How to integrate Composio search MCP with Codex

Connect Codex to Composio search MCP. Find recent news about electric vehicles, search for top-rated hotels in paris, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Composio search is a unified web search toolkit spanning travel, e-commerce, news, financial markets, images, and more. It lets you and your apps tap into up-to-date web data from a single, easy-to-integrate service.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With the Composio search MCP integration, Codex can search the web and news, find flights and hotels, search shopping results, look up SEC filings, and fetch URL content, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

For exact tool slugs and parameter tables, see the tool catalog in the Composio docs.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1700+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Composio search MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

Try it

Ask Codex for a Composio search task. The first time, Composio asks you to connect your Composio search account.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Find recent news about electric vehicles"
  • "Search for top-rated hotels in Paris"
  • "Get latest stock info for Apple"

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

The Composio Search MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to Composio Search. It provides structured and secure access to web, travel, shopping, financial, news, and public filing search, so your agent can find flights and hotels, compare products, track markets, research current events, and retrieve public web content on your behalf.

  • Travel planning: Have your agent search flights, hotels, vacation rentals, and TripAdvisor recommendations for your next trip.
  • Product and deal discovery: Let the agent search Amazon and other shopping sources, compare prices, apply location preferences, and find deals.
  • Market and company research: Direct your agent to retrieve stock prices, market data, financial news, company information, and historical analysis.
  • News and web research: Instruct your agent to search current news and the wider web for relevant articles, sources, and information.
  • Filings and page retrieval: Have your agent find SEC filings such as annual, quarterly, and current reports, or extract readable text from public web pages.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Composio search with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Composio search directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for Composio search operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1700+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various Composio search operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Composio search action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Amazon Product Search

Search Amazon products across international marketplaces.

Composio DuckDuckGo Search

The DuckDuckGoSearch class utilizes the Composio DuckDuckGo Search API to perform searches, focusing on web information and details.

Composio Google Events Search

Search for upcoming events, concerts, festivals, conferences, and other activities.

Composio Similarlinks

Find links similar to a supplied URL using Exa, with optional domain, date, category and result-count filters.

Fetch URL Content

Fetch and extract clean, readable page text (markdown) from public web pages (HTML content) using the Exa API.

Composio Finance Search

Search Google Finance for stock quotes, indices, cryptocurrency prices, exchange rates, company financials and related news.

Flight Search

Search flights using a natural-language route or structured airport codes and dates.

Composio Google Maps Search

Search Google Maps for places by query, optionally using map coordinates and a pagination offset.

Groq Chat Completion

Generate chat completions using Groq models for tasks such as question answering, content generation, coding, summarization and translation.

Hotel Search

Search hotels and vacation rentals by location and stay dates, with price, class, cancellation and localization filters.

Composio Image Search

Search Google Images for image metadata and URLs, including original and thumbnail links.

Composio News Search

Search Google News results by query, time window, country and language.

NPPES NPI Registry Lookup

Lookup US healthcare provider details from the CMS NPI Registry (NPPES) using an NPI number or search filters.

Composio Scholar Search

Search Google Scholar for scholarly articles.

Composio SEC EDGAR Filings Search

Retrieve recent SEC EDGAR filing metadata for a company by ticker or CIK, optionally filtering by form type and constructing primary document and index URLs.

Composio Shopping Search

Search for products with advanced price filtering, location targeting, and deal discovery.

Composio LLM Search

Search a broad range of content using the Tavily API, with options for search depth, images, direct answers, domain filters, and the number of results.

Composio Trends Search

Search Google Trends for interest over time, regional comparisons, related topics, and related queries.

TripAdvisor Travel Search

Search TripAdvisor for attractions, restaurants, hotels, tours, and other travel information without a connected TripAdvisor account.

Walmart Product Search

Search Walmart products with optional minimum and maximum price filters.

Composio Web Search

Search the web using Exa's answer API, returning an AI-generated answer and source citations.

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