How to integrate CompanyCam MCP with Claude Agent SDK

This guide walks you through connecting CompanyCam to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working CompanyCam agent that can create your projects, add project photos, tag your photos, create project tasks, and add comments through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a CompanyCam account through Composio's CompanyCam MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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CompanyCam is a photo-first jobsite management platform for project teams. It helps crews document work, coordinate jobs, and share visual updates fast.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting CompanyCam to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working CompanyCam agent that can create your projects, add project photos, tag your photos, create project tasks, and add comments through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a CompanyCam account through Composio's CompanyCam 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:
  • Get and set up your Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for CompanyCam
  • Configure an AI agent that can use CompanyCam as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform CompanyCam operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

  • Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
  • Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
  • Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

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

The CompanyCam MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your CompanyCam account. It provides structured and secure access to your projects, customers, jobsite photos, tasks, comments, labels, tags, and users, so your agent can create projects, document jobsites, coordinate tasks, organize photos, and share project updates on your behalf.

  • Project and customer management: Have your agent create, search, review, and update projects and customer records, including addresses, contact details, and notes.
  • Jobsite photo documentation: Direct your agent to add photos from public web links, review project photos, update photo descriptions, and organize images with tags.
  • Task coordination: Let the agent create, review, and update project tasks, track completion status, and assign available team members.
  • Project communication: Instruct your agent to add comments to projects or photos and review existing discussions before sharing an update.
  • Project organization: Have your agent apply project labels, create reusable photo tags, and find projects using lifecycle, assignee, or text-based searches.

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:
  • Composio API Key and Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
  • A CompanyCam account
  • Some knowledge of Python
2

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

  • @composio/core provides Composio integration for Anthropic
  • @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude
5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
  • The dotenv.config() function loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with CompanyCam functionality
6

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

  // Create Tool Router session for CompanyCam
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['companycam'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session?.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
  • We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
  • The create method creates a Tool Router session for CompanyCam
  • The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
7

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

const options: Options = {
  permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
  mcpServers: {
    composio: {
      type: 'http',
      url: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
    }
  },
  systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to CompanyCam tools via Composio.',
  maxTurns: 10,
};
What's happening:
  • We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
  • permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions' allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
  • The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to CompanyCam
  • maxTurns: 10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage
8

Create client and start chat loop

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

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}
What's happening:
  • The readline interface is created to handle user input and output
  • The query function is used to send the user's input to the agent
  • The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'
9

Run the application

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}
What's happening:
  • The chat function is the entry point for the application
  • The try-catch block is used to handle any errors that occur

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with CompanyCam and Claude Agent SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['companycam']
  });
  const mcp_url = session?.mcp.url;

  const options: Options = {
    permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
    mcpServers: {
      composio: {
        type: 'http',
        url: mcp_url,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
      }
    },
    systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to CompanyCam tools via Composio.',
    maxTurns: 10,
  };

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

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with CompanyCam through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

  • Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
  • Streaming responses for real-time interaction
  • Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Comment

Add a comment to either a CompanyCam project or photo.

Add Photo Tags

Attach media tags by display name.

Add Project Labels

Attach project labels by display name.

Add Project Photo From URL

Add a photo to a CompanyCam project by having CompanyCam fetch a publicly reachable HTTPS image URL.

Create Customer

Create a CompanyCam customer with optional contact details, company status, notes, address, and initial contacts.

Create Project

Create a CompanyCam project with its required address and optional contact, customer, location, and template details.

Create Project Task

Create a task on a CompanyCam project with task details and optional assignees.

Create Photo Tag

Create a reusable CompanyCam media tag for organizing photos.

Get Account Context

Return the connected CompanyCam user and company so an agent can identify the account, role, and company before acting.

Get Photo

Get one CompanyCam photo by ID.

Get Project

Get one CompanyCam project by ID.

List Comments

List comments attached to either a CompanyCam project or photo.

List Customers

List or search CompanyCam customers by name or contact text.

List Project Labels

List reusable CompanyCam project labels that can be attached to projects.

List Project Photos

List and filter photos in a CompanyCam project by tags, users, or groups, one cursor page at a time.

List Projects

List projects with optional lifecycle and assigned-user filters, one cursor page at a time.

List Project Tasks

List tasks for a CompanyCam project, including status, completion, assignees, and attached media.

List Photo Tags

List reusable CompanyCam media tags and return an opaque cursor for the next page.

List Users

List CompanyCam users available for task assignment and project workflows.

Search Projects

Search CompanyCam projects by a free-text query when project list filters are insufficient.

Set Photo Description

Create or replace the description attached to a CompanyCam photo.

Update Customer

Update the name, notes, city, or postal code of an existing CompanyCam customer.

Update Project

Update editable project identity, address, or primary-contact fields without changing archive state.

Update Project Task

Update a CompanyCam project task's details or add and retain assignees.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Agent SDK 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 CompanyCam tools.

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

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