How to integrate VideoDB MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your VideoDB account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your VideoDB account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating VideoDB with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to VideoDB

Ask your agent to connect to VideoDB, or simply request any VideoDB-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new VideoDB connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to VideoDB or request any VideoDB-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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.

Way Forward

With VideoDB connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

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. Hermes 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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