Octen MCP server for AI agents and assistants

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Octen MCP or direct API to search the web, extract page content, create text embeddings, and create multimodal embeddings through natural language.

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Octen is a real-time web index for search and content extraction. It also creates text and multimodal embeddings for richer AI applications.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Broad Search

Decompose one question into up to 30 sub-queries and search Octen's live web index concurrently.

Create Multimodal Embeddings

Create independent or fused embeddings from up to 20 text, image, and URL-video elements.

Create Text Embeddings

Create indexed text embeddings for up to 1,000 inputs with Octen in one metered request.

Extract URL Content

Extract content and optional media or links from up to 20 URLs in one metered request.

Search Businesses

Search Octen's web index once for business pages and optional company or person cards.

Search Images

Search Octen's web image index from exactly one text query or reference image.

Search News

Search live news once for ranked articles and optional event subjects.

Search Videos

INVITE-ONLY BETA: search the web for videos only after confirming the Octen account has Video Search entitlement.

Search Web

Search Octen's live web index once for ranked pages, with bounded filters, highlights, optional full content, and usage metadata.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Octen MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["octen"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to Octen and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "Search Octen's real-time web index for recent articles about multimodal embeddings and summarize the key findings.",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a Octen request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Octen API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["octen"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to Octen
3

Run Octen tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "Search Octen's real-time web index for recent articles about multimodal embeddings and summarize the key findings." }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the Octen tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Octen Integration

  • Supports both Octen MCP and direct API integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable web search, extraction, and embedding tasks
  • Rich coverage for querying Octen's real-time index and processing web content

Managed Auth

  • Securely stores your Octen API key without hard-coding credentials in agent code
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Octen access
  • Per user and per environment credentials for safer deployments

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Octen
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Octen resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Octen requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Yes. Composio is SOC 2 Type II compliant and is built to keep your Octen connection and credentials secure. OAuth tokens and API keys are encrypted, and sensitive customer data is protected at rest and in transit.

Composio also undergoes independent security testing and continuously monitors its systems for security threats. You can review the latest reports and policies in the Composio Trust Center.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

Create the key in your Octen account settings, then paste it once on Composio's connection page. Composio stores it encrypted and uses it only for the Octen actions your agent runs. Nobody else in your workspace can read it, and you can revoke it inside Octen at any time.

When you connect a Octen account through Composio, every action runs under that account, so anything the agent creates, sends, or changes shows up in Octen as done by you. Keep an approval step in your prompt for actions with side effects, such as sending or deleting, and have the agent draft first.

Whatever the credentials you connect allow inside Octen. If Octen lets you scope a key to specific permissions, create a scoped one so the agent can only do what you intend. You can revoke the key inside Octen at any time.

Yes. Composio supports multiple connected accounts for the same app, and that works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant you connect through Composio. Give each Octen connection a name such as work or personal, and the assistant uses the one you mention in the request. Each account keeps its own credentials and nothing is merged.

The connection stops working the moment Octen rejects the old key. Create a new key in Octen and reconnect the account from the Composio dashboard or by asking your agent to reconnect Octen. Nothing else changes.

Composio's free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month with no credit card, which covers most personal Octen use. Paid plans add higher limits and team features. Your Octen plan and its API limits still apply as usual.

Built-in connectors usually give one AI access to a limited set of apps. Many people use Composio because it lets their AI connect to more apps than it normally supports, or connect to multiple accounts for the same app (e.g. connect Claude to multiple Octen accounts).

With Composio, you connect Octen once and then use it across different AI assistants without setting it up separately in each one. Connect your apps to Composio once, then connect Composio to whichever AI you use, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or your own custom assistant.

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