How to integrate Lever MCP with Google ADK

This guide walks you through connecting Lever to Google ADK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Lever agent that can list all open job postings, get candidate details by email, schedule interview for specific candidate through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Google ADK agent real control over a Lever account through Composio's Lever MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Lever is an applicant tracking system that blends sourcing, CRM, and analytics for recruiting. It helps companies scale hiring with collaborative workflows and actionable insights.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Lever to Google ADK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Lever agent that can list all open job postings, get candidate details by email, schedule interview for specific candidate through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Google ADK agent real control over a Lever account through Composio's Lever MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get a Lever account set up and connected to Composio
  • Install the Google ADK and Composio packages
  • Create a Composio Tool Router session for Lever
  • Build an agent that connects to Lever through MCP
  • Interact with Lever using natural language

What is Google ADK?

Google ADK (Agents Development Kit) is Google's framework for building AI agents powered by Gemini models. It provides tools for creating agents that can use external services through the Model Context Protocol.

Key features include:

  • Gemini Integration: Native support for Google's Gemini models
  • MCP Toolset: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol tools
  • Streamable HTTP: Connect to external services through streamable HTTP
  • CLI and Web UI: Run agents via command line or web interface

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

The Lever MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Lever account. It provides structured and secure access to your recruiting pipeline, so your agent can perform actions like managing candidates, scheduling interviews, updating job postings, tracking offers, and analyzing hiring metrics on your behalf.

  • End-to-end candidate management: Let your agent add, update, or move candidates through different stages of your hiring process seamlessly.
  • Automated interview scheduling: Have the agent create, modify, or cancel interviews and coordinate with both candidates and interviewers to streamline the process.
  • Job posting and requisition updates: Direct your agent to create new job postings, update existing requisitions, or close filled roles instantly.
  • Offer and feedback tracking: Enable your agent to manage offer letters, track acceptance rates, and collect structured feedback from interviewers.
  • Recruiting analytics and reporting: Ask the agent to generate reports on pipeline activity, source effectiveness, and diversity metrics—helping you make data-driven hiring decisions.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

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 step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • A Google API key for Gemini models
  • A Composio account and API key
  • Python 3.9 or later installed
  • Basic familiarity with Python
2

Getting API Keys for Google and Composio

Google API Key
  • Go to Google AI Studio and create an API key.
  • Copy the key and keep it safe. You will put this in GOOGLE_API_KEY.
Composio API Key and User ID
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Go to Settings → API Keys and copy your Composio API key. Use this for COMPOSIO_API_KEY.
  • Decide on a stable user identifier to scope sessions, often your email or a user ID. Use this for COMPOSIO_USER_ID.
3

Install dependencies

bash
pip install google-adk composio python-dotenv

Inside your virtual environment, install the required packages.

What's happening:

  • google-adk is Google's Agents Development Kit
  • composio connects your agent to Lever via MCP
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables
4

Set up ADK project

bash
adk create my_agent

Set up a new Google ADK project.

What's happening:

  • This creates an agent folder with a root agent file and .env file
5

Set environment variables

bash
GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-composio-api-key
COMPOSIO_USER_ID=your-user-id-or-email

Save all your credentials in the .env file.

What's happening:

  • GOOGLE_API_KEY authenticates with Google's Gemini models
  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • COMPOSIO_USER_ID identifies the user for session management
6

Import modules and validate environment

python
import os
import warnings

from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from google.adk.agents.llm_agent import Agent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import StreamableHTTPConnectionParams
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset

load_dotenv()

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*BaseAuthenticatedTool.*")

GOOGLE_API_KEY = os.getenv("GOOGLE_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not GOOGLE_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("GOOGLE_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set in the environment.")
What's happening:
  • os reads environment variables
  • Composio is the main Composio SDK client
  • GoogleProvider declares that you are using Google ADK as the agent runtime
  • Agent is the Google ADK LLM agent class
  • McpToolset lets the ADK agent call MCP tools over HTTP
7

