How to integrate PDFgen MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With PDFgen 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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PDFgen is a document generation service for creating PDFs from templates, HTML, Markdown, or natural-language prompts. It helps teams produce reusable, consistent PDFs while tracking templates and usage logs.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With PDFgen 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 PDFgen 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
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[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

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

The PDFgen MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your PDFgen account. It provides structured and secure access to your PDF generation, templates, account details, and usage history, so your agent can create templates, generate PDFs, manage saved templates, review credit usage, and inspect recent activity on your behalf.

  • Flexible PDF generation: Have your agent generate PDFs from saved templates, HTML, Markdown, or natural-language prompts and provide a temporary download link.
  • Reusable template creation: Let the agent create reusable HTML templates for invoices, reports, certificates, and other recurring documents.
  • Template management: Direct your agent to list, review, update, or permanently delete templates saved in your PDFgen account.
  • Account and credit monitoring: Instruct your agent to check your account, organization, plan, and current credit usage.
  • Usage review and troubleshooting: Have your agent inspect recent PDFgen activity to support audits, review billing, or investigate generation issues.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Create Template

Create a reusable HTML template for later PDF generation.

Delete Template

Permanently delete one saved template owned by the connected account.

Generate PDF

Generate a PDF from exactly one saved template, HTML document, Markdown document, or AI prompt and return a temporary download URL.

Get Account

Return the connected PDFgen account, organization, plan, and current credit usage.

Get Template

Get one saved PDFgen template, including its complete HTML content.

List Templates

List saved PDF templates owned by the connected account and return one page with a continuation cursor.

List Usage Logs

List recent PDFgen API calls for auditing, billing inspection, and generation troubleshooting.

Update Template

Partially update a saved template's name, HTML content, or rendering engine without replacing omitted fields.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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