How to connect UniFi to Grok Bot

Connect Grok Bot to UniFi MCP. Summarize internet health across unifi sites, list offline devices in site manager, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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UniFi is Ubiquiti's network management platform for sites, devices, and connectivity. It helps teams track inventory, internet health, and SD-WAN status in one place.

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Introduction

Grok is xAI's assistant, and its bot builder lets you create a personal agent that holds context, runs skills, and connects to the apps you already use through plugins.

This guide explains how to connect UniFi to a Grok bot using Composio Connect, which handles OAuth, token refresh, and reliability so you do not have to. You add Composio as a plugin, authenticate once, then ask your bot to work with UniFi in plain language.

Why use Composio?

Composio exposes 1,500+ apps to your Grok bot through a single connection, so you get:

  • Connect to 1,500+ apps with on-demand tool loading, so you do not fill your context window with unnecessary tool definitions.
  • Use programmatic tool calling through a remote workbench, letting the model write its own code to handle complex tool chaining. This reduces back-and-forth for frequent tool calls.
  • Handle large tool responses outside the model context to keep conversations lean.

Connecting UniFi to Grok Bot

Once Grok Bot is set up, you connect UniFi entirely from its interface, and the whole flow takes under a minute.

Set up Grok Bot

Get access. Grok Bot is included with Cursor Ultra, Cursor Premium Teams, and SuperGrok Heavy. Get the desktop app for macOS or Windows from x.ai/bot and sign in. An iPhone companion app is also available, and your bots sync across devices.

Create a bot. Pick a suggested role or define your own, then give it a short name, one primary job, and a short description of how it should work. Focused bots work best, because a clear role gives the bot more useful context over time.

Connect UniFi

1. Add the Composio plugin

Click the button. The Composio listing on x.ai opens and launches Grok Bot for you. If the app does not open on its own, click Add to Grok Bot.

Add to Grok Bot

Composio for Grok Bot listing on x.ai with the Add to Grok Bot button

Grok Bot opens the Composio plugin, showing its connector and skills. Click Add.

Composio plugin sheet in Grok Bot with the Add button

2. Authenticate

Go to the Installed section and click the Composio entry. You'll see its connector and skills listed.

Installed Composio plugin showing the Authenticate button

Click Authenticate. You'll be taken to the Composio consent screen. Review the access it requests and click Authorize. Composio handles the OAuth handshake for you, so you never touch API keys or tokens.

Composio authorization screen with Authorize and Deny

3. Connect your UniFi account

Back in the chat, ask your bot to connect to UniFi or give it any UniFi task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Summarize internet health across UniFi sites"
  • "List offline devices in Site Manager"
  • "Review SD-WAN configurations for each site"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in your Grok bot, and your UniFi account is ready to use.

What is Grok Bot?

Grok is xAI's assistant, available as a chat interface and a bot builder for creating personal agents that run skills and connect to external apps.

With Composio Connect, your Grok bot can securely access apps like UniFi through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The UniFi MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your UniFi account. It provides structured and secure access to your Site Manager inventory, internet health metrics, and SD-WAN configurations, so your agent can review hosts, list sites and devices, assess internet performance, and monitor SD-WAN status on your behalf.

  • Host and site inventory: Have your agent list the UniFi hosts and sites associated with your account, then retrieve details about a specific host.
  • Managed device visibility: Let the agent list UniFi devices managed by hosts where your account is an owner or super admin.
  • Internet health monitoring: Direct your agent to review ISP performance across accessible sites for a selected time range.
  • Focused ISP analysis: Instruct your agent to query internet performance metrics for selected host and site pairs.
  • SD-WAN oversight: Have your agent list SD-WAN configurations, inspect their topology and settings, and check deployment, WAN, tunnel, warning, and error status.

Way Forward

Now that UniFi is connected, extend your setup by connecting the other apps you already use every day, so your Grok bot can run true cross-app workflows end to end.

  • Connect Calendar to turn threads into scheduled meetings automatically.
  • Connect Slack or Teams to post summaries, approvals, and alerts where your team works.
  • Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, or Asana to convert requests into tickets, tasks, and docs.
  • Connect Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to fetch, file, and share attachments without manual steps.

Start with one workflow you do repeatedly, then keep adding apps as you find new handoffs. With everything behind a single connection, your bot can coordinate multiple tools safely and reliably in one conversation.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Get Host

Get detailed information for one UniFi host by the Site Manager host ID returned by List Hosts.

Get ISP Metrics

Get ISP performance metrics for all accessible sites, optionally limited by a relative duration or explicit timestamp bounds.

Get SD-WAN Config

Get the topology and settings of one SD-WAN configuration by ID.

Get SD-WAN Config Status

Get deployment, generation, WAN, tunnel, warning, and error status for one SD-WAN configuration.

List Devices

List UniFi devices managed by hosts where the connected UI account is an owner or super admin.

List Hosts

List UniFi hosts associated with the connected UI account.

List SD-WAN Configs

List the SD-WAN configurations associated with the connected UI account.

List Sites

List sites from UniFi Network applications associated with the connected UI account.

Query ISP Metrics

Get ISP performance metrics for selected host/site pairs.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Grok Bot 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 UniFi tools.

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

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