API, returning academic papers and scholarly articles.

Composio SEC EDGAR Filings Search

Retrieve authoritative SEC EDGAR filing metadata (10-K/10-Q/8-K etc.

Composio Shopping Search

Search for products with advanced price filtering, location targeting, and deal discovery.

Composio LLM Search

The Composio LLM Search class serves as a gateway to the Composio LLM Search API, allowing users to perform searches across a broad range of content with multiple filtering options.

Composio Trends Search

Discover trending topics, search patterns, and popularity data.

TripAdvisor Travel Search

Search TripAdvisor for travel recommendations and itinerary planning without authentication (unlike TRIPADVISOR_CONTENT_API_SEARCH_LOCATIONS and other TripAdvisor tools requiring an active connection).

Vercel AI Gateway Chat

Execute LLM inference through Vercel AI Gateway's unified API.

Walmart Product Search

Search Walmart for products with price filtering.

Composio Web Search

Perform a web search using the Exa API.

FRAMEWORKS

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CLI

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Composio search MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Composio search tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Composio search and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Composio search tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Composio search scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Composio search data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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