How to connect DEV Community 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 DEV Community account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list your published DEV articles, draft a tutorial post about Docker, find trending JavaScript posts on DEV, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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DEV Community (dev.to) is a social publishing platform for software developers. Use it to share technical articles, grow a developer audience, and join community discussions.

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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 DEV Community account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list your published DEV articles, draft a tutorial post about Docker, find trending JavaScript posts on DEV, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting DEV Community 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 DEV Community account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List your published DEV articles"
  • "Draft a tutorial post about Docker"
  • "Find trending JavaScript posts on DEV"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your DEV Community 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 DEV Community through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

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

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every DEV Community action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Article

Create a new article on DEV Community.

Get Article By ID

Returns a single published article by its ID, including full body content.

Get Article By Path

Returns a single published article by username and slug path.

Get Comment by ID

Returns a single comment and its descendants (replies) by comment ID.

Get Current User

Tool to get the currently authenticated user's profile information.

Get Listing

Returns a single classified listing by its ID.

Get Organization

Returns a single organization by its username.

Get Profile Image

Returns the profile image URL for a user or organization by username.

Get user

Tool to get a single user by their ID or username.

List Articles

Returns a list of published articles, optionally filtered by tags, username, state, or top articles.

List Comments

Tool to list comments for a specified article or podcast episode on DEV Community.

List Followed Tags

Returns a list of tags followed by the authenticated user.

List Followers

Tool to retrieve a list of users who follow the authenticated user.

List latest DEV Community articles

Tool to retrieve a list of published articles sorted by descending publish date.

List Listings

Returns a list of classified listings for jobs, mentors, products, etc.

List Listings By Category

Returns a list of classified listings filtered by category.

List Organization Articles

Tool to list articles published by a specific organization on DEV.

List organization users on DEV.to

Tool to list users belonging to a specified organization on DEV.

List podcast episodes on DEV.to

Tool to retrieve a list of podcast episodes from DEV.

List DEVTO Reading List

Returns the articles in the authenticated user's reading list.

List Tags

Returns a list of tags with their names, background colors, and text colors.

List User All Articles

Tool to list all articles (both published and unpublished) for the authenticated user.

List User Articles

Tool to list published articles for the authenticated user.

List user's published articles

Returns a list of the authenticated user's published articles only.

List user's unpublished articles

Returns a list of the authenticated user's unpublished (draft) articles.

List Videos

Tool to retrieve a list of articles that contain videos.

Update Article

Update an existing article on DEV Community.

Update Listing

Updates an existing classified listing on DEV Community.

FRAMEWORKS

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OpenAI Agents SDK

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Claude Agent SDK

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Claude Code

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Codex

Use DEV Community MCP with Codex

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OpenClaw

Use DEV Community MCP with OpenClaw

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Hermes

Use DEV Community MCP with Hermes

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CLI

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Google ADK

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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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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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