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How to integrate Dovetail MCP with Hermes

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Dovetail is a research analysis platform for transcript review and insight generation. It helps teams code interviews, analyze feedback, and create actionable research summaries.

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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 Dovetail 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 1,500+ 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 Dovetail 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 Dovetail

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

4. Done. You're all set with a new Dovetail 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 Dovetail or request any Dovetail-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The Dovetail MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Dovetail account. It provides structured and secure access to your research workspace, so your agent can perform actions like creating insights, managing contacts, organizing channels, and retrieving research notes on your behalf.

  • Automated insight creation: Let your agent synthesize findings and store new insights in your Dovetail projects, streamlining your research analysis workflow.
  • Channel and topic management: Easily create, organize, or delete channels and topics to keep your research data structured and accessible.
  • Contact management and retrieval: Automatically add new research contacts or list all contacts in your workspace for better respondent tracking.
  • Research note access: Ask your agent to fetch detailed information about specific notes, giving you instant access to key research materials.
  • Data point recording and classification: Capture and categorize new data points within channels, ensuring every piece of feedback or observation is logged and ready for analysis.

Way Forward

With Dovetail 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 Dovetail action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Channel

Create a Dovetail channel for a specified type of customer feedback, optionally placing it in a folder.

Create Contact

Tool to create a new contact in Dovetail.

Create Data

Tool to create a data item in a Dovetail project with text content, title, and/or structured fields.

Create Data Point

Tool to create a data point within a channel.

Create Doc

Tool to create a doc in a Dovetail project with text content, title and/or custom fields.

Create Insight

Creates a new insight in Dovetail to store synthesized research findings, observations, or conclusions.

Create Note

Tool to create a note in a Dovetail project with text content, title and/or custom fields.

Create Project

Tool to create a new project in your Dovetail workspace.

Create Topic

Create a topic in a Dovetail channel using a channel ID, title, and description.

Delete Channel

Tool to delete an existing channel.

Delete Data

Tool to delete an existing data item.

Delete Doc

Tool to delete an existing doc.

Delete Insight

Tool to delete an existing insight.

Delete Note

Tool to delete an existing note.

Delete Topic

Tool to delete an existing topic.

Export Data

Tool to export data in HTML or Markdown format.

Export Doc

Tool to export a doc in HTML or Markdown format.

Export Insight

Tool to export an insight in HTML or Markdown format.

Export Note

Tool to export a note from Dovetail in HTML or Markdown format.

Get Contact

Tool to retrieve details of a specific contact.

Get Data

Tool to retrieve details of a specific data item by ID.

Get Doc

Retrieve metadata for a specific Dovetail doc by ID, including its fields, project, folder, files, and publication status.

Get File

Tool to retrieve details of a specific file by its ID.

Get Folder

Retrieve a specific Dovetail folder by ID, returning its title, creation date, and parent folder information.

Get Insight

Retrieve metadata for a specific Dovetail insight by ID, including its project, folder, custom fields, files, and publication status.

Get Note

Tool to retrieve details of a specific note.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve details of a specific project.

Get Token Info

Retrieves information about the current API token, including its unique identifier and the associated workspace subdomain.

Import Data File

Tool to import a public URL of a file as new data in Dovetail.

Import Doc File

Tool to import a public file URL as a new doc in Dovetail.

Import Insight from File

Tool to import a file from a public URL as a new insight in Dovetail.

Import Note File

Tool to import a file from a public URL as a new note in Dovetail.

List Contacts

Retrieves a paginated list of contacts from a Dovetail workspace.

List Data

Tool to list data items in Dovetail.

List Docs

Tool to list docs in a Dovetail workspace with optional filtering, sorting, and pagination.

List Folders

Tool to get a list of folders associated with a workspace.

List Highlights

List highlights from your Dovetail workspace with optional filtering and pagination.

List Insights

List insights in a Dovetail workspace with optional project and publication-status filters, sorting, and cursor-based pagination.

List Notes

List notes in Dovetail workspace with optional pagination and sorting.

List Projects

List projects in a Dovetail workspace using cursor-based pagination.

List Tags

List all tags in the authenticated Dovetail workspace.

List User Docs

Tool to get a list of docs associated with a user in Dovetail.

List User Insights

List personal insights for a user in Dovetail.

Magic Search

Tool to perform a magic search across workspace data.

Update Channel

Tool to update an existing channel's title or context.

Update Contact

Tool to update an existing contact in Dovetail.

Update Data

Tool to update a data item in Dovetail.

Update Doc

Tool to update a doc in Dovetail.

Update Insight

Updates an existing insight in Dovetail, allowing you to modify the title and custom fields.

Update Note

Tool to update an existing note in Dovetail.

Update Topic

Tool to update an existing topic.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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