How to integrate Kaleido MCP with Claude Code

Manage your Kaleido directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns. You can do this in two different ways: Via Composio Connect - Direct and easiest approach Via Composio SDK - Programmatic approach with more control

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Kaleido is a full-stack platform for building and managing enterprise blockchain networks and applications. It streamlines secure deployment, governance, and scaling for blockchain solutions.

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Introduction

Manage your Kaleido directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns.

You can do this in two different ways:

  1. Via Composio Connect - Direct and easiest approach
  2. Via Composio SDK - Programmatic approach with more control

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Why use Composio?

  • Only one MCP URL to connect multiple apps with Claude Code with zero auth hassles.
  • 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.

Connecting Kaleido to Claude Code using Composio

1. Add the Composio MCP to Claude

Terminal

2. Start Claude Code

bash
claude

3. Open your MCP list

bash
/mcp

4. Select Composio and click on Authenticate

Select Composio and click Authenticate

5. This will redirect you to the Composio OAuth page. Complete the flow by authorizing Composio and you're all set.

Composio OAuth authorization page
Composio authorization complete
Ask Claude to connect to your account and authenticate via the link

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

The Kaleido MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Kaleido account. It provides structured and secure access to your blockchain environment, so your agent can perform actions like managing organizations, handling API keys, retrieving memberships, and monitoring event streams on your behalf.

  • Organization and consortium management: Let your agent list, retrieve, and manage organizations and consortia that you have access to—making it easy to keep your blockchain networks organized.
  • API key lifecycle control: Effortlessly create, retrieve, and delete API keys for your organization, so you can handle credential management without manual steps.
  • Membership and access insights: Quickly fetch details about user memberships and organizational access, helping you stay on top of roles and permissions in your blockchain environment.
  • Event stream monitoring: Retrieve and review all event streams configured in your environment, making it simple to keep tabs on real-time blockchain activity.
  • App2App and credential retrieval: Ask your agent to list App2App runtimes and fetch application credentials for specific environments, streamlining application integration and deployment.

Connecting Kaleido via Composio SDK

Composio SDK is the underlying tech that powers Rube. It's a universal gateway that does everything Rube does but with much more programmatic control. You can programmatically generate an MCP URL with the app you need (here Kaleido) for even more tool search precision. It's secure and reliable.

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 step10 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Claude Pro, Max, or API billing enabled Anthropic account
  • Composio API Key
  • A Kaleido account
  • Basic knowledge of Python or TypeScript
2

Install Claude Code

bash
# macOS, Linux, WSL
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

# Windows PowerShell
irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

# Windows CMD
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd

To install Claude Code, use one of the following methods based on your operating system:

3

Set up Claude Code

bash
cd your-project-folder
claude

Open a terminal, go to your project folder, and start Claude Code:

  • Claude Code will open in your terminal
  • Follow the prompts to sign in with your Anthropic account
  • Complete the authentication flow
  • Once authenticated, you can start using Claude Code
Claude Code initial setup showing sign-in prompt
Claude Code terminal after successful login
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here

Create a .env file in your project root with the following variables:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio (get it from Composio dashboard)
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management (use any unique identifier)
5

Install Composio library

npm install @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio TypeScript library to create MCP sessions.

  • @composio/core provides the core Composio functionality
  • dotenv loads environment variables from your .env file
6

Generate Composio MCP URL

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['kaleido'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http kaleido-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Create a script to generate a Composio MCP URL for Kaleido. This URL will be used to connect Claude Code to Kaleido.

What's happening

  • We import the Composio client and load environment variables
  • Create a Composio instance with your API key
  • Call create() to create a Tool Router session for Kaleido
  • The returned mcp.url is the MCP server URL that Claude Code will use
  • The script prints this URL so you can copy it
7

Run the script and copy the MCP URL

node --loader ts-node/esm generate_mcp_url.ts
# or if using tsx
tsx generate_mcp_url.ts

Run your TypeScript script to generate the MCP URL.

