How to integrate CertSeal MCP with Mastra AI

This guide walks you through connecting CertSeal to Mastra AI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working CertSeal agent that can issue certificates for completed training batch, list pending certseal certificate recipients, create webhook for issued certificates through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Mastra AI agent real control over a CertSeal account through Composio's CertSeal MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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CertSeal is an API platform for issuing and managing verifiable digital certificates. Use it to automate trusted certificate workflows for recipients, batches, designs, and webhooks.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting CertSeal to Mastra AI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working CertSeal agent that can issue certificates for completed training batch, list pending certseal certificate recipients, create webhook for issued certificates through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Mastra AI agent real control over a CertSeal account through Composio's CertSeal 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:
  • Set up your environment so Mastra, OpenAI, and Composio work together
  • Create a Tool Router session in Composio that exposes CertSeal tools
  • Connect Mastra's MCP client to the Composio generated MCP URL
  • Fetch CertSeal tool definitions and attach them as a toolset
  • Build a Mastra agent that can reason, call tools, and return structured results
  • Run an interactive CLI where you can chat with your CertSeal agent

What is Mastra AI?

Mastra AI is a TypeScript framework for building AI agents with tool support. It provides a clean API for creating agents that can use external services through MCP.

Key features include:

  • MCP Client: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Toolsets: Organize tools into logical groups
  • Step Callbacks: Monitor and debug agent execution
  • OpenAI Integration: Works with OpenAI models via @ai-sdk/openai

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

The CertSeal MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your CertSeal account. It provides structured and secure access to your certificate workspace, so your agent can create batches, issue certificates, manage recipients, send certificate emails, and monitor webhook subscriptions on your behalf.

  • Certificate batch management: Have your agent create certificate batches from reusable designs, review existing batches, and archive or restore them as needed.
  • Certificate issuing and delivery: Instruct your agent to issue certificates to up to 100 recipients at once, with the option to send certificate emails immediately or later.
  • Recipient record management: Let the agent list, review, update, or delete certificate recipients and check their email delivery status.
  • Certificate lookup and verification: Direct your agent to find an issued certificate and review its recipient, batch, design, and completed certificate details.
  • Webhook event monitoring: Have your agent create, inspect, test, rotate signing secrets for, or delete webhook subscriptions for certificate events.

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:
  • Node.js 18 or higher
  • A Composio account with an active API key
  • An OpenAI API key
  • Basic familiarity with TypeScript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key.
  • You need credits or a connected billing setup to use the models.
  • Store the key somewhere safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Go to Settings and copy your API key.
  • This key lets your Mastra agent talk to Composio and reach CertSeal through MCP.
3

Install dependencies

bash
npm install @composio/core @mastra/core @mastra/mcp @ai-sdk/openai dotenv

Install the required packages.

What's happening:

  • @composio/core is the Composio SDK for creating MCP sessions
  • @mastra/core provides the Agent class
  • @mastra/mcp is Mastra's MCP client
  • @ai-sdk/openai is the model wrapper for OpenAI
  • dotenv loads environment variables from .env
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
COMPOSIO_USER_ID=your_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates your requests to Composio
  • COMPOSIO_USER_ID tells Composio which user this session belongs to
  • OPENAI_API_KEY lets the Mastra agent call OpenAI models
5

Import libraries and validate environment

typescript
import "dotenv/config";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { Agent } from "@mastra/core/agent";
import { MCPClient } from "@mastra/mcp";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import * as readline from "readline";

import type { AiMessageType } from "@mastra/core/agent";

const openaiAPIKey = process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY;
const composioAPIKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const composioUserID = process.env.COMPOSIO_USER_ID;

if (!openaiAPIKey) throw new Error("OPENAI_API_KEY is not set");
if (!composioAPIKey) throw new Error("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set");
if (!composioUserID) throw new Error("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set");

const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioAPIKey as string,
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv/config auto loads your .env so process.env.* is available
  • openai gives you a Mastra compatible model wrapper
  • Agent is the Mastra agent that will call tools and produce answers
  • MCPClient connects Mastra to your Composio MCP server
  • Composio is used to create a Tool Router session
6

Create a Tool Router session for CertSeal

typescript
async function main() {
  const session = await composio.create(
    composioUserID as string,
    {
      toolkits: ["cert_seal"],
    },
  );

  const composioMCPUrl = session.mcp.url;
  console.log("CertSeal MCP URL:", composioMCPUrl);
What's happening:
  • create spins up a short-lived MCP HTTP endpoint for this user
  • The toolkits array contains "cert_seal" for CertSeal access
  • session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that Mastra's MCPClient will connect to
7

Configure Mastra MCP client and fetch tools

typescript
const mcpClient = new MCPClient({
    id: composioUserID as string,
    servers: {
      nasdaq: {
        url: new URL(composioMCPUrl),
        requestInit: {
          headers: session.mcp.headers,
        },
      },
    },
    timeout: 30_000,
  });

console.log("Fetching MCP tools from Composio...");
const composioTools = await mcpClient.getTools();
console.log("Number of tools:", Object.keys(composioTools).length);
What's happening:
  • MCPClient takes an id for this client and a list of MCP servers
  • The headers property includes the x-api-key for authentication
  • getTools fetches the tool definitions exposed by the CertSeal toolkit
8

Create the Mastra agent

typescript
const agent = new Agent({
    name: "cert_seal-mastra-agent",
    instructions: "You are an AI agent with CertSeal tools via Composio.",
    model: "openai/gpt-5",
  });
What's happening:
  • Agent is the core Mastra agent
  • name is just an identifier for logging and debugging
  • instructions guide the agent to use tools instead of only answering in natural language
  • model uses openai("gpt-5") to configure the underlying LLM
9

