How to integrate Intercom MCP with CrewAI

This guide walks you through connecting Intercom to CrewAI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Intercom agent that can add tag 'vip' to contact john doe, assign open conversation #123 to support team, create note for contact emily about refund through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your CrewAI agent real control over a Intercom account through Composio's Intercom MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Intercom is a customer messaging platform for live chat and support automation. It helps businesses engage, convert, and support customers at scale.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Intercom to CrewAI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Intercom agent that can add tag 'vip' to contact john doe, assign open conversation #123 to support team, create note for contact emily about refund through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your CrewAI agent real control over a Intercom account through Composio's Intercom MCP server.

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

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get a Composio API key and configure your Intercom connection
  • Set up CrewAI with an MCP enabled agent
  • Create a Tool Router session or standalone MCP server for Intercom
  • Build a conversational loop where your agent can execute Intercom operations

What is CrewAI?

CrewAI is a powerful framework for building multi-agent AI systems. It provides primitives for defining agents with specific roles, creating tasks, and orchestrating workflows through crews.

Key features include:

  • Agent Roles: Define specialized agents with specific goals and backstories
  • Task Management: Create tasks with clear descriptions and expected outputs
  • Crew Orchestration: Combine agents and tasks into collaborative workflows
  • MCP Integration: Connect to external tools through Model Context Protocol

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

The Intercom MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Intercom account. It provides structured and secure access to your customer engagement platform, so your agent can perform actions like managing conversations, tagging contacts, creating articles, and updating company records on your behalf.

  • Conversation management and assignment: Let your agent assign conversations to teams or admins, create new conversations, and close them when resolved, streamlining your support workflow.
  • Contact tagging and note creation: Effortlessly tag contacts with relevant labels or add detailed notes for context, making customer follow-ups more organized and actionable.
  • Automated company and contact updates: Enable your agent to attach contacts to companies, create or update company records, and keep your Intercom data clean and up to date.
  • Article and collection creation: Let your agent publish new articles or create help center collections to expand your self-serve support resources without manual effort.
  • Subscription and message preferences management: Allow your agent to add or manage subscriptions for contacts, helping you personalize communication and respect user preferences automatically.

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

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK 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 Composio SDK

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

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK 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

Step by step08 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Python 3.9 or higher
  • A Composio account and API key
  • A Intercom connection authorized in Composio
  • An OpenAI API key for the CrewAI LLM
  • Basic familiarity with Python
2

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
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio crewai crewai-tools[mcp] python-dotenv
What's happening:
  • composio connects your agent to Intercom via MCP
  • crewai provides Agent, Task, Crew, and LLM primitives
  • crewai-tools[mcp] includes MCP helpers
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables from .env
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID scopes the session to your account
  • OPENAI_API_KEY lets CrewAI use your chosen OpenAI model
5

Import dependencies

python
import os
from composio import Composio
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter
import dotenv

dotenv.load_dotenv()

COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set")
What's happening:
  • CrewAI classes define agents and tasks, and run the workflow
  • MCPServerHTTP connects the agent to an MCP endpoint
  • Composio will give you a short lived Intercom MCP URL
6

Create a Composio Tool Router session for Intercom

python
composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY)
session = composio_client.create(user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID, toolkits=["intercom"])

url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • You create a Intercom only session through Composio
  • Composio returns an MCP HTTP URL that exposes Intercom tools
7

Initialize the MCP Server

python
server_params = {
    "url": url,
    "transport": "streamable-http",
    "headers": {"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY},
}

with MCPServerAdapter(server_params) as tools:
    agent = Agent(
        role="Search Assistant",
        goal="Help users search the internet effectively",
        backstory="You are a helpful assistant with access to search tools.",
        tools=tools,
        verbose=False,
        max_iter=10,
    )
What's Happening:
  • Server Configuration: The code sets up connection parameters including the MCP server URL, streamable HTTP transport, and Composio API key authentication.
  • MCP Adapter Bridge: MCPServerAdapter acts as a context manager that converts Composio MCP tools into a CrewAI-compatible format.
  • Agent Setup: Creates a CrewAI Agent with a defined role (Search Assistant), goal (help with internet searches), and access to the MCP tools.
  • Configuration Options: The agent includes settings like verbose=False for clean output and max_iter=10 to prevent infinite loops.
  • Dynamic Tool Usage: Once created, the agent automatically accesses all Composio Search tools and decides when to use them based on user queries.
8