Create Composio client and Tool Router session

python
composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY)

composio_session = composio_client.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["lever"],
)

COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url,
print(f"Composio MCP URL: {COMPOSIO_MCP_URL}")
What's happening:
  • Authenticates to Composio with your API key
  • Declares Google ADK as the provider
  • Spins up a short-lived MCP endpoint for your user and selected toolkit
  • Stores the MCP HTTP URL for the ADK MCP integration
8

Set up the McpToolset and create the Agent

python
composio_toolset = McpToolset(
    connection_params=StreamableHTTPConnectionParams(
        url=COMPOSIO_MCP_URL,
        headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY}
    )
)

root_agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash",
    name="composio_agent",
    description="An agent that uses Composio tools to perform actions.",
    instruction=(
        "You are a helpful assistant connected to Composio. "
        "You have the following tools available: "
        "COMPOSIO_SEARCH_TOOLS, COMPOSIO_MULTI_EXECUTE_TOOL, "
        "COMPOSIO_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_BASH_TOOL, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_WORKBENCH. "
        "Use these tools to help users with Lever operations."
    ),
    tools=[composio_toolset],
)

print("\nAgent setup complete. You can now run this agent directly ;)")
What's happening:
  • Connects the ADK agent to the Composio MCP endpoint through McpToolset
  • Uses Gemini as the model powering the agent
  • Lists exact tool names in instruction to reduce misnamed tool calls
9

Run the agent

bash
# Run in CLI mode
adk run my_agent

# Or run in web UI mode
adk web

Execute the agent from the project root. The web command opens a web portal where you can chat with the agent.

What's happening:

  • adk run runs the agent in CLI mode
  • adk web . opens a web UI for interactive testing

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Lever and Google ADK:

python
import os
import warnings

from composio import Composio
from composio_google import GoogleProvider
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from google.adk.agents.llm_agent import Agent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import StreamableHTTPConnectionParams
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset

load_dotenv()
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*BaseAuthenticatedTool.*")

GOOGLE_API_KEY = os.getenv("GOOGLE_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not GOOGLE_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("GOOGLE_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set in the environment.")

composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY, provider=GoogleProvider())

composio_session = composio_client.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["lever"],
)

COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url


composio_toolset = McpToolset(
    connection_params=StreamableHTTPConnectionParams(
        url=COMPOSIO_MCP_URL,
        headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY}
    )
)

root_agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash",
    name="composio_agent",
    description="An agent that uses Composio tools to perform actions.",
    instruction=(
        "You are a helpful assistant connected to Composio. "
        "You have the following tools available: "
        "COMPOSIO_SEARCH_TOOLS, COMPOSIO_MULTI_EXECUTE_TOOL, "
        "COMPOSIO_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_BASH_TOOL, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_WORKBENCH. "
        "Use these tools to help users with Lever operations."
    ),  
    tools=[composio_toolset],
)

print("\nAgent setup complete. You can now run this agent directly ;)")

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Lever with the Google ADK through Composio's MCP Tool Router. Your agent can now interact with Lever using natural language commands.

Key takeaways:

  • The Tool Router approach dynamically routes requests to the appropriate Lever tools
  • Environment variables keep your credentials secure and separate from code
  • Clear agent instructions reduce tool calling errors
  • The ADK web UI provides an interactive interface for testing and development

You can extend this setup by adding more toolkits to the toolkits array in your session configuration.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Opportunity Links

Tool to add links to a contact associated with an opportunity.

Add Opportunity Sources

Tool to add sources to an opportunity.

Add Opportunity Tags

Tool to add tags to an opportunity.

Create Form Submission

Tool to create a completed profile form submission for a candidate's opportunity profile.

Create Form Template

Tool to create a profile form template for an account.

Create Interview

Tool to create an interview on an externally-managed panel in Lever.

