How to integrate Creatomate MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Creatomate account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Creatomate account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Creatomate with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Creatomate

Ask your agent to connect to Creatomate, or simply request any Creatomate-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Creatomate connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Creatomate or request any Creatomate-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The Creatomate MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Creatomate account. It provides structured and secure access to your media renders and reusable templates, so your agent can generate videos, images, and GIFs, track render progress, and create, review, update, or delete templates on your behalf.

  • Automated media creation: Have your agent generate a video, image, or GIF from a reusable template or a custom media design.
  • Render progress tracking: Let the agent check whether a media render is still processing, has succeeded, or has failed, and retrieve its available output details.
  • Reusable template creation: Direct your agent to create and save new project templates from complete media designs without starting a render.
  • Template discovery and review: Instruct your agent to list available templates, filter them by tags, and retrieve the complete design of a selected template.
  • Template updates and cleanup: Have your agent rename templates, replace their tags or designs, and permanently delete templates you no longer need.

Way Forward

With Creatomate connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Render

Start one asynchronous image, video, or GIF render from either a template or a direct RenderScript.

Create Template

Create a reusable project template from a RenderScript without starting a render, returning the saved template and any non-fatal warnings.

Delete Template

Permanently delete one project template.

Get Render

Return the current status and available output metadata for one asynchronous render; terminal statuses are succeeded and failed.

Get Template

Return one project template including its complete RenderScript source.

List Templates

Return metadata for every template in the connected project, optionally filtered by any of the supplied comma-separated tags; RenderScript source is not included.

Update Template

Partially update a template's name, replacement tag list, or complete replacement RenderScript source; omitted fields remain unchanged.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Hermes 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 Creatomate tools.

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

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