Create a CLI Chatloop and define the Crew

python
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

conversation_context = ""

while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    task = Task(
        description=(
            f"Conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
            f"Current request: {user_input}"
        ),
        expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
        agent=agent,
    )

    crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task], verbose=False)
    result = crew.kickoff()
    response = str(result)

    conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
    print(f"Agent: {response}\n")
What's Happening:
  • Interactive CLI Setup: The code creates an infinite loop that continuously prompts for user input and maintains the entire conversation history in a string variable.
  • Input Validation: Empty inputs are ignored to prevent processing blank messages and keep the conversation clean.
  • Context Building: Each user message is appended to the conversation context, which preserves the full dialogue history for better agent responses.
  • Dynamic Task Creation: For every user input, a new Task is created that includes both the full conversation history and the current request as context.
  • Crew Execution: A Crew is instantiated with the agent and task, then kicked off to process the request and generate a response.
  • Response Management: The agent's response is converted to a string, added to the conversation context, and displayed to the user, maintaining conversational continuity.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Intercom and CrewAI:

python
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, LLM
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

load_dotenv()

GOOGLE_API_KEY = os.getenv("GOOGLE_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not GOOGLE_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("GOOGLE_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set in the environment.")

# Initialize Composio and create a session
composio = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY)
session = composio.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["intercom"],
)
url = session.mcp.url

# Configure LLM
llm = LLM(
    model="gpt-5",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
)

server_params = {
    "url": url,
    "transport": "streamable-http",
    "headers": {"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY},
}

with MCPServerAdapter(server_params) as tools:
    agent = Agent(
        role="Search Assistant",
        goal="Help users with internet searches",
        backstory="You are an expert assistant with access to Composio Search tools.",
        tools=tools,
        llm=llm,
        verbose=False,
        max_iter=10,
    )

    print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

    conversation_context = ""

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()

        if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
            print("\nGoodbye!")
            break

        if not user_input:
            continue

        conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
        print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

        task = Task(
            description=(
                f"Conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
                f"Current request: {user_input}"
            ),
            expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
            agent=agent,
        )

        crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task], verbose=False)
        result = crew.kickoff()
        response = str(result)

        conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
        print(f"Agent: {response}\n")

Conclusion

You now have a CrewAI agent connected to Intercom through Composio's Tool Router. The agent can perform Intercom operations through natural language commands.

Next steps:

  • Add role-specific instructions to customize agent behavior
  • Plug in more toolkits for multi-app workflows
  • Chain tasks for complex multi-step operations
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add subscription to a contact

You can add a specific subscription to a contact.

Add tag to contact

Tool to add a tag to a contact in Intercom.

Archive contact

Tool to archive a single contact in Intercom.

Assign conversation

Assigns a conversation to a specific admin or team in Intercom.

Attach contact to company

Tool to attach a contact to a company in Intercom.

Attach contact to conversation

Tool to attach a contact participant to a conversation on behalf of admin or contact.

Attach tag to conversation

Tool to add a tag to a specific conversation in Intercom.

Attach tag to ticket

Tool to add a tag to a ticket in Intercom.

Block contact

Tool to block a single contact in Intercom.

Cancel data export

Tool to cancel an active content data export job.

Close conversation

Closes a conversation in Intercom, marking it as resolved.

Create a collection

You can create a new collection by making a POST request to `https://api.

Create an article

You can create a new article by making a POST request to `https://api.

Create a note

You can add a note to a single contact.

Create contact

Tool to create a new contact in Intercom workspace.

Create content import source

Tool to create a new content import source for the Fin Content Library.

Create conversation

Creates a new conversation in Intercom.

Create data attribute

Tool to create a custom data attribute for contacts or companies.

