How to connect Telnyx 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 Telnyx account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to check current Telnyx account balance, list recent audit logs for last week, create new SMS notification channel, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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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 Telnyx account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to check current Telnyx account balance, list recent audit logs for last week, create new SMS notification channel, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Telnyx 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:

bash

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 Telnyx account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

"Check current Telnyx account balance"
"List recent audit logs for last week"
"Create new SMS notification channel"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The Telnyx MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Telnyx account. It provides structured and secure access to your Telnyx communications platform, so your agent can manage networks, handle notification channels, monitor usage, and review account activities on your behalf.

Network provisioning and management: Easily create or delete network resources, allowing your agent to spin up new networks or remove unused ones as needed.
Notification channel automation: Set up, configure, or remove notification channels—including SMS, voice, email, or webhook endpoints—so your agent can handle event-driven communications flexibly.
Notification profile and settings control: Group and configure notification profiles and settings, enabling your agent to define how and when notifications are delivered for different events.
Real-time balance monitoring: Retrieve your current account balance and credit details, helping your agent keep tabs on usage and alert you before credits run low.
Comprehensive audit log access: Review detailed audit logs so your agent can surface recent changes, track resource modifications, and help maintain compliance or troubleshoot issues quickly.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Network

Tool to create a new network.

Create Notification Channel

Tool to create a notification channel.

Create Notification Profile

Tool to create a notification profile.

Create Notification Setting

Tool to add a notification setting.

Delete Network

Tool to delete a network by ID.

Delete Notification Channel

Tool to delete a notification channel by ID.

Delete Notification Profile

Tool to delete a notification profile by ID.

Delete Notification Setting

Tool to delete a notification setting by ID.

Get Black Box Test Results

Tool to retrieve black box test results from Telnyx SETI Observability.

Get User Balance

Tool to retrieve the current user account balance and credit details.

List Audit Logs

Tool to retrieve a list of audit log entries for your account.

List Connections

Tool to retrieve all connections in your account.

List Dynamic Emergency Endpoints

Tool to list dynamic emergency endpoints.

List Global IP Health Check Types

Tool to list all available global IP health check types.

List Messaging Profiles

Tool to list messaging profiles.

List Messaging URL Domains

Tool to list configured messaging URL domains.

List Mobile Network Operators

Tool to list available mobile network operators.

List Network Interfaces

Tool to list all network interfaces for a specified network.

List Networks

Tool to list all networks in your account.

List Notification Channels

Tool to list all notification channels.

List Notification Event Conditions

Tool to list all notification event conditions.

List Notification Events

Tool to list all notification events with their IDs.

List Notification Profiles

Tool to list all notification profiles.

List Phone Numbers

Tool to list phone numbers associated with your account.

List SSO Authentication Providers

Tool to retrieve all configured SSO authentication providers.

Retrieve Network

Tool to retrieve details of a specific network by ID.

Retrieve Notification Channel

Tool to retrieve a notification channel by ID.

Retrieve Notification Profile

Tool to retrieve a notification profile by ID.

Retrieve Notification Setting

Tool to retrieve a notification setting by ID.

Update Network

Tool to update details of an existing network.

FRAMEWORKS

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CLI

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Mastra AI

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CrewAI

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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