How to integrate Google cloud vision MCP with LangChain

Connect LangChain to Google cloud vision MCP. Bulk import product images from gcs csv, list all vision ai service locations, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Google Cloud Vision API adds advanced image analysis—like labeling, OCR, and detection—to apps. It helps you extract structured data and insights from images at scale.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Google cloud vision to LangChain using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Google cloud vision agent that can label and annotate images, extract text with OCR, run batch file analysis, manage product sets, and organize reference images through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your LangChain agent real control over a Google cloud vision account through Composio's Google cloud vision MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

For exact tool slugs and parameter tables, see the tool catalog in the Composio docs.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Connect your Google cloud vision project to Composio
  • Create a Tool Router MCP session for Google cloud vision
  • Initialize an MCP client and retrieve Google cloud vision tools
  • Build a LangChain agent that can interact with Google cloud vision
  • Set up an interactive chat interface for testing

What is LangChain?

LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. It provides tools and abstractions for building agents that can reason, use tools, and maintain conversation context.

Key features include:

  • Agent Framework: Build agents that can use tools and make decisions
  • MCP Integration: Connect to external services through Model Context Protocol adapters
  • Memory Management: Maintain conversation history across interactions
  • Multi-Provider Support: Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers

What is the Google cloud vision MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Google cloud vision MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Google Cloud Vision account. It provides structured and secure access to your image analysis resources, so your agent can perform actions like registering products, managing reference images, listing endpoints, and automating large-scale image operations on your behalf.

  • Product and reference image management: Easily create new products and add reference images for visual search, enabling your agent to organize and expand your vision datasets effortlessly.
  • Bulk import and product set operations: Let your agent import large numbers of reference images into product sets from Cloud Storage CSV files, streamlining dataset curation at scale.
  • Automated product cleanup and deletion: Direct your agent to purge unused or orphan products from your project, keeping your cloud resources tidy without manual effort.
  • Location and endpoint discovery: Quickly list available Vision AI service locations and existing IndexEndpoints, making it easy for your agent to select optimal regions and manage deployment targets.
  • Vision API operation tracking: Retrieve and review ongoing or past Vision API operations, so your agent can monitor processing jobs and ensure workflow transparency.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step10 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, make sure you have:
  • Python 3.10 or higher installed on your system
  • A Composio account with an API key
  • An OpenAI API key
  • Basic familiarity with Python and async programming
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/langchain @langchain/core @langchain/openai @langchain/mcp-adapters dotenv

Install the required packages for LangChain with MCP support.

What's happening:

  • @composio/langchain provides Composio integration for LangChain
  • @langchain/mcp-adapters enables MCP client connections
  • @langchain/core is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
COMPOSIO_USER_ID=your_composio_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates your requests to Composio's API
  • COMPOSIO_USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • OPENAI_API_KEY enables access to OpenAI's language models
5

Import dependencies

import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { LangchainProvider } from '@composio/langchain';
import { MultiServerMCPClient } from "@langchain/mcp-adapters";
import { createAgent } from "langchain";
import * as readline from 'readline';
import 'dotenv/config';

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing LangChain's MCP adapter and Composio SDK
  • The dotenv/config import loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting LangChain with Google cloud vision functionality through MCP
6

Initialize Composio client

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.COMPOSIO_USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set');
if (!userId) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set');

async function main() {
    const composio = new Composio({
        apiKey: composioApiKey as string,
        provider: new LangchainProvider()
    });
What's happening:
  • We're loading the COMPOSIO_API_KEY from environment variables and validating it exists
  • Creating a Composio instance that will manage our connection to Google cloud vision tools
  • Validating that COMPOSIO_USER_ID is also set before proceeding
7

Create a Tool Router session

const session = await composio.create(
    userId as string,
    {
        toolkits: ['google_cloud_vision']
    }
);

const url = session.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • We're creating a Tool Router session that gives your agent access to Google cloud vision tools
  • The create method takes the user ID and specifies which toolkits should be available
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
  • This approach allows the agent to dynamically load and use Google cloud vision tools as needed
8

Configure the agent with the MCP URL

const client = new MultiServerMCPClient({
    "google_cloud_vision-agent": {
        transport: "http",
        url: url,
        headers: {
            "x-api-key": process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY
        }
    }
});

const tools = await client.getTools();

const agent = createAgent({ model: "gpt-5", tools });
What's happening:
  • We're creating a MultiServerMCPClient that connects to our Google cloud vision MCP server via HTTP
  • The client is configured with a name and the URL from our Tool Router session
  • getTools() retrieves all available Google cloud vision tools that the agent can use
  • We're creating a LangChain agent using the GPT-5 model
9

Set up interactive chat interface

let conversationHistory: any[] = [];

console.log("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n");
console.log("Ask any Google cloud vision related question or task to the agent.\n");

const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
});

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput: string) => {
    const trimmedInput = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'bye'].includes(trimmedInput.toLowerCase())) {
        console.log("\nGoodbye!");
        rl.close();
        process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!trimmedInput) {
        rl.prompt();
        return;
    }

    conversationHistory.push({ role: "user", content: trimmedInput });
    console.log("\nAgent is thinking...\n");

    const response = await agent.invoke({ messages: conversationHistory });
    conversationHistory = response.messages;

    const finalResponse = response.messages[response.messages.length - 1]?.content;
    console.log(`Agent: ${finalResponse}\n`);
        
        rl.prompt();
    });

    rl.on('close', () => {
        console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
        process.exit(0);
    });
What's happening:
  • We initialize an empty conversationHistory list to maintain context across interactions
  • A readline interface is used to continuously accept user input from the command line
  • When a user types a message, it's added to the conversation history and sent to the agent
  • The agent processes the request using the invoke() method with the full conversation history
  • Users can type 'exit', 'quit', or 'bye' to end the chat session gracefully
10