Create data event

Tool to submit a data event to Intercom to track user activities.

Create data export

Tool to initiate an async data export job for message content.

Create external page

Tool to create an external page in Fin Content Library or update an existing page by external ID.

Create help center section

Tool to create a new help center section within a collection.

Create internal article

Tool to create a new internal article for team knowledge sharing.

Create or update a company

You can create or update a company.

Create or update tag

Tool to create or update a tag, and optionally tag/untag companies or tag contacts.

Create ticket

Tool to create a ticket in Intercom to track customer requests and issues.

Create a ticket type

Tool to create a new ticket type that defines the data structure for tracking customer requests.

Create ticket type attribute

Tool to create a new attribute for a ticket type in Intercom.

Create event summaries

Tool to create event summaries for a user to track event occurrences.

Delete a collection

You can delete a single collection by making a DELETE request to `https://api.

Delete a company

You can delete a single company.

Delete an article

You can delete a single article by making a DELETE request to `https://api.

Delete a tag

Tool to delete a tag from Intercom workspace.

Delete a visitor

Tool to delete a visitor from the Intercom workspace.

Delete a contact

Tool to delete a contact from the Intercom workspace.

Delete content import source

Tool to delete a content import source and all its external pages.

Delete external page

Tool to delete an external page from content library and AI answers.

Delete internal article

Tool to delete a single internal article by ID.

Delete ticket

Tool to delete a ticket from the Intercom system.

Detach a contact from tag

Tool to remove a tag from a specific contact in Intercom.

Detach contact from company

Tool to detach a contact from a company in Intercom.

Detach tag from conversation

Tool to remove a tag from a specific conversation in Intercom.

Detach tag from ticket

Tool to remove a tag from a ticket in Intercom.

Download data export

Tool to download content data export from Intercom.

Enqueue create ticket

Tool to enqueue ticket creation for asynchronous processing.

Find a tag

Tool to retrieve details for a specific tag by its ID.

Get a contact

You can fetch the details of a single contact.

Get content import source

Tool to retrieve a content import source by its ID.

Get conversation

Retrieves a specific conversation by ID with all messages and details.

Get entity counts

Tool to retrieve summary counts for Intercom app entities including companies, users, leads, tags, segments, and conversations.

Get custom object instance by external ID

Tool to retrieve a custom object instance by its external_id.

Get external page

Tool to retrieve an external page from Fin Content Library by ID.

Get ticket

Tool to retrieve a ticket from Intercom.

Get a ticket type

Tool to retrieve details for a specific ticket type by its ID.

Identify an admin

You can view the currently authorised admin along with the embedded app object (a "workspace" in legacy terminology).

Retrieve job status

Tool to retrieve the status of job execution.

List all activity logs

You can get a log of activities by all admins in an app.

List all admins

You can fetch a list of admins for a given workspace.

List all articles

You can fetch a list of all articles by making a GET request to `https://api.

List all collections

You can fetch a list of all collections by making a GET request to `https://api.

List all companies

You can list companies.

List all help centers

You can list all Help Centers by making a GET request to `https://api.

List all macros

Tool to fetch a list of all macros (saved replies) in your workspace for use in automating responses.

List all notes

You can fetch a list of notes that are associated to a contact.

List attached companies for contact

You can fetch a list of companies that are associated to a contact.

List attached contacts

You can fetch a list of all contacts that belong to a company.

List attached segments for companies

You can fetch a list of all segments that belong to a company.

List attached segments for contact

You can fetch a list of segments that are associated to a contact.

List away status reasons

Tool to retrieve all away status reasons for a workspace including deleted ones.

List calls

Tool to list all phone calls from Intercom with pagination support.

List calls with transcripts

Tool to retrieve calls by conversation IDs with transcripts when available.

List company notes

Tool to list all notes associated with a specific company.

List all contacts

Tool to list all contacts (users or leads) in your Intercom workspace with pagination support.

List content import sources

Tool to retrieve all content import sources for the workspace.

List conversations

Lists all conversations from Intercom with pagination support.

List data attributes

Tool to list all data attributes for contacts, companies, and conversations.

