How to integrate Ignisign MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Ignisign to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Ignisign agent that can start a new signature request for a contract, add a new signer to this application, delete a completed document by its id, create a webhook to track signature events through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Ignisign account through Composio's Ignisign MCP server.

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

TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Ignisign
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Ignisign as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Ignisign operations

What is open-ai-agents-sdk?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

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

The Ignisign MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Ignisign account. It provides structured and secure access to your electronic signature workflows, so your agent can perform actions like sending signature requests, managing documents, onboarding signers, and handling signature operations on your behalf.

  • Automated signature request management: Let your agent create, cancel, or delete signature requests, streamlining the entire e-signature process from start to finish.
  • Document initialization and deletion: Have the agent initialize new documents for signing or permanently delete documents when they're no longer needed.
  • Signer onboarding and removal: Effortlessly add new signers to your application environment or remove existing ones as your workflows change.
  • Webhook endpoint management: Allow your agent to create or delete webhook endpoints, enabling real-time notifications and integrations for signature events.
  • Application context retrieval: Fetch global application settings and environment configurations so your agent always works with up-to-date information.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Ignisign API AuthenticationTool to authenticate an application over Ignisign API and retrieve a JWT.
Cancel Signature RequestTool to cancel a signature request.
Initialize DocumentTool to initialize a document for a signature request.
Create SignerTool to create a new signer.
Create Webhook EndpointTool to create a new webhook endpoint for an application.
Delete DocumentTool to delete a specific document by its ID.
Delete Ignisign Signature RequestTool to delete a signature request.
Delete SignerTool to delete a signer.
Delete Webhook EndpointTool to delete a specific webhook endpoint.
Get application contextTool to retrieve the global context of an application.
Get Document InformationTool to retrieve document metadata by ID.
Get Missing Signer InputsTool to determine missing inputs needed for a signer in a specific signature profile.
Get Signature Request DetailsTool to retrieve detailed information for a specific signature request.
Get Signature Request DocumentTool to retrieve the document associated with a specific signature request.
Get Signature RequestsTool to retrieve a paginated list of signature requests for an application.
Get Signature Request StatusTool to retrieve the current status of a specific signature request.
Get Signed DocumentTool to download the signed document (signature proof) for a signature request.
Get Signer Creation ConstraintsTool to retrieve input constraints required to create a signer for a specific signature profile.
Get Signer Input ConstraintsTool to get signer input constraints.
Get Signer InputsTool to retrieve inputs provided by a signer for a signature request.
Get Signer ProfileTool to retrieve a signer profile.
Get Signer ProfilesTool to retrieve signer profiles.
Get Webhook DetailsTool to retrieve details of a specific webhook endpoint.
Get WebhooksTool to list all webhook endpoints configured for an application environment.
Close Ignisign Signature RequestTool to close an active signature request.
Update SignerTool to update details of an existing signer.
Initialize Ignisign Signature RequestTool to initialize a new signature request.
List DocumentsTool to retrieve documents linked to a signature request.
Provide Document Content Data JSONTool to provide JSON content for a document.
Provide Document Content FileTool to provide file content for a document.
Provide Document Content Private FileTool to provide private content for a document via its SHA-256 hash.
Publish Signature RequestTool to publish a draft signature request.
Search SignersTool to search for signers within an application.
Update Document InformationTool to update document metadata.
Update Signature RequestTool to partially update a signature request in DRAFT state.
Update Webhook EndpointTool to update an existing webhook endpoint.

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

What is Tool Router?

Composio's Tool Router 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 Tool Router

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

How the Tool Router works

The Tool Router 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

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Ignisign project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript

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

Install dependencies

pip install composio_openai_agents openai-agents python-dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

Import dependencies

import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

from composio import Composio
from composio_openai_agents import OpenAIAgentsProvider
from agents import Agent, Runner, HostedMCPTool, SQLiteSession
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Ignisign.

Set up the Composio instance

load_dotenv()

api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
user_id = os.getenv("USER_ID")

if not api_key:
    raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key")

# Initialize Composio
composio = Composio(api_key=api_key, provider=OpenAIAgentsProvider())
What's happening:
  • load_dotenv() loads your .env file so OPENAI_API_KEY and COMPOSIO_API_KEY are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.

Create a Tool Router session

# Create a Ignisign Tool Router session
session = composio.create(
    user_id=user_id,
    toolkits=["ignisign"]
)

mcp_url = session.mcp.url

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only ignisign.
  • The router checks the user's Ignisign connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Ignisign.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Ignisign tools only when needed during the conversation.

Configure the agent

# Configure agent with MCP tool
agent = Agent(
    name="Assistant",
    model="gpt-5",
    instructions=(
        "You are a helpful assistant that can access Ignisign. "
        "Help users perform Ignisign operations through natural language."
    ),
    tools=[
        HostedMCPTool(
            tool_config={
                "type": "mcp",
                "server_label": "tool_router",
                "server_url": mcp_url,
                "headers": {"x-api-key": api_key},
                "require_approval": "never",
            }
        )
    ],
)
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Ignisign and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a HostedMCPTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers dict includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • require_approval: 'never' means the agent can execute Ignisign operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.

Start chat loop and handle conversation

print("\nComposio Tool Router session created.")

chat_session = SQLiteSession("conversation_openai_toolrouter")

print("\nChat started. Type your requests below.")
print("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n")

async def main():
    try:
        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            "What can you help me with?",
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}\n")

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()
        if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit", "q"}:
            print("Goodbye!")
            break

        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            user_input,
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")

asyncio.run(main())
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Ignisign.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using Runner.run().
  • The responses are printed to the console, and conversations are saved locally using SQLite.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Ignisign and open-ai-agents-sdk:

import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

from composio import Composio
from composio_openai_agents import OpenAIAgentsProvider
from agents import Agent, Runner, HostedMCPTool, SQLiteSession

load_dotenv()

api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
user_id = os.getenv("USER_ID")

if not api_key:
    raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key")

# Initialize Composio
composio = Composio(api_key=api_key, provider=OpenAIAgentsProvider())

# Create Tool Router session
session = composio.create(
    user_id=user_id,
    toolkits=["ignisign"]
)
mcp_url = session.mcp.url

# Configure agent with MCP tool
agent = Agent(
    name="Assistant",
    model="gpt-5",
    instructions=(
        "You are a helpful assistant that can access Ignisign. "
        "Help users perform Ignisign operations through natural language."
    ),
    tools=[
        HostedMCPTool(
            tool_config={
                "type": "mcp",
                "server_label": "tool_router",
                "server_url": mcp_url,
                "headers": {"x-api-key": api_key},
                "require_approval": "never",
            }
        )
    ],
)

print("\nComposio Tool Router session created.")

chat_session = SQLiteSession("conversation_openai_toolrouter")

print("\nChat started. Type your requests below.")
print("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n")

async def main():
    try:
        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            "What can you help me with?",
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}\n")

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()
        if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit", "q"}:
            print("Goodbye!")
            break

        result = await Runner.run(
            agent,
            user_input,
            session=chat_session
        )
        print(f"Assistant: {result.final_output}\n")

asyncio.run(main())

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Ignisign MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Ignisign.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Ignisign MCP?

With a standalone Ignisign MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Ignisign tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Ignisign and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK?

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK 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 Ignisign tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Ignisign while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Ignisign 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.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

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 Ignisign data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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