  • The script connects to Composio and creates a Tool Router session
  • It prints the MCP URL and the exact command you need to run
  • Copy the entire claude mcp add command from the output
8

Add Kaleido MCP to Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http kaleido-composio "YOUR_MCP_URL_HERE" --headers "X-API-Key:YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"

# Then restart Claude Code
exit
claude

In your terminal, add the MCP server using the command from the previous step. The command format is:

  • claude mcp add registers a new MCP server with Claude Code
  • --transport http specifies that this is an HTTP-based MCP server
  • The server name (kaleido-composio) is how you'll reference it
  • The URL points to your Composio Tool Router session
  • --headers includes your Composio API key for authentication

After running the command, close the current Claude Code session and start a new one for the changes to take effect.

9

Verify the installation

bash
claude mcp list

Check that your Kaleido MCP server is properly configured.

  • This command lists all MCP servers registered with Claude Code
  • You should see your kaleido-composio entry in the list
  • This confirms that Claude Code can now access Kaleido tools

If everything is wired up, you should see your kaleido-composio entry listed:

Claude Code MCP list showing the toolkit MCP server
10

Authenticate Kaleido

The first time you try to use Kaleido tools, you'll be prompted to authenticate.

  • Claude Code will detect that you need to authenticate with Kaleido
  • It will show you an authentication link
  • Open the link in your browser (or copy/paste it)
  • Complete the Kaleido authorization flow
  • Return to the terminal and start using Kaleido through Claude Code

Once authenticated, you can ask Claude Code to perform Kaleido operations in natural language. For example:

  • "List all API keys for my organization"
  • "Create a new API key for our consortium"
  • "Show all event streams configured in this environment"

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Kaleido and Claude Code:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['kaleido'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http kaleido-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Kaleido with Claude Code using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Kaleido directly from your terminal using natural language commands.

Key features of this setup:

  • Terminal-native experience without switching contexts
  • Natural language commands for Kaleido operations
  • Secure authentication through Composio's managed MCP
  • Tool Router for dynamic tool discovery and execution

Next steps:

  • Try asking Claude Code to perform various Kaleido operations
  • Add more toolkits to your Tool Router session for multi-app workflows
  • Integrate this setup into your development workflow for increased productivity

You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom workflows, or building automation scripts that leverage Claude Code's capabilities.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Organization Identity Proof

Add an x509 identity proof to a Kaleido organization.

Create API Key

Creates a new API key for the specified Kaleido organization.

Delete API Key

Permanently deletes an API key by its ID.

Delete Organization Identity Proof

Remove an x509 identity proof from a Kaleido organization.

Get API Key

Tool to retrieve details of a specific API key by its ID.

Get API Keys

Tool to retrieve all API keys associated with the organization.

Get Application Credentials

Tool to retrieve application credentials for a specific environment.

Get Billing Summary

Retrieves a summary of billing data for the specified organization for the current month.

Get Consortia

Tool to retrieve all consortia associated with the organization.

Get Event Streams

List all event streams configured on a Kaleido blockchain node's Ethconnect REST API Gateway.

Get Organization Identity Proof

Tool to retrieve a specific identity proof for a Kaleido organization.

Get Invitations

Tool to retrieve all invitations for the current user where they are the target.

Get Memberships

Tool to retrieve all memberships for the current user.

Get Organization

Tool to retrieve details of a specific Kaleido organization by its ID.

Get Organization Plan

Retrieve the subscription plan details for a Kaleido organization.

Get Organizations

Retrieves all organizations that the authenticated user has access to in Kaleido.

Get Organization Billing Provider

Retrieves billing provider information for a specific organization in Kaleido.

Get Plans

Retrieve all available Kaleido subscription plans.

Get Regions

Retrieve all available Kaleido deployment regions and their deployment zones.

Get Releases

Retrieve all available blockchain node software releases from the Kaleido platform.

Get Role By ID

Retrieve a specific user role assignment within a Kaleido organization.

Get Roles

Retrieve all user role assignments for a Kaleido organization.

Get Services

Tool to retrieve all services the current user owns or can see.

Get Token Factory Tokens

Retrieves all token contracts from a Kaleido Token Factory service.

Get Wallet Account Nonce

Retrieve the current nonce (transaction count) of a specific HD wallet account.

Get Wallets

Tool to retrieve HD wallet IDs hosted in the service.

Update Organization

Tool to update a specific organization in Kaleido.

Update Organization Role

Update the role assignment for a user in a Kaleido organization.

Upsert Organization Role

Upsert (create or update) a role assignment for a user in a Kaleido organization.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Code 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 Kaleido tools.

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

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