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How to connect Kintone REST to Grok Bot

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Introduction

Grok is xAI's assistant, and its bot builder lets you create a personal agent that holds context, runs skills, and connects to the apps you already use through plugins.

This guide explains how to connect Kintone REST to a Grok bot using Composio Connect, which handles OAuth, token refresh, and reliability so you do not have to. You add Composio as a plugin, authenticate once, then ask your bot to work with Kintone REST in plain language.

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Why use Composio?

Composio exposes 1,500+ apps to your Grok bot through a single connection, so you get:

  • Connect to 1,500+ apps with on-demand tool loading, so you do not fill your context window with unnecessary tool definitions.
  • Use programmatic tool calling through a remote workbench, letting the model write its own code to handle complex tool chaining. This reduces back-and-forth for frequent tool calls.
  • Handle large tool responses outside the model context to keep conversations lean.

Connecting Kintone REST to Grok Bot

Once Grok Bot is set up, you connect Kintone REST entirely from its interface, and the whole flow takes under a minute.

Set up Grok Bot

Get access. Grok Bot is included with Cursor Ultra, Cursor Premium Teams, and SuperGrok Heavy. Get the desktop app for macOS or Windows from x.ai/bot and sign in. An iPhone companion app is also available, and your bots sync across devices.

Create a bot. Pick a suggested role or define your own, then give it a short name, one primary job, and a short description of how it should work. Focused bots work best, because a clear role gives the bot more useful context over time.

Connect Kintone REST

1. Add the Composio plugin

Click the button. The Composio listing on x.ai opens and launches Grok Bot for you. If the app does not open on its own, click Add to Grok Bot.

Add to Grok Bot

Composio for Grok Bot listing on x.ai with the Add to Grok Bot button

Grok Bot opens the Composio plugin, showing its connector and skills. Click Add.

Composio plugin sheet in Grok Bot with the Add button

2. Authenticate

Go to the Installed section and click the Composio entry. You'll see its connector and skills listed.

Installed Composio plugin showing the Authenticate button

Click Authenticate. You'll be taken to the Composio consent screen. Review the access it requests and click Authorize. Composio handles the OAuth handshake for you, so you never touch API keys or tokens.

Composio authorization screen with Authorize and Deny

3. Connect your Kintone REST account

Back in the chat, ask your bot to connect to Kintone REST or give it any Kintone REST task.

For example, ask it to:

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

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in your Grok bot, and your Kintone REST account is ready to use.

What is Grok Bot?

Grok is xAI's assistant, available as a chat interface and a bot builder for creating personal agents that run skills and connect to external apps.

With Composio Connect, your Grok bot can securely access apps like Kintone REST through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Kintone REST MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Kintone REST account. It provides structured and secure access to your apps, records, comments, forms, and app settings, so your agent can find records, create records, manage comments, configure apps, and deploy app settings on your behalf.

  • Record search and management: Have your agent search and read records, create single records or batches, and delete records you no longer need.
  • Comments and attachments: Let the agent list, add, or delete record comments, mention Kintone users and groups, and download attached files.
  • Form and layout configuration: Direct your agent to inspect form fields and layouts, then add, update, remove, or rearrange fields in an app's unpublished form.
  • Permissions and notifications: Instruct your agent to review or update app, record, and field permissions, and manage general, per-record, or reminder notification settings.
  • App settings and deployment: Have your agent inspect app settings, views, graphs, process management, actions, and customizations, then deploy pending settings or discard unpublished changes.

Way Forward

Now that Kintone REST is connected, extend your setup by connecting the other apps you already use every day, so your Grok bot can run true cross-app workflows end to end.

  • Connect Calendar to turn threads into scheduled meetings automatically.
  • Connect Slack or Teams to post summaries, approvals, and alerts where your team works.
  • Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, or Asana to convert requests into tickets, tasks, and docs.
  • Connect Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to fetch, file, and share attachments without manual steps.

Start with one workflow you do repeatedly, then keep adding apps as you find new handoffs. With everything behind a single connection, your bot can coordinate multiple tools safely and reliably in one conversation.

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.

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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. Grok Bot 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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