Set up interactive chat interface

typescript
let messages: AiMessageType[] = [];

console.log("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n");

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

rl.prompt();

rl.on("line", async (userInput: string) => {
  const trimmedInput = userInput.trim();

  if (["exit", "quit", "bye"].includes(trimmedInput.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log("\nGoodbye!");
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!trimmedInput) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  messages.push({
    id: crypto.randomUUID(),
    role: "user",
    content: trimmedInput,
  });

  console.log("\nAgent is thinking...\n");

  try {
    const response = await agent.generate(messages, {
      toolsets: {
        cert_seal: composioTools,
      },
      maxSteps: 8,
    });

    const { text } = response;

    if (text && text.trim().length > 0) {
      console.log(`Agent: ${text}\n`);
        messages.push({
          id: crypto.randomUUID(),
          role: "assistant",
          content: text,
        });
      }
    } catch (error) {
      console.error("\nError:", error);
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on("close", async () => {
    console.log("\nSession ended.");
    await mcpClient.disconnect();
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error("Fatal error:", err);
  process.exit(1);
});
What's happening:
  • messages keeps the full conversation history in Mastra's expected format
  • agent.generate runs the agent with conversation history and CertSeal toolsets
  • maxSteps limits how many tool calls the agent can take in a single run
  • onStepFinish is a hook that prints intermediate steps for debugging

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with CertSeal and Mastra AI:

typescript
import "dotenv/config";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { Agent } from "@mastra/core/agent";
import { MCPClient } from "@mastra/mcp";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import * as readline from "readline";

import type { AiMessageType } from "@mastra/core/agent";

const openaiAPIKey = process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY;
const composioAPIKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const composioUserID = process.env.COMPOSIO_USER_ID;

if (!openaiAPIKey) throw new Error("OPENAI_API_KEY is not set");
if (!composioAPIKey) throw new Error("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set");
if (!composioUserID) throw new Error("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set");

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: composioAPIKey as string });

async function main() {
  const session = await composio.create(composioUserID as string, {
    toolkits: ["cert_seal"],
  });

  const composioMCPUrl = session.mcp.url;

  const mcpClient = new MCPClient({
    id: composioUserID as string,
    servers: {
      cert_seal: {
        url: new URL(composioMCPUrl),
        requestInit: {
          headers: session.mcp.headers,
        },
      },
    },
    timeout: 30_000,
  });

  const composioTools = await mcpClient.getTools();

  const agent = new Agent({
    name: "cert_seal-mastra-agent",
    instructions: "You are an AI agent with CertSeal tools via Composio.",
    model: "openai/gpt-5",
  });

  let messages: AiMessageType[] = [];

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

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on("line", async (input: string) => {
    const trimmed = input.trim();
    if (["exit", "quit"].includes(trimmed.toLowerCase())) {
      rl.close();
      return;
    }

    messages.push({ id: crypto.randomUUID(), role: "user", content: trimmed });

    const { text } = await agent.generate(messages, {
      toolsets: { cert_seal: composioTools },
      maxSteps: 8,
    });

    if (text) {
      console.log(`Agent: ${text}\n`);
      messages.push({ id: crypto.randomUUID(), role: "assistant", content: text });
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on("close", async () => {
    await mcpClient.disconnect();
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main();

Conclusion

You've built a Mastra AI agent that can interact with CertSeal through Composio's Tool Router. You can extend this further by:
  • Adding other toolkits like Gmail, Slack, or GitHub
  • Building a web-based chat interface around this agent
  • Using multiple MCP endpoints to enable cross-app workflows
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Batch

Create a persistent certificate batch from an existing CertSeal design and optional email template.

Create Webhook Subscription

Create a persistent webhook subscription for selected certificate events.

Delete Recipient

Permanently delete an issued recipient from an active batch.

Delete Webhook Subscription

Permanently delete a webhook subscription and stop future deliveries.

Get Batch

Get one active or archived certificate batch by ID.

Get Certificate

Look up an issued certificate using either its human-readable certificate ID or its public-viewer share token, and return its recipient, batch, design, and resolved variables.

Get Current Workspace

Verify the connected CertSeal API key and return the workspace ID and username it belongs to.

Get Recipient

Get one issued certificate recipient record by batch ID and recipient ID.

Get Webhook Subscription

Get one webhook subscription by ID.

Issue and Send Certificates

Atomically issue certificates for 1-100 recipients and queue email delivery for every created certificate.

Issue Certificates

Atomically issue certificates without sending email for 1-100 recipients in one active batch.

List Batches

Return one newest-first page of certificate batches in the connected workspace, optionally filtered by archive state.

List Designs

Return one newest-first page of reusable certificate designs.

List Recipients

Return one page of issued certificate recipients in a batch, optionally filtered by email delivery status.

List Webhook Subscriptions

Return one newest-first page of webhook subscriptions.

Rotate Webhook Signing Secret

Immediately invalidate a webhook subscription's current signing secret and replace it.

Send Certificate Emails

Sequentially queue real certificate emails for 1-25 existing recipients in one active batch.

Send Recipient Certificate Email

Queue asynchronous certificate email delivery to one recipient.

Set Batch Archived State

Idempotently archive or unarchive a batch.

Test Webhook Subscription

Enqueue one synthetic signed event through CertSeal's normal webhook dispatcher.

Update Recipient

Partially update an issued certificate recipient.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Mastra AI 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 CertSeal tools.

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

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