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How to integrate Box MCP with Atomic Agent

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Box MCP is Box's hosted MCP server that exposes enterprise files, folders, and metadata. It provides secure, centralized access to corporate content for search and management.

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Introduction

Atomic Agent is an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and supports local models through llama.cpp. Connect it to 1,500+ apps through Composio, including Box.

This guide uses Atomic Agent's built-in Composio integration. You need Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later, your own Composio API key, and a Box account. See the Atomic Agent documentation for installation instructions.

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How Atomic Agent connects to Box

Atomic Agent connects to Composio's Tool Router over Streamable HTTP MCP. It discovers the tools needed for your request, and Composio handles account authentication.

Execution and account-connection tools follow Atomic Agent's configured approval policy. Review any approval prompt before allowing an action on your connected account.

Connect Box to Atomic Agent

  1. Sign up or sign in to the Composio dashboard. Copy your API key.
  2. In Atomic Agent, open the Integrations tab and select Composio. Select API key, press e, paste the key, and press Enter. The tools become available immediately, without a restart.
  3. Ask Atomic Agent to do something in Box. It searches Composio for the right tool.
  4. On first use, open the sign-in link returned in the chat. Connect your Box account, then return to Atomic Agent to continue.

Headless setup

Add the following line to ~/.atomic-agent/.env, replacing YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY with your key. Start Atomic Agent after saving the file.

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COMPOSIO_API_KEY=YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY

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

The Box MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Box account. It provides structured and secure access to your enterprise files, folders, comments, tasks, collaborations, and metadata, so your agent can search, retrieve, analyze, organize, and upload content on your behalf.

  • Content search and retrieval: Instruct your agent to find files by keywords or metadata, search for folders by name, and retrieve file content or details.
  • File and folder organization: Have your agent create folders, copy files or folders, list folder contents, and upload new files to Box.
  • Document review and analysis: Let the agent display file previews, inspect the current preview page, and answer follow-up questions about visible text, figures, or other content.
  • Comments, tasks, and collaboration tracking: Direct your agent to add or list file comments, review tasks linked to a file, and identify collaborators on files and folders.
  • Enterprise metadata management: Have your agent list metadata templates, inspect their schemas, create new templates, and find files using metadata queries.

Use Box from Atomic Agent

With your account connected, ask Atomic Agent to work with Box in natural language. You can connect more apps through the same Composio integration as you need them.

Visit the Atomic Agent website or inspect the Atomic Agent source code.

Troubleshooting

Why is my API key rejected?

Copy the key directly from the Composio dashboard. Atomic Agent requires ASCII characters because it sends the key in an HTTP header. Remove any extra characters introduced when copying.

Why are Composio tools unavailable after saving a key?

Check that you use Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later and that Composio is enabled in your configuration. A "composio": { "enabled": false } setting disables the integration while keeping the saved key on disk.

Does Composio have a free plan?

The Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month. Composio-managed OAuth apps have a lower included allowance. See Composio pricing for the current limits that apply to your connection.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Copy file

Copies an existing file to a destination folder in Box (see Box API Copy file).

Copy folder

Copies an existing folder to a destination parent folder in Box (see Box API Copy folder).

Create file comment

Creates a new comment on a specific file.

Create folder

Creates new folders in Box.

Create metadata template

Creates a new enterprise metadata template.

Get file content

Get the text content of a file from Box.

Get file details

Gets comprehensive file information from Box.

Get file preview

Displays an interactive preview widget for a Box file directly in chat.

Get folder details

Retrieves comprehensive information about a folder in Box.

Get metadata template schema

Returns the schema for a metadata template.

Get preview page

Use when user asks follow-up question to a file previewed with get_file_preview ("Explain this.

List file comments

Lists all comments on a specific file.

List folder content by folder

Lists files, folders, and web links contained in a folder.

List item collaborations

Lists all collaborations for multiple files and folders in a single request.

List metadata templates

Lists available Box metadata templates so you can discover scope and templateKey for search_files_metadata.

List tasks

Lists all tasks associated with a specific file.

Search files keyword

Searches for files using keywords and supports metadata filters, file extension filtering (without dots), and field selection.

Search files metadata

Searches for files using SQL-like metadata queries.

Search folders by name

Searches for folders by name within Box using keyword matching.

Upload file

Uploads a new file to Box.

Who am i

Returns detailed information about the currently authenticated Box user.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Atomic Agent 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 Box tools.

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

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