How to integrate Brightdata MCP with Pi

Pi is a minimal, self-extensible coding agent that lives in your terminal — one agent loop over Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and 20+ other providers, with maximum extension surface and minimum product opinion. Its core ships four tools (read, write, edit, bash) and self-extends at runtime through skills, extensions, and packages.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Brightdata account to Pi. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. Because Pi already runs shell commands as first-class tools and ships no built-in MCP, the CLI is the recommended path — it's faster to set up, needs no server config, and chains multi-step tasks more reliably. The MCP path is also fully supported through Pi's official pi-mcp-adapter extension.

What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Pi. 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.

Prerequisites: Install Pi

Pi needs Node.js 18+ (Node 22 recommended). Install the agent globally with npm:

The Brightdata MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Brightdata account. It provides structured and secure access to Brightdata’s web data platform, so your agent can trigger site crawls, run SERP searches, filter and download datasets, and manage proxy endpoints on your behalf.

• Automated site crawling and extraction: Start large-scale crawl jobs across multiple web pages or entire domains, letting your agent collect structured data from the internet with just a prompt.
• Access to pre-made marketplace scrapers: Browse and select from Brightdata’s collection of pre-built scrapers for popular websites, making it easy to gather structured data without building your own scrapers from scratch.
• Filtered dataset generation and download: Apply custom filters to datasets, check crawl job status, and retrieve the exact data you need by downloading processed results once ready.
• Powerful SERP and web unlocker tools: Perform real-time SERP searches across various engines and leverage web unlocker zones to bypass anti-bot protections and scrape challenging websites.
• Proxy zone and location management: List available proxy zones, cities, and countries to configure how and where your data collection jobs run, optimizing for speed and success.

Way Forward

With Brightdata connected, Pi can now act on your behalf whenever you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Pi 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 Pi can do for you.
• Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Pi 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.
• Lean into Pi's extension surface: Wrap common Brightdata flows as Pi skills or prompt templates so recurring tasks become one-line commands, and use directTools in the MCP adapter to promote your most-used Brightdata tools into Pi's tool list directly.

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.