How to connect Checkvist to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Checkvist account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to create Checkvist tasks from meeting notes, list overdue Checkvist tasks by assignee, tag Checkvist roadmap items due this week, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Checkvist is an online outliner and task manager for hierarchical lists, notes, tags, due dates, and assignees. Use it to plan projects, capture ideas, and organize work in clean nested lists.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Checkvist account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to create Checkvist tasks from meeting notes, list overdue Checkvist tasks by assignee, tag Checkvist roadmap items due this week, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Checkvist to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Checkvist account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Checkvist or give it any Checkvist-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Create Checkvist tasks from meeting notes"
  • "List overdue Checkvist tasks by assignee"
  • "Tag Checkvist roadmap items due this week"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Checkvist account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Checkvist through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Checkvist MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Checkvist account. It provides structured and secure access to your checklists, tasks, tags, due dates, assignees, and task notes, so your agent can create lists, organize task hierarchies, search tasks, update assignments, and track task status on your behalf.

  • Checklist creation and organization: Have your agent create, rename, tag, review, or delete checklists, including archived and private lists.
  • Hierarchical task planning: Let the agent create individual tasks or import complete task hierarchies, then arrange subtasks, priorities, positions, due dates, tags, and assignees.
  • Task search and review: Instruct your agent to search across checklists by keywords, due dates, tags, status, or notes, and read checklist outlines or task trees.
  • Status and detail updates: Direct your agent to close, reopen, or invalidate tasks, update their content and placement, and add or remove tags.
  • Checklist restructuring and cleanup: Have your agent replace an existing task hierarchy with an updated outline or permanently remove tasks and their subtasks.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Checklist

Create a Checkvist checklist with a name and optional visibility and tags.

Create Task

Create a task in a checklist, optionally under a parent and with tags, smart-syntax due date, position, priority, or assignees.

Delete Checklist

Mark a Checkvist checklist for deletion.

Delete Task

Permanently delete a Checkvist task and all of its child tasks.

Get Checklist

Get one Checkvist checklist's metadata by ID.

Get Tasks Outline

Read a checklist as a recommended markdown task outline, with controls for closed tasks, depth, compact output, or top-level preview.

Get Tasks Page

Read one explicit 1-based page of a large Checkvist checklist.

Get Task Tree

Read one Checkvist task and its subtasks as a markdown outline, optionally including closed items or notes and limiting depth.

Import Tasks

Create multiple hierarchical tasks from Checkvist indented text.

List Checklists

List checklists available to the authenticated Checkvist user, optionally including archived lists or omitting statistics for a faster response.

Replace Tasks

Delete every existing task in a checklist, then replace the hierarchy from Checkvist indented text or OPML.

Search Tasks

Search tasks across the user's Checkvist checklists using words and operators for due date (^ or due:), tag (# or tag:), state (in:), and notes (has:note).

Set Task Status

Set a task's status to closed, reopened, or invalidated using Checkvist's dedicated status operations.

Update Checklist

Update an existing checklist's name, visibility, or complete tag set.

Update Task

Update task content, hierarchy, replacement tags, due date, position, priority, assignees, or smart-syntax parsing.

Update Task Tags

Add and remove task tags without replacing the complete tag set.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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 Checkvist tools.

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

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