How to integrate Motion 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 Motion 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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Motion is an intelligent calendar and project management tool for planning work, meetings, tasks, and team projects. It helps you automatically prioritize your day and keep schedules realistic as plans change.

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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 Motion 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 Motion 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 Motion

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

4. Done. You're all set with a new Motion 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 Motion or request any Motion-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The Motion MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Motion account. It provides structured and secure access to your tasks, projects, schedules, recurring tasks, and custom fields, so your agent can create tasks, review projects, update assignments, manage recurring work, and clean up completed items on your behalf.

  • Task creation and planning: Have your agent create new Motion tasks and review existing tasks based on your chosen filters.
  • Task updates and cleanup: Direct your agent to update tasks, remove task assignments, or delete tasks you no longer need.
  • Project visibility: Let the agent list your Motion projects and retrieve the details of a specific project.
  • Recurring work management: Instruct your agent to review recurring tasks and delete recurring work that is no longer relevant.
  • Schedules and workspace details: Have your agent review your schedules, check your Motion user information, list workspace custom fields, or remove custom field data.

Way Forward

With Motion 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 Motion action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add Custom Field to Project

Tool to add a custom field value to a project in Motion.

Add Custom Field to Task

Tool to add a custom field value to a task in Motion.

Create Comment

Tool to create a new comment on a Motion task.

Create Custom Field

Tool to create a new custom field in a Motion workspace.

Create Project

Tool to create a new project in Motion.

Create Recurring Task

Tool to create a new recurring task in Motion.

Create Task

Tool to create a new task in Motion.

Delete Custom Field

Tool to delete a custom field from Motion workspace.

Delete Custom Field From Project

Tool to delete a custom field value from a project in Motion.

Delete Custom Field From Task

Tool to delete a custom field value from a task in Motion.

Delete Recurring Task

Tool to delete a recurring task from Motion based on the ID supplied.

Delete Task

Tool to delete a task from Motion based on task ID.

Get My User Information

Tool to get information on the owner of the API key.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve a single project by its ID.

Get Task by ID

Tool to retrieve a task by its ID from Motion.

List comments on task

Tool to get all comments on a specific task.

List Custom Fields

Tool to retrieve all custom fields for a given Motion workspace.

List Projects

Tool to get all projects for a workspace.

List Recurring Tasks

Tool to get all recurring tasks for a workspace.

List Schedules

Tool to get a list of schedules for your user.

List Statuses

Tool to get a list of statuses for a Motion workspace.

List Tasks

Tool to get all tasks for a given query with optional filtering.

List users

Tool to get a list of users for a given workspace or team.

List Workspaces

Tool to retrieve all workspaces a user has access to.

Move Task to Workspace

Tool to move a task to a different workspace in Motion.

Unassign Task

Tool to unassign a task from its current assignee.

Update Task

Tool to update an existing task in Motion.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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