How to connect Placekey 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 Placekey account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find placekey for this street address, get latitude and longitude from an address, convert GPS coordinates to a placekey, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Placekey 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 Placekey account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Find placekey for this street address"
  • "Get latitude and longitude from an address"
  • "Convert GPS coordinates to a placekey"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The Placekey MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Placekey account. It provides structured and secure access to location standardization tools, so your agent can perform actions like converting addresses to Placekeys, retrieving geocodes, and mapping locations on your behalf.

  • Address to Placekey conversion: Instantly convert any physical address into a unique Placekey identifier for seamless data matching and enrichment.
  • Geocode retrieval from address: Have your agent fetch latitude, longitude, and full geocode details for any address, complete with Placekey and location info.
  • Placekey generation from coordinates: Quickly generate a Placekey for any geographic coordinates, making it easy to standardize and deduplicate location data.
  • Location deduplication and validation: Let your agent use Placekeys to match, validate, and deduplicate different representations of the same physical place across your datasets.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Get Geocode From AddressThis tool retrieves geocode information (latitude and longitude) for a given address using the placekey api.
Get placekey from addressConvert a physical address into a unique placekey identifier.
Get placekey from coordinatesGet a placekey (unique identifier) for a given pair of latitude and longitude coordinates.

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FAQ

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

With a standalone Placekey MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Placekey tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Placekey 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 Placekey tools.

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

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

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