How to integrate Sendfox MCP with CrewAI

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Sendfox to CrewAI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Sendfox agent that can list all active campaigns this week, unsubscribe a contact by email address, retrieve all contacts from my main list, delete a contact from newsletter list through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your CrewAI agent real control over a Sendfox account through Composio's Sendfox MCP server.

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

TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get a Composio API key and configure your Sendfox connection
  • Set up CrewAI with an MCP enabled agent
  • Create a Tool Router session or standalone MCP server for Sendfox
  • Build a conversational loop where your agent can execute Sendfox operations

What is CrewAI?

CrewAI is a powerful framework for building multi-agent AI systems. It provides primitives for defining agents with specific roles, creating tasks, and orchestrating workflows through crews.

Key features include:

  • Agent Roles: Define specialized agents with specific goals and backstories
  • Task Management: Create tasks with clear descriptions and expected outputs
  • Crew Orchestration: Combine agents and tasks into collaborative workflows
  • MCP Integration: Connect to external tools through Model Context Protocol

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

The Sendfox MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Sendfox account. It provides structured and secure access to your contact lists, campaigns, automations, and more, so your agent can fetch contacts, manage lists, retrieve campaign data, and automate subscriber actions on your behalf.

  • Contact management and lookup: Instantly retrieve contact details by email or ID, fetch all contacts, or discover specific fields to personalize your outreach.
  • List organization and updates: Ask your agent to fetch all your Sendfox lists, get details for a specific list, or remove contacts from lists as needed.
  • Campaign and automation insights: Effortlessly retrieve paginated lists of campaigns or automations, so you can stay on top of your email marketing performance.
  • Subscription and unsubscribe actions: Let your agent globally unsubscribe a contact or handle opt-outs automatically for better list hygiene.
  • Discover contact field metadata: Pull all available contact fields to help with dynamic contact creation or targeted updates.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Delete Contact from ListTool to remove a contact from a specific list in sendfox.
Get AutomationsTool to retrieve a list of automations.
Get CampaignsTool to retrieve a paginated list of campaigns.
Retrieve Contact by EmailTool to retrieve a contact by their email address.
Get Contact by IDTool to retrieve a contact's details by id.
Get Contact FieldsTool to retrieve a list of user contact fields.
Get ContactsTool to retrieve a paginated list of contacts.
Get List by IDTool to retrieve a specific contact list by its id.
Get ListsTool to retrieve paginated contact lists.
Unsubscribe ContactTool to unsubscribe a contact.
Create ContactTool to create a new contact.
Create ListTool to create a new contact list.

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

What is Tool Router?

Composio's Tool Router 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 Tool Router

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

How the Tool Router works

The Tool Router 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

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Python 3.9 or higher
  • A Composio account and API key
  • A Sendfox connection authorized in Composio
  • An OpenAI API key for the CrewAI LLM
  • Basic familiarity with Python

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
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio crewai crewai-tools python-dotenv
What's happening:
  • composio connects your agent to Sendfox via MCP
  • crewai provides Agent, Task, Crew, and LLM primitives
  • crewai-tools includes MCP helpers
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables from .env

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID scopes the session to your account
  • OPENAI_API_KEY lets CrewAI use your chosen OpenAI model

Import dependencies

python
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, LLM
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter  # optional import if you plan to adapt tools
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
from crewai.mcp import MCPServerHTTP

load_dotenv()
What's happening:
  • CrewAI classes define agents and tasks, and run the workflow
  • MCPServerHTTP connects the agent to an MCP endpoint
  • Composio will give you a short lived Sendfox MCP URL

Create a Composio Tool Router session for Sendfox

python
composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
session = composio.create(
    user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
    toolkits=["sendfox"],
)
url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • You create a Sendfox only session through Composio
  • Composio returns an MCP HTTP URL that exposes Sendfox tools

Configure the LLM

python
llm = LLM(
    model="gpt-5-mini",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
)
What's happening:
  • CrewAI will call this LLM for planning and responses
  • You can swap in a different model if needed

