How to integrate OneTapCheckIn MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting OneTapCheckIn to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working OneTapCheckIn agent that can create attendee lists, add participants, find profiles, review alerts, and manage your profiles through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a OneTapCheckIn account through Composio's OneTapCheckIn 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 OneTapCheckIn to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working OneTapCheckIn agent that can create attendee lists, add participants, find profiles, review alerts, and manage your profiles through natural language commands.

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

The OneTapCheckIn MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your OneTapCheckIn account. It provides structured and secure access to your events, attendee profiles, attendance records, passports, alerts, and organization settings, so your agent can create event lists, manage attendee profiles, add participants, track attendance, and review event information on your behalf.

  • Event list management: Have your agent create, find, update, or delete event and check-in lists for your organization.
  • Attendee profile management: Let the agent create, search, update, or delete attendee profiles, including batches of up to 25 profiles and values based on your configured custom fields.
  • Participant organization: Direct your agent to add existing profiles to lists, find attendance records, update participant details, or remove participants from a list.
  • Attendance tracking: Instruct your agent to check in, check out, undo check-ins, or undo checkouts for one participant or batches of up to 25 participants.
  • Passports, alerts, and organization details: Have your agent review attendee passports, attendance alerts, automation rules, check-in confirmation settings, and connected organization information.

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

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 OneTapCheckIn action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add Participants

Add one or more existing profiles to one or more lists without checking them in.

Create List

Create an event/check-in list.

Create Profile

Create one person profile without adding it to a list.

Create Profiles

Create 1 to 25 person profiles in input order using one provider request per profile.

Delete List

Permanently delete one list by ID.

Delete Profile

Permanently delete one profile.

Find Lists

Get one list by exact ID or search the connected organization's lists.

Find Participants

Get one participant by exact ID or search attendance records by list, profile, status, text, or date range.

Find Profiles

Get one profile by ID or search profiles by identity, list, passport, or check-in code.

Get Organization

Return the organization associated with the connected API key.

Get Profile Custom Fields

Return the organization's configured profile custom-field definitions so an agent can use valid field names and value types when creating or updating profiles.

List Alerts

Return one page of organization alert and automation rules together with outbound check-in confirmation settings.

List Passports

List one page of standard passports for exactly one profile or participant.

Remove Participant

Remove one participant record from its list.

Update List

Partially update a list.

Update Participant

Update metadata on one participant record without performing check-in or checkout.

Update Participant Attendance

Check in, check out, undo check-in, or undo checkout for one known participant.

Update Participant Attendance Batch

Apply one shared check-in, checkout, undo check-in, or undo checkout operation to 1 to 25 participants in input order, using one provider request per item.

Update Profile

Partially update one profile.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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