How to integrate Monday MCP with CrewAI

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Monday.com is a customizable work management platform for project planning and collaboration. It helps teams organize tasks, automate workflows, and track progress in real time.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Monday to CrewAI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Monday agent that can create and update items, set board column values, organize boards and groups, post updates, and write docs through natural language commands.

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

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

For exact tool slugs and parameter tables, see the tool catalog in the Composio docs.

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TL;DR

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

The Monday MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Monday account. It provides structured and secure access to your boards, items, columns, users, sprints, and docs, so your agent can create projects, manage work items, update board details, track sprints, and organize teams on your behalf.

  • Board and project creation: Have your agent create boards, convert existing boards into projects, connect projects to portfolios, and update board settings.
  • Item and workflow management: Let the agent create items from your instructions, find work by column values, move items between groups, and update text, status, or dropdown fields.
  • Board structure and access: Direct your agent to create columns, add users to boards, and set default board roles and permissions.
  • Sprint and work tracking: Instruct your agent to review sprint data, retrieve board items, and check item details, status, and group placement.
  • Workspace content and organization: Have your agent retrieve Monday docs, list account users, update folder details, and confirm which Monday account is connected.

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 Monday 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 Monday 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 Monday MCP URL
6

Create a Composio Tool Router session for Monday

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

url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • You create a Monday only session through Composio
  • Composio returns an MCP HTTP URL that exposes Monday 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 Monday 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=["monday"],
)
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 Monday through Composio's Tool Router. The agent can perform Monday 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 & TRIGGERS

Supported Tools and Triggers

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

Get account trigger statistics

Tool to retrieve statistics about account-level triggers and automations.

Activate users

Tool to activate or reactivate users in a Monday.

Add subscribers to object

Tool to add subscribers or owners to a monday.

Add teams to board

Tool to add teams to a Monday.

Add users to board

Adds users to a Monday.

Add users to team

Adds users to a Monday.

Add users to workspace

Adds existing users to a workspace.

Aggregate board data

Aggregate data from a Monday.

Get app subscription

Tool to retrieve current app subscription data for the account.

Archive board

Archives a specified, existing, and unarchived board in Monday.

Archive item

Archives an existing Monday.

Archive object

Archives a Monday.

Archive workspace

Delete a Monday.

Get audit logs

Tool to retrieve detailed security-related activity records for a Monday.

Get document blocks

Tool to retrieve document block data from workdocs via the API.

Get boards

Retrieves metadata for one or multiple monday.

Change simple column value

Changes a monday.

Get board columns

Retrieves column metadata from monday.

Get connection board IDs

Tool to retrieve board IDs associated with connection columns.

Get connections

Tool to retrieve connection data for integrations with external services.

Connect project to portfolio

Links an existing project board to a portfolio board for centralized management.

Convert board to project

Converts a regular Monday.

Create a Monday board

Creates a Monday.

Create column

Creates a new column with a specified type and title on a monday.

Create custom activity

Tool to create a custom activity in the Monday.

Create a Monday dashboard

Tool to create a Monday.

Create doc

Tool to create a new doc in Monday.

Create a folder

Tool to create a new folder in a Monday.

Create group

Creates a new group with the given `group_name` on an existing Monday.

Create item

Creates a new item on a Monday.

Create Item From Natural Language

Creates a new item on a Monday.

Create notification

Tool to send a notification to a user.

Create object

Execute a custom Monday.

Create tag

Tool to create a new tag or return an existing tag.

Create timeline item

Tool to create a new timeline item in the Emails & Activities app on a Monday.

Create update

Tool to create a new update for an item or reply to an existing update.

Invite and create a Monday user

Tool to invite and create a new user.

Create a Monday workspace

Tool to create a Monday.

Get custom activity

Tool to retrieve custom activity data from the Emails & Activities app.

Deactivate users

Deactivates up to 200 users per request from a monday.

Delete asset

Remove uploaded files by deleting an enclosing update or clearing all files from an item's File column; the required asset ID does not select which file is removed.

Delete board

Tool to permanently delete a board from your Monday.

Delete column

Deletes a specified column from a Monday.

Delete Custom Activity

Tool to delete a custom activity from the Emails & Activities app.

Delete doc

Deletes a Monday.

Delete folder

Tool to permanently delete a folder and all its contents from a Monday.

Delete group

Permanently deletes an existing group (and its items) from an existing board in Monday.

Delete item

Permanently deletes an existing Monday.

