How to integrate Googlecontacts 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 Googlecontacts 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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Googlecontacts is Google’s contact management service powered by the Google People API. It keeps names, emails, phone numbers, and contact details synced across Google Workspace.

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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 Googlecontacts 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 Googlecontacts 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 Googlecontacts

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

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

5. Done!

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

The Googlecontacts MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Googlecontacts account. It provides structured and secure access to your contacts, contact groups, other contacts, and domain directory, so your agent can search, create, update, delete, and organize contacts on your behalf.

  • Contact search and lookup: Instruct your agent to search your contacts, retrieve individual people, or list all saved connections.
  • Contact creation and updates: Have your agent create new contacts, update existing details, or add many contacts at once.
  • Contact groups and membership: Let the agent create, rename, list, or delete contact groups and manage which contacts belong to them.
  • Directory and other contact discovery: Direct your agent to search your organization’s directory, review other contacts, and copy useful people into your main contacts.
  • Contact cleanup and photos: Have your agent delete individual contacts or batches of contacts, then add, replace, or remove contact photos.

Way Forward

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

Batch create contacts

Create a batch of new contacts in Google Contacts.

Batch get contact groups

Get a list of contact groups owned by the authenticated user by specifying a list of contact group resource names.

Batch Update Google Contacts

Update a batch of contacts in Google Contacts and return the updated contact data.

Copy Other Contact to My Contacts

Copies an Other contact to a new contact in the user's myContacts group.

Create Contact

Create a new contact in Google Contacts and return the person resource for that contact.

Create Contact Group

Create a new contact group owned by the authenticated user.

Delete Google Contact

Delete a contact person from Google Contacts.

Delete contact group

Deletes an existing contact group owned by the authenticated user by specifying the contact group resource name.

Delete Contact Photo

Delete a contact's photo from Google Contacts.

Batch Delete Google Contacts

Delete a batch of contacts from Google Contacts.

Batch get people

Batch retrieves information about multiple people from Google Contacts.

Get Contact Group

Retrieves a specific contact group owned by the authenticated user by specifying the contact group resource name.

Get Person

Provides information about a person by specifying a resource name.

List Connections

Lists the connections (contacts) for the authenticated user.

List Contact Groups

List all contact groups owned by the authenticated user.

List Directory People

Lists domain profiles and domain contacts in the authenticated user's domain directory.

List Other Contacts

Lists "Other contacts" from Google People API.

Modify Contact Group Members

Modifies the members of a contact group by adding or removing contact resource names.

Search Contacts

Searches the authenticated user's contacts for matches against the provided query.

Search Domain Directory People

Search domain directory people in Google Contacts.

Search Other Contacts

Searches other contacts from Google People API that match a query string.

Update Google Contact

Update contact data for an existing contact person.

Update Contact Group

Update the name of an existing contact group owned by the authenticated user.

Update Contact Photo

Update a contact's photo.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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