How to connect Optimoroute 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 Optimoroute account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all active drivers on duty today, show planned delivery routes for tomorrow, find unassigned orders for this week, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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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 Optimoroute account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all active drivers on duty today, show planned delivery routes for tomorrow, find unassigned orders for this week, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Optimoroute 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 Optimoroute account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

"List all active drivers on duty today"
"Show planned delivery routes for tomorrow"
"Find unassigned orders for this week"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The Optimoroute MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Optimoroute account. It provides structured and secure access to your logistics and planning data, so your agent can perform actions like retrieving driver details, viewing planned delivery routes, checking route assignments, and monitoring driver status on your behalf.

Live driver roster and status retrieval: Instantly fetch up-to-date information about all drivers, including their current availability and contact details.
Planned route overview for any date: Have your agent pull a detailed list of all planned routes for a specific date, including stop information and route parameters.
Monitor unassigned orders and route gaps: Easily identify orders that haven’t been assigned to a route, helping you spot scheduling bottlenecks.
Centralized route and driver reporting: Aggregate route and driver data to power dashboards or daily logistics summaries, all via your AI agent.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Order

Tool to create a new order or update an existing order in OptimoRoute.

Create or Update Orders

Tool to bulk create, update, or replace multiple orders at once without geocoding.

Delete All Orders

Tool to remove all orders and planned routes for a specified date.

Delete Order

Tool to remove a single order from the OptimoRoute system.

Delete Orders

Tool to delete one or more orders from the system in bulk (max 500 per request).

Get Order Completion Details

Tool to retrieve completion details for one or more orders including proof of delivery data.

Get Drivers

Tool to retrieve all drivers in the system.

Get Mobile Events

Tool to retrieve mobile events from drivers' field operations.

Get Orders

Tool to retrieve one or more orders from OptimoRoute.

Get Planning Status

Tool to retrieve the status of an active planning/optimization process.

Get Planned Routes

Tool to retrieve all planned routes for a given date.

Get Order Scheduling Info

Tool to retrieve scheduling information for a specific order.

Search Orders

Tool to search for orders in OptimoRoute based on criteria.

Start Planning

Tool to start the planning/optimization process for a specified date or date range.

Stop Planning

Tool to stop an active planning/optimization process.

Update Driver Parameters

Tool to update driver parameters for a specific date including work times, vehicle assignment, and start/end locations.

Update Drivers Parameters

Tool to update parameters of multiple drivers for specified dates in bulk (max 500 per request).

FRAMEWORKS

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CLI

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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 Optimoroute tools.

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

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