How to integrate SNCF MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With SNCF 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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SNCF is France's national railway service for passenger train journeys, stations, schedules, and live travel information. It gives developers reliable rail data for route planning, station lookup, and service-status checks.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With SNCF 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 SNCF 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 SNCF MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The SNCF MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your SNCF account. It provides structured and secure access to SNCF passenger information, so your agent can plan journeys, find stations, check schedules, monitor service disruptions, and explore the transport network on your behalf.

  • Journey planning: Have your agent plan train journeys between stations or locations for a chosen departure or arrival time.
  • Station and place discovery: Let the agent search for stations, addresses, administrative areas, and points of interest by name or find nearby stops from a location.
  • Live station boards: Direct your agent to check upcoming departures or arrivals, including scheduled times, real-time updates, and disruption details.
  • Service status monitoring: Instruct your agent to review current disruptions and identify the affected lines, stations, or train journeys within a selected time window.
  • Transport network exploration: Have your agent browse or search SNCF networks, lines, routes, stations, transport modes, operators, and train journeys, and check the available coverage period.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Find Nearby Places

Find SNCF stations, stops, or points of interest near a geographic coordinate.

Get Service Status

Get SNCF network service disruptions and affected lines, stations, or vehicle journeys for a time window.

Get Station Board

Get upcoming departures or arrivals for an SNCF station, including scheduled and realtime times and disruption context.

Get Transport Object

Get details for one SNCF network, line, route, station, stop, mode, company, or vehicle journey by canonical ID.

Get SNCF Coverage

Get the SNCF transport-data coverage region and its current production horizon.

List Transport Objects

Browse one supported SNCF transport-object collection, such as lines, networks, routes, stations, or vehicle journeys.

Plan Journey

Plan SNCF train journeys between two station/place IDs or coordinates for a requested departure or arrival time.

Search Places

Find SNCF stations, addresses, administrative areas, or points of interest by name and return IDs usable for journeys and station boards.

Search Transport Objects

Search SNCF networks, modes, lines, routes, stations, or stop points by name and return canonical transport-object IDs.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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