How to integrate Bitquery MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Bitquery to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Bitquery agent that can show real-time ethereum mempool transactions, count unique wallet addresses for solana, query historical bitcoin transactions from 2021, aggregate all erc20 transfers on polygon today through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Bitquery account through Composio's Bitquery 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
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Bitquery
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Bitquery as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Bitquery operations

What is open-ai-agents-sdk?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

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

The Bitquery MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Bitquery account. It provides structured and secure access to blockchain datasets and real-time analytics, so your agent can perform actions like querying historical transactions, streaming mempool activity, selecting blockchain networks, and aggregating metrics across 40+ supported chains.

  • Seamless blockchain data querying: Let your agent run powerful queries on historical or real-time blockchain data across multiple networks using Bitquery's combined or archive databases.
  • Live mempool monitoring: Subscribe and stream pending transactions from EVM-compatible chains in real time, enabling instant insights into network activity as it happens.
  • On-demand network and database selection: Have your agent dynamically select blockchain networks and datasets—like Ethereum, BNB Chain, or others—to tailor queries for your specific use case.
  • Metric aggregation and analysis: Automate the aggregation of transaction counts, unique values, or conditional metrics, empowering your agent to analyze blockchain trends without manual intervention.
  • Advanced GraphQL customization: Use aliases and conditional snippets to refine data responses, ensuring clarity and precise control in complex blockchain analytics workflows.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Aliases MetricTool to use graphql aliases to rename fields in the response for clarity and disambiguation.
Archive Database QueryTool to query the archive database.
Combined Database QueryTool to query the combined database, which merges archive and real-time databases.
Conditional Metrics SnippetTool to generate a graphql metric snippet with conditional logic.
Count Distinct MetricTool to use the count distinct metric to aggregate unique values for a field.
Count MetricTool to use the count metric to aggregate the number of records matching a graphql query.
Database SelectionTool to select the database (archive, realtime, combined) to query at the top level of a graphql request.
Early Access Program QueryTool to access streaming data across various blockchain networks for evaluation purposes.
Mempool SubscriptionTool to subscribe to real-time mempool updates for evm chains (ethereum, bnb, etc.
Network SelectionTool to select the blockchain network for graphql queries.
Options QueryTool to fetch graphql dataset options via schema introspection.
Price Asymmetry MetricTool to generate graphql priceasymmetry filter snippet.
Quantile MetricTool to calculate quantiles to understand the distribution of numerical data.
Realtime Database QueryRealtime database query
Select By MetricTool to generate a graphql metric snippet filtering by its value using selectwhere.
Statistics MetricTool to compute statistical metrics (mean, median, etc.
Sum MetricTool to calculate the sum of a specified field's values across defined dimensions.
Uniq MetricTool to estimate the count of unique values using the uniq metric.

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, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Bitquery project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript

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

Install dependencies

pip install composio_openai_agents openai-agents python-dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

Import dependencies

import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

from composio import Composio
from composio_openai_agents import OpenAIAgentsProvider
from agents import Agent, Runner, HostedMCPTool, SQLiteSession
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Bitquery.

Set up the Composio instance

load_dotenv()

api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
user_id = os.getenv("USER_ID")

if not api_key:
    raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key")

# Initialize Composio
composio = Composio(api_key=api_key, provider=OpenAIAgentsProvider())
What's happening:
  • load_dotenv() loads your .env file so OPENAI_API_KEY and COMPOSIO_API_KEY are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.

Create a Tool Router session

# Create a Bitquery Tool Router session
session = composio.create(
    user_id=user_id,
    toolkits=["bitquery"]
)

mcp_url = session.mcp.url

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only bitquery.
  • The router checks the user's Bitquery connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Bitquery.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Bitquery tools only when needed during the conversation.

Configure the agent

# Configure agent with MCP tool
agent = Agent(
    name="Assistant",
    model="gpt-5",
    instructions=(
        "You are a helpful assistant that can access Bitquery. "
        "Help users perform Bitquery operations through natural language."
    ),
    tools=[
        HostedMCPTool(
            tool_config={
                "type": "mcp",
                "server_label": "tool_router",
                "server_url": mcp_url,
                "headers": {"x-api-key": api_key},
                "require_approval": "never",
            }
        )
    ],
)
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Bitquery and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a HostedMCPTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers dict includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • require_approval: 'never' means the agent can execute Bitquery operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.

Start chat loop and handle conversation

print("\nComposio Tool Router session created.")

chat_session = SQLiteSession("conversation_openai_toolrouter")

print("\nChat started. Type your requests below.")
print("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n")

async def main():
    try:
        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            "What can you help me with?",
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}\n")

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()
        if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit", "q"}:
            print("Goodbye!")
            break

        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            user_input,
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")

asyncio.run(main())
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Bitquery.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using Runner.run().
  • The responses are printed to the console, and conversations are saved locally using SQLite.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Bitquery and open-ai-agents-sdk:

import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

from composio import Composio
from composio_openai_agents import OpenAIAgentsProvider
from agents import Agent, Runner, HostedMCPTool, SQLiteSession

load_dotenv()

api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
user_id = os.getenv("USER_ID")

if not api_key:
    raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key")

# Initialize Composio
composio = Composio(api_key=api_key, provider=OpenAIAgentsProvider())

# Create Tool Router session
session = composio.create(
    user_id=user_id,
    toolkits=["bitquery"]
)
mcp_url = session.mcp.url

# Configure agent with MCP tool
agent = Agent(
    name="Assistant",
    model="gpt-5",
    instructions=(
        "You are a helpful assistant that can access Bitquery. "
        "Help users perform Bitquery operations through natural language."
    ),
    tools=[
        HostedMCPTool(
            tool_config={
                "type": "mcp",
                "server_label": "tool_router",
                "server_url": mcp_url,
                "headers": {"x-api-key": api_key},
                "require_approval": "never",
            }
        )
    ],
)

print("\nComposio Tool Router session created.")

chat_session = SQLiteSession("conversation_openai_toolrouter")

print("\nChat started. Type your requests below.")
print("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n")

async def main():
    try:
        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            "What can you help me with?",
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}\n")

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()
        if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit", "q"}:
            print("Goodbye!")
            break

        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            user_input,
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")

asyncio.run(main())

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Bitquery MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Bitquery.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.

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FAQ

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

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

Can I use Tool Router MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK?

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK 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 Bitquery tools.

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

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

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