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How to connect PopHIVE MCP to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to PopHIVE MCP. Compare covid vaccination trends by state, track influenza surveillance changes this season, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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PopHIVE MCP is Yale's harmonized US public health surveillance dataset for disease, vaccination, and health outcome trends. Use it to query consistent public health signals across locations, time periods, and measures.

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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 PopHIVE account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to compare COVID vaccination trends by state, track influenza surveillance changes this season, analyze county disease outcome disparities, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting PopHIVE 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 PopHIVE account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Compare COVID vaccination trends by state"
  • "Track influenza surveillance changes this season"
  • "Analyze county disease outcome disparities"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The PopHIVE MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your PopHIVE account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform PopHIVE operations on your behalf.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Compare

Side-by-side comparison of one disease across 2–5 US places, or agreement between surveillance sources in one place.

Get coverage

US childhood vaccination coverage — the rate for one vaccine in one place and whether it meets targets.

Get current status

Current-status verdict for one disease in one US place — level, direction, and risk right now.

Get data

Data catalog and raw-data gateway.

Get map

Geographic ranking — which US states or counties are highest or lowest on one disease, by current level or recent change.

Get overview

Cross-disease situation report for one US state or the nation — what's elevated, rising, declining, or stale across every PopHIVE topic.

Get trend

Trend over time for one disease in one US place — direction, peak, and change, optionally stratified or pinned to one source.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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