How to integrate Mailcoach MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Mailcoach to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Mailcoach agent that can create a new email campaign for product launch, add a subscriber to the weekly newsletter list, tag all subscribers interested in webinars through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Mailcoach account through Composio's Mailcoach MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Mailcoach to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Mailcoach agent that can create a new email campaign for product launch, add a subscriber to the weekly newsletter list, tag all subscribers interested in webinars through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Mailcoach account through Composio's Mailcoach 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 and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Mailcoach
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Mailcoach as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Mailcoach operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

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

The Mailcoach MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Mailcoach account. It provides structured and secure access to your email marketing platform, so your agent can manage campaigns, organize subscriber lists, create templates, and automate email workflows on your behalf.

  • Email campaign creation and scheduling: Direct your agent to launch new campaigns, send emails to specific lists, or set up campaign schedules based on your marketing needs.
  • Subscriber list and segmentation management: Let your agent create new email lists, add or confirm subscribers, and apply tags for better audience segmentation and targeting.
  • Template management and customization: Instruct your agent to create, update, or organize reusable email templates and transactional templates for efficient campaign building.
  • Automated suppression and bounce handling: Have your agent add suppressions for bounced or blocked addresses, keeping your lists clean and compliant with deliverability best practices.
  • Bulk subscriber import and data enrichment: Enable your agent to import subscribers via CSV, append new data to existing imports, and streamline growth of your contact lists.

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:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Mailcoach project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Mailcoach.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Mailcoach
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['mailcoach'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only mailcoach.
  • The router checks the user's Mailcoach connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Mailcoach.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Mailcoach tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Mailcoach. Help users perform Mailcoach operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Mailcoach and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Mailcoach operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Mailcoach.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Mailcoach and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['mailcoach'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Mailcoach. Help users perform Mailcoach operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Mailcoach MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Mailcoach.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Mailcoach Campaign

Tool to create a new Mailcoach campaign.

Add Email List

Tool to create a new email list.

Add suppression

Tool to add a suppression entry.

Add Tag to Email List

Tool to create a new tag within a specific email list.

Add Tags to Subscriber

Add tags to a subscriber for segmentation and targeting.

Add Transactional Email Template

Creates a new email template in Mailcoach via POST /api/templates.

Append to Subscriber Import

Tool to append CSV data to an existing subscriber import.

Confirm Subscriber

Confirm a subscriber's subscription to an email list (double opt-in confirmation).

Create Segment for Email List

Tool to create a new segment within an email list.

Create Subscriber Import

Creates a new subscriber import in Mailcoach.

Delete Campaign

Tool to delete a campaign by UUID.

Delete Email List

Tool to delete an email list by UUID.

Delete Segment from Email List

Tool to delete a segment from an email list.

Delete Subscriber

Permanently delete a subscriber by UUID from Mailcoach.

Delete Subscriber Import

Tool to delete a subscriber import by its UUID.

Delete Suppression

Tool to delete a suppression entry by UUID.

Delete Tag from Email List

Tool to delete a tag from an email list.

Delete Template

Tool to delete a template by UUID.

Delete Transactional Mail

Tool to delete a transactional mail send record by its UUID.

Get All Campaigns

Tool to retrieve all campaigns.

Get All Sent Items

Tool to retrieve all sent items.

Get All Subscriber Imports

Tool to retrieve all subscriber imports.

Get All Suppressions

Retrieve a paginated list of all email suppression entries from Mailcoach.

Get All Tags

Tool to retrieve all tags for a specific email list.

Get All Templates

Tool to retrieve all templates.

Get All Transactional Email Templates

Tool to retrieve all transactional email templates.

Get Campaign Bounces

Tool to retrieve bounced subscribers of a sent campaign with pagination support.

Get Campaign Clicks

Tool to retrieve clicks from a sent campaign with pagination support.

Get Campaign Opens

Tool to retrieve all opens for a sent campaign with pagination support.

Get Campaign Unsubscribes

Tool to retrieve unsubscribes from a sent campaign with pagination support.

Get Email Lists

Tool to retrieve all email lists.

Get Segment

Tool to retrieve details of a specific segment.

Get Specific Campaign

Tool to retrieve details of a specific Mailcoach campaign.

Get Specific Email List

Retrieve detailed information about a specific Mailcoach email list by its UUID.

Get Specific Subscriber

Tool to retrieve a specific subscriber.

Get Specific Suppression

Tool to retrieve a specific suppression entry.

Get Specific Tag

Tool to retrieve details of a specific tag.

Get Specific Template

Retrieves the full details of a specific Mailcoach email template by its UUID.

Get Subscriber Import

Tool to retrieve details of a specific subscriber import by UUID.

Get Transactional Mail

Tool to retrieve details of a specific transactional email by its UUID.

Get User

Tool to retrieve details of the currently authenticated user.

List Segments

Tool to retrieve all segments for a specific email list.

List Subscribers

Tool to list all subscribers from a specific email list with pagination support.

List Transactional Mails

Tool to retrieve all transactional email records.

Remove Tags from Subscriber

Tool to remove tags from a subscriber.

Resend Subscriber Confirmation

Tool to resend confirmation email to a subscriber.

Start Subscriber Import

Starts processing a subscriber import that is in 'draft' status.

Subscribe To Email List

Subscribe (or update) a subscriber to an email list.

Unsubscribe Subscriber

Unsubscribe a subscriber from their email list in Mailcoach.

Update Campaign

Tool to update an existing Mailcoach campaign.

Update Email List

Tool to update an existing email list.

Update Segment

Tool to update an existing segment within an email list.

Update Subscriber

Tool to update a subscriber.

Update Subscriber Import

Tool to update an existing subscriber import.

Update Tag

Tool to update an existing tag within an email list.

Update Template

Updates an existing email template in Mailcoach.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK 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 Mailcoach tools.

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

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