How to integrate Griptape MCP with Autogen

This guide walks you through connecting Griptape to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Griptape agent that can create a new assistant named 'dochelper', list all assistants available in your workspace, start a run for assistant 'codegenpro' with input data through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Griptape account through Composio's Griptape 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 Griptape to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Griptape agent that can create a new assistant named 'dochelper', list all assistants available in your workspace, start a run for assistant 'codegenpro' with input data through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Griptape account through Composio's Griptape 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 required dependencies for Autogen and Composio
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Griptape
  • Wire that MCP URL into Autogen using McpWorkbench and StreamableHttpServerParams
  • Configure an Autogen AssistantAgent that can call Griptape tools
  • Run a live chat loop where you ask the agent to perform Griptape operations

What is AutoGen?

Autogen is a framework for building multi-agent conversational AI systems from Microsoft. It enables you to create agents that can collaborate, use tools, and maintain complex workflows.

Key features include:

  • Multi-Agent Systems: Build collaborative agent workflows
  • MCP Workbench: Native support for Model Context Protocol tools
  • Streaming HTTP: Connect to external services through streamable HTTP
  • AssistantAgent: Pre-built agent class for tool-using assistants

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

The Griptape MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Griptape account. It provides structured and secure access to your Griptape platform, so your agent can create assistants, launch and monitor AI runs, retrieve logs, and analyze results automatically on your behalf.

  • Automated assistant creation and management: Easily direct your agent to create new assistants or list existing ones, making it simple to manage your AI resources in Griptape Cloud.
  • Launching and controlling assistant runs: Let your agent start new assistant runs, cancel ongoing executions, or fetch the status of any run for streamlined AI workflow management.
  • Real-time monitoring of assistant activities: Have your agent stream live run events, monitor progress, or retrieve detailed logs to keep tabs on every step of your generative AI processes.
  • Error handling and diagnostics: Ask your agent to fetch detailed error reports for failed runs, helping you troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
  • Result retrieval and historical analysis: Automatically pull final outputs from completed runs and review historical execution data, empowering you to analyze and improve your generative AI pipelines over time.

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 step08 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

You will need:

  • A Composio API key
  • An OpenAI API key (used by Autogen's OpenAIChatCompletionClient)
  • A Griptape account you can connect to Composio
  • Some basic familiarity with Autogen and Python async
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
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio python-dotenv
pip install autogen-agentchat autogen-ext-openai autogen-ext-tools

Install Composio, Autogen extensions, and dotenv.

What's happening:

  • composio connects your agent to Griptape via MCP
  • autogen-agentchat provides the AssistantAgent class
  • autogen-ext-openai provides the OpenAI model client
  • autogen-ext-tools provides MCP workbench support

4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-composio-api-key
OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key
USER_ID=your-user-identifier@example.com

Create a .env file in your project folder.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY is required to talk to Composio
  • OPENAI_API_KEY is used by Autogen's OpenAI client
  • USER_ID is how Composio identifies which user's Griptape connections to use
5

Import dependencies and create Tool Router session

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio

from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient
from autogen_ext.tools.mcp import McpWorkbench, StreamableHttpServerParams

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Griptape session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["griptape"]
    )
    url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • load_dotenv() reads your .env file
  • Composio(api_key=...) initializes the SDK
  • create(...) creates a Tool Router session that exposes Griptape tools
  • session.mcp.url is the MCP endpoint that Autogen will connect to
6

Configure MCP parameters for Autogen

python
# Configure MCP server parameters for Streamable HTTP
server_params = StreamableHttpServerParams(
    url=url,
    timeout=30.0,
    sse_read_timeout=300.0,
    terminate_on_close=True,
    headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")}
)

Autogen expects parameters describing how to talk to the MCP server. That is what StreamableHttpServerParams is for.

