How to integrate Mistral ai MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Mistral ai to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Mistral ai agent that can summarize this research paper in simple terms, generate python code for sorting a list, explain the difference between ai and ml through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Mistral ai account through Composio's Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Mistral ai agent that can summarize this research paper in simple terms, generate python code for sorting a list, explain the difference between ai and ml through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Mistral ai account through Composio's Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Mistral ai as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Mistral ai MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Mistral ai account. It provides structured and secure access to your Mistral AI models, so your agent can perform actions like generating text, summarizing content, answering questions, extracting structured information, and handling advanced language tasks on your behalf.

  • Text generation and completion: Have your agent produce coherent, context-aware text responses, complete prompts, or generate creative content leveraging Mistral's advanced models.
  • Summarization and paraphrasing: Ask your agent to summarize lengthy documents or rephrase input text for improved clarity or brevity.
  • Question answering and information extraction: Let your agent answer questions, extract key facts, or pull structured data from unstructured content automatically.
  • Content classification and sentiment analysis: Enable your agent to categorize text, detect topics, or analyze sentiment to inform downstream workflows.
  • Conversational AI and dialogue management: Build rich, multi-turn conversations or chatbots that handle context, intent, and user queries seamlessly using Mistral's models.

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 Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai.
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 Mistral ai
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['mistral_ai'],
});
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 mistral_ai.
  • The router checks the user's Mistral ai connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Mistral ai.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai. Help users perform Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai.
  • 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 Mistral ai 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: ['mistral_ai'],
  });
  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 Mistral ai. Help users perform Mistral ai 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 Mistral ai MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Mistral ai.

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 Mistral ai action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Append to conversation

Tool to append new entries to an existing conversation in Mistral AI.

Create Agent

Tool to create a new AI agent with custom configuration (Beta).

Create Agents Completion

Tool to generate completions using a Mistral AI agent with specific instructions and tools.

Create Audio Transcription

Transcribe audio files to text using Mistral AI's Voxtral models.

Create Chat Completion

Generate conversational responses from Mistral AI models.

Create Chat Moderation

Tool to classify chat content for moderation purposes across 9 categories.

Create Embeddings

Tool to generate vector embeddings for input text using Mistral AI embedding models.

Create FIM Completion

Generate code completions using fill-in-the-middle functionality.

Create library

Tool to create a new document library.

Create library share

Create or update sharing permissions for a library.

Create Moderation

Tool to classify text content for moderation purposes across 9 categories.

Create OCR

Extract text and structured data from images and documents using Mistral AI's OCR capabilities.

Create or Update Agent Alias

Tool to create or update an agent version alias.

Delete agent

Permanently deletes an agent by its ID (Beta feature).

Delete Conversation

Tool to delete a conversation by its ID (Beta).

Delete File

Delete a file by its ID from Mistral AI.

Delete library

Permanently deletes a library and all of its documents from Mistral AI.

Delete library document

Permanently deletes a document from a Mistral AI library.

Delete library share

Remove sharing permissions for a library from a user, workspace, or organization.

Download File

Download the content of a previously uploaded file from Mistral AI.

Get Agent

Tool to retrieve details of a specific Mistral AI agent by its ID.

Get Agent Version

Retrieve a specific version of an agent (Beta).

Get Conversation

Tool to retrieve details of a specific conversation.

Get Conversation History

Retrieve the full history of a conversation in Mistral AI.

Get Conversation Messages

Retrieve all messages from a Mistral AI conversation.

Get document extracted text URL

Retrieve a signed URL to download the extracted text from a document in a Mistral AI library.

Get document signed URL

Get a signed URL to download a document from a Mistral AI library.

Get Document Status

Retrieve the processing status of a document in a Mistral AI library.

Get Document Text Content

Retrieve the extracted text content of a specific document from a Mistral AI library (Beta).

Get File Signed URL

Get a time-limited signed URL for downloading a file from Mistral AI.

List Fine Tuning Jobs

List fine-tuning jobs with optional filtering and pagination.

Get library

Retrieve detailed information about a specific library.

Get Library Document

Retrieve metadata for a specific document in a Mistral AI library.

Get Model

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific Mistral AI model by its ID.

List agent aliases

Retrieve all aliases for an agent version.

List Agents

Tool to list all configured agents (Beta).

List Agent Versions

List all versions of a specific agent.

List Batch Jobs

Tool to retrieve a list of all batch jobs with optional filtering and pagination.

List Conversations

List all created conversations (Beta).

List Files

Tool to list all files available to the user.

List libraries

List all document libraries accessible to your organization.

List Library Documents

List all documents in a Mistral AI document library.

List library shares

List all sharing permissions for a document library.

List Models

Tool to retrieve all available Mistral AI models including base models and fine-tuned models.

Reprocess document

Reprocess a document in a Mistral AI library (Beta).

Restart Conversation

Tool to restart a conversation from a specific point (Beta).

Retrieve File

Retrieve metadata of a file uploaded to Mistral AI.

Start Conversation

Tool to start a new conversation with a Mistral AI agent or base model.

Update Agent

Tool to update an existing agent's configuration.

Update agent version

Tool to update the current version of an agent (Beta).

Update library

Tool to update an existing document library's properties.

Update library document

Update the metadata of a document in a Mistral AI library.

Upload File

Upload a file to Mistral AI for use in fine-tuning, batch processing, or OCR.

Upload Library Document

Upload a document to a Mistral AI library for use with RAG-enabled agents.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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