How to integrate Clearout MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Clearout to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Clearout agent that can validate a list of emails for deliverability, check if this email is a business account, find the most likely domain for acme corp, download results from my last bulk email finder job through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Clearout account through Composio's Clearout 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 Clearout
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Clearout as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Clearout 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 Clearout MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Clearout MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Clearout account. It provides structured and secure access to email validation, prospecting, and enrichment tools, so your agent can perform actions like verifying email addresses, finding business contacts, checking domain details, and bulk-processing lists on your behalf.

  • AI-powered email verification: Instantly validate single or bulk email addresses to ensure deliverability and reduce bounce rates.
  • Email prospecting and enrichment: Find emails for people or companies, complete missing contact data, and verify if accounts are business or personal.
  • Domain and company intelligence: Retrieve company domains from names, fetch MX records, or pull WHOIS information to understand your leads and their infrastructure.
  • Disposable and catch-all detection: Check if an email is temporary or if a domain accepts all mail, helping you maintain list quality and avoid spam traps.
  • Bulk job automation: Upload, process, monitor, cancel, and download results for large-scale email finding and verification tasks, all through your agent.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Autocomplete Company to DomainTool to autocomplete company names to probable domains with confidence scores.
Business Account VerifyTool to check if an email belongs to a business/work account.
Catch-All VerifyTool to check if an email domain is catch-all.
Verify Disposable EmailTool to check if an email is from a disposable provider.
Find Domain MX RecordsTool to retrieve MX records for a domain in priority order.
Fetch Domain WHOIS InformationTool to fetch WHOIS record for a domain.
Bulk Email FinderTool to upload a CSV or XLSX contacts file for bulk email finding.
Cancel Bulk Email Finder JobTool to cancel a running bulk email finder job.
Bulk Email Finder Result DownloadTool to generate a bulk email finder result download URL.
Bulk Email VerifyTool to upload a CSV or XLSX file for bulk email verification.
Cancel Bulk Email Verification JobTool to cancel a running bulk email verification job.
Bulk Email Verify Progress StatusTool to retrieve progress for a bulk email verification job.
Bulk Email Verify Result DownloadTool to obtain a temporary URL for bulk email verification results.
Email Verify Get CreditsTool to fetch available email verification credits.
Instant Email VerifierTool to instantly verify a single email address.
Verify Free Email AccountTool to detect if an email is from a free email service provider.
Verify Gibberish EmailTool to verify if an email address is gibberish.
Reverse Lookup Company by DomainTool to find company information by domain.
Reverse Lookup Person by EmailTool to retrieve a personā€™s profile from an email address.
Find Person via LinkedIn URLTool to discover person information via a LinkedIn profile URL.
Role Account VerifierTool to determine if an email is a role-based account.

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 Clearout 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 Clearout.

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 Clearout Tool Router session
session = composio.create(
    user_id=user_id,
    toolkits=["clearout"]
)

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 clearout.
  • The router checks the user's Clearout connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Clearout.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Clearout 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 Clearout. "
        "Help users perform Clearout 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 Clearout 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 Clearout 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 Clearout.
  • 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 Clearout 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=["clearout"]
)
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 Clearout. "
        "Help users perform Clearout 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 Clearout MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Clearout.

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 Clearout MCP?

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

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

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

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