How to connect Nutshell to Claude Cowork

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 Nutshell account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all open deals in the current pipeline, add a new contact with name and email, update the status of deal 'Acme Corp' to won, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Nutshell is a flexible CRM and email marketing platform for small businesses. It helps manage contacts, sales pipelines, and customer relationships efficiently.

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 Nutshell account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all open deals in the current pipeline, add a new contact with name and email, update the status of deal 'Acme Corp' to won, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Nutshell 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 Nutshell account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List all open deals in the current pipeline."
  • "Add a new contact with name and email."
  • "Update the status of deal 'Acme Corp' to won."

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Nutshell 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 Nutshell through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Nutshell MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Nutshell account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Nutshell operations on your behalf.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Nutshell MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Nutshell tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Nutshell 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 Nutshell tools.

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

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