How to connect Benzinga 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 Benzinga account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to stream real-time news about Tesla today, list this week's upcoming earnings reports, show latest analyst ratings for Apple, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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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 Benzinga account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to stream real-time news about Tesla today, list this week's upcoming earnings reports, show latest analyst ratings for Apple, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Benzinga 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:

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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 Benzinga account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Stream real-time news about Tesla today"
  • "List this week's upcoming earnings reports"
  • "Show latest analyst ratings for Apple"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Benzinga 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 Benzinga through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Benzinga MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Benzinga account. It provides structured and secure access to real-time financial news and market data, so your agent can track earnings, monitor analyst ratings, stream news, and analyze economic events on your behalf.

  • Live financial news streaming: Instantly stream real-time news updates, market-moving events, and breaking headlines as they happen so your agent always stays informed.
  • Earnings and conference call tracking: Automatically retrieve upcoming earnings dates, actuals, estimates, and conference call details for any ticker or date range.
  • Analyst sentiment and ratings insights: Fetch consensus analyst ratings, price targets, and detailed rating calendars to help evaluate stock sentiment and trends.
  • Economic event analysis: Access comprehensive economic calendar events, including values, consensus, and importance filters to understand macroeconomic impacts.
  • Audit and manage removed items: Identify and review deleted news articles or cancelled calendar events for full transparency and compliance.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Get Calendar Earnings Stream

Tool to subscribe to real-time earnings calendar events via WebSocket.

Get Conference Calls V2.1

Tool to retrieve conference call data for a selected period and/or security using v2.

Get Consensus Ratings

Get aggregated consensus analyst ratings and price targets for a stock ticker.

Get Earnings Calendar V2.1

Tool to retrieve earnings calendar data (v2.

Get Economics Calendar V2.1

Tool to retrieve economic calendar data including indicators, releases, and reports from various countries.

Get News Channels

Tool to retrieve all available news channels that can be used to filter news items.

Get Newsfeed Stream

Get WebSocket connection details for real-time Benzinga newsfeed streaming.

Get Analyst Ratings V2.1

Tool to fetch analyst ratings data including upgrades, downgrades, initiations, and price target changes from Wall Street analysts.

Get Removed News

Retrieves IDs and timestamps of news articles that have been removed from Benzinga's database.

Get Removed Calendar Events V2.1

Tool to retrieve removed or cancelled calendar events from Benzinga (v2.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Benzinga MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Benzinga tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Benzinga 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 Benzinga tools.

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

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