How to integrate Affinity MCP with Hermes

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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 Affinity 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 Affinity 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 Affinity

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

4. Done. You're all set with a new Affinity 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 Affinity or request any Affinity-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The Affinity MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Affinity account. It provides structured and secure access to your deal, company, and contact data, so your agent can analyze lists, fetch opportunity details, extract company insights, and organize people or organizations on your behalf.

  • Company data extraction and analysis: Let your agent retrieve detailed company profiles, summarize list entries, and pull custom field data for deeper insights and reporting.
  • Opportunity pipeline management: Automatically fetch and review all ongoing opportunities, track changes, and surface high-priority deals for follow-up.
  • List and view organization: Ask your agent to access entries across lists or saved views, aggregating metadata and field values for efficient CRM workflows.
  • Contact and relationship intelligence: Effortlessly browse, analyze, and summarize person records, including their list memberships, activity, and custom fields.
  • Automated CRM reporting: Generate summaries, export data, and monitor changes across companies, people, and opportunities to keep your pipeline up-to-date and actionable.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Get a company s list entriesSummarize company data across all lists, including list-specific fields and metadata like creation date and author.
Get a company s listsReturns metadata for all the lists on which the given company appears.
Get all companiesAffinity api allows paginated access to company info and custom fields.
Get all list entries on a listAccess and export essential data and metadata for companies, persons, or opportunities from a list, specifying data via `fieldids` or `fieldtypes`.
Get all list entries on a saved viewUse the endpoint to access rows in a saved view with specific filters and selected fields from a web app.
Get all opportunitiesPagination through opportunities in affinity yields basic info but excludes field data.
Get all personsThe affinity api offers paginated access to person data using `fieldids` or `fieldtypes`.
Get a person s list entriesSummary: browse rows for a person in all lists, showing field data and entry metadata like creation time and author.
Get a person s listsReturns metadata for all the lists on which the given person appears.
Get a single companyRetrieve basic company info and specific field data by using `fieldids` or `fieldtypes` parameters.
Get a single opportunityGet basic details about an opportunity without field data via provided endpoints.
Get a single personUse get `/v2/persons/fields` with `fieldids` or `fieldtypes` for detailed data; basic info by default.
Get current userReturns metadata about the current user.
Get metadata on all listsReturns metadata on lists.
Get metadata on a single listReturns metadata on a single list.
Get metadata on a single list s fieldsReturns metadata on the fields available on a single list.
Get metadata on a single saved viewReturns metadata on a single saved view.
Get metadata on company fieldsReturns metadata on non-list-specific company fields.
Get metadata on person fieldsReturns metadata on non-list-specific person fields.
Get metadata on saved viewsReturns metadata on the saved views on a list.

Way Forward

With Affinity 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.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Affinity MCP?

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

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Hermes?

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 Affinity tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Affinity while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Affinity 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.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

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 Affinity data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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