List data events

Tool to retrieve a log of data events belonging to a customer.

List external pages

Tool to list all external pages from Fin Content Library.

List help center sections

Tool to fetch a list of all help center sections in descending order by updated_at.

List internal articles

Fetches one page of internal articles from Intercom.

List all news items

Tool to fetch a list of all news items from Intercom.

List all segments

Tool to retrieve all segments defined within a workspace for filtering and categorizing contacts.

List subscriptions for a contact

You can fetch a list of subscription types that are attached to a contact.

List subscription types

Tool to list all subscription types available in the workspace.

List all tags

Tool to fetch all tags for the workspace.

List tags attached to a contact

You can fetch a list of all tags that are attached to a specific contact.

List all teams

Tool to retrieve all teams within a workspace.

List all ticket states

Tool to fetch all ticket states for the workspace.

List all ticket types

Tool to retrieve all ticket types for the workspace.

Merge a lead and a user

You can merge a contact with a `role` of `lead` into a contact with a `role` of `user`.

Register Fin Voice call

Tool to register a Fin Voice call with Intercom.

Remove subscription from a contact

You can remove a specific subscription from a contact.

Remove tag from a contact

You can remove tag from a specific contact.

Reopen conversation

Reopens a closed conversation in Intercom.

Reply to ticket

Tool to reply to a ticket with a message from admin or contact, or with a note for admins.

Reply to conversation

Sends a reply to an existing conversation in Intercom.

Retrieve a collection

You can fetch the details of a single collection by making a GET request to `https://api.

Retrieve a company by id

You can fetch a single company.

Retrieve a help center

You can fetch the details of a single Help Center by making a GET request to `https://api.

Retrieve job status

Tool to retrieve the status of a data export job.

Retrieve a macro

Tool to fetch a single macro (saved reply) by its ID.

Retrieve an admin

You can retrieve the details of a single admin.

Retrieve an article

You can fetch the details of a single article by making a GET request to `https://api.

Retrieve a segment

Tool to retrieve details for a single segment by its ID.

Retrieve companies

You can fetch a single company by passing in `company_id` or `name`.

Retrieve internal article

Tool to retrieve an internal article by ID from Intercom.

Retrieve note

Tool to retrieve details of a single note by its identifier.

Retrieve a team

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific team by ID.

Retrieve visitor with user ID

Tool to retrieve a specific visitor's details using their user_id.

Scroll over all companies

The `list all companies` functionality does not work well for huge datasets, and can result in errors and performance problems when paging deeply.

Search contacts

Tool to search for contacts using query filters with operators.

Search conversations

Searches for conversations using query string with support for filtering and sorting

Search for articles

You can search for articles by making a GET request to `https://api.

Search internal articles

Searches one page of internal articles in Intercom.

Search tickets

Tool to search tickets in Intercom by filtering attribute values.

Set admin to away

Tool to set an admin to away status in Intercom.

Set an admin to away

You can set an Admin as away for the Inbox.

Show call

Tool to retrieve a single call by ID from Intercom.

Show call transcript

Tool to get call transcript by call ID.

Show contact by external ID

Tool to retrieve a contact by their external ID.

Unarchive contact

Tool to unarchive a previously archived contact in Intercom.

Update a collection

You can update the details of a single collection by making a PUT request to `https://api.

Update a company

You can update a single company using the Intercom provisioned `id`.

Update a contact

You can update an existing contact (ie.

Update an article

You can update the details of a single article by making a PUT request to `https://api.

Update contact

Tool to update an existing contact in Intercom.

Update content import source

Tool to update an existing content import source in Fin Content Library.

Update data attribute

Tool to update an existing data attribute in Intercom.

Update external page

Tool to update an existing external page in Fin Content Library.

Update internal article

Tool to update an internal article with new title, body, author or owner information.

Update ticket

Tool to update an existing ticket in Intercom.

Update a ticket type

Tool to update an existing ticket type in the workspace.

Update ticket type attribute

Tool to update an existing attribute for a ticket type.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. CrewAI 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 Intercom tools.

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

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