How to integrate Beaconchain MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Beaconchain 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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Beaconchain is a real-time analytics platform for Ethereum 2.0's Beacon Chain. It provides detailed insights into validators, blocks, and overall network performance.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Beaconchain 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 Beaconchain 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.

bash
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 Beaconchain MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Beaconchain MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Beaconchain account. It provides structured and secure access to Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain analytics, so your agent can check validator status, monitor node health, analyze network performance, and surface real-time blockchain insights on your behalf.

  • Validator information lookup: Instantly retrieve in-depth details about any specific Ethereum 2.0 validator, including performance, status, and rewards.
  • Node health monitoring: Let your agent check the real-time health status of your node, including readiness, syncing state, and error conditions.
  • Network performance insights: Surface up-to-date statistics on the overall Beacon Chain network, empowering you to make informed decisions.
  • Automated health alerts: Have your agent proactively monitor node status and notify you if any issues or anomalies arise.

Conclusion

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

Supported Tools

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

Get Chart

Retrieve chart visualizations from beaconcha.

Get Epoch

Retrieve aggregate metrics and status for a beacon chain epoch.

Get ETH1 Deposits by Transaction Hash

Retrieve all beacon chain validator deposit events associated with a specific execution-layer transaction hash.

Get ETH.Store Daily Aggregates

Retrieve ETH.

Get ERC-20 Token Balances

Retrieve a paginated list of ERC-20 token balances for a specific Ethereum address.

Get Execution Block

Retrieve one or more execution-layer blocks by block number from the Ethereum Beacon Chain.

Get Execution Produced Blocks

Retrieve execution-layer blocks attributed to one or more producers.

Get Latest State

Retrieve the latest known Ethereum Beacon Chain network state.

Get Network Performance

Retrieve aggregated network performance metrics for the Ethereum Beacon Chain.

Get Explorer Health

Check the health status of the beaconcha.

Get Validator Queues

Retrieve current queue metrics for Ethereum Beacon Chain validators.

Get Rocket Pool Validator

Retrieve Rocket Pool-specific metadata for validators including minipool status, node fee, smoothing pool status, and RPL stake metrics.

Get Slot

Retrieve detailed information about an Ethereum Beacon Chain slot.

Get Slot Attestations

Retrieve all attestations included in the beacon block for a specific slot.

Get Slot Attester Slashings

Retrieve all attester slashing operations included in the beacon block for a specific slot.

Get Slot Proposer Slashings

Retrieve all proposer slashing operations included in the beacon block for a specific slot.

Get Slot Voluntary Exits

Retrieve all voluntary exit operations included in the beacon block for a specific slot.

Get Sync Committee

Retrieve the sync committee membership for a given sync period.

Get Validator

Retrieve detailed information about an Ethereum Beacon Chain validator.

Get Validator Attestation Efficiency

Retrieve normalized attestation inclusion effectiveness for one or more validators.

Get Validator Attestations

Retrieve attestations observed for one or more validators within a bounded epoch window.

Get Validator Balance History

Retrieve per-epoch balance history for one or more Ethereum Beacon Chain validators.

Get Validator BLS Changes

Retrieve on-chain BLS-to-execution credential change messages (EIP-4881) for validators.

Get Validator Consensus Rewards

Retrieve consensus-layer rewards for one or more validators over multiple lookback windows.

Get Validator Daily Stats

Retrieve per-day statistics for a single Ethereum Beacon Chain validator by index.

Get Validator Deposits

Retrieve execution-layer deposit events for one or more validators.

Get Validator Execution Rewards

Retrieve execution-layer rewards (priority fees and MEV payments) for one or more validators.

Get Validator Income History

Retrieve a per-epoch income breakdown for one or more validators.

Get Validator Leaderboard

Retrieve the current top 100 validators ranked by 7-day consensus-layer rewards.

Get Validator Proposals

Retrieve beacon chain blocks proposed by one or more validators within a bounded epoch window.

Get Validators by Deposit Address

Retrieve validators that have made deposits from a specific execution-layer address.

Get Validators by Withdrawal Credentials

Retrieve validators whose withdrawal credentials match the provided value or execution-layer address.

Get Validators Proposal Luck

Retrieve proposal luck statistics for one or more Ethereum Beacon Chain validators.

Get Validators Queue

Retrieve current queue metrics for validators on the Ethereum Beacon Chain.

Get Validator Withdrawals

Retrieve withdrawal operations attributed to one or more validators within a bounded epoch window.

Post Validators

Retrieve validator information using a JSON request body for multiple validators.

Resolve ENS Name or Address

Resolve ENS (Ethereum Name Service) names to addresses and vice versa.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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