How to integrate Hex MCP with LangChain

This guide walks you through connecting Hex to LangChain using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Hex agent that can list recent hex analytics projects, run weekly revenue hex project, check latest hex project status through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your LangChain agent real control over a Hex account through Composio's Hex 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 Hex to LangChain using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Hex agent that can list recent hex analytics projects, run weekly revenue hex project, check latest hex project status through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your LangChain agent real control over a Hex account through Composio's Hex 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
  • Connect your Hex project to Composio
  • Create a Tool Router MCP session for Hex
  • Initialize an MCP client and retrieve Hex tools
  • Build a LangChain agent that can interact with Hex
  • Set up an interactive chat interface for testing

What is LangChain?

LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. It provides tools and abstractions for building agents that can reason, use tools, and maintain conversation context.

Key features include:

  • Agent Framework: Build agents that can use tools and make decisions
  • MCP Integration: Connect to external services through Model Context Protocol adapters
  • Memory Management: Maintain conversation history across interactions
  • Multi-Provider Support: Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers

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

The Hex MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Hex account. It provides structured and secure access to your projects, notebook cells, runs, collections, guides, users, and groups, so your agent can manage projects, edit notebook cells, run analyses, organize workspace content, and administer access on your behalf.

  • Project discovery and review: Have your agent list viewable Hex projects and retrieve project details for quick workspace research.
  • Notebook cell management: Direct your agent to list, create, update, or delete cells in the draft version of a Hex project.
  • Project runs and monitoring: Let the agent run the latest published version of a project, review its recent runs, and check a specific run's status.
  • Workspace organization: Instruct your agent to list or create collections and create, update, or delete guide drafts.
  • User and group administration: Have your agent list workspace users and groups, edit group names or membership, delete groups, and deactivate users.

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

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1

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, make sure you have:
  • Python 3.10 or higher installed on your system
  • A Composio account with an API key
  • An OpenAI API key
  • Basic familiarity with Python and async programming
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

npm install @composio/langchain @langchain/core @langchain/openai @langchain/mcp-adapters dotenv

Install the required packages for LangChain with MCP support.

What's happening:

  • @composio/langchain provides Composio integration for LangChain
  • @langchain/mcp-adapters enables MCP client connections
  • @langchain/core is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
COMPOSIO_USER_ID=your_composio_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates your requests to Composio's API
  • COMPOSIO_USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • OPENAI_API_KEY enables access to OpenAI's language models
5

Import dependencies

import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { LangchainProvider } from '@composio/langchain';
import { MultiServerMCPClient } from "@langchain/mcp-adapters";
import { createAgent } from "langchain";
import * as readline from 'readline';
import 'dotenv/config';

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing LangChain's MCP adapter and Composio SDK
  • The dotenv/config import loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting LangChain with Hex functionality through MCP
6

Initialize Composio client

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

if (!composioApiKey) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set');
if (!userId) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set');

async function main() {
    const composio = new Composio({
        apiKey: composioApiKey as string,
        provider: new LangchainProvider()
    });
What's happening:
  • We're loading the COMPOSIO_API_KEY from environment variables and validating it exists
  • Creating a Composio instance that will manage our connection to Hex tools
  • Validating that COMPOSIO_USER_ID is also set before proceeding
7

Create a Tool Router session

const session = await composio.create(
    userId as string,
    {
        toolkits: ['hex']
    }
);

const url = session.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • We're creating a Tool Router session that gives your agent access to Hex tools
  • The create method takes the user ID and specifies which toolkits should be available
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
  • This approach allows the agent to dynamically load and use Hex tools as needed
8

Configure the agent with the MCP URL

const client = new MultiServerMCPClient({
    "hex-agent": {
        transport: "http",
        url: url,
        headers: {
            "x-api-key": process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY
        }
    }
});

const tools = await client.getTools();

const agent = createAgent({ model: "gpt-5", tools });
What's happening:
  • We're creating a MultiServerMCPClient that connects to our Hex MCP server via HTTP
  • The client is configured with a name and the URL from our Tool Router session
  • getTools() retrieves all available Hex tools that the agent can use
  • We're creating a LangChain agent using the GPT-5 model
9

Set up interactive chat interface

let conversationHistory: any[] = [];

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

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

rl.prompt();

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

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'bye'].includes(trimmedInput.toLowerCase())) {
        console.log("\nGoodbye!");
        rl.close();
        process.exit(0);
    }

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

    conversationHistory.push({ role: "user", content: trimmedInput });
    console.log("\nAgent is thinking...\n");

    const response = await agent.invoke({ messages: conversationHistory });
    conversationHistory = response.messages;

    const finalResponse = response.messages[response.messages.length - 1]?.content;
    console.log(`Agent: ${finalResponse}\n`);
        
        rl.prompt();
    });

    rl.on('close', () => {
        console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
        process.exit(0);
    });
What's happening:
  • We initialize an empty conversationHistory list to maintain context across interactions
  • A readline interface is used to continuously accept user input from the command line
  • When a user types a message, it's added to the conversation history and sent to the agent
  • The agent processes the request using the invoke() method with the full conversation history
  • Users can type 'exit', 'quit', or 'bye' to end the chat session gracefully
10