What's happening:

  • url points to the Tool Router MCP endpoint from Composio
  • timeout is the HTTP timeout for requests
  • sse_read_timeout controls how long to wait when streaming responses
  • terminate_on_close=True cleans up the MCP server process when the workbench is closed
7

Create the model client and agent

python
# Create model client
model_client = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(
    model="gpt-5",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
)

# Use McpWorkbench as context manager
async with McpWorkbench(server_params) as workbench:
    # Create Griptape assistant agent with MCP tools
    agent = AssistantAgent(
        name="griptape_assistant",
        description="An AI assistant that helps with Griptape operations.",
        model_client=model_client,
        workbench=workbench,
        model_client_stream=True,
        max_tool_iterations=10
    )

What's happening:

  • OpenAIChatCompletionClient wraps the OpenAI model for Autogen
  • McpWorkbench connects the agent to the MCP tools
  • AssistantAgent is configured with the Griptape tools from the workbench
8

Run the interactive chat loop

python
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
print("Ask any Griptape related question or task to the agent.\n")

# Conversation loop
while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    # Run the agent with streaming
    try:
        response_text = ""
        async for message in agent.run_stream(task=user_input):
            if hasattr(message, "content") and message.content:
                response_text = message.content

        # Print the final response
        if response_text:
            print(f"Agent: {response_text}\n")
        else:
            print("Agent: I encountered an issue processing your request.\n")

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Agent: Sorry, I encountered an error: {str(e)}\n")
What's happening:
  • The script prompts you in a loop with You:
  • Autogen passes your input to the model, which decides which Griptape tools to call via MCP
  • agent.run_stream(...) yields streaming messages as the agent thinks and calls tools
  • Typing exit, quit, or bye ends the loop

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Griptape and AutoGen:

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio

from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient
from autogen_ext.tools.mcp import McpWorkbench, StreamableHttpServerParams

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Griptape session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["griptape"]
    )
    url = session.mcp.url

    # Configure MCP server parameters for Streamable HTTP
    server_params = StreamableHttpServerParams(
        url=url,
        timeout=30.0,
        sse_read_timeout=300.0,
        terminate_on_close=True,
        headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")}
    )

    # Create model client
    model_client = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(
        model="gpt-5",
        api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
    )

    # Use McpWorkbench as context manager
    async with McpWorkbench(server_params) as workbench:
        # Create Griptape assistant agent with MCP tools
        agent = AssistantAgent(
            name="griptape_assistant",
            description="An AI assistant that helps with Griptape operations.",
            model_client=model_client,
            workbench=workbench,
            model_client_stream=True,
            max_tool_iterations=10
        )

        print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
        print("Ask any Griptape related question or task to the agent.\n")

        # Conversation loop
        while True:
            user_input = input("You: ").strip()

            if user_input.lower() in ['exit', 'quit', 'bye']:
                print("\nGoodbye!")
                break

            if not user_input:
                continue

            print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

            # Run the agent with streaming
            try:
                response_text = ""
                async for message in agent.run_stream(task=user_input):
                    if hasattr(message, 'content') and message.content:
                        response_text = message.content

                # Print the final response
                if response_text:
                    print(f"Agent: {response_text}\n")
                else:
                    print("Agent: I encountered an issue processing your request.\n")

            except Exception as e:
                print(f"Agent: Sorry, I encountered an error: {str(e)}\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Conclusion

You now have an Autogen assistant wired into Griptape through Composio's Tool Router and MCP. From here you can:
  • Add more toolkits to the toolkits list, for example notion or hubspot
  • Refine the agent description to point it at specific workflows
  • Wrap this script behind a UI, Slack bot, or internal tool
Once the pattern is clear for Griptape, you can reuse the same structure for other MCP-enabled apps with minimal code changes.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Assistant Creation

Tool to create a new assistant.

List Assistants

Tool to list all assistants.

Cancel Assistant Run

Tool to cancel an ongoing assistant run.

Assistant Run Creation

Creates a new assistant run to execute a conversation turn with a Griptape Cloud assistant.

Get Assistant Run Error Details

Tool to fetch detailed error information for a specific assistant run.

List Assistant Runs

Tool to list all runs for a given assistant.

Assistant Run Logs Retrieval

Retrieve the complete execution logs for an assistant run in Griptape Cloud.

Retrieve Assistant Run

Tool to retrieve an assistant run's status and details.

Retry Assistant Run

Tool to attempt retrying a failed assistant run.

Cancel Data Job

Tool to cancel a running or queued data job.

Create Bucket

Tool to create a new bucket in Griptape Cloud.

Create Bucket Asset

Tool to create a new asset in a Griptape Cloud bucket.

Create Data Connector

Tool to create a new data connector in Griptape Cloud.

Create Data Connector Job

Tool to create a data job for a data connector in Griptape Cloud.

Create Export Job

Tool to create a new export job in Griptape Cloud.

Create Function

Tool to create a new function in Griptape Cloud.

Create Function Deployment

Tool to create a new deployment for a function from a code source.

