How to integrate Botdog MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Botdog MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Botdog is a LinkedIn outreach platform for managing campaigns, leads, messages, analytics, and sending accounts. It helps sales teams run outbound workflows and track performance from one place.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Botdog MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Botdog MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

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

The Botdog MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Botdog account. It provides structured and secure access to your campaigns, leads, LinkedIn messaging, outreach analytics, and connected sending accounts, so your agent can review campaigns, add leads, send or schedule messages, monitor results, and check account health on your behalf.

  • Campaign oversight: Have your agent list campaigns, review their status and schedule, and inspect configured workflow steps and branches.
  • Lead management: Direct your agent to find leads by campaign or engagement state and add LinkedIn profiles to an existing campaign.
  • LinkedIn messaging: Instruct your agent to send a message to an existing lead conversation now or schedule it for later.
  • Outreach performance: Let the agent report invitation, message, profile visit, and response results for your team or individual campaigns over a chosen period.
  • Team and account visibility: Have your agent list team members, check team details, and review the connection health of LinkedIn sending accounts.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Botdog with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Botdog directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for Botdog operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various Botdog operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Leads to Campaign

Create 1 to 100 lead records from LinkedIn profiles in an existing campaign.

Get Analytics

Return outreach analytics for a preset period, either as team/campaign totals or as a per-user breakdown.

Get Campaign

Return one campaign's identity, status, owner, and configured dates by campaign ID.

Get Campaign Sequence

Return a campaign's configured workflow steps and branches in graph, tree, readable, or combined form; this does not edit or launch the campaign.

Get Campaign Statistics

Return invitation, message, profile-visit, and response metrics and rates for one campaign.

Get Current Team

Return the name and user count of the Botdog team authenticated by the connected API key.

Get Daily Analytics

Return one outreach-activity row per calendar day plus totals for an explicit date range, optionally filtered by user or campaign.

List LinkedIn Accounts

Return connected LinkedIn sending accounts and their connection health for the authenticated Botdog team.

List Campaigns

Return campaigns in the authenticated Botdog team, optionally filtered by status or owner user IDs.

List Leads

Return one cursor-controlled page of team leads, optionally filtered by campaign, list, campaign state, reply state, unread state, or skip state.

List Team Users

Return Botdog users in the authenticated team so their IDs can be used in campaign and analytics filters.

Send or Schedule Message

Immediately send a LinkedIn message to an existing lead conversation, or schedule delivery when send_at is provided.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Codex 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 Botdog tools.

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

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