How to connect Runway to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Runway account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to generate product teaser videos from prompts, animate brand images into short clips, create cinematic backgrounds for ads, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Connecting Runway to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Runway through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

The Runway MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Runway account. It provides structured and secure access to your generative media, workflows, knowledge documents, and account usage, so your agent can generate media, transform content, run workflows, manage documents, and monitor activity on your behalf.

• Image and video generation: Have your agent create images from prompts, generate videos from text, or animate existing images with your chosen Runway model.
• Media transformation and upscaling: Direct your agent to restyle existing videos or upscale images and videos for higher-quality results.
• Speech and sound creation: Let the agent synthesize speech with supported voices or generate sound effects from written descriptions.
• Workflow and knowledge management: Instruct your agent to inspect and run published workflows, then create, review, update, or delete knowledge documents used by avatar workflows.
• Task, credit, and usage monitoring: Have your agent check generation progress, retrieve completed media, cancel running tasks, and review credit balances, quotas, and daily usage.