Run the application

main().catch((err) => {
    console.error('Fatal error:', err);
    process.exit(1);
});
What's happening:
  • We call the main() function to start the application

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Google cloud vision and LangChain:

import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { LangchainProvider } from '@composio/langchain';
import { MultiServerMCPClient } from "@langchain/mcp-adapters";  
import { createAgent } from "langchain";
import * as readline from 'readline';
import 'dotenv/config';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.COMPOSIO_USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set');
if (!userId) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set');

async function main() {
    const composio = new Composio({
        apiKey: composioApiKey as string,
        provider: new LangchainProvider()
    });

    const session = await composio.create(
        userId as string,
        {
            toolkits: ['google_cloud_vision']
        }
    );

    const url = session.mcp.url;
    
    const client = new MultiServerMCPClient({
        "google_cloud_vision-agent": {
            transport: "http",
            url: url,
            headers: {
                "x-api-key": process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY
            }
        }
    });
    
    const tools = await client.getTools();
  
    const agent = createAgent({ model: "gpt-5", tools });
    
    let conversationHistory: any[] = [];
    
    console.log("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n");
    console.log("Ask any Google cloud vision related question or task to the agent.\n");
    
    const rl = readline.createInterface({
        input: process.stdin,
        output: process.stdout,
        prompt: 'You: '
    });

    rl.prompt();

    rl.on('line', async (userInput: string) => {
        const trimmedInput = userInput.trim();
        
        if (['exit', 'quit', 'bye'].includes(trimmedInput.toLowerCase())) {
            console.log("\nGoodbye!");
            rl.close();
            process.exit(0);
        }
        
        if (!trimmedInput) {
            rl.prompt();
            return;
        }
        
        conversationHistory.push({ role: "user", content: trimmedInput });
        console.log("\nAgent is thinking...\n");
        
        const response = await agent.invoke({ messages: conversationHistory });
        conversationHistory = response.messages;
        
        const finalResponse = response.messages[response.messages.length - 1]?.content;
        console.log(`Agent: ${finalResponse}\n`);
        
        rl.prompt();
    });

    rl.on('close', () => {
        console.log('\nSession ended.');
        process.exit(0);
    });
}

main().catch((err) => {
    console.error('Fatal error:', err);
    process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

You've successfully built a LangChain agent that can interact with Google cloud vision through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features of this implementation:

  • Dynamic tool loading through Composio's Tool Router
  • Conversation history maintenance for context-aware responses
  • Async Python provides clean, efficient execution of agent workflows
You can extend this further by adding error handling, implementing specific business logic, or integrating additional Composio toolkits to create multi-app workflows.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Google cloud vision action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Annotate Files with Vision API

Tool to perform image detection and annotation for batch files in Google Cloud Vision.

Async Batch Annotate Files

Tool to run asynchronous image detection and annotation for a list of generic files (PDF, TIFF, GIF).

Annotate Images

Run image detection and annotation for a batch of images using Google Cloud Vision API.

Annotate Images Async Batch

Tool to run asynchronous image detection and annotation for a batch of images.

Annotate Location Images

Annotate a batch of images for a specific project and location using Google Cloud Vision.

Create Vision Product

Creates a new Product resource in Google Cloud Vision Product Search.

Create Product Set

Creates a new ProductSet resource in Google Cloud Vision Product Search.

Create ReferenceImage

Tool to create a ReferenceImage under a product.

Delete Product

Deletes a product and its associated reference images from Google Cloud Vision Product Search using the product resource name.

Get Product

Tool to get information associated with a Product.

Get Product Set

Retrieves Cloud Vision ProductSet metadata by its full resource name, including its display name and indexing information.

Import Product Sets

Asynchronously imports product sets and reference images from a CSV file stored in Google Cloud Storage.

List Vision AI IndexEndpoints

Lists Vision AI IndexEndpoints in a specified project and location, helping discover endpoints for visual search and retrieval.

List Locations

Lists a fixed set of four Cloud Vision Product Search locations under a supplied project name, for use when choosing a region.

List Vision API Operations

List a page of Vision API operations under a project and location, optionally filtered.

Purge Products

Tool to asynchronously delete products in a ProductSet or orphan products.

Update Product

Tool to update a Product's mutable fields: displayName, description, and productLabels.

Update Product Set

Updates the display name of an existing Google Cloud Vision ProductSet identified by its resource name.

Add Product to ProductSet

Add a Product to a ProductSet in Google Cloud Vision Product Search.

Cancel Vision Operation

Starts asynchronous cancellation of a long-running Vision API operation.

Delete Vision API Operation

Deletes a long-running Google Cloud Vision API operation by resource name.

Delete Product Set

Deletes a Google Cloud Vision ProductSet by resource name.

Delete Reference Image

Permanently removes a reference image from a product in Google Cloud Vision Product Search.

Get Vision API Operation

Retrieves the latest state of a long-running Vision API operation by its resource name.

Get Reference Image

Tool to get information associated with a ReferenceImage.

List Products in ProductSet

Lists products associated with a specified ProductSet, with optional pagination.

List Projects

List Google Cloud projects accessible to the authenticated user through Cloud Resource Manager, with filtering and pagination.

List Reference Images

Tool to list reference images for a product.

Remove Product from ProductSet

Removes a Product from a specified ProductSet in Google Cloud Vision API.

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