How to connect Monday MCP to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to Monday MCP MCP. List overdue items across project boards, create sprint tasks for engineering team, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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monday.com is a work management platform for projects, workflows, boards, docs, and dashboards. It helps teams plan work, track progress, and collaborate without scattered status updates.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Monday MCP account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list overdue items across project boards, create sprint tasks for engineering team, summarize updates on launch board, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Monday MCP to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Monday MCP account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Monday MCP or give it any Monday MCP-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List overdue items across project boards"
  • "Create sprint tasks for engineering team"
  • "Summarize updates on launch board"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Monday MCP account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Monday MCP through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Monday MCP 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 MCP account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Monday MCP operations on your behalf.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

All monday api

Execute any monday.

All widgets schema

Fetch complete JSON Schema 7 definitions for all available widget types in monday.

Board insights

This tool allows you to calculate insights about board's data by filtering, grouping and aggregating columns.

Change item column values

Change the column values of an item in a monday.

Create board

Create a monday.

Create column

Create a new column in a monday.

Create dashboard

Use this tool to create a new monday.

Create doc

Create a new monday.

Create folder

Create a new folder in a monday.

Create form

Create a monday.

Create group

Create a new group in a monday.

Create item

Create a new item with provided values, create a subitem under a parent item, or duplicate an existing item and update it with new values.

Create update

Create a new update (comment/post) on a monday.

Create widget

Create a new widget in a dashboard or board view with specific configuration settings.

Create workspace

Create a new workspace in monday.

Form questions editor

Create, update, or delete a question in a monday.

Get board activity

Get board activity logs for a specified time range (defaults to last 30 days)

Get board info

Get comprehensive board information including metadata, structure, owners, and configuration

Get board items page

Get all items from a monday.

Get column type info

Retrieves comprehensive information about a specific column type, including JSON schema definition and other metadata.

Get form

Get a monday.

Get graphql schema

Fetch the monday.

Get monday dev sprints boards

Discover monday-dev sprints boards and their associated tasks boards in your account.

Get sprints metadata

Get comprehensive sprint metadata from a monday-dev sprints board including: ## Data Retrieved: A table of sprints with the following information: - Sprint ID - Sprint Name - Sprint timeline (planned from/to dates) - Sprint completion status (completed/in-progress/planned) - Sprint start date (actual) - Sprint end date (actual) - Sprint activation status - Sprint summary document object ID ## Parameters: - **limit**: Number of sprints to retrieve (default: 25, max: 100) Requires the Main Sprints board ID of the monday-dev containing your sprints.

Get sprint summary

Get the complete summary and analysis of a sprint.

Get type details

Get detailed information about a specific GraphQL type from the monday.

Get user context

Fetch current user information and their relevant items (boards, folders, workspaces, dashboards).

List users and teams

Tool to fetch users and/or teams data.

List workspaces

List all workspaces available to the user.

Move object

Move a folder, board, or overview in monday.

Read docs

Get a collection of monday.

Search

Search within monday.

Update folder

Update an existing folder in monday.

Update form

Update a monday.

Update workspace

Update an existing workspace in monday.

Workspace info

This tool returns the boards, docs and folders in a workspace and which folder they are in.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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 Monday MCP tools.

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

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