How to integrate OpenUI Cloud MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With OpenUI Cloud 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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OpenUI Cloud is Thesys's API platform for generating interactive UIs, conversations, and artifacts. Use it to turn prompts into rich, app-like interfaces through OpenAI-compatible APIs.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With OpenUI Cloud 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 OpenUI Cloud 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.

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codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

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

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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
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[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

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

The OpenUI Cloud MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your OpenUI Cloud account. It provides structured and secure access to generated interfaces, managed conversations, and persisted artifacts, so your agent can generate interactive interfaces, organize conversations, review conversation history, find artifacts, and retrieve renderable content on your behalf.

  • Interactive interface generation: Have your agent turn text or structured instructions into interactive user interface responses.
  • Conversation organization: Let the agent create conversations, list existing ones, rename them, or delete conversations you no longer need.
  • Conversation history review: Direct your agent to read persisted messages and function call activity from a managed conversation.
  • Artifact discovery: Instruct your agent to list saved artifacts and narrow the results by name or artifact type.
  • Renderable artifact retrieval: Have your agent retrieve a saved artifact with its complete renderable content for review or reuse.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated OpenUI Cloud with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with OpenUI Cloud 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 OpenUI Cloud 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 OpenUI Cloud operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Conversation

Create a managed OpenUI conversation that can receive persisted turns from Generate UI.

Delete Conversation

Permanently delete one managed OpenUI conversation by ID.

Generate UI

Generate an OpenUI response from text or structured Responses API input.

Get Artifact

Retrieve one persisted OpenUI artifact, including its complete renderable content.

List Artifacts

List persisted OpenUI artifacts, optionally filtering by name or artifact kinds, one cursor-controlled page at a time.

List Conversation Items

Read one cursor-controlled page of persisted messages and function-call items from a managed OpenUI conversation.

List Conversations

List managed OpenUI conversations visible to the connected organization, one cursor-controlled page at a time.

Rename Conversation

Change the title of an existing managed OpenUI conversation.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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