How to connect Conversion tools to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Conversion tools account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to convert your Excel file to clean CSV, export a website as a PDF snapshot, extract text from this Word document, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Conversion Tools is an online service for converting documents between formats such as PDF, Word, Excel, XML, and CSV. It lets you automate complex document workflows with just a few clicks.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Conversion tools account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to convert your Excel file to clean CSV, export a website as a PDF snapshot, extract text from this Word document, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Conversion tools to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp

Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Conversion tools account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Conversion tools or give it any Conversion tools-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

"Convert your Excel file to clean CSV"
"Export a website as a PDF snapshot"
"Extract text from this Word document"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Conversion tools account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Conversion tools through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Conversion tools MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Conversion tools account. It provides structured and secure access to a wide range of file and document conversion utilities, so your agent can convert documents, extract data, generate snapshots, and automate file handling between multiple formats on your behalf.

Seamless document format conversion: Effortlessly have your agent convert Excel, Word, Markdown, OXPS, or JPG files to formats like CSV, HTML, PDF, text, or JSON.
Website snapshot creation: Ask your agent to capture entire web pages as PDF documents or PNG images, ready to download or share.
Automated file upload and processing: Let your agent upload local files, obtain conversion-ready file IDs, and initiate multi-step conversion workflows.
AI-powered data extraction: Use AI tools to transform images (JPG) into structured JSON, streamlining data entry and analysis tasks.
Easy retrieval of conversion results: Direct your agent to track conversion tasks and download the final output files once processing is complete.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Conversion tools action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Convert Excel to HTML

Convert an Excel (.

Convert Word to Text

Convert Word documents (.

Create Conversion Task

Tool to create a new conversion task.

Download Converted File

Download a converted file from the Conversion Tools API using its file ID.

Get Auth Info

Tool to get information about the authenticated user including email address.

Get Conversion Config

Tool to get available conversion types and their configuration.

Get File Info

Tool to get metadata about a file including size, name, and preview (for text files).

Get Task Status

Tool to get the status of a conversion task.

List Conversion Tasks

Get all tasks for the authenticated user (up to 50 most recent tasks).

Update Task Retention

Tool to update the retention mode for a task.

Upload File

Upload a file to the ConversionTools API for subsequent conversion operations.

FRAMEWORKS

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CLI

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LangChain

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Vercel AI SDK

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Mastra AI

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LlamaIndex

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CrewAI

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OpenCode

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VS Code

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Conversion tools MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Conversion tools tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Conversion tools and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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 Conversion tools tools.

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

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