How to connect KoboToolbox 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 KoboToolbox account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all active survey projects, export submissions from health survey, summarize recent form submission trends, 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 KoboToolbox account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all active survey projects, export submissions from health survey, summarize recent form submission trends, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting KoboToolbox 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 KoboToolbox account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List all active survey projects"
  • "Export submissions from health survey"
  • "Summarize recent form submission trends"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your KoboToolbox 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 KoboToolbox through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The KoboToolbox MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your KoboToolbox account. It provides structured and secure access to your survey projects, forms, submissions, and exports, so your agent can create and deploy projects, review collected responses, export survey data, and manage projects on your behalf.

  • Survey project creation: Have your agent create a draft survey project or start one by copying an existing project.
  • Form deployment: Instruct your agent to deploy a draft survey or publish its latest form version so it can collect responses.
  • Project and submission review: Let the agent find available projects, inspect their forms and settings, and read individual or grouped survey submissions.
  • Submission exports: Direct your agent to export collected survey responses for humanitarian programs, field research, or further analysis.
  • Project and export cleanup: Have your agent delete outdated exports or permanently remove survey projects you no longer need.
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.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone KoboToolbox MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of KoboToolbox tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from KoboToolbox 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 KoboToolbox tools.

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

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