How to integrate OneSimpleAPI MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With OneSimpleAPI MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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OneSimpleAPI is a utility API platform for web content, images, PDFs, QR codes, URL tools, validation, exchange rates, and file management. It gives developers one simple API key for many common backend tasks.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With OneSimpleAPI MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install OneSimpleAPI MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

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

The OneSimpleAPI MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your OneSimpleAPI account. It provides structured and secure access to web, image, document, URL, validation, currency, and file utilities, so your agent can capture webpages, transform images, generate PDFs and QR codes, manage short links, and validate content on your behalf.

  • Web captures and PDF creation: Have your agent capture screenshots of webpages or raw HTML, or turn that content into hosted PDF files.
  • Image inspection and transformation: Let the agent inspect image dimensions and metadata, then resize, crop, rotate, flip, filter, add borders, or optimize images.
  • QR codes and short links: Direct your agent to generate hosted QR codes, create configurable short links, expand shortened links, and review link click statistics.
  • Content and data checks: Instruct your agent to analyze text readability and sentiment, validate email addresses, convert colors, and inspect image details.
  • Currency, pricing, and file management: Have your agent convert currencies, calculate localized pricing discounts, list generated files, and delete files you no longer need.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated OneSimpleAPI with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with OneSimpleAPI directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for OneSimpleAPI operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various OneSimpleAPI operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Analyze Readability

Analyze text for readability, grade level, reading time, difficult-word counts, and sentiment.

Calculate PPP Discount

Calculate a purchasing-power-parity discount and localized price between an origin and a destination country.

Capture Screenshot

Capture a webpage URL or raw HTML as a hosted screenshot and return its URL and rendering metadata.

Convert Currency

Convert an amount between supported currencies and return the converted value and exchange rate.

Create Short URL

Create a OneSimpleAPI short URL with optional one-time-use, redirect, query-forwarding, and active-date controls.

Delete File

Delete a generated OneSimpleAPI file by its hosted URL and return the updated file record.

Expand Short URL

Resolve a shortened URL and return its final URL, redirect count, and redirect trace.

Generate or Convert Color

Generate a deterministic color palette from text or convert a supplied color into HEX, RGB, HSL, and related palette values.

Generate PDF

Generate a PDF from either a webpage URL or raw HTML and return the hosted PDF URL and page metadata.

Generate QR Code

Generate a hosted PNG or SVG QR code for a message and return its URL.

Get Image Information

Extract dimensions, image metadata, EXIF camera fields, and available GPS details from an image URL.

List Files

Return one page of generated files owned by the connected account, optionally filtered by live or deleted status.

List Short URLs

Return one page of OneSimpleAPI short URLs and their click statistics.

Transform Image

Resize, crop, rotate, flip, filter, border, optimize, and host an image, returning the generated image URL and metadata.

Validate Email

Validate an email address and assess its domain, MX records, deliverability, disposability, role status, and registration safety.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Codex 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 OneSimpleAPI tools.

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

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