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How to connect Tableau to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to Tableau MCP. List top performing dashboards this quarter, refresh extracts for sales_data workbook, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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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 Tableau account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list top performing dashboards this quarter, refresh extracts for sales_data workbook, export monthly revenue dashboard as PDF, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Tableau 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 Tableau account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List top performing dashboards this quarter"
  • "Refresh extracts for sales_data workbook"
  • "Export monthly revenue dashboard as PDF"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

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

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Get Current Session

Return the Tableau site and user identity established by the connected PAT, including their LUIDs and the user's current site role.

Get Server Info

Return the connected Tableau deployment's product, build, and supported REST API versions.

Get Workbook

Return one Tableau workbook by LUID, including its project, owner, tags, views, and freshness settings when available.

List Data Sources

List published data sources visible to the connected PAT on its signed-in Tableau site, with optional filtering and sorting, one page at a time.

List Groups

List groups the connected PAT is permitted to see on its signed-in Tableau site, with optional filtering and sorting, one page at a time.

List Jobs

List active asynchronous jobs the connected PAT is permitted to see on its signed-in Tableau site, optionally narrowed with a Tableau filter expression, one page at a time.

List Projects

List projects visible to the connected PAT on its signed-in Tableau site, with optional filtering and sorting, one page at a time.

List Users

List users the connected PAT is permitted to see on its signed-in Tableau site, with optional filtering and sorting, one page at a time.

List Views

List views visible to the connected PAT on its signed-in Tableau site, with optional filtering, sorting, and usage statistics, one page at a time.

List Workbooks

List workbooks visible to the connected PAT on its signed-in Tableau site, with optional filtering and sorting, one page at a time.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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