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How to connect Oboard to Claude

Connect Claude Web, Desktop and Cowork to Oboard MCP. List overdue oboard objectives by team, update progress for quarterly oboard goals, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Oboard is an objectives and key results platform for managing goals, teams, and workspaces. It gives organizations a clear view of progress and priorities in one place.

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Introduction

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Oboard account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to list overdue Oboard objectives by team, update progress for quarterly Oboard goals, compare team OKR progress across workspaces, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

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Connecting Oboard to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

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Add manually

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

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

2. 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 Web, Desktop, and Cowork

3. Connect your Oboard account

Back in Claude, ask it to connect to Oboard or give it any Oboard-related task.

For example, ask Claude to:

  • "List overdue Oboard objectives by team"
  • "Update progress for quarterly Oboard goals"
  • "Compare team OKR progress across workspaces"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Claude, and your Oboard account is ready to use.

What is the Oboard Claude Connector, and what's possible with it?

The Oboard MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Oboard account. It provides structured and secure access to objectives, key results, progress updates, check-ins, teams, groups, workspaces, and planning data, so your agent can review goals, update progress, manage team access, organize workspaces, and maintain strategic planning information on your behalf.

  • Goal and key result management: Have your agent create, retrieve, update, replace, and delete Oboard objectives, key results, and Jira-linked elements.
  • Progress and check-in tracking: Let the agent record check-ins, update progress values, review progress history, search check-ins, and add or review comments for goals.
  • Workspace and planning oversight: Direct your agent to list accessible workspaces, review planning intervals, find child elements, and inspect labels, confidence levels, and custom fields.
  • Team and group administration: Instruct your agent to search users, create or update groups, add or remove members, and update workspace roles.
  • Strategic planning maintenance: Have your agent list, create, and update strategic components, then adjust the rules and ordering used to organize Oboard elements.

Troubleshooting

1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Oboard?

The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Oboard conversation.

  • Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /.
  • Hover Connectors.
  • Turn on Composio.
  • Ask Claude to connect to Oboard again.

2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Oboard connects?

Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Oboard.

  • Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp.
  • Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem.
  • Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Oboard.
  • If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev.

3. Why does the Oboard authorization link not work?

The Composio connector is one server. Your Oboard account connects separately when Claude asks for it.

  • If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Oboard connection.
  • Composio creates a fresh Oboard authorization link.
  • Open that link in your browser and finish the Oboard sign-in.

4. Why do Oboard actions fail after they worked before?

The Oboard connection can expire or lose permission.

  • Ask Claude to inspect the Oboard connection.
  • If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you.
  • Reconnect the Oboard account and retry the action.
  • If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Oboard.
  • If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Oboard itself.

5. How do I switch to a different Oboard account?

Claude can manage the Oboard connection for you.

  • Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Oboard account.
  • Ask Claude to connect Oboard again.
  • Open the new Composio authorization link for Oboard.
  • Sign in with the other Oboard account in the browser.
  • After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Oboard task.

6. Why is my Oboard connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan?

The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Oboard connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork.

  • In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors.
  • Next to Composio, click ⋮ and click Clear cache.
  • If Oboard tools still do not appear, click ⋮, disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again.
  • On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Oboard.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Users to Group

Add one or more existing Oboard users to a group.

Create Check-In

Create a check-in that records a progress value, status, or comment for an Oboard element.

Create Element

Create an Oboard objective, key result, or Jira-linked element in a workspace and interval.

Create Element Value

Create a dated numeric value for an Oboard element.

Create Group

Create an Oboard group in selected workspaces or all workspaces.

Create Strategic Component

Create an Oboard strategic component with its ordering, type, workspace placement, and element rules.

Delete Element

Delete one Oboard element and optionally its nested objectives.

Delete Element Value

Delete one dated value record from an Oboard element.

Delete Group

Delete one Oboard group, optionally deleting its users too.

Get Element

Retrieve one current Oboard element by its numeric ID.

List Child Elements

List and filter current child elements below a parent, including manual-weight metadata, one page at a time.

List Confidence Levels

List Oboard confidence-level IDs and names, optionally restricted to accessible workspaces.

List Custom Fields

List Oboard custom-field definitions across accessible workspaces.

List Element Comments

Retrieve comments for one or more Oboard elements.

List Element Progress History

Retrieve dated progress values for multiple Oboard elements, one page at a time.

List Elements

List and filter current Oboard objectives, key results, and Jira-linked elements, one page at a time.

List Element Values

List all dated values recorded for one Oboard element.

List Groups

List current Oboard groups and their workspace, permission, synchronization, and user-count metadata.

List Intervals

List planning intervals, dates, and open or backlog state for one workspace.

List Labels

List current Oboard labels, optionally filtered by name.

List Strategic Components

List current Oboard strategic components, optionally filtered by component or workspace IDs.

List Users

Search current Oboard users across workspaces, roles, and groups, one page at a time.

List Workspaces

List workspaces accessible to the connected Oboard API token.

Remove Users from Group

Remove one or more existing Oboard users from a group.

Replace Element

Update an existing Oboard element through its broad PUT operation, which can set editable metadata, hierarchy, progress, assignments, integer manual-date states, and privacy in one call.

Replace Group

Replace the settings, workspace links, platform links, and membership list of an existing Oboard group.

Search Check-Ins

Search check-ins for selected elements and optionally include element or comment details, one page at a time.

Update Check-In

Update an existing Oboard check-in's progress value, status, or comment.

Update Element Properties

Update one or more named properties on an existing Oboard element without replacing the complete element.

Update Element Value

Update the numeric value of one Oboard element-value record.

Update Strategic Component

Update an existing Oboard strategic component's identity, ordering, and element rules.

Update User Roles

Bulk update users' workspace roles.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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