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How to connect Honcho to Claude

Connect Claude Web, Desktop and 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

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Honcho account to Claude 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.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

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Connecting Honcho to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

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

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

2. 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 Web, Desktop, and Cowork

3. Connect your Honcho account

Back in Claude, ask it to connect to Honcho or give it any Honcho-related task.

For example, ask Claude 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 Claude, and your Honcho account is ready to use.

What is the Honcho Claude Connector, 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.

Troubleshooting

1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Honcho?

The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Honcho conversation.

  • Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /.
  • Hover Connectors.
  • Turn on Composio.
  • Ask Claude to connect to Honcho again.

2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Honcho connects?

Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Honcho.

  • Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp.
  • Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem.
  • Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Honcho.
  • If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev.

3. Why does the Honcho authorization link not work?

The Composio connector is one server. Your Honcho account connects separately when Claude asks for it.

  • If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Honcho connection.
  • Composio creates a fresh Honcho authorization link.
  • Open that link in your browser and finish the Honcho sign-in.

4. Why do Honcho actions fail after they worked before?

The Honcho connection can expire or lose permission.

  • Ask Claude to inspect the Honcho connection.
  • If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you.
  • Reconnect the Honcho account and retry the action.
  • If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Honcho.
  • If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Honcho itself.

5. How do I switch to a different Honcho account?

Claude can manage the Honcho connection for you.

  • Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Honcho account.
  • Ask Claude to connect Honcho again.
  • Open the new Composio authorization link for Honcho.
  • Sign in with the other Honcho account in the browser.
  • After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Honcho task.

6. Why is my Honcho connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan?

The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Honcho connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork.

  • In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors.
  • Next to Composio, click ⋮ and click Clear cache.
  • If Honcho tools still do not appear, click ⋮, disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again.
  • On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Honcho.
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.

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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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