How to connect Zenserp 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 Zenserp account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find top news articles on AI ethics, get trending keywords for electric cars, list local coffee shops in Brooklyn, 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 Zenserp account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find top news articles on AI ethics, get trending keywords for electric cars, list local coffee shops in Brooklyn, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Zenserp 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 Zenserp account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Find top news articles on AI ethics"
  • "Get trending keywords for electric cars"
  • "List local coffee shops in Brooklyn"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

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

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

The Zenserp MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Zenserp account. It provides structured and secure access to real-time search engine results, so your agent can perform actions like running Google searches, grabbing news headlines, pulling images, analyzing trends, and even fetching local business data on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive Google and Bing search: Instantly run structured web searches and retrieve up-to-date SERP data from Google or Bing for any query.
  • Automated news and trend analysis: Have your agent fetch recent Google News articles or analyze keyword popularity over time using Google Trends data.
  • Reverse image and visual content search: Perform reverse image lookups or image searches to discover where an image appears online or find relevant pictures for any topic.
  • Shopping and video discovery: Search Google Shopping for product offers or Google Video for relevant multimedia results, all via agent-driven queries.
  • Local and map-based business lookup: Let your agent use Google Maps search to find businesses or places based on location, keywords, or coordinates for local intelligence.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Bing Search

Tool to obtain Bing search results.

Get Shopping Product Details

Tool to retrieve detailed Google Shopping product page information by product_id.

Get API Status

Tool to check the remaining API requests for your API key.

Google Reverse Image Search

Tool to perform a reverse image search on Google.

Zenserp Google Search

Tool to perform a standard Google search via Zenserp.

Google Trends

Tool to retrieve Google Trends data.

List Batches

Tool to list all submitted batches for your Zenserp API key.

List Countries

Tool to get the list of supported Google country (gl) parameters.

List Supported Languages

Tool to get a list of supported Google interface language (hl) parameters.

List Locations

Tool to get a list of supported geo locations for search targeting.

List Search Engines

Tool to get the list of supported search engines that can be queried via Zenserp.

Yandex Search via Zenserp

Tool to obtain Yandex search results via Zenserp API.

FRAMEWORKS

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OpenAI Agents SDK

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Claude Agent SDK

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Claude Code

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Codex

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OpenClaw

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Hermes

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CLI

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Google ADK

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LangChain

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Vercel AI SDK

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Mastra AI

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LlamaIndex

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CrewAI

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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