How to integrate Affinity MCP with LangChain

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Affinity to LangChain using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Affinity agent that can list all companies added this week, show all opportunities in active pipeline, get recent contacts linked to acme corp, summarize all lists where john doe appears through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your LangChain agent real control over a Affinity account through Composio's Affinity MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Connect your Affinity project to Composio
  • Create a Tool Router MCP session for Affinity
  • Initialize an MCP client and retrieve Affinity tools
  • Build a LangChain agent that can interact with Affinity
  • Set up an interactive chat interface for testing

What is LangChain?

LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. It provides tools and abstractions for building agents that can reason, use tools, and maintain conversation context.

Key features include:

  • Agent Framework: Build agents that can use tools and make decisions
  • MCP Integration: Connect to external services through Model Context Protocol adapters
  • Memory Management: Maintain conversation history across interactions
  • Multi-Provider Support: Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers

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.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Tool Router?

Composio's Tool Router helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Tool Router

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Tool Router works

The Tool Router follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, make sure you have:
  • Python 3.10 or higher installed on your system
  • A Composio account with an API key
  • An OpenAI API key
  • Basic familiarity with Python and async programming

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.

Install dependencies

pip install composio-langchain langchain-mcp-adapters langchain python-dotenv

Install the required packages for LangChain with MCP support.

What's happening:

  • composio-langchain provides Composio integration for LangChain
  • langchain-mcp-adapters enables MCP client connections
  • langchain is the core agent framework
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
COMPOSIO_USER_ID=your_composio_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates your requests to Composio's API
  • COMPOSIO_USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • OPENAI_API_KEY enables access to OpenAI's language models

Import dependencies

from langchain_mcp_adapters.client import MultiServerMCPClient
from langchain.agents import create_agent
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio
import asyncio
import os

load_dotenv()
What's happening:
  • We're importing LangChain's MCP adapter and Composio SDK
  • The dotenv import loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting LangChain with Affinity functionality through MCP

Initialize Composio client

async def main():
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))

    if not os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"):
        raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")
    if not os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID"):
        raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set")
What's happening:
  • We're loading the COMPOSIO_API_KEY from environment variables and validating it exists
  • Creating a Composio instance that will manage our connection to Affinity tools
  • Validating that COMPOSIO_USER_ID is also set before proceeding

Create a Tool Router session

# Create Tool Router session for Affinity
session = composio.create(
    user_id=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID"),
    toolkits=['affinity']
)

url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • We're creating a Tool Router session that gives your agent access to Affinity tools
  • The create method takes the user ID and specifies which toolkits should be available
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
  • This approach allows the agent to dynamically load and use Affinity tools as needed

Configure the agent with the MCP URL

client = MultiServerMCPClient({
    "affinity-agent": {
        "transport": "streamable_http",
        "url": session.mcp.url,
        "headers": {
            "x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
        }
    }
})

tools = await client.get_tools()

agent = create_agent("gpt-5", tools)
What's happening:
  • We're creating a MultiServerMCPClient that connects to our Affinity MCP server via HTTP
  • The client is configured with a name and the URL from our Tool Router session
  • get_tools() retrieves all available Affinity tools that the agent can use
  • We're creating a LangChain agent using the GPT-5 model

Set up interactive chat interface

conversation_history = []

print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
print("Ask any Affinity related question or task to the agent.\n")

while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ['exit', 'quit', 'bye']:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    conversation_history.append({"role": "user", "content": user_input})
    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    response = await agent.ainvoke({"messages": conversation_history})
    conversation_history = response['messages']
    final_response = response['messages'][-1].content
    print(f"Agent: {final_response}\n")
What's happening:
  • We initialize an empty conversation_history list to maintain context across interactions
  • A while loop continuously accepts user input from the command line
  • When a user types a message, it's added to the conversation history and sent to the agent
  • The agent processes the request using the ainvoke() method with the full conversation history
  • Users can type 'exit', 'quit', or 'bye' to end the chat session gracefully

Run the application

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())
What's happening:
  • We call the main() function using asyncio.run() to start the application

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Affinity and LangChain:

from langchain_mcp_adapters.client import MultiServerMCPClient
from langchain.agents import create_agent
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio
import asyncio
import os

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    
    if not os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"):
        raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")
    if not os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID"):
        raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set")
    
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID"),
        toolkits=['affinity']
    )

    url = session.mcp.url
    
    client = MultiServerMCPClient({
        "affinity-agent": {
            "transport": "streamable_http",
            "url": url,
            "headers": {
                "x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
            }
        }
    })
    
    tools = await client.get_tools()
  
    agent = create_agent("gpt-5", tools)
    
    conversation_history = []
    
    print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
    print("Ask any Affinity related question or task to the agent.\n")
    
    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()
        
        if user_input.lower() in ['exit', 'quit', 'bye']:
            print("\nGoodbye!")
            break
        
        if not user_input:
            continue
        
        conversation_history.append({"role": "user", "content": user_input})
        print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")
        
        response = await agent.ainvoke({"messages": conversation_history})
        conversation_history = response['messages']
        final_response = response['messages'][-1].content
        print(f"Agent: {final_response}\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Conclusion

You've successfully built a LangChain agent that can interact with Affinity through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features of this implementation:

  • Dynamic tool loading through Composio's Tool Router
  • Conversation history maintenance for context-aware responses
  • Async Python provides clean, efficient execution of agent workflows
You can extend this further by adding error handling, implementing specific business logic, or integrating additional Composio toolkits to create multi-app workflows.

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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 LangChain?

Yes, you can. LangChain 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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