How to integrate Gorgias MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Gorgias to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Gorgias agent that can create a new support ticket for a customer, add urgent tag to today's open tickets, delete a team that's no longer active through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Gorgias account through Composio's Gorgias MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Gorgias to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Gorgias agent that can create a new support ticket for a customer, add urgent tag to today's open tickets, delete a team that's no longer active through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Gorgias account through Composio's Gorgias MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Gorgias
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Gorgias as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Gorgias operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

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

The Gorgias MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Gorgias account. It provides structured and secure access to your helpdesk workspace, so your agent can perform actions like managing tickets, creating customers, tagging conversations, and organizing support teams on your behalf.

  • Automated ticket management: Instantly create, update, or delete support tickets to streamline customer interactions and resolve issues faster.
  • Customer profile control: Add new customers, update their details, or remove outdated accounts directly from your helpdesk—no manual entry required.
  • Tagging and ticket organization: Effortlessly assign or remove tags on tickets so your support requests stay organized by priority, topic, or workflow.
  • Team management: Create or delete support teams, letting your agent help restructure teams as your business grows or shifts focus.
  • Bulk customer actions: Perform batch operations like deleting multiple customers or specific field values, making mass updates and data hygiene a breeze.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Gorgias project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Gorgias.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Gorgias
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['gorgias'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only gorgias.
  • The router checks the user's Gorgias connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Gorgias.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Gorgias tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Gorgias. Help users perform Gorgias operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Gorgias and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Gorgias operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Gorgias.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Gorgias and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['gorgias'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Gorgias. Help users perform Gorgias operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Gorgias MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Gorgias.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Ticket Tags

Adds tags to a ticket in Gorgias.

Create Account Setting

Creates a new account setting in Gorgias.

Create Customer

Creates a new customer in Gorgias.

Create Team

Creates a new team in Gorgias.

Create Ticket

Creates a new ticket in Gorgias.

Delete Customer

Deletes a specific customer from Gorgias.

Delete Customer Field Value

Deletes a specific field value for a customer in Gorgias.

Delete Customers

Deletes multiple customers from Gorgias.

Delete Team

Deletes a specific team from Gorgias.

Delete Ticket

Deletes a specific ticket from Gorgias.

Delete Ticket Field Value

Deletes a specific field value for a ticket in Gorgias.

Get Account

Retrieves your Gorgias account information.

Get Customer

Retrieves a specific customer from Gorgias.

Get Event

Retrieves a specific event from Gorgias.

Get Team

Retrieves a specific team from Gorgias.

Get Ticket

Retrieves a specific ticket from Gorgias.

List Account Settings

Lists all account settings in Gorgias.

List Customer Field Values

Lists all field values for a customer in Gorgias.

List Customers

Lists customers in Gorgias with various filtering options.

List Events

Lists events in Gorgias with various filtering options.

List Teams

Lists teams in Gorgias.

List Ticket Field Values

Lists all field values for a ticket in Gorgias.

List Tickets

Lists tickets in Gorgias with various filtering options.

List Ticket Tags

Lists all tags for a ticket in Gorgias.

Merge Customers

Merges two customers in Gorgias, combining their data and history.

Remove Ticket Tags

Removes tags from a ticket in Gorgias.

Set Customer Data

Sets the complete data object for a customer in Gorgias.

Set Ticket Tags

Sets the complete list of tags for a ticket in Gorgias.

Update Account Setting

Updates an existing account setting in Gorgias.

Update Customer

Updates an existing customer in Gorgias.

Update Team

Updates an existing team in Gorgias.

Update Ticket

Updates an existing ticket in Gorgias.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK 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 Gorgias tools.

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

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