How to integrate Octen MCP with Atomic Agent

Connect Atomic Agent to Octen MCP. Search octen for recent ai research papers, extract main points from an octen webpage, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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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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Introduction

Atomic Agent is an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and supports local models through llama.cpp. Connect it to 1,500+ apps through Composio, including Octen.

This guide uses Atomic Agent's built-in Composio integration. You need Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later, your own Composio API key, and a Octen account. See the Atomic Agent documentation for installation instructions.

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How Atomic Agent connects to Octen

Atomic Agent connects to Composio's Tool Router over Streamable HTTP MCP. It discovers the tools needed for your request, and Composio handles account authentication.

Execution and account-connection tools follow Atomic Agent's configured approval policy. Review any approval prompt before allowing an action on your connected account.

Connect Octen to Atomic Agent

  1. Sign up or sign in to the Composio dashboard. Copy your API key.
  2. In Atomic Agent, open the Integrations tab and select Composio. Select API key, press e, paste the key, and press Enter. The tools become available immediately, without a restart.
  3. Ask Atomic Agent to do something in Octen. It searches Composio for the right tool.
  4. On first use, open the sign-in link returned in the chat. Connect your Octen account, then return to Atomic Agent to continue.

Headless setup

Add the following line to ~/.atomic-agent/.env, replacing YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY with your key. Start Atomic Agent after saving the file.

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY

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

The Octen MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Octen account. It provides structured and secure access to Octen's real-time web index, content extraction, and embedding tools, so your agent can search the web, find news and businesses, extract content from URLs, and create text or multimodal embeddings on your behalf.

  • Real-time web research: Have your agent search Octen's live web index, break a complex question into multiple searches, and return ranked pages with highlights or full content.
  • Targeted media and business discovery: Direct your agent to find images, news articles, videos when your account has access, or business pages and related company or person information.
  • Web content extraction: Let your agent extract content from up to 20 URLs at once, including available media and links, for research and downstream tasks.
  • Text embeddings: Instruct your agent to create embeddings for up to 1,000 text inputs in one request, making content ready for semantic search and matching.
  • Multimodal embeddings: Have your agent create separate or fused embeddings from text, images, and URL-based videos.

Use Octen from Atomic Agent

With your account connected, ask Atomic Agent to work with Octen in natural language. You can connect more apps through the same Composio integration as you need them.

Visit the Atomic Agent website or inspect the Atomic Agent source code.

Troubleshooting

Why is my API key rejected?

Copy the key directly from the Composio dashboard. Atomic Agent requires ASCII characters because it sends the key in an HTTP header. Remove any extra characters introduced when copying.

Why are Composio tools unavailable after saving a key?

Check that you use Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later and that Composio is enabled in your configuration. A "composio": { "enabled": false } setting disables the integration while keeping the saved key on disk.

Does Composio have a free plan?

The Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month. Composio-managed OAuth apps have a lower included allowance. See Composio pricing for the current limits that apply to your connection.

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.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Atomic Agent 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 Octen tools.

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

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