How to integrate Conductor MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Conductor 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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Conductor is a cloud development platform for workspaces, coding-agent sessions, messages, and transcript search. It helps teams run, review, and coordinate agent-driven development in one place.

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Introduction

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

The Conductor MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Conductor account. It provides structured and secure access to your projects, cloud workspaces, coding-agent sessions, messages, and transcripts, so your agent can create workspaces, run sessions, exchange messages, manage workspace states, and search transcripts on your behalf.

  • Cloud workspace management: Have your agent create workspaces for available projects, check their status, rename them, or put them to sleep or archive them.
  • Coding-agent session control: Let the agent create and rename sessions, check whether they are idle, working, or in an error state, and stop current work or archive sessions.
  • Agent messaging: Direct your agent to send coding prompts to a session and read individual messages or full session conversations.
  • Transcript search and review: Instruct your agent to search session transcripts with read-only queries and find relevant details from past coding work.
  • Project and activity discovery: Have your agent list available repository projects, browse their workspaces and sessions, and review recent activity.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Change Workspace State

Put a workspace to sleep or archive it.

Create Session

Create another agent chat session in an existing workspace.

Create Workspace

Create a cloud workspace and its first agent session.

Get Current User

Return the user and organization represented by the connected Conductor API key.

Get Message

Get one transcript message by id.

Get Project

Get one Conductor project and its repository remote by project id.

Get Session

Get one agent session's configuration and current idle, working, or error status in one read.

Get Workspace

Get a workspace's metadata and current lifecycle status in one read, including initialization progress or errors.

List Messages

Read one page of a session transcript or incrementally read messages after a known message ID.

List Projects

List repositories available to the connected account for creating Conductor workspaces.

List Sessions

List one page of agent chat sessions in a Conductor workspace.

List Workspaces

List one page of workspaces belonging to a Conductor project, including deep links and recent activity.

Query Transcripts

Run one read-only SQL SELECT against the organization's session_transcripts_view.

Rename Session

Change an existing Conductor session's display name without stopping its agent.

Rename Workspace

Change the display name of an existing Conductor workspace without changing its lifecycle state.

Send Message

Send a prompt to a Conductor session agent.

Stop Session

Cancel only the current turn and queued messages, or archive the entire session.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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