How to connect Gist 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 Gist account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all your public and private gists, show comments for gist with ID abc123, check if I starred gist aa5a315d61ae9438b18d, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Connecting Gist 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.

2. Add the Composio MCP server

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

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 Gist through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

The Gist MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your GitHub Gist account. It provides structured and secure access to your gists, so your agent can create, manage, comment on, and organize code snippets and notes on your behalf.

• Gist creation and management: Quickly ask your agent to create new public or private gists, update existing ones, or fetch details for any gist you own or have access to.
• Commenting and collaboration: Let your agent add, list, retrieve, or delete comments on your gists to streamline discussion and feedback without manual effort.
• Revision history and tracking: Effortlessly review a gist's revision history, retrieve specific past versions, and understand changes over time.
• Star and fork management: Direct your agent to list your starred gists, check if you've starred a gist, or see all forks of a particular gist to keep track of popularity and collaboration.
• Personalized gist organization: Have your agent list all your gists or your starred gists, making it easy to find, organize, and revisit important code snippets and notes.