How to integrate AccuWeather MCP with Claude Agent SDK

This guide walks you through connecting AccuWeather to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working AccuWeather agent that can fetch current conditions, get hourly forecasts, retrieve your weather alerts, and report minute-by-minute precipitation through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a AccuWeather account through Composio's AccuWeather MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting AccuWeather to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working AccuWeather agent that can fetch current conditions, get hourly forecasts, retrieve your weather alerts, and report minute-by-minute precipitation through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a AccuWeather account through Composio's AccuWeather MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for AccuWeather
  • Configure an AI agent that can use AccuWeather as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform AccuWeather operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

  • Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
  • Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
  • Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

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

The AccuWeather MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your AccuWeather account. It provides structured and secure access to global weather conditions, forecasts, alerts, precipitation updates, and storm data, so your agent can check current weather, plan around forecasts, monitor alerts, assess precipitation, and track tropical storms on your behalf.

  • Current conditions and forecasts: Have your agent check current conditions and retrieve hourly or daily forecasts for cities and other locations worldwide.
  • Weather alerts and alarms: Let the agent monitor active government weather alerts and threshold-based alarms for locations you care about.
  • Minute-by-minute rain and lightning: Direct your agent to assess near-term precipitation, forecast lightning probability, or review recent lightning strikes around chosen coordinates.
  • Tropical storm tracking: Instruct your agent to find active tropical storms and review their latest positions, observed paths, forecast tracks, intensity, and status.
  • Local weather context: Have your agent find locations, explore nearby cities, review lifestyle indices, or retrieve recent radar and satellite imagery for trip and activity planning.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
  • A AccuWeather account
  • Some knowledge of Python
2

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

  • @composio/core provides Composio integration for Anthropic
  • @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude
5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
  • The dotenv.config() function loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with AccuWeather functionality
6

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

  // Create Tool Router session for AccuWeather
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['accu_weather'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session?.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
  • We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
  • The create method creates a Tool Router session for AccuWeather
  • The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
7

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

const options: Options = {
  permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
  mcpServers: {
    composio: {
      type: 'http',
      url: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
    }
  },
  systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to AccuWeather tools via Composio.',
  maxTurns: 10,
};
What's happening:
  • We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
  • permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions' allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
  • The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to AccuWeather
  • maxTurns: 10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage
8

Create client and start chat loop

const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}
What's happening:
  • The readline interface is created to handle user input and output
  • The query function is used to send the user's input to the agent
  • The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'
9

Run the application

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}
What's happening:
  • The chat function is the entry point for the application
  • The try-catch block is used to handle any errors that occur

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with AccuWeather and Claude Agent SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['accu_weather']
  });
  const mcp_url = session?.mcp.url;

  const options: Options = {
    permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
    mcpServers: {
      composio: {
        type: 'http',
        url: mcp_url,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
      }
    },
    systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to AccuWeather tools via Composio.',
    maxTurns: 10,
  };

  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with AccuWeather through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

  • Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
  • Streaming responses for real-time interaction
  • Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Autocomplete Locations

Return location-name suggestions for all locations, cities, or points of interest, optionally restricted to a country.

Get Administrative Area

Return one administrative area by country and administrative-area codes.

Get Country

Return one country by AccuWeather region and country codes.

Get Current Conditions

Return current weather observations for an AccuWeather location key, optionally including extended details and weather photos.

Get Daily Forecast

Return a 1, 5, 7, 10, or 15-day forecast for a location key.

Get Daily Indices

Return 1, 5, 10, or 15-day lifestyle-index forecasts for all indices, one group, or one index at an AccuWeather location.

Get Historical Current Conditions

Return the past 6 or 24 hours of current-condition observations for an AccuWeather location key.

Get Hourly Forecast

Return a 1, 12, 24, 72, or 120-hour forecast for an AccuWeather location key.

Get Index

Return metadata for one AccuWeather lifestyle index.

Get Index Group

Return the lifestyle indices belonging to one AccuWeather index group.

Get Lightning Forecast

Return forecast lightning probabilities for latitude/longitude coordinates.

Get Location

Return full location metadata for an AccuWeather location key.

Get MinuteCast Forecast

Return minute-by-minute precipitation conditions for latitude/longitude coordinates.

Get Radar and Satellite Imagery

Return recent radar and satellite image metadata and URLs for an AccuWeather location at a selected resolution.

Get Region

Return one AccuWeather region by region code.

Get Translation Group

Return translated strings for one AccuWeather translation group.

Get Tropical Storm Current Position

Return the latest observed position of a government-issued tropical storm.

List Active Tropical Storms

Return active government-issued tropical storms globally, by basin, or by basin and government storm ID.

List Administrative Areas

Return administrative areas globally or within a country, one provider page at a time.

List Countries

Return countries globally or within a specific AccuWeather region, one provider page at a time.

List Index Groups

Return lifestyle-index groups and their identifiers.

List Indices

Return all supported lifestyle indices and their identifiers.

List MinuteCast Color Codes

Return full or simplified color-code metadata used in MinuteCast precipitation output.

List Neighboring Cities

Return cities near an AccuWeather location key.

List Recent Lightning Strikes

Return recent lightning strikes within 1 to 60 miles of latitude/longitude coordinates as a GeoJSON FeatureCollection.

List Regions

Return AccuWeather geographic regions and their codes.

List Supported Languages

Return AccuWeather-supported languages with numeric IDs and language codes.

List Top Cities

Return top-ranked AccuWeather cities globally or within one region.

List Top City Conditions

Return current weather conditions for a requested number of globally ranked cities.

List Translation Groups

Return available AccuWeather translation groups and their identifiers.

List Tropical Storm Forecasts

Return forecast positions and intensity for a government-issued tropical storm.

List Tropical Storm Positions

Return the observed position history of a government-issued tropical storm.

List Tropical Storms by Year

Return government-issued tropical storms for a year, optionally filtered by basin and government storm ID.

List Tropical Storm Statuses

Return government-issued tropical storm status categories and wind-speed definitions globally or for one basin.

List Weather Alarms

Return threshold-based weather alarms for the next 1, 5, 10, or 15 days at an AccuWeather location.

List Weather Alerts

Return active government-issued weather alerts for a location key.

Resolve Language Identifier

Convert an AccuWeather language code to its numeric ID or a numeric language ID to its code.

Search Administrative Areas

Search administrative areas by required non-empty name text and optional country and administrative-area code filters, one 25-result provider page at a time.

Search City by IP Address

Resolve an IPv4 or IPv6 address to an AccuWeather city location.

Search Locations

Search cities, general locations, postal codes, or points of interest by text and optional geographic filters.

Search Locations by Coordinates

Find the nearest general location, city, or point of interest to latitude/longitude coordinates.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Agent SDK 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 AccuWeather tools.

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

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