KoboToolbox MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with KoboToolbox MCP or direct API to list survey projects, inspect form metadata, review submissions, and export collected data through natural language.

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KoboToolbox is a data collection platform for building forms, running surveys, and managing field submissions. It helps teams collect reliable humanitarian, research, and monitoring data in low-connectivity settings.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Project

Create a draft survey project, optionally by cloning an existing KoboToolbox asset.

Delete Export

Delete one asynchronous export job from a KoboToolbox project.

Delete Project

Permanently delete one KoboToolbox project by UID.

Deploy Project

Deploy a draft KoboToolbox survey or redeploy its latest form version so it can accept and expose submissions.

Export Submissions

Create an asynchronous KoboToolbox submission export and wait for it to complete, returning the export UID and result URL.

Get Project

Retrieve a KoboToolbox project with its form content, settings, resource URLs, and deployment state.

Get Submission

Retrieve one submission by integer ID, root UUID, or submission UUID from a KoboToolbox project.

List Assets

Find projects and other visible assets in the connected KoboToolbox account, returning one page and a continuation cursor.

List Submissions

Read one page of submissions for a deployed KoboToolbox project, with optional field selection, filtering, and sorting.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect KoboToolbox MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["kobotoolbox"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to KoboToolbox and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "List all KoboToolbox survey projects in my account",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a KoboToolbox request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect KoboToolbox API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["kobotoolbox"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to KoboToolbox
3

Run KoboToolbox tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "List all KoboToolbox survey projects in my account" }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the KoboToolbox tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native KoboToolbox Integration

  • Supports both KoboToolbox MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your KoboToolbox forms, projects, submissions, and exports

Managed Auth

  • Secure API key handling so agents don't need hard-coded KoboToolbox credentials
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke KoboToolbox access
  • Per user and per environment credentials for safer survey data workflows

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Clear tool schemas help agents understand KoboToolbox forms, assets, and submissions without guesswork
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access KoboToolbox
  • Scoped, least privilege access to KoboToolbox projects and collected survey data
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review, compliance, and research governance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, KoboToolbox requires you to configure your own API key. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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