How to connect Honcho to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to Honcho MCP. Retrieve agent memory for customer session, list recent context entries for user, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Honcho is a memory, context, and theory-of-mind infrastructure for stateful AI agents. It provides durable agent memory and contextual tooling to keep conversations coherent.

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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 Honcho account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to retrieve agent memory for customer session, list recent context entries for user, create new memory from conversation note, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Honcho 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 Honcho account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Retrieve agent memory for customer session"
  • "List recent context entries for user"
  • "Create new memory from conversation note"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

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

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Chat With Peer

Run usage-bearing agentic search and reasoning over a peer's learned representation to answer a question.

Create Conclusions

Store a batch of 1-100 explicit conclusions about peers, optionally tied to sessions.

Create Messages

Add a batch of 1-100 attributed messages to a Honcho session.

Delete Session

Permanently delete one known session and its session-scoped data.

Get Message

Return one message by its exact ID within a session.

Get or Create Peer

Return a peer by ID within a workspace, creating it with the supplied metadata and configuration when absent.

Get or Create Session

Return a session by ID, or create it with initial peers, metadata, and configuration when absent.

Get or Create Workspace

Return a workspace by ID, or create it with metadata and configuration when absent.

Get Peer Representation

Return a curated subset of conclusions representing a peer.

List Conclusions

Return one page of stored conclusions in a workspace; use Search Conclusions for semantic retrieval.

List Messages

Return one page of messages in a session; use Get Message for exact-ID retrieval.

List Peers

Return one page of peers in a workspace.

List Sessions

Return one page of sessions in a workspace.

List Workspaces

Return one page of Honcho workspaces visible to the connected admin key.

Search Conclusions

Semantically search stored conclusions in a workspace.

Search Messages

Semantically search messages at workspace, peer, or session scope.

FRAMEWORKS

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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