How to connect Openperplex to Claude Cowork

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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 Openperplex account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find recent news articles about AI regulation, extract main text from a specific blog post, get markdown version of a Wikipedia page, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Openperplex 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 Openperplex account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Find recent news articles about AI regulation"
  • "Extract main text from a specific blog post"
  • "Get markdown version of a Wikipedia page"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The Openperplex MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Openperplex account. It provides structured and secure access to powerful web search, real-time content streaming, and website analysis tools, so your agent can perform actions like global searches, web content extraction, document interrogation, and live website analysis on your behalf.

  • Powerful global search and filtering: Instantly ask your agent to search across the web or custom document sets with advanced query options, filters, and field selection for tailored results.
  • Live streaming search results: Enable your agent to provide real-time updates on search queries, perfect for monitoring changing information or tracking trends as they unfold.
  • Website content extraction: Have your agent pull main text, full markdown, or screenshots from any publicly accessible website, making it easy to analyze, summarize, or archive web content.
  • Natural language querying of online documents: Let your agent interrogate web-hosted content directly using natural language, giving you precise answers and insights from any URL.
  • Custom document search and analysis: Empower your agent to search specific document collections, apply filters, and surface relevant content for research, competitive analysis, or data gathering tasks.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Custom SearchTool to perform a custom search with optional filtering and field selection.
Custom Search StreamTool to perform custom streaming search.
Get Website MarkdownTool to retrieve the markdown content of a specified website.
Get Website ScreenshotTool to capture a screenshot of a website.
Get Website TextTool to retrieve the main text content of a specified website url.
Query from URLTool to query documents from a url.
Search DocumentsTool to search documents using query parameters.
Search StreamTool to stream search results from openperplex.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Openperplex MCP?

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

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

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 Openperplex tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Openperplex while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Openperplex 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.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

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 Openperplex data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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