How to connect Helpwise 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your Helpwise account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to add note to open conversation with client, delete outdated contact from contact list, create new team for support agents, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Helpwise is a unified customer service platform for managing all your business emails, chats, and SMS in one place. It helps teams collaborate on customer conversations more efficiently and never miss important messages.

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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your Helpwise account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to add note to open conversation with client, delete outdated contact from contact list, create new team for support agents, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Helpwise 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 Helpwise account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Add note to open conversation with client"
  • "Delete outdated contact from contact list"
  • "Create new team for support agents"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The Helpwise MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Helpwise account. It provides structured and secure access to your customer communication tools, so your agent can create conversations, manage notes, upload attachments, delete messages, and organize your Helpwise workspace on your behalf.

  • Attachment management and uploads: Easily upload files as attachments to conversations and retrieve attachment metadata for streamlined file sharing.
  • Conversation note automation: Let your agent add or remove notes to specific conversations, making it easy to document context or follow up actions.
  • Mailbox and conversation cleanup: Direct your agent to delete entire conversations, mailboxes, or individual messages for efficient workspace management.
  • Contact and signature management: Seamlessly delete contacts and email signatures, keeping your Helpwise account up to date and clutter-free.
  • Webhook and team setup: Have your agent create new webhooks for event notifications or set up Helpwise teams to organize your users for better collaboration.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create attachment

Tool to upload a new attachment.

Add note to conversation

Tool to add a note to a conversation.

Create Helpwise Team

Creates a new team in Helpwise to group users for collaboration and assignment purposes.

Create Helpwise Webhook

Creates a new webhook subscription in Helpwise to receive real-time event notifications.

Delete Contact

Deletes a contact from Helpwise by its unique identifier (ID).

Delete Helpwise Conversation

Attempts to delete a conversation by ID from Helpwise.

Delete Mailbox

Tool to delete a mailbox by its unique identifier.

Delete Helpwise Message

Attempts to delete a message from Helpwise.

Delete Helpwise Note

Tool to delete a note from a conversation.

Delete Email Signature

Deletes an email signature from Helpwise.

Delete Tag

Permanently deletes a tag from Helpwise.

Delete Team

Tool to delete a team.

Delete Template

Deletes a Helpwise email template (saved reply) by its ID.

Delete Helpwise Webhook

Delete a Helpwise webhook by its ID.

Get Attachment

Retrieves a specific attachment by its unique identifier.

Get Conversation Attachments

Retrieves attachments from messages in a specific conversation.

Get Helpwise Contact

Retrieves detailed information for a specific contact by ID.

Get Conversation

Retrieves complete details of a specific conversation by ID from Helpwise.

Get Conversations

Tool to retrieve a list of conversations.

Get Helpwise Custom Field

Retrieves details of a specific custom field by its ID.

Get Helpwise Mailbox

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

Get Helpwise Mailboxes

Tool to retrieve mailboxes.

Get Conversation Note

Tool to retrieve details of a specific note.

Get Conversation Notes

Retrieves all notes associated with a specific conversation.

Get Helpwise Tag

Retrieves detailed information about a specific tag in Helpwise.

Get Helpwise Team

Retrieves details of a specific Helpwise team by its ID.

Get Helpwise Teams

Tool to retrieve Helpwise teams.

Get Helpwise WhatsApp Templates

Tool to retrieve Helpwise WhatsApp message templates.

Get Helpwise Users

Tool to retrieve Helpwise users list.

Get Helpwise Webhook

Retrieve detailed configuration for a specific Helpwise webhook by its ID.

Get Helpwise Webhooks

Tool to retrieve Helpwise webhooks.

Search Helpwise Contacts

Tool to search contacts by term with pagination.

Update Helpwise Contact

Tool to update an existing Helpwise contact.

Update Mailbox

Updates an existing Helpwise mailbox.

Update Helpwise Message

Tool to update an existing message.

Update Helpwise Tag

Updates an existing tag's name and/or color in Helpwise.

Update Helpwise Template

Updates an existing Helpwise email template by modifying its name, subject, and/or HTML content.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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