How to connect Sendbird 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 Sendbird account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to add users to a group chat channel, ban a disruptive user from group chat, get unread message count for a user, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Connecting Sendbird 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 Sendbird through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

The Sendbird MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Sendbird account. It provides structured and secure access to your in-app chat, voice, and video features, so your agent can perform actions like creating group channels, managing users, moderating conversations, and tracking unread message counts on your behalf.

• Group channel management: Let your agent create new group channels, add or ban members, and delete channels as needed to keep conversations organized and secure.
• User account administration: Automatically register new users or remove users from your Sendbird application, simplifying user lifecycle management.
• Message moderation and cleanup: Empower your agent to delete specific messages—helping enforce community guidelines and remove unwanted content instantly.
• Unread count and status tracking: Retrieve up-to-date counts of unread messages, mentions, and channel invitations for any user to surface important conversations.
• Channel preference insights: Access and update user count preferences in group channels, tailoring notification and message delivery based on user needs.