How to integrate FuseDesk 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 FuseDesk 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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FuseDesk is a customer support platform for managing cases, email conversations, contacts, departments, representatives, chats, and webhooks. It helps support teams keep customer conversations organized so issues get routed, tracked, and resolved faster.

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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 FuseDesk 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 FuseDesk 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 FuseDesk

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

4. Done. You're all set with a new FuseDesk 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 FuseDesk or request any FuseDesk-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The FuseDesk MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your FuseDesk account. It provides structured and secure access to support cases, email conversations, contacts, departments, representatives, chats, and webhooks, so your agent can create and update cases, reply to customers, manage contacts, monitor chats, and review support activity on your behalf.

  • Case creation and management: Have your agent open support cases, update their content or status, change tags, add internal notes, snooze follow-ups, and merge related cases.
  • Customer replies and email review: Let the agent search support emails, read complete messages, and send replies to customers from the appropriate case.
  • Contact and team coordination: Direct your agent to create, find, and update contacts, review departments, and check representative profiles when deciding where work belongs.
  • Chat monitoring and handling: Instruct your agent to list active chats, read conversation histories, transfer or rename chats, mark them seen or unseen, and close completed conversations.
  • Support oversight and automation review: Have your agent search cases by customer, assignment, status, text, or date, apply bulk changes, review case tags, and list configured webhook subscriptions.

Way Forward

With FuseDesk 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 FuseDesk action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add Case Note

Add an internal note or call record to a case and optionally change its status.

Bulk Merge Cases

Irreversibly merge multiple FuseDesk cases.

Bulk Update Cases

Apply an assignment, department, status, tag, CRM automation, CRM tag, or snooze operation to multiple FuseDesk cases.

Change Case Tag

Apply or remove one existing case tag from one FuseDesk case.

Close Chat

Irreversibly close a FuseDesk chat and end the live conversation.

Create Case

Open a support case for a customer in a FuseDesk department.

Create Case Tag

Create a reusable FuseDesk case tag.

Create Contact

Create a FuseDesk contact.

Get Case

Get one FuseDesk support case and its complete history by case ID.

Get Chat

Get one FuseDesk chat and its complete message history by chat UUID.

Get Contact

Get a FuseDesk contact by UUID, including current data from its linked CRM contact.

Get Department

Get a FuseDesk department's assignment, template, staleness, feedback, phone, and archive settings by department ID.

Get Email

Get one FuseDesk email by its numeric ID, including its complete body.

Get Rep

Get a FuseDesk rep's detailed profile, permissions, and signatures.

List Case Tags

List available FuseDesk case tags and their case counts.

List Chats

List active FuseDesk chats across connected chat platforms, including assignment links, recent-message context, and lifecycle state.

List Departments

List active, archived, or all FuseDesk departments using the current v2 representation.

List Reps

List active and disabled FuseDesk reps for assignment and ownership decisions.

List Webhooks

List configured FuseDesk webhook subscriptions.

Reply To Case

Send an external email reply on a FuseDesk case using supplied content or an existing reply template.

Search Cases

Search support cases by customer, assignment, status, text, and lifecycle dates, returning one controllable page.

Search Contacts

Search FuseDesk and linked CRM contacts by required text.

Search Emails

Search all or only unassigned FuseDesk emails, returning one controllable page with optionally truncated bodies.

Snooze Case

Snooze a case until an absolute date/time or FuseDesk relative-time expression.

Update Case

Change a case's content, customer link, assignment, department, or status.

Update Chat

Rename, transfer, relink, or mark a live FuseDesk chat seen or unseen.

Update Contact

Update a FuseDesk contact.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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