How to connect Kintone REST MCP with ChatGPT

Connect ChatGPT to Kintone REST MCP. List all records in sales app, create a new record in leads app, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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How to connect Kintone REST MCP with ChatGPT

ChatGPT can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours, and turn a goal into finished materials like sheets, slides, and docs, not just answers.

In this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Kintone REST account to ChatGPT via Composio Connect, so it can read records, create and update records, query app data, manage app settings, and export records through natural language commands without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why use Composio over default connectors?

  • Apps with read and write access. Default connectors mostly can read your data. Composio's Kintone REST integration lets ChatGPT take actions like creating drafts, sending updates, labeling records, and more.
  • 1,500+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors, from Gmail and Slack to Notion, Linear, and Salesforce.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand.
  • Cross-app automation. Chain actions across multiple apps in a single run - fetch a thread, summarize it in Notion, and post highlights to Slack without leaving the conversation.

Prerequisites

  • A ChatGPT account. We will use the ChatGPT desktop app, and the steps are the same on the web.
  • Access to the Kintone REST workspace you want to connect.
  • Composio plugin.

Note: Composio connects through OAuth. You will be asked to sign in and approve specific permissions. Review the permission screen carefully if you are using a work account.

Step-by-step: Connect Kintone REST to ChatGPT

1. Install the Composio plugin

Click the button. ChatGPT opens the Composio plugin page. Click Install plugin.

Install in ChatGPT

Composio plugin page in ChatGPT with the Install plugin button

You can also find it inside ChatGPT: go to Settings, open Plugins, search the marketplace for Composio, and click Install plugin.

2. Authenticate

After you install, ChatGPT asks you to authenticate with Composio. Log in and click Allow access to authorize ChatGPT to use your Composio account.

Composio login and Allow access screen for ChatGPT

3. Start using Composio

That is it. Composio tools are now available in ChatGPT. Type @Composio followed by your request, for example @Composio find unread Kintone REST messages and summarize them, and it will run the actions you authorize. On first use it asks you to authorize Kintone REST.

Option 2: Add Composio as an MCP server

If you cannot use the plugin marketplace, add Composio as a custom MCP server instead.

1. Open the MCP settings

In ChatGPT, go to Settings and open the Plugins section. Inside the Plugins page, click the MCP tab.

ChatGPT settings showing the Plugins page with the MCP tab selected

2. Add the server

Click Add server. In the Name field enter Composio, for Type select Streamable HTTP, and in the URL field paste the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
ChatGPT Add server dialog with the name Composio, type Streamable HTTP, and the Composio MCP URL

Then click Save. The Composio server now appears in your MCP plugins list.

ChatGPT Plugins page showing the Composio MCP server added to the list

3. Authenticate

Click Authenticate on the Composio entry, log in via Composio, and click Allow access. Composio tools are then available in ChatGPT the same way as with the plugin.

What you can do after connecting Kintone REST

  • List all records in Sales app
  • Create a new record in Leads app
  • Update records matching status open in Sales

Security + privacy notes (important)

  • Use least-privilege access: Only grant permissions you actually need.
  • Review OAuth permissions before approving: Make sure requested scopes match what you expect Composio and ChatGPT to do.
  • Keep write actions human-reviewed: For actions like sending messages, creating labels, or editing drafts, keep manual confirmation enabled.
  • Be careful with sensitive data: Avoid using this setup with highly sensitive information unless allowed by your personal, company, or client policies.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Comment

Add one comment to a Kintone record, optionally mentioning up to 10 users, groups, or organizations.

Add Form Fields

Add typed fields to an app's pre-live form, including selections, lookups, related-record lists, groups, and nested tables.

Add Preview App

Create a pre-live Kintone app and return its app ID and initial settings revision.

Create Record

Create one record in a Kintone app from field-code values and return its record ID and revision.

Create Records

Create one to 100 records atomically in one Kintone app and return their record IDs and revisions in input order.

Delete Comment

Permanently delete one comment from a Kintone record.

Delete Form Fields

Delete up to 100 fields from an app's pre-live form.

Delete Records

Permanently delete one to 100 explicitly identified records from a Kintone app.

Deploy App Settings

Atomically apply the complete pre-live settings of up to 300 Kintone apps to their live apps.

Discard App Settings Changes

Permanently discard every pre-live settings change for up to 300 Kintone apps and restore each preview to its current live settings.

Download File

Download an attachment up to 100 MB using the file key returned by a record read.

