How to integrate Google search console 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 Google search console 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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Google Search Console is Google's tool for monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting your website's performance in Google Search results. It helps you track search traffic, optimize visibility, and resolve site issues quickly.

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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 Google search console 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 Google search console 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 Google search console

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

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

5. Done!

What is the Google search console MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Google search console MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Google Search Console account. It provides structured and secure access to your website’s search analytics and indexing data, so your agent can retrieve site lists, inspect URLs, manage sitemaps, and run detailed search performance queries on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive site and sitemap management: Have your agent list all properties you own, fetch details about specific sitemaps, or submit new sitemaps for indexing to keep Google up to date.
  • Automated URL inspection: Let your agent check the indexing status and uncover crawl or indexing issues for any URL in your properties, so you can spot and resolve problems quickly.
  • Instant search analytics reporting: Ask your agent to pull granular performance metrics such as clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position for any site, page, or query segment.
  • Bulk site and sitemap overview: Effortlessly retrieve a list of all sites and their associated sitemaps, making it easy to monitor your web presence at scale.
  • Proactive index issue detection: Enable your agent to routinely review URLs and sitemaps for errors or warnings, helping you stay ahead of SEO issues without manual digging.

Way Forward

With Google search console 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 Google search console action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add Site

Adds a site to the set of the user's sites in Google Search Console.

Delete Site

Removes a site from the user's Google Search Console sites.

Get Site

Retrieves information about a specific Search Console site.

Get Sitemap

Retrieves sitemap metadata (submitted/indexed counts, errors, warnings, last-submission timestamps) for a specific sitemap in Search Console.

Inspect URL

Inspects a URL for indexing issues and status in Google Search Console.

List Sitemaps

Lists all sitemaps for a site in Google Search Console.

List Sites

Lists all verified sites (properties) owned by the authenticated user in Google Search Console.

Search Analytics Query

Queries Google Search Console for search analytics data including clicks, impressions, CTR, and position metrics.

Submit Sitemap

Submits a sitemap to Google Search Console for indexing.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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