How to integrate Salesflare MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

Connect OpenAI Agents SDK to Salesflare MCP. List all contacts added this week, update deal stage for acme corp, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Salesflare to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Salesflare agent that can list all contacts added this week, update deal stage for acme corp, create a new opportunity for globex through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Salesflare account through Composio's Salesflare MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Salesflare
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Salesflare as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Salesflare operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

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

The Salesflare MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Salesflare account. It provides structured and secure access to your accounts, contacts, opportunities, tasks, meetings, and calls, so your agent can manage customer records, track deals, schedule follow-ups, record sales activities, and review pipeline data on your behalf.

  • Account and contact management: Have your agent create, find, update, or remove contacts, and create, review, or update customer accounts.
  • Opportunity tracking: Let the agent create opportunities, review individual deals, filter your opportunity list, and update deals as they move through your pipeline.
  • Task and follow-up planning: Direct your agent to create sales tasks and list existing tasks using relevant filters so your team knows what to do next.
  • Meeting and call records: Instruct your agent to create meeting records and log one or more sales calls in Salesflare.
  • Team and CRM visibility: Have your agent review your contacts, accounts, team members, and current user details to gather the context needed for sales work.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Salesflare project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Salesflare.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Salesflare
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['salesflare'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only salesflare.
  • The router checks the user's Salesflare connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Salesflare.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Salesflare tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Salesflare. Help users perform Salesflare operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Salesflare and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Salesflare operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Salesflare.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Salesflare and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['salesflare'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Salesflare. Help users perform Salesflare operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Salesflare MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Salesflare.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Account Contacts

Tool to add contacts to a specific account in Salesflare.

Create Account

Tool to create a new account in Salesflare.

Create call

Tool to create one or more call records in Salesflare.

Create Contact

Tool to create new contacts in Salesflare.

Create Custom Field

Creates a new custom field for accounts, contacts, or opportunities in Salesflare.

Create Internal Note

Tool to create an internal note in Salesflare associated with an account.

Create Meeting

Create a new meeting record in Salesflare.

Create Opportunity

Tool to create a new opportunity in Salesflare.

Create Tag

Tool to create a new tag in Salesflare.

Create Task

Tool to create a new task in Salesflare.

Create Workflow

Tool to create a new workflow (email automation sequence) in Salesflare.

Delete Account

Tool to permanently delete an account from Salesflare.

Delete Contact

Tool to delete a contact from Salesflare.

Delete Custom Field

Tool to delete a custom field from Salesflare.

Delete Internal Note

Tool to delete an internal note from Salesflare by its message ID.

Delete Meeting

Tool to delete a meeting from Salesflare.

Delete Opportunity

Tool to permanently delete an opportunity from Salesflare.

Delete Tag

Tool to delete a tag from Salesflare.

Delete Task

Tool to delete a task from Salesflare.

Get Account

Get detailed information about a specific account by ID.

Get AI Settings

Tool to retrieve AI settings for the Salesflare team.

Get Contact by ID

Retrieves detailed information for a specific contact by ID.

Get Current User

Tool to retrieve the details of the currently authenticated user.

Get Custom Field Details

Tool to retrieve details of a specific custom field.

Get Meeting Details

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific meeting by its ID.

Get Opportunity

Get detailed information about a specific opportunity by ID.

Get Stage

Get detailed information about a specific pipeline stage by ID.

Get Tag Usage

Get tag usage details including workflows, saved filters, and reports.

Get User

Tool to retrieve details of a specific user by their ID.

Get Workflow

Get detailed information about a specific workflow by ID.

Get Workflow Merge Fields

Tool to retrieve available merge fields for workflows in Salesflare.

List Account Messages

Tool to retrieve a list of messages associated with a specific account in Salesflare.

List accounts

Tool to list accounts with various filtering options including search, name, creation dates, size, domain, tags, address, and hotness level.

List Contacts

Tool to list contacts with filtering options.

List Supported Currencies

Tool to retrieve a list of supported currencies in Salesflare.

List Custom Field Options

Tool to list available options for a specific custom field in Salesflare.

List Custom Fields

Tool to list custom fields for a specified item class (accounts, contacts, or opportunities).

List Custom Field Types

Tool to retrieve a list of available custom field types in Salesflare.

List Email Data Sources

Tool to list email data sources.

List Filter Fields

Tool to list available filter fields for a specific entity type in Salesflare.

List Groups

Tool to list groups in Salesflare.

List My Contacts

Tool to list contacts belonging to the current user.

List Opportunities

Tool to list opportunities with extensive filtering options.

List Persons

Tool to list persons (non-contact people found in communications) from Salesflare.

List Pipelines

Tool to list pipelines in the Salesflare system with filtering and sorting options.

List Stages

Tool to list pipeline stages in the Salesflare system with filtering and sorting options.

List tags

Tool to list tags in the Salesflare system.

List Tasks

Tool to list tasks with filtering options.

List Users

Tool to list users (team members) in the Salesflare team.

List Workflows

Tool to list workflows (email automation sequences) in Salesflare.

Update Account

Tool to update an existing account in Salesflare.

Update Account Contacts

Tool to update the contacts associated with a specific Salesflare account.

Update Account Users

Tool to update the users associated with a specific Salesflare account.

Update AI Settings

Tool to update AI settings for the Salesflare team.

Update Contact

Tool to update an existing contact in Salesflare.

Update Custom Field

Updates an existing custom field for accounts, contacts, or opportunities in Salesflare.

Update Email Data Source

Tool to update the settings of an email data source in Salesflare.

Update Internal Note

Tool to update an existing internal note in Salesflare.

Update Opportunity

Tool to update an existing opportunity in Salesflare.

Update Tag

Tool to update the name of an existing tag in Salesflare.

Update Task

Tool to update an existing task in Salesflare.

Update Workflow

Tool to update an existing workflow in Salesflare.

Update Workflow Audience

Tool to re-enter or exit an entity from a workflow in Salesflare.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK 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 Salesflare tools.

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

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