How to integrate Charla MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Charla account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Charla account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Charla with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Charla

Ask your agent to connect to Charla, or simply request any Charla-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Charla connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Charla or request any Charla-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The Charla MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Charla account. It provides structured and secure access to your customer contacts, conversation history, and knowledge base, so your agent can review contacts, export conversations, browse help content, and manage articles on your behalf.

  • Customer contact lookup: Have your agent list recently updated contacts and retrieve a specific contact when you need more details.
  • Conversation review: Let the agent export customer conversations with their message history for support reviews, summaries, or follow-up planning.
  • Knowledge base discovery: Instruct your agent to browse article summaries, read full articles, and review the available categories.
  • Article creation and updates: Direct your agent to create new knowledge base articles or replace the content and details of existing ones.
  • Knowledge base cleanup: Have your agent permanently delete outdated knowledge base articles you no longer want to publish.

Way Forward

With Charla connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Knowledge Base Article

Create a knowledge base article.

Delete Knowledge Base Article

Permanently delete one knowledge base article by ID.

Get Contact

Return one contact in the connected Charla property by UUID.

Get Knowledge Base Article

Return the full content and metadata of one knowledge base article by ID.

List Contacts

Return one page of contacts for the connected Charla property, ordered by most recently modified.

List Conversations

Export one page of conversations grouped by contact for the connected Charla property, including message history.

List Knowledge Base Articles

Return one page of knowledge base article summaries for the connected Charla property, newest first.

List Knowledge Base Categories

Return all knowledge base categories available in the connected Charla property.

Update Knowledge Base Article

Replace every writable field of an existing knowledge base article.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Hermes 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 Charla tools.

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

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