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How to integrate Captions MCP with Hermes

Connect Hermes to Captions MCP. Generate narrated product demo video, add styled captions to your video, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Captions provides the Mirage API for generating videos, speech, and styled captions. Use it to automate polished video creation, voiceovers, and captioning from one API.

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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 Captions 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 1,000+ 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 Captions 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 Captions

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

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

5. Done!

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

The Captions MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Captions account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Captions operations on your behalf.

Way Forward

With Captions 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 Captions action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add Captions

Start an asynchronous job that transcribes and renders a selected caption style onto an uploaded or existing completed video.

Download Video

Download the MP4 content of a completed video job and return an offloaded file reference.

Generate Speech

Generate WAV speech synchronously from text using a known Mirage voice ID and return an offloaded audio file reference.

Generate Video

Start an asynchronous Mirage Video 1 job that animates a portrait image using speech audio.

Get Caption Template

Retrieve one caption style by ID, including its name and preview video URL.

Get Video Status

Retrieve the current state, progress, and error details for a video generation or captioning job.

List Caption Templates

Return one page of available caption styles, including names and preview video URLs.

List Videos

Return one page of video jobs owned by the connected Mirage account, including each job's status and progress.

FRAMEWORKS

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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