How to connect Teamwork 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 Teamwork account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list overdue Teamwork tasks assigned to me, create a Teamwork task for design review, summarize time logged on client projects, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Teamwork is a project management platform for planning projects, coordinating tasks, collaborating with teams, and tracking time. It helps teams keep client work, deadlines, workload, and billable hours organized in one place.

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Introduction

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 Teamwork account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list overdue Teamwork tasks assigned to me, create a Teamwork task for design review, summarize time logged on client projects, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Teamwork 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.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

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

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Teamwork account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Teamwork or give it any Teamwork-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "List overdue Teamwork tasks assigned to me"
  • "Create a Teamwork task for design review"
  • "Summarize time logged on client projects"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Teamwork account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

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 Teamwork through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Teamwork MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Teamwork account. It provides structured and secure access to your projects, tasks, milestones, people, tags, and time entries, so your agent can plan work, coordinate assignments, track progress, log time, and find project information on your behalf.

  • Project and task discovery: Have your agent list and filter projects, task lists, and tasks by details such as status, assignee, dates, completion state, or tags.
  • Task creation and updates: Direct your agent to create tasks with schedules, assignments, estimates, privacy settings, and tags, or update selected details on existing tasks.
  • Milestone and team coordination: Let the agent find milestones by project, status, due date, assignee, or text, and list people available for assignment and ownership.
  • Time tracking: Instruct your agent to review time entries by project, task, person, date, billing state, or tags, and log time against tasks.
  • Search and organization: Have your agent search across Teamwork resources and create or list tags to keep work organized.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Tag

Create a Teamwork tag, or return the existing installation tag when the same name already exists.

Create Task

Create a task in a Teamwork task list with common scheduling, assignment, estimate, privacy, and tag fields.

List Milestones

List visible Teamwork milestones by project, status, due-date range, assignee, or text.

List People

List people visible to the connected Teamwork user for assignment and ownership workflows.

List Projects

List projects visible to the connected Teamwork user, with focused filters for name, status, company, membership, and archival state.

List Tags

List Teamwork tags visible to the connected user, optionally filtered by project, item type, name, or usage.

List Task Lists

List Teamwork task lists, usually within one or more projects, so an agent can place or locate tasks.

List Tasks

List and filter Teamwork tasks by project, task list, assignee, dates, completion state, or tags.

List Time Entries

List accessible Teamwork time entries by project, task, person, date range, billing state, or tags.

Log Time Entry

Log time against a Teamwork task with a date, duration, optional start time, description, person, billing state, and tags without changing task status.

Search Teamwork

Search across Teamwork projects, tasks, task lists, milestones, people, companies, time entries, and other supported item types.

Update Task

Update selected fields of an existing Teamwork task while leaving omitted task fields unchanged.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Teamwork MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Teamwork tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Teamwork and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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 Teamwork tools.

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

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