How to connect Elai 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 Elai account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to create presenter video from product script, translate onboarding video into Spanish, render template video with custom avatar, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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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 Elai account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to create presenter video from product script, translate onboarding video into Spanish, render template video with custom avatar, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Elai 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 Elai account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Create presenter video from product script"
  • "Translate onboarding video into Spanish"
  • "Render template video with custom avatar"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Elai 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 Elai through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Elai MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Elai account. It provides structured and secure access to your presenter-led videos, templates, avatars, and narration tools, so your agent can create story videos, copy drafts, estimate speech duration, start renders, and track videos on your behalf.

  • Story video creation: Have your agent turn text, HTML, or a web page into a story video with generated visual slides that are ready to render.
  • Video drafting and rendering: Let the agent copy an existing video or template into a new draft, then start rendering when it is ready.
  • Video tracking and review: Direct your agent to list videos and templates, check rendering status, and retrieve finished video details and links.
  • Avatar and narration planning: Instruct your agent to explore available avatar variants and estimate how long narration will take with a selected voice.
  • Video cleanup: Have your agent permanently delete videos or templates you no longer need.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Copy Video

Create a draft copy of an existing video or template; the new draft counts against Elai's creation quota.

Create Story Video

Create a Story video from text, HTML, or a web-page URL and generate its visual slides so it is ready for rendering.

Delete Video

Permanently delete one Elai video or template.

Estimate Speech Duration

Estimate how many seconds narration text will take with a selected Elai voice before modifying or rendering a video.

Get Video

Get a video's status, render URL, metadata, and optionally its full slide configuration.

List Avatars

Find available avatars and variants as compact records, optionally limited to Realtime-compatible avatars.

List Videos

List videos and templates as compact summaries, with filters and a continuation cursor for additional pages.

Render Video

Start asynchronous rendering of a prepared video, consuming paid rendering minutes.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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