Delete object

Tool to permanently delete a Monday.

Delete subscribers from board

Tool to remove subscribers from a Monday.

Delete tag

Tool to remove a tag from an item in Monday.

Delete team

Delete an existing Monday.

Delete teams from board

Remove teams from a Monday.

Delete teams from workspace

Tool to remove teams from a workspace.

Delete timeline item

Tool to delete a timeline item from the Emails & Activities app.

Delete update

Tool to delete an update by its ID.

Delete workspace

Tool to permanently delete a workspace by its ID.

Retrieve Monday docs

Tool to retrieve Monday.

Duplicate board

Tool to duplicate a Monday.

Duplicate item

Duplicates an item on a Monday.

Edit update

Tool to modify the text content of an existing update on an item.

Get account info

Retrieve account metadata and settings for the authenticated Monday.

Get board activity logs

Tool to retrieve activity logs from a specific Monday.

Get API version

Tool to retrieve the Monday.

Get assets

Tool to retrieve file/asset metadata from monday.

Get board views

Tool to retrieve board view data via GraphQL API.

Get favorites

Tool to retrieve all favorited items for the authenticated user.

Get folders

Tool to retrieve folder data from workspaces with filtering and pagination options.

Get form details

Tool to retrieve form metadata via the API using the form's unique token from the URL.

Get items by IDs

Tool to retrieve specific items by their IDs from Monday.

Get current user

Tool to fetch the current authenticated user's profile and permissions.

Execute GraphQL and get mutation complexity

Execute a caller-provided Monday.

Get query complexity

Retrieve Monday.

Get tags

Tool to retrieve tags from the account.

Get teams

Tool to retrieve teams from Monday.

Get update replies

Retrieves updates and their replies for a specific Monday.

Get item updates

Tool to retrieve updates for a specific item.

Get API versions

Tool to retrieve data about available API versions.

Get view schema by type

Tool to retrieve type-specific board view configuration schemas via GraphQL API.

Get webhooks

Tool to retrieve webhooks for a board.

Get workspaces

Tool to retrieve workspaces.

Import doc from HTML

Tool to import HTML content into a new Monday.

Get items page

Retrieve a page of items from a Monday.

Like update

Tool to like an update on an item.

List groups

Retrieves groups from a specified Monday.

List items

Retrieve specified Monday.

List items by column values

Tool to search for items on a Monday.

List subitems by parent

Tool to retrieve subitems nested under parent items via GraphQL API.

List team members

List members of Monday.

List users

Retrieves a list of users from Monday.

Move item to board

Moves a Monday.

Move item to group

Moves an item to a different group on the same Monday.

Query board mute settings

Tool to query a board's notification mute settings.

Pin update to top

Tool to pin an update to the top of an item.

Publish object

Tool to publish a Monday.

Query dashboards

Query Monday.

Query sprints

Tool to query sprint data for agile project management from Monday.

Remove users from team

Removes users from a Monday.

Remove users from workspace

Tool to remove users from a workspace.

Set board permission

Sets or updates a board's default role and permissions.

Get item timeline

Tool to retrieve an item's Email & Activities (E&A) timeline data from Monday.

Get timeline item

Tool to retrieve a specific timeline item from the Emails & Activities app by ID.

Unlike update

Tool to remove a like from an update on an item.

Unpin update from top

Tool to unpin an update from the top of an item.

Unpublish object

Unpublish a Monday.

Update board

Updates a specified attribute of an existing board on Monday.

Update board hierarchy

Updates a board's position, workspace, or product in Monday.

Update column

Tool to update column title or description.

Update a doc

Updates a doc's title and/or adds Markdown content, optionally after a specified block.

Update email domain

Tool to update users' email domains.

Update a Monday folder

Tool to update a Monday.

Update group

Tool to update an existing group on a board.

Update item

Tool to update an existing item's column value on Monday.

Update multiple users

Tool to update one or multiple users' attributes on Monday.

Update mute board settings

Tool to update a board's notification mute settings.

Update tag

Tool to return a tag's details or best-effort "rename" by creating or getting a tag with the requested name.

Update team

Add users to a Monday.

Update users role

Updates users' roles to custom or default roles; this admin-only operation cannot update your own role.

Update a Monday workspace

Tool to update a Monday.

Upload Asset

Tool to upload a file to an update or file column.

Get user connections

Tool to query user-specific connection data from Monday.

Who Am I

Return the identity (name, email, account) of the connected monday.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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