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How to integrate Octen MCP with Hermes

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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

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Octen account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,500+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Octen with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Octen

Ask your agent to connect to Octen, or simply request any Octen-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Octen connection.

Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Octen or request any Octen-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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.

Way Forward

With Octen connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

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.

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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. Hermes 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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