How to integrate CaptureKit MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With CaptureKit 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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CaptureKit is a web capture API for screenshots, structured content extraction, crawling, and AI website analysis. Use it to turn live webpages into clean visual and data outputs without building scrapers.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With CaptureKit 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 CaptureKit 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 CaptureKit MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The CaptureKit MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your CaptureKit account. It provides structured and secure access to webpage capture, content extraction, website analysis, raw HTML, and account usage, so your agent can capture pages, extract web content, analyze websites, fetch HTML, and monitor usage on your behalf.

  • Webpage screenshots and PDFs: Have your agent capture any webpage as an image or PDF for visual reviews, records, or reports.
  • Structured content extraction: Let the agent extract page metadata, links, rendered HTML, Markdown, sitemap data, or cleaned main content.
  • AI website analysis: Direct your agent to summarize a webpage and identify its value proposition, features, categories, use cases, audience, or custom details.
  • Fast HTML retrieval: Instruct your agent to fetch raw webpage HTML for scraping, audits, or change monitoring without browser rendering.
  • Usage and quota checks: Have your agent check your current allowance, usage, API key status, quotas, and effective rate limits.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated CaptureKit with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with CaptureKit 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 CaptureKit 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 CaptureKit operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Analyze Webpage

Analyze a webpage with AI to identify its summary, value proposition, features, categories, use cases, audience, and optional custom fields.

Capture Webpage

Capture a webpage as an image or PDF and return a downloadable file reference.

Extract Webpage Content

Extract webpage metadata and links, optionally including rendered HTML, Markdown, sitemap data, or cleaned main content.

Fetch Page HTML

Fetch a webpage's raw HTML without browser rendering for fast scraping, audits, or monitoring.

Get Usage

Return the connected workspace's current CaptureKit allowance, usage, API-key status, quotas, and effective rate limits.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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