How to integrate Hive MCP with OpenClaw

OpenClaw is the fastest growing agent harness out there, which can work 24/7 to automate almost any kind of tasks. However, its capabilities are limited to the tools it has access to. Composio allows your OpenClaw to access Hive with authentication management handled for you. You can execute actions on Hive via your favorite OpenClaw interface (Telegram, WhatsApp, TUI, etc), whichever you prefer.

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Hive is a project management and team collaboration platform for actions, projects, workflows, resources, and workspace metadata. It helps teams plan work, track progress, and keep collaboration moving in one shared workspace.

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Introduction

OpenClaw is the fastest growing agent harness out there, which can work 24/7 to automate almost any kind of tasks. However, its capabilities are limited to the tools it has access to. Composio allows your OpenClaw to access Hive with authentication management handled for you. You can execute actions on Hive via your favorite OpenClaw interface (Telegram, WhatsApp, TUI, etc), whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • Programmatic tool calling allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Handling Large tool responses out of LLM context to minimize context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so LLMs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Hive with OpenClaw

Using Composio API Key and Setup Prompt

Copy the setup prompt from the OpenClaw dashboard
  • Run it in your OpenClaw chat interface.
  • Authenticate Hive from the dashboard
  • Go back to your OpenClaw interface and start asking questions.

Using OpenClaw/Composio Plugin

1. Install OpenClaw Composio plugin

bash
openclaw plugins install @composio/openclaw-plugin

2. Copy the API Key from dashboard.composio.dev

3. Setup OpenClaw Config

bash
openclaw config set plugins.entries.composio.config.consumerKey "ck_your_key_here"

4. Restart OpenClaw

bash
openclaw gateway restart

5. Go to your chat interface and start asking questions.

6. When prompted, authenticate the app and you're all set.

How It Works

The plugin connects to Composio's MCP server at https://connect.composio.dev/mcp and registers all available tools directly into the OpenClaw agent. Tools are called by name — no extra search or execute steps needed.

If a tool returns an auth error, the agent will prompt you to connect that toolkit at dashboard.composio.dev.

Configuration

bash
{
  "plugins": {
    "entries": {
      "composio": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "consumerKey": "ck_your_key_here"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
OptionDescriptionDefault
enabledEnable or disable the plugintrue
consumerKeyYour Composio consumer key (ck_...)—
mcpUrlMCP server URL (advanced)https://connect.composio.dev/mcp

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

The Hive MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Hive account. It provides structured and secure access to your workspaces, projects, actions, and labels, so your agent can create tasks, find work, review projects, manage labels, and remove actions on your behalf.

  • Action creation and assignment: Have your agent create actions in a workspace or project and assign them to the right team members.
  • Action search and review: Instruct your agent to search action titles or list work by project, status, date, hierarchy, or archive state.
  • Project and workspace discovery: Let the agent list the workspaces and projects available in your Hive account, including active or archived projects.
  • Label organization: Direct your agent to list, create, or delete color-coded labels used to organize work.
  • Action details and cleanup: Have your agent retrieve the latest details for a specific action or remove an action you no longer need.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Hive with OpenClaw using Composio plugin. Now interact with Hive directly from your terminal, Web UI, or any messenger app using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across TUI, Web UIs, and Messenger apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, etc.
  • Natural language commands for Hive operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • Programmatic tool calling for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking OpenClaw to perform various Hive operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits like Calendar, Slack, Notion, etc.
  • Build complex automation scripts that leverage OpenClaw's 24/7 running capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Action

Create a Hive action (task) in a workspace, optionally inside a project and assigned to users.

Create Label

Create a color-coded label in a Hive workspace.

Delete Action

Soft-delete one Hive action by ID.

Delete Label

Delete one label from a Hive workspace.

Get Action

Get the current details of one Hive action by ID.

List Actions

List Hive actions in a workspace, optionally narrowed by project, status, dates, hierarchy, or archive state.

List Labels

List labels configured in a Hive workspace and return label IDs usable in action search.

List Projects

List projects in a Hive workspace, with optional archive and parent-project filters.

List Workspaces

List Hive workspaces accessible to the connected API key and return IDs needed by workspace-scoped tools.

Search Actions

Search action titles in a Hive workspace and return one offset-based result page.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. OpenClaw 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 Hive tools.

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

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