How to connect Whautomate to Claude

Connect Claude Web, Desktop and Cowork to Whautomate MCP. Add a new contact for follow-up, fetch all scheduled broadcasts this week, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Whautomate is a customer engagement platform for AI chatbots, appointment booking, and messaging. It helps teams automate conversations and broadcasts across channels with ease.

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Introduction

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Whautomate account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to add a new contact for follow-up, fetch all scheduled broadcasts this week, get chat messages for a specific contact, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

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Connecting Whautomate to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

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

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

2. 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 Web, Desktop, and Cowork

3. Connect your Whautomate account

Back in Claude, ask it to connect to Whautomate or give it any Whautomate-related task.

For example, ask Claude to:

  • "Add a new contact for follow-up"
  • "Fetch all scheduled broadcasts this week"
  • "Get chat messages for a specific contact"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Claude, and your Whautomate account is ready to use.

What is the Whautomate Claude Connector, and what's possible with it?

The Whautomate MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Whautomate account. It provides structured and secure access to customer engagement resources, so your agent can manage contacts, schedule broadcasts, retrieve chat histories, and organize messaging segments automatically on your behalf.

  • Contact management and automation: Quickly add new contacts or retrieve lists of WhatsApp contacts to streamline customer engagement and outreach.
  • Broadcast scheduling and tracking: Instruct your agent to fetch, inspect, or get details on message broadcasts—including status tracking and filtering by date or type.
  • Chat history and message retrieval: Have your agent pull detailed chat messages for individual contacts, so you can review conversations, follow up intelligently, or analyze engagement history.
  • Segment and service organization: Effortlessly manage audience segments and services—fetching, deleting, or organizing them to keep your communication campaigns targeted and up-to-date.
  • Webhook and integration oversight: Retrieve all registered webhooks to monitor and audit external integrations, ensuring your automations stay connected and reliable.

Troubleshooting

1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Whautomate?

The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Whautomate conversation.

  • Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /.
  • Hover Connectors.
  • Turn on Composio.
  • Ask Claude to connect to Whautomate again.

2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Whautomate connects?

Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Whautomate.

  • Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp.
  • Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem.
  • Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Whautomate.
  • If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev.

3. Why does the Whautomate authorization link not work?

The Composio connector is one server. Your Whautomate account connects separately when Claude asks for it.

  • If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Whautomate connection.
  • Composio creates a fresh Whautomate authorization link.
  • Open that link in your browser and finish the Whautomate sign-in.

4. Why do Whautomate actions fail after they worked before?

The Whautomate connection can expire or lose permission.

  • Ask Claude to inspect the Whautomate connection.
  • If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you.
  • Reconnect the Whautomate account and retry the action.
  • If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Whautomate.
  • If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Whautomate itself.

5. How do I switch to a different Whautomate account?

Claude can manage the Whautomate connection for you.

  • Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Whautomate account.
  • Ask Claude to connect Whautomate again.
  • Open the new Composio authorization link for Whautomate.
  • Sign in with the other Whautomate account in the browser.
  • After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Whautomate task.

6. Why is my Whautomate connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan?

The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Whautomate connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork.

  • In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors.
  • Next to Composio, click and click Clear cache.
  • If Whautomate tools still do not appear, click , disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again.
  • On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Whautomate.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Contact

Tool to add a new contact.

Delete Segment

Tool to delete a specific segment.

Delete Service Category

Tool to delete a service category.

Get Account Info

Tool to retrieve account information for the authenticated user.

Get All Webhooks

Tool to retrieve all registered webhooks.

Get Broadcast By ID

Tool to retrieve a specific broadcast's details.

Get Broadcasts

Tool to retrieve a list of broadcasts.

Get Contacts

Tool to retrieve a list of contacts.

Get Messages of Contact

Tool to retrieve chat messages for a specific contact.

Get Segments

Tool to retrieve a list of segments.

Get Service By Id

Tool to retrieve details of a specific service by its unique ID.

Get Service Categories

Tool to retrieve a list of service categories.

Get Services

Tool to retrieve a list of services with optional filters.

Get Staff Availability Blocks

Tool to retrieve a staff member's blocked time schedule over a date range.

Get Staff By ID

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific staff member.

Get Staffs

Tool to retrieve a list of staff members.

Update Service

Tool to update an existing Whautomate service.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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