How to integrate Orshot MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Orshot 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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Orshot is a template-based creative automation service for generating images, PDFs, and videos. It helps teams turn brand templates and assets into publish-ready content fast.

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Introduction

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

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

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

The Orshot MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Orshot account. It provides structured and secure access to your Studio templates, workspace brand assets, profile, and connected social accounts, so your agent can browse templates, inspect customization options, render images or PDFs, manage brand colors, and review social connections on your behalf.

  • Template discovery: Have your agent browse and filter the Studio templates available in your workspace.
  • Template review and customization planning: Let the agent inspect a template's pages and available modifications before preparing a render.
  • Image and PDF generation: Direct your agent to customize an owned Studio template and render the result as an image or PDF.
  • Brand asset management: Instruct your agent to list tagged brand assets, save new brand colors, or remove colors you no longer use.
  • Workspace and social account review: Have your agent review your Orshot profile, accessible workspaces, and connected social platforms, including connections that may need attention.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Add Brand Color

Save a hex, RGB, HSL, or gradient color to the workspace brand assets and return its new ID.

Delete Brand Color

Permanently delete one saved workspace brand color by ID.

Get Profile

Return the authenticated Orshot profile and the IDs, names, and slugs of its accessible workspaces.

Get Studio Template

Return one Studio template's metadata, pages, and available render modifications by template ID.

List Brand Assets

List one category of workspace brand assets, optionally requiring all supplied tags.

List Social Accounts

Return connected social-account IDs and platforms, optionally checking whether each account needs reconnection.

List Studio Templates

Return one filtered page of Studio templates in the API key's workspace, with an opaque cursor for the next page.

Render Studio Template

Render an owned Studio template as an image or PDF URL/base64 result.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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