How to connect Openperplex to Claude Cowork

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.

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.

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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.

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.