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How to integrate Box MCP with Hermes

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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

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 Box 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 1,500+ 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 Box 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 Box

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

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

5. Done!

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.

Way Forward

With Box 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.

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.

FRAMEWORKS

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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. 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 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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