Attach the MCP server and create the agent

python
toolkit_agent = Agent(
    role="Sendfox Assistant",
    goal="Help users interact with Sendfox through natural language commands",
    backstory=(
        "You are an expert assistant with access to Sendfox tools. "
        "You can perform various Sendfox operations on behalf of the user."
    ),
    mcps=[
        MCPServerHTTP(
            url=url,
            streamable=True,
            cache_tools_list=True,
            headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")},
        ),
    ],
    llm=llm,
    verbose=True,
    max_iter=10,
)
What's happening:
  • MCPServerHTTP connects the agent to the Sendfox MCP endpoint
  • cache_tools_list saves a tools catalog for faster subsequent runs
  • verbose helps you see what the agent is doing

Add a REPL loop with Task and Crew

python
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")
print("Try asking the agent to perform Sendfox operations.\n")

conversation_context = ""

while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    task = Task(
        description=(
            f"Based on the conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
            f"Current user request: {user_input}\n\n"
            f"Please help the user with their Sendfox related request."
        ),
        expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
        agent=toolkit_agent,
    )

    crew = Crew(
        agents=[toolkit_agent],
        tasks=[task],
        verbose=False,
    )

    result = crew.kickoff()
    response = str(result)

    conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
    print(f"Agent: {response}\n")
What's happening:
  • You build a simple chat loop and keep a running context
  • Each user turn becomes a Task handled by the same agent
  • Crew executes the task and returns a response

Run the application

python
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
What's happening:
  • Standard Python entry point so you can run python crewai_sendfox_agent.py

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Sendfox and CrewAI:

python
# file: crewai_sendfox_agent.py
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, LLM
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter  # optional
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
from crewai.mcp import MCPServerHTTP

load_dotenv()

def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Sendfox session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["sendfox"],
    )
    url = session.mcp.url

    # Configure LLM
    llm = LLM(
        model="gpt-5-mini",
        api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
    )

    # Create Sendfox assistant agent
    toolkit_agent = Agent(
        role="Sendfox Assistant",
        goal="Help users interact with Sendfox through natural language commands",
        backstory=(
            "You are an expert assistant with access to Sendfox tools. "
            "You can perform various Sendfox operations on behalf of the user."
        ),
        mcps=[
            MCPServerHTTP(
                url=url,
                streamable=True,
                cache_tools_list=True,
                headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")},
            ),
        ],
        llm=llm,
        verbose=True,
        max_iter=10,
    )

    print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
    print("Try asking the agent to perform Sendfox operations.\n")

    conversation_context = ""

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()

        if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
            print("\nGoodbye!")
            break

        if not user_input:
            continue

        conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
        print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

        task = Task(
            description=(
                f"Based on the conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
                f"Current user request: {user_input}\n\n"
                f"Please help the user with their Sendfox related request."
            ),
            expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
            agent=toolkit_agent,
        )

        crew = Crew(
            agents=[toolkit_agent],
            tasks=[task],
            verbose=False,
        )

        result = crew.kickoff()
        response = str(result)

        conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
        print(f"Agent: {response}\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Conclusion

You now have a CrewAI agent connected to Sendfox through Composio's Tool Router. The agent can perform Sendfox operations through natural language commands. Next steps:
  • Add role-specific instructions to customize agent behavior
  • Plug in more toolkits for multi-app workflows
  • Chain tasks for complex multi-step operations

How to build Sendfox MCP Agent with another framework

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OpenAI Agents SDK

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Claude Agent SDK

Claude Agent SDK

Use Sendfox MCP with Claude Agent SDK

Google ADK

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LangChain

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Use Sendfox MCP with LangChain

Vercel AI SDK

Vercel AI SDK

Use Sendfox MCP with Vercel AI SDK

Mastra AI

Mastra AI

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LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex

Use Sendfox MCP with LlamaIndex

FAQ

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

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

Can I use Tool Router MCP with CrewAI?

Yes, you can. CrewAI 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 Sendfox tools.

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

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

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