How to integrate Harvest MCP with Google ADK

This guide walks you through connecting Harvest to Google ADK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Harvest agent that can create a new client for acme corp, log an expense for project 'website redesign', generate an invoice for hours worked this week through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Google ADK agent real control over a Harvest account through Composio's Harvest MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Harvest is a time-tracking and invoicing platform for teams and freelancers. It helps you log billable hours, manage projects, and streamline payments.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Harvest to Google ADK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Harvest agent that can create a new client for acme corp, log an expense for project 'website redesign', generate an invoice for hours worked this week through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Google ADK agent real control over a Harvest account through Composio's Harvest 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 a Harvest account set up and connected to Composio
  • Install the Google ADK and Composio packages
  • Create a Composio Tool Router session for Harvest
  • Build an agent that connects to Harvest through MCP
  • Interact with Harvest using natural language

What is Google ADK?

Google ADK (Agents Development Kit) is Google's framework for building AI agents powered by Gemini models. It provides tools for creating agents that can use external services through the Model Context Protocol.

Key features include:

  • Gemini Integration: Native support for Google's Gemini models
  • MCP Toolset: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol tools
  • Streamable HTTP: Connect to external services through streamable HTTP
  • CLI and Web UI: Run agents via command line or web interface

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

The Harvest MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Harvest account. It provides structured and secure access to your time-tracking, invoicing, and project management data, so your agent can create clients, log expenses, send invoices, record payments, and manage estimates automatically on your behalf.

  • Client and contact management: Seamlessly create new clients and add contacts to keep your client list up to date without manual entry.
  • Estimate creation and communication: Automatically generate new estimates, categorize line items, and send estimate messages or updates to clients.
  • Expense tracking automation: Log new expense entries against projects, ensuring accurate financial records and effortless cost tracking.
  • Streamlined invoicing and payments: Create professional invoices, categorize invoice items, send invoice notifications, and record payments as soon as they happen.
  • Project financial workflow optimization: Let your agent handle the full cycle—from creating clients to sending invoices and tracking payments—saving your team valuable time and reducing errors.

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:
  • A Google API key for Gemini models
  • A Composio account and API key
  • Python 3.9 or later installed
  • Basic familiarity with Python
2

Getting API Keys for Google and Composio

Google API Key
  • Go to Google AI Studio and create an API key.
  • Copy the key and keep it safe. You will put this in GOOGLE_API_KEY.
Composio API Key and User ID
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Go to Settings → API Keys and copy your Composio API key. Use this for COMPOSIO_API_KEY.
  • Decide on a stable user identifier to scope sessions, often your email or a user ID. Use this for COMPOSIO_USER_ID.
3

Install dependencies

bash
pip install google-adk composio python-dotenv

Inside your virtual environment, install the required packages.

What's happening:

  • google-adk is Google's Agents Development Kit
  • composio connects your agent to Harvest via MCP
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables
4

Set up ADK project

bash
adk create my_agent

Set up a new Google ADK project.

What's happening:

  • This creates an agent folder with a root agent file and .env file
5

Set environment variables

bash
GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-composio-api-key
COMPOSIO_USER_ID=your-user-id-or-email

Save all your credentials in the .env file.

What's happening:

  • GOOGLE_API_KEY authenticates with Google's Gemini models
  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • COMPOSIO_USER_ID identifies the user for session management
6

Import modules and validate environment

python
import os
import warnings

from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from google.adk.agents.llm_agent import Agent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import StreamableHTTPConnectionParams
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset

load_dotenv()

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*BaseAuthenticatedTool.*")

GOOGLE_API_KEY = os.getenv("GOOGLE_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not GOOGLE_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("GOOGLE_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set in the environment.")
What's happening:
  • os reads environment variables
  • Composio is the main Composio SDK client
  • GoogleProvider declares that you are using Google ADK as the agent runtime
  • Agent is the Google ADK LLM agent class
  • McpToolset lets the ADK agent call MCP tools over HTTP
7

Create Composio client and Tool Router session

python
composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY)

composio_session = composio_client.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["harvest"],
)

COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url,
print(f"Composio MCP URL: {COMPOSIO_MCP_URL}")
What's happening:
  • Authenticates to Composio with your API key
  • Declares Google ADK as the provider
  • Spins up a short-lived MCP endpoint for your user and selected toolkit
  • Stores the MCP HTTP URL for the ADK MCP integration
8

Set up the McpToolset and create the Agent

python
composio_toolset = McpToolset(
    connection_params=StreamableHTTPConnectionParams(
        url=COMPOSIO_MCP_URL,
        headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY}
    )
)

root_agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash",
    name="composio_agent",
    description="An agent that uses Composio tools to perform actions.",
    instruction=(
        "You are a helpful assistant connected to Composio. "
        "You have the following tools available: "
        "COMPOSIO_SEARCH_TOOLS, COMPOSIO_MULTI_EXECUTE_TOOL, "
        "COMPOSIO_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_BASH_TOOL, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_WORKBENCH. "
        "Use these tools to help users with Harvest operations."
    ),
    tools=[composio_toolset],
)

print("\nAgent setup complete. You can now run this agent directly ;)")
What's happening:
  • Connects the ADK agent to the Composio MCP endpoint through McpToolset
  • Uses Gemini as the model powering the agent
  • Lists exact tool names in instruction to reduce misnamed tool calls
9

Run the agent

bash
# Run in CLI mode
adk run my_agent

# Or run in web UI mode
adk web

Execute the agent from the project root. The web command opens a web portal where you can chat with the agent.

