How to integrate Teamwork MCP with OpenClaw

OpenClaw is the fastest growing agent harness out there, which can work 24/7 to automate almost any kind of tasks. However, its capabilities are limited to the tools it has access to. Composio allows your OpenClaw to access Teamwork with authentication management handled for you. You can execute actions on Teamwork via your favorite OpenClaw interface (Telegram, WhatsApp, TUI, etc), whichever you prefer.

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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

OpenClaw is the fastest growing agent harness out there, which can work 24/7 to automate almost any kind of tasks. However, its capabilities are limited to the tools it has access to. Composio allows your OpenClaw to access Teamwork with authentication management handled for you. You can execute actions on Teamwork via your favorite OpenClaw interface (Telegram, WhatsApp, TUI, etc), whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • Programmatic tool calling allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Handling Large tool responses out of LLM context to minimize 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 LLMs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Teamwork with OpenClaw

Using Composio API Key and Setup Prompt

Copy the setup prompt from the OpenClaw dashboard
  • Run it in your OpenClaw chat interface.
  • Authenticate Teamwork from the dashboard
  • Go back to your OpenClaw interface and start asking questions.

Using OpenClaw/Composio Plugin

1. Install OpenClaw Composio plugin

bash
openclaw plugins install @composio/openclaw-plugin

2. Copy the API Key from dashboard.composio.dev

3. Setup OpenClaw Config

bash
openclaw config set plugins.entries.composio.config.consumerKey "ck_your_key_here"

4. Restart OpenClaw

bash
openclaw gateway restart

5. Go to your chat interface and start asking questions.

6. When prompted, authenticate the app and you're all set.

How It Works

The plugin connects to Composio's MCP server at https://connect.composio.dev/mcp and registers all available tools directly into the OpenClaw agent. Tools are called by name — no extra search or execute steps needed.

If a tool returns an auth error, the agent will prompt you to connect that toolkit at dashboard.composio.dev.

Configuration

bash
{
  "plugins": {
    "entries": {
      "composio": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "consumerKey": "ck_your_key_here"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
OptionDescriptionDefault
enabledEnable or disable the plugintrue
consumerKeyYour Composio consumer key (ck_...)—
mcpUrlMCP server URL (advanced)https://connect.composio.dev/mcp

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.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Teamwork with OpenClaw using Composio plugin. Now interact with Teamwork directly from your terminal, Web UI, or any messenger app using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across TUI, Web UIs, and Messenger apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, etc.
  • Natural language commands for Teamwork operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • Programmatic tool calling for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking OpenClaw to perform various Teamwork operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits like Calendar, Slack, Notion, etc.
  • Build complex automation scripts that leverage OpenClaw's 24/7 running capabilities
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.

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. OpenClaw 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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