Create Import Job

Tool to create a new import job in Griptape Cloud.

Create Integration

Tool to create a new integration in Griptape Cloud.

Create Knowledge Base

Tool to create a new knowledge base in Griptape Cloud.

Create Knowledge Base Job

Tool to create a knowledge base job for ingesting data into a knowledge base.

Create Library

Tool to create a new library in Griptape Cloud.

Create Model Configuration

Tool to create a new model configuration in Griptape Cloud.

Create Model Auth Config

Tool to create a model authentication configuration in Griptape Cloud.

Create Organization API Key

Tool to create a new API key for a specific organization.

Create Retriever

Tool to create a new retriever in Griptape Cloud.

Create Rule

Tool to create a new rule in Griptape Cloud.

Create Secret

Tool to create a new secret in Griptape Cloud.

Create Structure

Tool to create a new structure in Griptape Cloud.

Create Structure Deployment

Tool to create a new deployment for a structure.

Create Thread

Tool to create a new thread in Griptape Cloud.

Create Thread Message

Tool to create a new message in a specific thread.

Create Tool Deployment

Create a new deployment for a tool from a GitHub repository.

Delete API Key

Tool to delete an API key by ID.

Delete Assistant

Tool to delete an assistant by ID.

Delete Bucket

Tool to delete a bucket by ID.

Delete Bucket Asset

Tool to delete a specific asset from a Griptape Cloud bucket.

Delete Data Connector

Tool to delete a data connector.

Delete Function

Tool to delete a function from Griptape Cloud.

Delete Integration

Tool to delete an integration by ID.

Delete Knowledge Base

Tool to delete a Knowledge Base from Griptape Cloud.

Delete Library

Tool to delete a library from Griptape Cloud.

Delete Message

Tool to delete a message by its ID.

Delete Model Configuration

Tool to delete a model configuration from Griptape Cloud.

Delete Model Auth Config

Tool to delete a model auth config by ID.

Delete Rule

Tool to delete a rule by its ID.

Delete Ruleset

Tool to permanently delete a ruleset from Griptape Cloud by its ID.

Delete Secret

Tool to delete a secret from Griptape Cloud.

Delete Structure

Tool to delete a structure from Griptape Cloud.

Delete Thread

Tool to delete a thread by its ID.

Delete Tool

Tool to delete a tool from Griptape Cloud.

Get API Key

Tool to retrieve an API key's details.

Get Assistant

Tool to retrieve a specific assistant's details by ID.

Get Billing Management URL

Tool to retrieve the billing management portal URL.

Get Bucket

Tool to retrieve a bucket's details by its ID.

Get Bucket Asset

Tool to retrieve a specific asset from a Griptape Cloud bucket.

Get Bucket Asset URL

Tool to generate a signed URL for accessing or uploading bucket assets.

Get Configuration

Tool to retrieve Griptape Cloud configuration.

Get Credits Balance

Tool to retrieve the current credits balance.

Get Data Connector

Tool to retrieve a data connector's configuration and details from Griptape Cloud.

Get Data Job

Tool to retrieve a data job's status and details by its ID.

Get Export Job

Tool to retrieve an export job by ID.

Get Function

Tool to retrieve a function's details.

Get Import Job

Tool to retrieve an import job's status and details.

Get Integration

Tool to retrieve a specific integration's details by ID.

Get Knowledge Base

Tool to retrieve a knowledge base's configuration and details from Griptape Cloud.

Get Knowledge Base Job

Tool to retrieve a knowledge base job's status and details by its ID.

Get Knowledge Base Search

Tool to retrieve details of a specific knowledge base search by its ID.

Get Library

Tool to retrieve a specific library's details by ID.

Get Message

Tool to retrieve a specific message's details by ID.

Get Model Configuration

Tool to retrieve a model configuration's details by its ID.

Get Model Auth Config

Tool to retrieve a model auth config by ID.

Get Organization

Tool to retrieve an organization's details by its ID.

Get Retriever

Tool to retrieve a retriever's details by its ID.

Get Retriever Component

Tool to retrieve a retriever component's details by its ID.

Get Rule

Tool to retrieve a specific rule's details by ID.

Get Ruleset

Tool to retrieve a specific ruleset's details by ID.

Get Ruleset by Alias

Retrieve a ruleset from Griptape Cloud by its unique alias identifier.

Get Secret

Tool to retrieve a secret's details from Griptape Cloud.