What's happening:

  • adk run runs the agent in CLI mode
  • adk web . opens a web UI for interactive testing

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Harvest and Google ADK:

python
import os
import warnings

from composio import Composio
from composio_google import GoogleProvider
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from google.adk.agents.llm_agent import Agent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import StreamableHTTPConnectionParams
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset

load_dotenv()
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*BaseAuthenticatedTool.*")

GOOGLE_API_KEY = os.getenv("GOOGLE_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not GOOGLE_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("GOOGLE_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set in the environment.")

composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY, provider=GoogleProvider())

composio_session = composio_client.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["harvest"],
)

COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url


composio_toolset = McpToolset(
    connection_params=StreamableHTTPConnectionParams(
        url=COMPOSIO_MCP_URL,
        headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY}
    )
)

root_agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash",
    name="composio_agent",
    description="An agent that uses Composio tools to perform actions.",
    instruction=(
        "You are a helpful assistant connected to Composio. "
        "You have the following tools available: "
        "COMPOSIO_SEARCH_TOOLS, COMPOSIO_MULTI_EXECUTE_TOOL, "
        "COMPOSIO_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_BASH_TOOL, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_WORKBENCH. "
        "Use these tools to help users with Harvest operations."
    ),  
    tools=[composio_toolset],
)

print("\nAgent setup complete. You can now run this agent directly ;)")

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Harvest with the Google ADK through Composio's MCP Tool Router. Your agent can now interact with Harvest using natural language commands.

Key takeaways:

  • The Tool Router approach dynamically routes requests to the appropriate Harvest tools
  • Environment variables keep your credentials secure and separate from code
  • Clear agent instructions reduce tool calling errors
  • The ADK web UI provides an interactive interface for testing and development

You can extend this setup by adding more toolkits to the toolkits array in your session configuration.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Client

Tool to create a new client.

Create Client Contact

Tool to create a new client contact.

Create Estimate

Tool to create a new estimate.

Create Estimate Item Category

Tool to create a new estimate item category in Harvest.

Create Estimate Message

Tool to create a new message for an estimate.

Create Expense

Tool to create a new expense entry.

Create Invoice

Tool to create a new invoice.

Create Invoice Item Category

Tool to create a new invoice item category.

Create Invoice Message

Creates a new message for an invoice in Harvest.

Create Invoice Payment

Tool to create a new payment on an invoice.

Create Project

Create a new project in Harvest.

Create Task

Creates a new task in Harvest.

Create Time Entry

Tool to create a new time entry.

Create User

Creates a new user in Harvest and sends an invitation email to the specified address.

Delete Client

Tool to delete a client.

Delete Client Contact

Permanently deletes a client contact from Harvest.

Delete Estimate

Tool to delete an estimate.

Delete Estimate Message

Tool to delete an estimate message.

Delete Invoice

Delete an invoice from Harvest.

Delete Invoice Item Category

Tool to delete an invoice item category from Harvest.

Delete Invoice Message

Tool to delete a message from an invoice.

Delete Invoice Payment

Tool to delete an invoice payment.

Delete Project

Tool to delete a project.

Delete Task

Tool to delete a task.

Delete Time Entry

Tool to delete a time entry.

Delete User

Tool to delete a user.

Get Client

Retrieves a specific client by ID from Harvest.

Get Company Info

Retrieves detailed information about the company associated with the authenticated Harvest account.

Get Estimate

Tool to retrieve a specific estimate by ID.

Get Invoice

Tool to retrieve a specific invoice by ID.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve a specific Harvest project by ID.

Get Task

Tool to retrieve a specific task by ID.

Get Time Entry

Tool to retrieve a single time entry by ID.

Get User

Tool to retrieve a specific user by ID.

List Client Contacts

Tool to list client contacts.

List Clients

Tool to list clients.

List Estimate Messages

Lists all messages associated with a specific estimate in Harvest.

List Expense Categories

Tool to list expense categories.

List Invoice Item Categories

Tool to retrieve invoice item categories.

List Invoice Messages

Tool to list messages associated with a given invoice.

List Invoice Payments

List all payments recorded for a specific invoice.

List Invoices

Tool to list invoices.

List projects

Tool to list projects.

List Tasks

Tool to list tasks.

List Time Entries

Tool to retrieve a list of time entries.

List Users

Tool to list users.

Update Client

Tool to update an existing client.

Update Client Contact

Tool to update a client contact.

Update Company Info

Updates company time tracking settings in Harvest.

Update Estimate

Tool to update an existing estimate.

Update Estimate Item Category

Updates an existing estimate item category's name in Harvest.

Update Expense

Tool to update an existing expense.

Update Invoice

Tool to update an existing invoice.

Update Project

Tool to update an existing project.

Update Task

Tool to update an existing task.

Update Time Entry

Tool to update an existing time entry.

Update User

Tool to update an existing user.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Google ADK 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 Harvest tools.

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

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