How to connect Nylas MCP to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to Nylas MCP. Summarize unread emails from this morning, create draft replies to urgent messages, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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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 Nylas account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to summarize unread emails from this morning, create draft replies to urgent messages, schedule meetings from email threads, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Nylas 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 Nylas account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

"Summarize unread emails from this morning"
"Create draft replies to urgent messages"
"Schedule meetings from email threads"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

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

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Availability

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Confirm send draft

MUST be called before send_draft.

Confirm send message

MUST be called before send_message.

Create draft

Create a draft email.

Create event

Create a calendar event.

Current time

Get current epoch time and ISO 8601 date.

Datetime to epoch

Convert date (YYYY-MM-DD), time (HH:MM:SS), and timezone to Unix timestamp.

Delete draft

Delete a draft.

Delete event

Delete an event.

Download attachment

Download an email attachment by message ID and attachment ID (maximum 10 MiB).

Epoch to datetime

Convert Unix timestamps to human-readable date-time.

Get contact

Get a single contact by ID.

Get event

Get a single event by ID.

Get folder by

Get a folder by ID.

Get grant

Look up grant by email address.

Get message

Get a single email message by ID.

Get notetaker

Get details for one grant-scoped Notetaker bot by notetaker_id.

Get notetaker media

Get fresh media links for one grant-scoped Notetaker bot.

Get notetaker transcript

Get the transcript for one grant-scoped Notetaker bot by notetaker_id.

Get search syntax

Get provider-specific search query syntax for use with search_query_native in list_messages/list_threads.

Get standalone notetaker

Get details for one standalone Notetaker bot by notetaker_id.

Get standalone notetaker media

Get fresh media links for one standalone Notetaker bot.

List calendars

List all calendars.

List contacts

List contacts.

List events

List events in a calendar.

List folders

List email folders/labels.

List messages

List and search email messages.

List notetakers

List grant-scoped Notetaker bots.

List standalone notetakers

List standalone Notetaker bots for the application.

List threads

List and search email threads.

Schedule notetaker

Schedule a grant-scoped Notetaker bot for a future Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom meeting.

Schedule standalone notetaker

Schedule a standalone Notetaker bot for a future Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom meeting without tying it to a grant.

Send draft

Send an existing draft.

Send message

Send an email immediately.

Send notetaker

Send a grant-scoped Notetaker bot to an active Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom meeting.

Send standalone notetaker

Send a standalone Notetaker bot to an active Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom meeting without tying it to a grant.

Update draft

Update an existing draft.

Update event

Update an existing event.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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