How to connect Happy scribe 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 Happy scribe account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to transcribe this podcast episode to text, generate subtitles for uploaded video file, export subtitles in SRT format for review, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Happy Scribe is an automatic transcription service that converts audio and video files into accurate text. It lets you quickly generate transcripts and subtitles, saving you hours of manual work.

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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 Happy scribe account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to transcribe this podcast episode to text, generate subtitles for uploaded video file, export subtitles in SRT format for review, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Happy scribe 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 Happy scribe account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

"Transcribe this podcast episode to text"
"Generate subtitles for uploaded video file"
"Export subtitles in SRT format for review"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The Happy Scribe MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Happy Scribe account. It provides structured and secure access to your transcription and subtitle services, so your agent can perform actions like starting new transcriptions, generating subtitles, exporting files, and managing your transcription jobs on your behalf.

Automated transcription creation: Instantly start new transcription jobs from audio or video files using a simple agent command.
Subtitle generation for videos: Have your agent generate accurate subtitles for your video content for accessibility and localization.
Export and download transcripts or subtitles: Let your agent export completed transcriptions or subtitles in various formats for easy distribution.
Account and usage monitoring: Retrieve account details, subscription status, and API usage statistics to keep tabs on your service limits.
Transcription management and cleanup: Direct your agent to delete completed or unwanted transcription jobs, keeping your workspace organized.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Subtitle

Create subtitles for a video file using Happy Scribe's automatic transcription service.

Create Translation Task

Creates an AI-powered translation task to translate an existing transcription into another language.

Delete Transcription

Tool to delete a transcription job.

Delete Webhook

Deletes a webhook by its ID.

Get Account Details

Tool to retrieve details about your account, including subscription status and usage statistics.

Get Supported Languages

Retrieve the list of supported language codes for Happy Scribe transcription services.

Get API Rate Limit

Get Happy Scribe API rate limit information.

Get Signed Upload URL

Tool to get a signed URL for uploading a file to Happy Scribe's S3 storage.

Confirm Order

Tool to confirm a pending order.

Create Translation Order

Tool to create a translation order from an existing transcription.

Export Transcription

Creates an export job to download transcription content in various formats.

Get API Version

Tool to retrieve current API version and check for updates.

Get Error Codes

Returns a list of HTTP error codes used by the Happy Scribe API along with their descriptions.

Get Supported Formats

Tool to retrieve supported file formats.

Get Transcription Details

Tool to retrieve details and status of a specific transcription job.

Get Webhooks

Tool to retrieve webhooks configured for your account.

Retrieve Export

Tool to retrieve information about a specific export.

List Transcriptions

Retrieves a paginated list of transcription jobs for a Happy Scribe organization.

Retrieve Order

Retrieve details of a Happy Scribe order by its ID.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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