How to connect Documentero to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Documentero account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to generate contract PDF from client data, create invoice document from order details, fill proposal template with CRM fields, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Documentero is a document generation service for Word, PDF, and Excel files. It turns reusable templates and structured data into finished documents fast.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Documentero account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to generate contract PDF from client data, create invoice document from order details, fill proposal template with CRM fields, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Documentero to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Documentero account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Documentero or give it any Documentero-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Generate contract PDF from client data"
  • "Create invoice document from order details"
  • "Fill proposal template with CRM fields"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Documentero account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Documentero through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Documentero MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Documentero account. It provides structured and secure access to your templates and document generation features, so your agent can list templates, inspect template requirements, review supported formats, and generate Word, PDF, or Excel documents on your behalf.

  • Template discovery: Have your agent list the templates available in your Documentero account and identify the right one for a task.
  • Template field review: Let the agent inspect a template's field definitions and nested field options before preparing document data.
  • Data requirement checks: Direct your agent to retrieve the required data structure for a template so it can supply correctly formatted content.
  • Output format selection: Instruct your agent to review a template's supported and default output formats before creating a document.
  • Document generation: Have your agent fill a reusable template with structured data and generate a Word, PDF, or Excel document.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Generate Document

Generate a DOCX, PDF, or XLSX document from a Documentero template and data.

Get Template JSON Schema

Return the JSON Schema for the data object accepted when generating a document from a template.

Get Template Metadata

Return a template's Documentero field definitions, nested field options, supported output formats, and default output format.

List Templates

Return all templates available to the connected Documentero account, including each template identifier and type-bearing label.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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 Documentero tools.

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

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