How to integrate Clearout MCP with Pydantic AI

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Clearout to Pydantic AI 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 Pydantic AI 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:
  • How to set up your Composio API key and User ID
  • How to create a Composio Tool Router session for Clearout
  • How to attach an MCP Server to a Pydantic AI agent
  • How to stream responses and maintain chat history
  • How to build a simple REPL-style chat interface to test your Clearout workflows

What is Pydantic AI?

Pydantic AI is a Python framework for building AI agents with strong typing and validation. It leverages Pydantic's data validation capabilities to create robust, type-safe AI applications.

Key features include:

  • Type Safety: Built on Pydantic for automatic data validation
  • MCP Support: Native support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Streaming: Built-in support for streaming responses
  • Async First: Designed for async/await patterns

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 person’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:
  • Python 3.9 or higher
  • A Composio account with an active API key
  • Basic familiarity with Python and async programming

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
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio pydantic-ai python-dotenv

Install the required libraries.

What's happening:

  • composio connects your agent to external SaaS tools like Clearout
  • pydantic-ai lets you create structured AI agents with tool support
  • python-dotenv loads your environment variables securely from a .env file

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates your agent to Composio's API
  • USER_ID associates your session with your account for secure tool access
  • OPENAI_API_KEY to access OpenAI LLMs

Import dependencies

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio
from pydantic_ai import Agent
from pydantic_ai.mcp import MCPServerStreamableHTTP

load_dotenv()
What's happening:
  • We load environment variables and import required modules
  • Composio manages connections to Clearout
  • MCPServerStreamableHTTP connects to the Clearout MCP server endpoint
  • Agent from Pydantic AI lets you define and run the AI assistant

Create a Tool Router Session

python
async def main():
    api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
    user_id = os.getenv("USER_ID")
    if not api_key or not user_id:
        raise RuntimeError("Set COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID in your environment")

    # Create a Composio Tool Router session for Clearout
    composio = Composio(api_key=api_key)
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=user_id,
        toolkits=["clearout"],
    )
    url = session.mcp.url
    if not url:
        raise ValueError("Composio session did not return an MCP URL")
What's happening:
  • We're creating a Tool Router session that gives your agent access to Clearout tools
  • The create method takes the user ID and specifies which toolkits should be available
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use

Initialize the Pydantic AI Agent

python
# Attach the MCP server to a Pydantic AI Agent
clearout_mcp = MCPServerStreamableHTTP(url, headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY})
agent = Agent(
    "openai:gpt-5",
    toolsets=[clearout_mcp],
    instructions=(
        "You are a Clearout assistant. Use Clearout tools to help users "
        "with their requests. Ask clarifying questions when needed."
    ),
)
What's happening:
  • The MCP client connects to the Clearout endpoint
  • The agent uses GPT-5 to interpret user commands and perform Clearout operations
  • The instructions field defines the agent's role and behavior

Build the chat interface

python
# Simple REPL with message history
history = []
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")
print("Try asking the agent to help you with Clearout.\n")

while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()
    if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit", "bye"}:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break
    if not user_input:
        continue

    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n", flush=True)

    async with agent.run_stream(user_input, message_history=history) as stream_result:
        collected_text = ""
        async for chunk in stream_result.stream_output():
            text_piece = None
            if isinstance(chunk, str):
                text_piece = chunk
            elif hasattr(chunk, "delta") and isinstance(chunk.delta, str):
                text_piece = chunk.delta
            elif hasattr(chunk, "text"):
                text_piece = chunk.text
            if text_piece:
                collected_text += text_piece
        result = stream_result

    print(f"Agent: {collected_text}\n")
    history = result.all_messages()
What's happening:
  • The agent reads input from the terminal and streams its response
  • Clearout API calls happen automatically under the hood
  • The model keeps conversation history to maintain context across turns

Run the application

python
if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())
What's happening:
  • The asyncio loop launches the agent and keeps it running until you exit

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Clearout and Pydantic AI:

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio
from pydantic_ai import Agent
from pydantic_ai.mcp import MCPServerStreamableHTTP

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
    user_id = os.getenv("USER_ID")
    if not api_key or not user_id:
        raise RuntimeError("Set COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID in your environment")

    # Create a Composio Tool Router session for Clearout
    composio = Composio(api_key=api_key)
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=user_id,
        toolkits=["clearout"],
    )
    url = session.mcp.url
    if not url:
        raise ValueError("Composio session did not return an MCP URL")

    # Attach the MCP server to a Pydantic AI Agent
    clearout_mcp = MCPServerStreamableHTTP(url, headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY})
    agent = Agent(
        "openai:gpt-5",
        toolsets=[clearout_mcp],
        instructions=(
            "You are a Clearout assistant. Use Clearout tools to help users "
            "with their requests. Ask clarifying questions when needed."
        ),
    )

    # Simple REPL with message history
    history = []
    print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")
    print("Try asking the agent to help you with Clearout.\n")

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()
        if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit", "bye"}:
            print("\nGoodbye!")
            break
        if not user_input:
            continue

        print("\nAgent is thinking...\n", flush=True)

        async with agent.run_stream(user_input, message_history=history) as stream_result:
            collected_text = ""
            async for chunk in stream_result.stream_output():
                text_piece = None
                if isinstance(chunk, str):
                    text_piece = chunk
                elif hasattr(chunk, "delta") and isinstance(chunk.delta, str):
                    text_piece = chunk.delta
                elif hasattr(chunk, "text"):
                    text_piece = chunk.text
                if text_piece:
                    collected_text += text_piece
            result = stream_result

        print(f"Agent: {collected_text}\n")
        history = result.all_messages()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Conclusion

You've built a Pydantic AI agent that can interact with Clearout through Composio's Tool Router. With this setup, your agent can perform real Clearout actions through natural language. You can extend this further by:
  • Adding other toolkits like Gmail, HubSpot, or Salesforce
  • Building a web-based chat interface around this agent
  • Using multiple MCP endpoints to enable cross-app workflows (for example, Gmail + Clearout for workflow automation)
This architecture makes your AI agent "agent-native", able to securely use APIs in a unified, composable way without custom integrations.

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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 Pydantic AI?

Yes, you can. Pydantic AI 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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