How to integrate Google Calendar MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Google Calendar account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Google Calendar is a time management service for scheduling meetings, events, and reminders. It streamlines personal and team organization with integrated notifications and sharing options.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Google Calendar account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Google Calendar with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Google Calendar

Ask your agent to connect to Google Calendar, or simply request any Google Calendar-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Google Calendar connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Google Calendar or request any Google Calendar-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Google Calendar MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Google Calendar MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Google Calendar account. It provides structured and secure access to your calendars and events, so your agent can schedule meetings, create or modify events, list upcoming appointments, and manage calendars—all on your behalf.

  • Automated event creation and scheduling: Easily instruct your agent to add new events, meetings, or reminders with specific times, attendees, and details.
  • Event listing and agenda overview: Have your agent list all upcoming, past, or filtered events on any of your calendars to keep you on top of your schedule.
  • Calendar management and customization: Direct your agent to create new calendars, update calendar details, or even insert calendars into your list for better organization.
  • Event updating and deletion: Let your agent modify existing events or remove events that are no longer needed, keeping your calendar up to date.
  • Complete calendar clearing: Ask your agent to clear all events from a primary calendar or delete secondary calendars entirely when you need a fresh start.

Way Forward

With Google Calendar connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS & TRIGGERS

Supported Tools and Triggers

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

Delete ACL Rule

Deletes an access control rule from a Google Calendar.

Get ACL Rule

Retrieves a specific access control rule for a calendar.

Create ACL Rule

Creates an access control rule for a calendar.

List ACL Rules

Retrieves the list of access control rules (ACLs) for a specified calendar, providing the necessary 'rule_id' values required for updating specific ACL rules.

Patch ACL Rule

Updates an existing access control rule for a calendar using patch semantics (partial update).

Update ACL Rule

Updates an access control rule for the specified calendar.

Watch ACL Changes

Tool to watch for changes to ACL resources.

Batch Events

Execute up to 1000 event mutations (create/patch/delete) in one Google Calendar HTTP batch request with per-item status/results.

Remove Calendar from List

Tool to remove a calendar from the user's calendar list.

Get Single Calendar by ID

Retrieves metadata for a SINGLE specific calendar from the user's calendar list by its calendar ID.

Insert Calendar into List

Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list, making it visible in the UI.

Patch Calendar List Entry

Updates an existing calendar on the user's calendar list using patch semantics.

Update Calendar List Entry

Updates a calendar list entry's display/subscription settings (color, visibility, reminders, selection) for the authenticated user — does not modify the underlying calendar resource (title, timezone, etc.

Watch Calendar List

Watch for changes to CalendarList resources using push notifications.

Delete Calendar

Deletes a secondary calendar that you own or have delete permissions on.

Update Calendar

Full PUT-style update that overwrites all calendar metadata fields; unspecified optional fields are cleared.

Stop Channel

Tool to stop watching resources through a notification channel.

Clear Calendar

Clears a primary calendar by deleting all events from it.

Get Color Definitions

Returns the color definitions for calendars and events.

Create Event

Create a Google Calendar event using start_datetime plus duration fields.

Delete event

Deletes a specified event by `event_id` from a Google Calendar (`calendar_id`); idempotent — a 404 for an already-deleted event is a no-op.

Create a calendar

Creates a new, empty Google Calendar with the specified title (summary).

Get Event

Retrieves a SINGLE event by its unique event_id (REQUIRED).

Import Event

Tool to import an event as a private copy to a calendar.

Get Event Instances

Returns instances of the specified recurring event.

List Events

Returns events on the specified calendar.

List Events from All Calendars

Return a unified event list across all calendars in the user's calendar list for a given time range.

Move Event

Moves an event to another calendar, i.

Watch Events

Watch for changes to Events resources.

Find event

Finds events in a specified Google Calendar using text query, time ranges (event start/end, last modification), and event types.

Find free slots

Finds both free and busy time slots in Google Calendars for specified calendars within a defined time range.

Get Google Calendar

Retrieves a specific Google Calendar, identified by `calendar_id`, to which the authenticated user has access.

Get current date and time

Gets the current date and time, allowing for a specific timezone offset.

List Buildings

Lists all buildings for a Google Workspace customer account with full details including addresses, coordinates, and floor names.

List Calendar Resources

Retrieves calendar resources (such as conference rooms) from a Google Workspace domain using the Admin SDK Directory API.

List Google Calendars

Retrieves calendars from the user's Google Calendar list, with options for pagination and filtering.

Patch Calendar

Partially updates (PATCHes) an existing Google Calendar, modifying only the fields provided.

Patch Event

Update specified fields of an existing event in a Google Calendar using patch semantics (array fields like `attendees` are fully replaced if provided); ensure the `calendar_id` and `event_id` are valid and the user has write access to the calendar.

Quick Add Event

Parses natural language text to quickly create a basic Google Calendar event with its title, date, and time, suitable for simple scheduling; does not support direct attendee addition or recurring events, and `calendar_id` must be valid if not 'primary'.

Remove attendee from event

Removes an attendee from a specified event in a Google Calendar; the calendar and event must exist.

Get Calendar Setting

Tool to return a single user setting for the authenticated user.

List Settings

Returns all user settings for the authenticated user.

Watch Settings

Watch for changes to Settings resources.

Update Google event

Updates an existing event in Google Calendar.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Hermes 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 Google Calendar tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Google Calendar 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 Google Calendar data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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