How to connect Fal.ai 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 Fal.ai account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to generate a photorealistic portrait of a cat, create a 15-second AI-generated promo video, synthesize an audio clip saying 'Welcome home!', and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Fal.ai is a generative media platform offering 600+ AI models for images, video, voice, and audio. Developers use Fal.ai for fast, scalable access to cutting-edge generative AI tools.

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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 Fal.ai account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to generate a photorealistic portrait of a cat, create a 15-second AI-generated promo video, synthesize an audio clip saying 'Welcome home!', and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Fal.ai 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 Fal.ai account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

"Generate a photorealistic portrait of a cat"
"Create a 15-second AI-generated promo video"
"Synthesize an audio clip saying 'Welcome home!'"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

What is the Fal.ai MCP server, and what's possible with it?

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

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Cancel Queue Request

Tool to cancel a queued or in-progress request in fal.

Estimate Pricing

Tool to estimate pricing for fal.

Get JWKS for Webhook Verification

Tool to retrieve public keys for webhook signature verification.

Get Models

Tool to discover and search fal.

Get Model Pricing

Tool to retrieve unit pricing for model endpoints.

Get Queue Request Result

Tool to retrieve the final result of a completed queue request.

Get Queue Request Status With Logs

Tool to retrieve the current status of a queued request with detailed logging information.

Check Queue Request Status

Tool to check the status of a queued request in fal.

Stream Request Status Updates

Tool to stream request status updates via SSE.

FRAMEWORKS

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Codex

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Cursor

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OpenClaw

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Hermes

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

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

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