How to integrate Context.dev MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Context.dev 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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Context.dev is a web data API platform for scraping, extraction, brand intelligence, monitoring, and structured web data. Use it to turn public web pages into clean, AI-ready data without building brittle scrapers.

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Introduction

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

The Context.dev MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Context.dev account. It provides structured and secure access to web content, brand intelligence, website design details, monitors, documents, and usage data, so your agent can scrape webpages, extract structured data, research brands, parse files, and review monitoring activity on your behalf.

  • Web scraping and structured extraction: Have your agent turn a public webpage into Markdown or crawl relevant website pages to extract information that matches your chosen structure and instructions.
  • Brand research and discovery: Let the agent search for companies by name or domain, then retrieve brand details such as logos, colors, industry, and descriptions.
  • Website design analysis: Direct your agent to inspect a website's colors, typography, spacing, shadows, fonts, and common component styles.
  • Document and file parsing: Instruct your agent to convert uploaded documents, images, source files, or data files into Markdown that an AI assistant can use.
  • Monitoring and usage oversight: Have your agent review web monitors, asynchronous scraping batches, WebDB collections, credit consumption, storage, row counts, and monitor limits.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Extract Structured Web Data

Crawl relevant pages from a website and return data matching a caller-provided JSON Schema and extraction instructions.

Get Brand

Retrieve enriched brand identity, logos, colors, industry, and description using exactly one domain, name, work email, ticker, direct URL, or transaction descriptor.

Get Monitor Limits

Return the connected account's plan and current monitor usage versus its monitor limit.

Get WebDB Usage

Return WebDB credit balance, period consumption, row count, storage, and per-collection usage for an optional time range.

Get Website Styleguide

Extract a website's colors, typography, spacing, shadows, font assets, and common component styles from either a domain or one direct URL.

List Batches

List and filter the connected account's asynchronous web batches from newest to oldest, returning one cursor-controlled page.

List Monitors

List and filter the connected organization's web monitors, returning one cursor-controlled page.

List WebDB Collections

List the connected account's WebDB collections and return one cursor-controlled page, including each collection's sources, extraction configuration, status, usage, and timestamps.

Parse File

Convert an uploaded document, image, source file, or data file into LLM-usable Markdown.

Scrape Webpage to Markdown

Render one public URL and return its main or CSS-selected content as Markdown.

Search Brands

Prefix-search Context.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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