How to connect Kintone to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Kintone account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list users missing Kintone service access, add new employee to Sales department, generate login code for temporary contractor, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Kintone account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list users missing Kintone service access, add new employee to Sales department, generate login code for temporary contractor, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Kintone to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Kintone account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Kintone or give it any Kintone-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List users missing Kintone service access"
  • "Add new employee to Sales department"
  • "Generate login code for temporary contractor"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Kintone account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Kintone through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Kintone MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Kintone account. It provides structured and secure access to your tenant directory, so your agent can manage users, organize departments and groups, update memberships, assign service access, and change login codes on your behalf.

  • User account management: Have your agent list, create, update, or permanently delete tenant users in batches.
  • Department and group organization: Let the agent list, create, update, or delete departments and static or dynamic groups.
  • Membership administration: Direct your agent to review department or group members, replace group membership lists, and update each user's department and static group memberships.
  • Access and service assignments: Instruct your agent to review a user's memberships and Kintone access, then replace service assignments for selected users.
  • Login code changes: Have your agent change login codes for selected users when accounts need to be renamed or reorganized.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Change User Login Codes

Irreversibly change the login codes of up to 100 Kintone users in one batch.

Create Departments

Create 1 to 100 Kintone departments in one batch.

Create Groups

Create 1 to 100 static or dynamic Kintone groups in one batch.

Create Users

Create 1 to 100 Kintone tenant users in one batch with a login code, password, and display name for each user.

Delete Users, Departments, or Groups

Permanently delete a non-empty batch of Kintone users, departments, or groups by exact code.

Get User Access

Get one user's department memberships, group memberships, and Kintone service assignment in one read.

List Departments or Groups

List or filter Kintone departments or groups, one page at a time.

List Department or Group Members

List users belonging to a Kintone department or group, one page at a time.

List Users

List or filter tenant users by ID or login code, one page at a time.

Replace Group Users

Replace a Kintone static group's complete user membership list.

Replace User Departments

Replace the complete department membership lists for one to 100 Kintone users.

Replace User Groups

Replace a Kintone user's complete static-group membership list.

Set User Service Assignments

Replace Kintone service access for one to 100 users.

Update Departments

Update mutable fields for 1 to 100 existing Kintone departments, identified by exact department code.

Update Groups

Update the name and optional description of 1 to 100 existing Kintone groups, identified by exact group code.

Update Users

Update editable profile and primary-organization fields for 1 to 100 existing Kintone tenant users identified by login code.

FRAMEWORKS

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CLI

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Google ADK

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LangChain

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LlamaIndex

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CrewAI

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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 Kintone tools.

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

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