Create Note

Tool to create a note on an opportunity profile or add a threaded comment to an existing note.

Create Opportunity

Tool to create a new candidate opportunity in Lever.

Create Panel

Tool to create a new interview panel for an opportunity.

Create Requisition

Tool to create a new requisition in Lever for tracking hiring needs.

Create Requisition Field

Tool to create a custom requisition field schema for use across requisitions.

Create Requisition Field Option

Tool to add new options to a dropdown requisition field without replacing existing options.

Upload File

Tool to upload a file temporarily to Lever for use with posting applications.

Create User

Tool to create a new user in the Lever system.

Deactivate User

Tool to deactivate a user in the Lever system.

Delete Form Template

Tool to delete a profile form template from account.

Delete Interview

Tool to delete an interview from an opportunity panel.

Delete Note

Tool to delete a note on an opportunity.

Delete Panel

Tool to delete a panel from an opportunity.

Delete Requisition

Tool to delete or archive a requisition from Lever account.

Delete Requisition Field

Tool to delete a requisition field from the account.

Delete Requisition Field Option

Tool to remove specific options from a dropdown requisition field.

Download File

Tool to download a file associated with an opportunity.

Get File Metadata

Tool to retrieve metadata for a single file on an opportunity.

Get Form

Tool to retrieve a specific profile form for an opportunity.

Get Form Template

Tool to retrieve a single form template by unique identifier.

Get Interview

Tool to retrieve a single interview for an opportunity.

Get Note

Tool to retrieve a single note for an opportunity.

Get Opportunity

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single opportunity.

Get Panel

Tool to retrieve a single interview panel for an opportunity.

Get Requisition

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single requisition by ID.

Get Requisition Field

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single custom requisition field by ID.

Get Stage

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single stage by its UUID.

Get User

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single user by their UUID.

List Opportunity Files

Tool to list all files on an opportunity.

List Forms

Tool to list all profile forms for an opportunity.

List Form Templates

Tool to list all active form templates.

List Interviews

Tool to list all interviews for an opportunity.

List Notes

Tool to list notes on an opportunity profile.

List Offers

Tool to list offers for an opportunity.

List Opportunities

Tool to list all opportunities in the hiring pipeline.

List Panels

Tool to list all interview panels for an opportunity.

List Postings

Tool to list all job postings including published, internal, closed, draft, pending, and rejected postings.

List Referrals

Tool to list all referrals for an opportunity.

List Requisition Fields

Tool to list all requisition field schemas in your Lever account with optional filtering.

List Requisitions

Tool to list all requisitions with filtering and pagination.

List Opportunity Resumes

Tool to list all resumes for an opportunity.

List Sources

Tool to list all recruitment sources in your Lever account.

List Stages

Tool to retrieve all pipeline stages in your Lever account.

List Tags

Tool to list all tags in your Lever account.

List Users

Tool to retrieve all active users in your Lever account with optional filters.

Reactivate User

Tool to reactivate a previously deactivated user in the Lever system.

Remove Contact Links by Opportunity

Tool to remove links from a contact associated with an opportunity.

Remove Opportunity Sources

Tool to remove sources from an opportunity.

Remove Opportunity Tags

Tool to remove tags from an opportunity.

Update Form Template

Tool to update an existing profile form template.

Update Interview

Tool to update an interview on an externally-managed panel.

Update Note

Tool to update a note on an opportunity profile.

Update Panel

Tool to update an externally-managed panel for an opportunity.

Update Requisition

Tool to update an existing requisition in Lever.

Update Requisition Field

Tool to update an existing requisition field in Lever.

Update Requisition Field Option

Tool to update existing options in a dropdown requisition field without replacing the entire field object.

Update User

Tool to update an existing user in the Lever system.

Upload File to Opportunity

Tool to upload a file permanently to an opportunity.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Google ADK 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 Lever tools.

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

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