How to integrate Smartlead MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Smartlead 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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Smartlead is a sales engagement platform for cold email campaigns, leads, sending accounts, inbox activity, deliverability, prospecting, and sender provisioning. Use it to run outbound sales at scale while keeping campaign operations, replies, and sender health in one place.

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Introduction

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

bash
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 Smartlead MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Smartlead MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Smartlead account. It provides structured and secure access to your campaigns, leads, inbox replies, sending accounts, deliverability tests, and prospecting tools, so your agent can manage campaigns, review performance, monitor replies, find prospects, and assess sender resources on your behalf.

  • Campaign creation and management: Have your agent create draft campaigns, review existing campaigns and their settings, or delete campaigns you no longer need.
  • Lead and performance monitoring: Let the agent list campaign leads, review email engagement statistics, remove unwanted leads, and resume paused leads.
  • Inbox and direct email actions: Instruct your agent to review lead replies across campaigns or send a single email from a connected Smartlead sending account.
  • Deliverability and account checks: Direct your agent to inspect sending account health, review spam and inbox placement tests, and organize tests with delivery folders.
  • Prospecting and sender research: Have your agent search prospect contacts, explore industries and saved searches, check prospect usage, compare sender vendors, and find available or purchased domains.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Create Draft Campaign

Create a new campaign in DRAFTED status.

Create Smart Delivery Folder

Create an organizational folder for Smart Delivery tests.

Delete Campaign

Permanently delete a campaign and all associated sequences, mappings, and statistics.

Delete Smart Delivery Folder

Delete an empty Smart Delivery folder.

Get Campaign

Get configuration and performance summary for one Smartlead campaign by ID.

Get Campaigns

Get configuration and performance summaries for 1-20 Smartlead campaigns.

Get Smart Delivery Test

Get the documented configuration for one Smart Delivery spam test by ID.

Get Smart Prospect Usage

Get Smart Prospect lead-search metrics, fetch counts, daily limits, and available credit balance.

List Campaigns

List campaigns visible to the connected Smartlead account, optionally for one client.

List Smart Delivery Folders

List folders used to organize Smart Delivery tests.

List Smart Delivery Tests

List Smart Delivery spam and inbox-placement tests.

List Email Accounts

List connected sending accounts with health, warmup, usage, provider, and campaign filters.

List Inbox Replies

List lead replies across campaigns from Master Inbox using bounded filters and one page at a time.

List Smart Prospect Industries

List and search Smart Prospect industry filter values without searching contacts or consuming contact-fetch credits.

List Purchased Smart Senders Domains

List domains already purchased through Smart Senders.

List Saved Smart Prospect Searches

List saved Smart Prospect search definitions without executing them or consuming contact-search credits.

List Smart Senders Vendors

List Smart Senders marketplace vendors and current domain/mailbox pricing without placing an order.

Search Available Smart Senders Domains

Check Smart Senders marketplace domain availability for a vendor.

Search Smart Prospect Contacts (Consumes Credits)

Search one page of Smart Prospect contacts.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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