Get Structure

Tool to retrieve a structure's configuration and details from Griptape Cloud.

Get Structures Dashboard

Tool to retrieve dashboard metrics for structures.

Get Thread

Tool to retrieve a specific thread's details by ID.

Get Tool

Tool to retrieve a specific tool's details by ID.

Get Usage

Tool to retrieve current usage statistics.

Get User

Tool to retrieve a user's details by their ID.

List Assistant Run Events

Tool to list events for an assistant run with pagination support.

List Bucket Assets

Tool to list assets in a bucket.

List Buckets

Tool to list all buckets in Griptape Cloud.

List Connections

Tool to list all connections.

List Data Connectors

Tool to list all data connectors.

List Embedding Drivers

Tool to list available embedding drivers.

List Export Jobs

Tool to list export jobs from Griptape Cloud.

List Function Deployments

Tool to list all deployments for a specific function.

List Functions

Tool to list all functions with optional pagination.

List Import Jobs

Tool to list import jobs in Griptape Cloud.

List Integrations

Tool to list all integrations.

List Knowledge Base Jobs

Tool to list knowledge base jobs for a specific knowledge base.

List Knowledge Base Queries

Tool to list all queries made to a specific Griptape Cloud knowledge base.

List Knowledge Bases

Tool to list all knowledge bases.

List Knowledge Base Searches

Tool to list all searches performed on a specific knowledge base.

List Libraries

Tool to list all libraries in Griptape Cloud.

List Model Auth Configs

Tool to list all model authentication configurations with optional pagination.

List Models

Tool to list all models in Griptape Cloud.

List Organization API Keys

Tool to list all API keys in a specific organization.

List Organizations

Tool to list all organizations in Griptape Cloud.

List Retriever Components

Tool to list all retriever components in Griptape Cloud.

List Retrievers

Tool to list all retrievers in Griptape Cloud.

List Rules

Tool to list all rules in Griptape Cloud with optional pagination and filtering.

List Secrets

Tool to list all secrets in Griptape Cloud.

List Structure Deployments

Tool to list all deployments for a specific structure.

List Structure Runs

Tool to list all runs for a specific structure with optional pagination and status filtering.

List Structures

Tool to list all structures in Griptape Cloud.

List Thread Messages

Tool to list all messages in a specific thread.

List Threads

Tool to list all threads.

List Tool Deployments

Tool to list all deployments for a specific tool.

List Tool Runs

Tool to list all runs for a specific tool with optional pagination and status filtering.

List Users

Tool to list all users in Griptape Cloud.

Query knowledge base

Performs semantic search against a Griptape Cloud knowledge base using natural language.

Query Retriever

Tool to query a retriever in Griptape Cloud with a natural-language query.

Ruleset Creation

Creates a new ruleset in Griptape Cloud.

Search Knowledge Base

Searches a Griptape Cloud Knowledge Base with a natural-language query and returns a synthesized answer.

Create Tool

Create a new tool resource in Griptape Cloud.

Get Tool Deployment Status

Tool to retrieve status of a specific tool deployment.

List Tools

Tool to list all tools.

Update Assistant

Tool to update an existing assistant's configuration.

Update Bucket

Tool to update a bucket's properties by its ID.

Update Data Connector

Tool to update a data connector's configuration in Griptape Cloud.

Update Function

Tool to update an existing function's configuration.

Update Integration

Tool to update an existing integration's configuration.

Update Knowledge Base

Tool to update a knowledge base's configuration in Griptape Cloud.

Update Library

Tool to update an existing library's configuration in Griptape Cloud.

Update Message

Tool to update a message's input, output, and metadata by its ID.

Update Model Configuration

Tool to update a model configuration's properties by its ID.

Update Model Auth Config

Tool to update an existing model auth config's properties.

Update Organization

Tool to update an organization's properties by its ID.

Update Retriever

Tool to update an existing retriever's configuration in Griptape Cloud.

Update Retriever Component

Tool to update a retriever component's configuration by its ID.

Update Rule

Tool to update an existing rule's configuration.

Update Ruleset

Tool to update an existing ruleset's configuration.

Update Secret

Tool to update a secret's properties by its ID.

Update Structure

Tool to update an existing structure's configuration.

Update Thread

Tool to update an existing thread's configuration.

Update Tool

Tool to update an existing tool's configuration.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Autogen 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 Griptape tools.

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

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