How to integrate CardClan MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With CardClan 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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CardClan is a digital card platform for creating and sending personalized team cards. Use it to celebrate moments, share card links, and manage card workflows without extra coordination.

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Introduction

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

The CardClan MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your CardClan account. It provides structured and secure access to your digital cards, workspaces, sender accounts, and integration workflows, so your agent can find cards, inspect their requirements, create personalized links, configure integrations, and send cards on your behalf.

  • Card and workspace discovery: Have your agent list accessible workspaces and find the cards available within each one.
  • Card detail review: Let the agent check a card's title, personalization requirements, and owning workspace before using it.
  • Personalized card links: Direct your agent to generate a personalized viewing link for a recipient without sending an email.
  • Card sending: Instruct your agent to choose a configured sender account, personalize a card, and email it to one or more recipients.
  • Integration workflow management: Have your agent create or review card integration setups and list cards with active workflows.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Create Integration Configuration

Create a persistent CardClan integration configuration linking a card to its workspace.

Generate Personalized Card URL

Generate a personalized CardClan viewing URL without sending an email.

Get Card Details

Get a CardClan card's title, merge-tag requirements, and owning workspace details by card ID.

Get Integration Configuration

Get a CardClan integration configuration by either integration ID or card ID.

List Cards

List cards in a CardClan workspace, including card IDs needed for details, integration configuration, personalized links, and sending.

List Email Accounts

List configured CardClan sender accounts that can be selected when sending a card.

List Workflow Cards

List cards with active CardClan integration workflows and return their integration, card, and workspace IDs.

List Workspaces

List CardClan workspaces accessible to the connected account, including the workspace IDs needed to find cards and create integration configurations.

Send Card

Immediately personalize and send a CardClan card by email to one or more recipients.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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