How to integrate Contacts+ MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Contacts+ 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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Contacts+ is a contact management service for personal account, contact, and tag data. It helps keep address books organized, searchable, and easier to maintain across workflows.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Contacts+ 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 Contacts+ 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.

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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
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[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

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

The Contacts+ MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Contacts+ account. It provides structured and secure access to your account, contacts, and tags, so your agent can search, create, update, organize, and delete contacts on your behalf.

  • Contact search and retrieval: Have your agent search your address book by names, details, or tags and fetch complete contact records.
  • Contact creation and updates: Let the agent create new contacts with structured profile details or update existing contact information.
  • Tag organization: Direct your agent to create, rename, list, or delete tags and apply or remove them across your contacts.
  • Contact cleanup: Instruct your agent to find outdated entries and delete contacts you no longer need.
  • Account overview: Have your agent retrieve profile details for your connected Contacts+ account when it needs account context.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Create Contact

Create a personal contact with structured profile data in the connected Contacts+ address book.

Create Tag

Create a personal Contacts+ tag, or return the existing tag when that name already exists.

Delete Contact

Delete one personal contact using its current etag for concurrency protection.

Delete Tag

Delete one personal tag using its current canonical etag.

Get Account

Return profile details for the authenticated Contacts+ personal account.

Get Contacts

Fetch current full records for one or more personal contacts by ID, including etags needed for safe updates and deletes.

Get Tags

Fetch current records for one or more personal tags by ID, including canonical etags needed for safe updates and deletes.

List Contacts

Return one cursor-controlled page of personal contacts from the connected Contacts+ address book.

List Tags

Return one cursor-controlled page of personal Contacts+ tags.

Search Contacts

Search personal contacts by full text or Contacts+ advanced query syntax, optionally restricted to tag IDs.

Update Contact

Replace the desired data for a personal contact using its current etag and strict optimistic concurrency by default.

Update Contact Tags

Add and/or remove personal tags across one or more personal contacts in a single operation.

Update Tag

Rename a personal tag using its current canonical etag from GET_TAGS.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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