How to connect VideoDB 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 VideoDB account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to search uploaded videos for product mentions, generate clips from webinar highlights, summarize audio transcripts across collections, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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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 VideoDB account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to search uploaded videos for product mentions, generate clips from webinar highlights, summarize audio transcripts across collections, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting VideoDB 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 VideoDB account

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

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Search uploaded videos for product mentions"
  • "Generate clips from webinar highlights"
  • "Summarize audio transcripts across collections"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your VideoDB 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 VideoDB through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The VideoDB MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your VideoDB account. It provides structured and secure access to your media collections, videos, audio files, and images, so your agent can organize collections, ingest media, find content, answer grounded questions, and manage media on your behalf.

  • Media collection organization: Have your agent create collections, review available collections, and update their names, descriptions, or visibility.
  • Video, audio, and image ingestion: Direct your agent to add media from a web address to the collection you choose.
  • Semantic media search: Instruct your agent to search indexed media by meaning and return content relevant to your request.
  • Grounded collection questions: Let the agent ask questions about a collection and check when each answer is ready.
  • Media discovery and management: Have your agent list videos, audio files, or images, review their metadata, and rename selected media.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Ask Collection

Queue a grounded question-answer request over a VideoDB collection's Search V2 indexes.

Create Collection

Create a VideoDB collection for organizing and searching media.

Get Async Result

Check one VideoDB async operation by response ID.

Get Collection

Get metadata for one VideoDB collection by ID.

Get Media

Get metadata for one VideoDB video, audio file, or image.

Ingest Media

Queue ingestion of a video, audio file, or image from an HTTP(S) URL into a VideoDB collection.

List Collections

List collections available to the connected VideoDB API key and identify the default collection.

List Media

List videos, audio files, or images in one VideoDB collection using one normalized media interface.

Rename Media

Rename one VideoDB video, audio file, or image.

Search Collection

Run synchronous semantic search over indexed media in a VideoDB collection.

Update Collection

Update the name, description, or visibility of an existing VideoDB collection.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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