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How to integrate Donately MCP with Hermes

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Donately is a fundraising platform for campaigns, donations, recurring giving, donors, forms, fundraisers, and webhooks. It helps nonprofits and fundraising teams manage online giving workflows in one place.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Donately account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Donately with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Donately

Ask your agent to connect to Donately, or simply request any Donately-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Donately connection.

Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Donately or request any Donately-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

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

Way Forward

With Donately connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Get Current Account

Return the Donately account associated with the connected API token, including its identity, currency, status, and billing plan.

Get Form

Return a specific Donately donation form and its embedded configuration by form ID.

Get Person

Return a specific Donately donor or contact by person ID.

List Campaigns

List campaigns in the connected Donately account, optionally filtering by publication state, type, keyword, or fundraiser availability.

List Donations

List donation records in the connected account and filter them by status, related donor or fundraising resource, payment type, or other common attributes.

List Forms

List donation forms in the connected Donately account, including default-form and form configuration information returned by Donately.

List Fundraisers

List peer-to-peer fundraisers in the connected Donately account, optionally limited to one campaign.

List People

List donors and contacts in the connected Donately account, optionally searching by keyword.

List Subscriptions

List recurring donation subscriptions in the connected Donately account.

List Webhooks

List webhook registrations configured for the connected Donately account.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Hermes 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 Donately tools.

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

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