How to integrate KoboToolbox MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your KoboToolbox account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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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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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your KoboToolbox account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating KoboToolbox with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to KoboToolbox

Ask your agent to connect to KoboToolbox, or simply request any KoboToolbox-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new KoboToolbox connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to KoboToolbox or request any KoboToolbox-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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.

Way Forward

With KoboToolbox connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

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.

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. Hermes 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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