How to integrate Microsoft teams MCP with Claude Agent SDK

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Microsoft teams to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Microsoft teams agent that can add new member to project team, schedule an online meeting for sales, list all chats i’m part of, get details for marketing team channel through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Microsoft teams account through Composio's Microsoft teams 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 Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Microsoft teams
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Microsoft teams as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Microsoft teams operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

  • Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
  • Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
  • Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

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

The Microsoft Teams MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Microsoft Teams account. It provides structured and secure access to your Teams workspace, so your agent can perform actions like managing chats, sending messages, creating meetings, and organizing teams on your behalf.

  • Automated chat and message management: Let your agent retrieve, read, and summarize messages from any Teams chat, or fetch all chats you’re part of for quick updates.
  • Team and channel organization: Easily create new teams, add members, get channel details, or archive and delete teams to keep your workspace organized.
  • Scheduling online meetings: Have your agent schedule standalone Teams meetings instantly, making it simple to coordinate with colleagues or clients without manual setup.
  • Granular access to team and chat details: Fetch full information about specific teams, channels, or even individual messages with precision, enabling rich contextual workflows.
  • Seamless membership and collaboration management: Add or update members in teams with a prompt, ensuring the right people always have access to the conversations and resources they need.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Add member to teamTool to add a user to a microsoft teams team.
Archive Teams teamTool to archive a microsoft teams team.
Get all chatsRetrieves all microsoft teams chats a specified user is part of, supporting filtering, property selection, and pagination.
Get all chat messagesRetrieves all messages from a specified microsoft teams chat using the microsoft graph api, automatically handling pagination; ensure `chat id` is valid and odata expressions in `filter` or `select` are correct.
Create online meetingUse to schedule a new standalone microsoft teams online meeting, i.
Create TeamTool to create a new microsoft teams team.
Delete Teams teamTool to delete a microsoft teams team.
Get team channelTool to get a specific channel in a team.
Get chat messageTool to get a specific chat message.
Get TeamTool to get a specific team.
List message repliesTool to list replies to a channel message.
List team membersTool to list members of a microsoft teams team.
List Teams templatesTool to list available microsoft teams templates.
List usersTool to list all users in the organization.
Create a channelCreates a new 'standard', 'private', or 'shared' channel within a specified microsoft teams team.
Create ChatCreates a new chat; if a 'oneonone' chat with the specified members already exists, its details are returned, while 'group' chats are always newly created.
Get Teams messageRetrieves a specific message from a microsoft teams channel using its team, channel, and message ids.
List TeamsRetrieves microsoft teams accessible by the authenticated user, allowing filtering, property selection, and pagination.
List team channelsRetrieves channels for a specified microsoft teams team id (must be valid and for an existing team), with options to include shared channels, filter results, and select properties.
List chat messagesRetrieves messages (newest first) from an existing and accessible microsoft teams one-on-one chat, group chat, or channel thread, specified by `chat id`.
List PeopleRetrieves a list of people relevant to a specified user from microsoft graph, noting the `search` parameter is only effective if `user id` is 'me'.
Post message to Teams channelPosts a new text or html message to a specified channel in a microsoft teams team.
Send message to Teams chatSends a non-empty message (text or html) to a specified, existing microsoft teams chat; content must be valid html if `content type` is 'html'.
Reply to Teams channel messageSends a reply to an existing message, identified by `message id`, within a specific `channel id` of a given `team id` in microsoft teams.
Unarchive Teams teamTool to unarchive a microsoft teams team.
Update Teams channel messageTool to update a message in a channel.
Update Teams chat messageTool to update a specific message in a chat.
Update TeamTool to update the properties of a team.

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 Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
  • A Microsoft teams account
  • Some knowledge of Python

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
  • 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.

Install dependencies

pip install composio-anthropic claude-agent-sdk python-dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

  • composio-anthropic provides Composio integration for Anthropic
  • claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude

Import dependencies

import asyncio
from claude_agent_sdk import ClaudeSDKClient, ClaudeAgentOptions
import os
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
What's happening:
  • We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
  • The load_dotenv() function loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with Microsoft teams functionality

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async def chat_with_remote_mcp():
    api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
    if not api_key:
        raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")

    composio = Composio(api_key=api_key)

    # Create Tool Router session for Microsoft teams
    mcp_server = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["microsoft_teams"]
    )

    url = mcp_server.mcp.url

    if not url:
        raise ValueError("Session URL not found")
What's happening:
  • The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
  • We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
  • The create method creates a Tool Router session for Microsoft teams
  • The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

# Configure remote MCP server for Claude
options = ClaudeAgentOptions(
    permission_mode="bypassPermissions",
    mcp_servers={
        "composio": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": url,
            "headers": {
                "x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
            }
        }
    },
    system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant with access to Microsoft teams tools via Composio.",
    max_turns=10
)
What's happening:
  • We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
  • permission_mode="bypassPermissions" allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
  • The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to Microsoft teams
  • max_turns=10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage

Create client and start chat loop

# Create client with context manager
async with ClaudeSDKClient(options=options) as client:
    print("\nChat started. Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

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

        # Send query
        await client.query(user_input)

        # Receive and print response
        print("Claude: ", end="", flush=True)
        async for message in client.receive_response():
            if hasattr(message, "content"):
                for block in message.content:
                    if hasattr(block, "text"):
                        print(block.text, end="", flush=True)
        print()
What's happening:
  • The Claude SDK client is created using the async context manager pattern
  • The agent processes each query and streams the response back in real-time
  • The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'

Run the application

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(chat_with_remote_mcp())
What's happening:
  • This entry point runs the async chat_with_remote_mcp() function using asyncio.run()
  • The application will start, create the MCP connection, and begin the interactive chat session

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Microsoft teams and Claude Agent SDK:

import asyncio
from claude_agent_sdk import ClaudeSDKClient, ClaudeAgentOptions
import os
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

async def chat_with_remote_mcp():
    api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
    if not api_key:
        raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")

    composio = Composio(api_key=api_key)

    # Create Tool Router session for Microsoft teams
    mcp_server = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["microsoft_teams"]
    )

    url = mcp_server.mcp.url

    if not url:
        raise ValueError("Session URL not found")

    # Configure remote MCP server for Claude
    options = ClaudeAgentOptions(
        permission_mode="bypassPermissions",
        mcp_servers={
            "composio": {
                "type": "http",
                "url": url,
                "headers": {
                    "x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
                }
            }
        },
        system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant with access to Microsoft teams tools via Composio.",
        max_turns=10
    )

    # Create client with context manager
    async with ClaudeSDKClient(options=options) as client:
        print("\nChat started. Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

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

            # Send query
            await client.query(user_input)

            # Receive and print response
            print("Claude: ", end="", flush=True)
            async for message in client.receive_response():
                if hasattr(message, "content"):
                    for block in message.content:
                        if hasattr(block, "text"):
                            print(block.text, end="", flush=True)
            print()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(chat_with_remote_mcp())

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with Microsoft teams through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

  • Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
  • Streaming responses for real-time interaction
  • Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows
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 Microsoft teams MCP?

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

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Agent SDK?

Yes, you can. Claude Agent 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 Microsoft teams tools.

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

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

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