Get Action Settings

Return deployed or unpublished record-copy action settings of an app, including destinations, mappings, availability, order, and revision.

Get App

Gets general information of an App, including the name, description, related Space, creator and updater information.

Get App Deploy Status

Get the deployment status of settings for up to 300 Kintone apps.

Get App Permissions

Return deployed or unpublished app-level permissions and settings revision in priority order.

Get App Settings

Return an app's deployed or unpublished name, description, title-field configuration, feature flags, theme, icon, and revision.

Get Customization

Return deployed or unpublished desktop and mobile JavaScript and CSS customization files, scope, and revision for an app.

Get Field Permissions

Return deployed or unpublished field permissions, including prioritized subjects and each field's access level.

Get Form

Read a deployed or unpublished app form in Kintone's legacy property-array format.

Get Form Fields

Return deployed or unpublished field codes, types, labels, and settings so an agent can construct valid record values and queries.

Get Form Layout

Return deployed or unpublished field layout information for an app form, including rows, groups, tables, fields, and sizes.

Get General Notification Settings

Get an app's deployed or unpublished general-notification recipients, event conditions, commenter option, and revision.

Get Graph Settings

Return deployed or unpublished graph definitions with their chart, aggregation, grouping, sorting, periodic-report settings, and revision.

Get Per Record Notification Settings

Get an app's deployed or unpublished conditional per-record notifications, recipients, subjects, and revision.

Get Process Management Settings

Return deployed or unpublished process-management enablement, statuses, assignee rules, transitions, branch conditions, and revision.

Get Record

Retrieve one record from a Kintone app by its record ID.

Get Record Permissions

Return deployed or unpublished record permission rules, preserving each query filter and prioritized subject list.

Get Reminder Notification Settings

Get an app's deployed or unpublished reminder timing, filters, recipients, timezone, and revision.

Get Views

Return deployed or unpublished list, calendar, custom, and built-in view settings, including filters, sorting, displayed fields, and revision.

List Apps

Find apps visible to the connected Kintone user by name, ID, code, or space and return one offset-controlled page of app metadata.

List Comments

Retrieve one offset-controlled page of up to 10 comments from a Kintone record.

Search Records

Search an app's records with a Kintone query and return one offset-controlled page.

Update Action Settings

Replace the complete unpublished record-copy action map.

Update App Permissions

Replace app-level permissions in priority order and deploy all pending app settings, not only permissions.

Update Assignees

Replace the assignees of one Kintone record whose app uses Process Management.

Update Customization

Update unpublished desktop and mobile JavaScript and CSS customization.

Update Field Permissions

Replace field permissions and deploy all pending app settings, not only permissions.

Update Form Fields

Update typed field settings in an app's pre-live form.

Update Form Layout

Replace an app's complete pre-live form layout.

Update General Notification Settings

Replace or selectively update an app's undeployed general-notification settings; deploy the app settings afterward to make them live.

Update General Settings

Update unpublished general app settings such as name, description, icon, theme, feature flags, title field, and number precision.

Update Graph Settings

Replace the complete unpublished graph map.

Update Per Record Notification Settings

Replace an app's undeployed per-record notification rules; deploy the app settings afterward to make them live.

Update Preview App Permissions

Replace the complete unpublished app-level permission list in priority order without deploying it.

Update Preview Field Permissions

Replace the complete unpublished field permission list without deploying it.

Update Preview Record Permissions

Replace the complete unpublished record permission rule list without deploying it.

Update Process Management Settings

Update unpublished process-management settings.

Update Record

Update selected fields of one Kintone record by record ID, optionally requiring an expected revision.

Update Record Permissions

Replace record permission rules and deploy all pending app settings, not only permissions.

Update Records

Update selected fields of one to 100 Kintone records atomically by record ID, optionally checking each revision.

Update Reminder Notification Settings

Replace or selectively update an app's undeployed reminder rules and timezone; deploy the app settings afterward to make them live.

Update Status

Run one Process Management action to update a Kintone record's workflow status, optionally selecting the next assignee and checking the current revision.

Update Statuses

Run Process Management actions for one to 100 Kintone records in the same app, optionally selecting assignees and checking revisions.

Update Views

Replace the complete unpublished list, calendar, and custom view map.

Upload File

Upload one managed file to Kintone and return the temporary file key used to attach it to a record within three days.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. ChatGPT 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 Kintone REST tools.

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

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