Run the application

main().catch((err) => {
    console.error('Fatal error:', err);
    process.exit(1);
});
What's happening:
  • We call the main() function to start the application

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Hex and LangChain:

import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { LangchainProvider } from '@composio/langchain';
import { MultiServerMCPClient } from "@langchain/mcp-adapters";  
import { createAgent } from "langchain";
import * as readline from 'readline';
import 'dotenv/config';

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

if (!composioApiKey) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set');
if (!userId) throw new Error('COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set');

async function main() {
    const composio = new Composio({
        apiKey: composioApiKey as string,
        provider: new LangchainProvider()
    });

    const session = await composio.create(
        userId as string,
        {
            toolkits: ['hex']
        }
    );

    const url = session.mcp.url;
    
    const client = new MultiServerMCPClient({
        "hex-agent": {
            transport: "http",
            url: url,
            headers: {
                "x-api-key": process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY
            }
        }
    });
    
    const tools = await client.getTools();
  
    const agent = createAgent({ model: "gpt-5", tools });
    
    let conversationHistory: any[] = [];
    
    console.log("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n");
    console.log("Ask any Hex related question or task to the agent.\n");
    
    const rl = readline.createInterface({
        input: process.stdin,
        output: process.stdout,
        prompt: 'You: '
    });

    rl.prompt();

    rl.on('line', async (userInput: string) => {
        const trimmedInput = userInput.trim();
        
        if (['exit', 'quit', 'bye'].includes(trimmedInput.toLowerCase())) {
            console.log("\nGoodbye!");
            rl.close();
            process.exit(0);
        }
        
        if (!trimmedInput) {
            rl.prompt();
            return;
        }
        
        conversationHistory.push({ role: "user", content: trimmedInput });
        console.log("\nAgent is thinking...\n");
        
        const response = await agent.invoke({ messages: conversationHistory });
        conversationHistory = response.messages;
        
        const finalResponse = response.messages[response.messages.length - 1]?.content;
        console.log(`Agent: ${finalResponse}\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

You've successfully built a LangChain agent that can interact with Hex through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features of this implementation:

  • Dynamic tool loading through Composio's Tool Router
  • Conversation history maintenance for context-aware responses
  • Async Python provides clean, efficient execution of agent workflows
You can extend this further by adding error handling, implementing specific business logic, or integrating additional Composio toolkits to create multi-app workflows.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Cancel Run

Tool to cancel a project run that is in progress.

Create Cell

Tool to create a new cell in the draft version of a Hex project.

Create Collection

Tool to create a new collection in the Hex workspace.

Create Group

Tool to create a new group in the Hex workspace.

Deactivate User

Deactivates a user in the Hex workspace.

Delete Cell

Permanently delete a cell from the draft version of a project.

Delete Group

Deletes a group from the Hex workspace.

Delete Guide Draft

Deletes a guide draft by ID from Hex.

Edit Collection

Tool to edit a collection's name, description, and sharing settings in Hex.

Edit Group

Tool to edit a group's name and/or members in Hex.

Edit Project Sharing Collections

Tool to add a project to collections or remove it from collections.

Edit Project Sharing Groups

Tool to edit project sharing settings for groups in Hex.

Edit Project Sharing Settings

Tool to edit project sharing settings for workspace members and public web access.

Edit Project Sharing Users

Tool to edit project sharing settings for individual users in Hex.

Get Cell

Tool to get a single cell by ID from the draft version of a Hex project.

Get collection

Tool to get information about a specific collection in Hex.

Get Group

Tool to retrieve information about a specific Hex group.

Get Project

Tool to get metadata about a single Hex project.

Get Project Runs

Tool to retrieve the status of API-triggered runs for a specific Hex project.

Get Run Chart Image

Tool to retrieve a rendered chart image from a Hex project run.

Get Run Status

Tool to retrieve the status of a specific Hex project run.

List Cells

Tool to list all cells from the draft version of a Hex project.

List Collections

Tool to retrieve all collections in the workspace with pagination support.

List Data Connections

Tool to list all data connections in the Hex workspace with pagination support.

List groups

Tool to list all groups in the Hex workspace with pagination support.

List Hex Projects

Tool to list all viewable Hex projects with pagination and filtering support.

List Users

Tool to list all users in the Hex workspace with pagination support.

Publish Guide Drafts

Tool to publish all currently drafted guides or specific guides by ID.

Run Project

Tool to trigger a run of the latest published version of a Hex project.

Update Cell

Tool to update a cell's source code and/or data connection in Hex.

Update Project Status

Tool to add or remove a status (including endorsements) from a Hex project.

Upsert Guide Draft

Tool to update or create guide drafts by filePath.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. LangChain 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 Hex tools.

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

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