How to integrate Booqable MCP with CrewAI

This guide walks you through connecting Booqable to CrewAI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Booqable agent that can add a new customer named alice brown, list all active orders for this week, create a rental order for customer id 123 through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your CrewAI agent real control over a Booqable account through Composio's Booqable MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Booqable is a rental software platform for managing inventory, bookings, and reservations. It helps businesses streamline rentals and keep track of every item with ease.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Booqable to CrewAI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Booqable agent that can add a new customer named alice brown, list all active orders for this week, create a rental order for customer id 123 through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your CrewAI agent real control over a Booqable account through Composio's Booqable MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get a Composio API key and configure your Booqable connection
  • Set up CrewAI with an MCP enabled agent
  • Create a Tool Router session or standalone MCP server for Booqable
  • Build a conversational loop where your agent can execute Booqable operations

What is CrewAI?

CrewAI is a powerful framework for building multi-agent AI systems. It provides primitives for defining agents with specific roles, creating tasks, and orchestrating workflows through crews.

Key features include:

  • Agent Roles: Define specialized agents with specific goals and backstories
  • Task Management: Create tasks with clear descriptions and expected outputs
  • Crew Orchestration: Combine agents and tasks into collaborative workflows
  • MCP Integration: Connect to external tools through Model Context Protocol

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

The Booqable MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Booqable account. It provides structured and secure access to your rental management system, so your agent can perform actions like creating customers, managing orders, retrieving inventory data, and organizing product groups on your behalf.

  • Customer management and onboarding: Effortlessly create new customers, fetch details for existing clients, or delete customer records when needed—all through your AI agent.
  • Order creation and tracking: Let your agent generate new rental orders, retrieve specific order details, or list and filter all existing orders based on your business needs.
  • Inventory and product group organization: Have your agent create new product groups to organize inventory, fetch product group information, or remove groups that are no longer needed.
  • Automated cleanup and archiving: Direct your agent to archive customers or orders, helping you keep your database clean and up-to-date without manual intervention.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step08 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Python 3.9 or higher
  • A Composio account and API key
  • A Booqable connection authorized in Composio
  • An OpenAI API key for the CrewAI LLM
  • Basic familiarity with Python
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio crewai crewai-tools[mcp] python-dotenv
What's happening:
  • composio connects your agent to Booqable via MCP
  • crewai provides Agent, Task, Crew, and LLM primitives
  • crewai-tools[mcp] includes MCP helpers
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables from .env
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID scopes the session to your account
  • OPENAI_API_KEY lets CrewAI use your chosen OpenAI model
5

Import dependencies

python
import os
from composio import Composio
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter
import dotenv

dotenv.load_dotenv()

COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set")
What's happening:
  • CrewAI classes define agents and tasks, and run the workflow
  • MCPServerHTTP connects the agent to an MCP endpoint
  • Composio will give you a short lived Booqable MCP URL
6

Create a Composio Tool Router session for Booqable

python
composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY)
session = composio_client.create(user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID, toolkits=["booqable"])

url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • You create a Booqable only session through Composio
  • Composio returns an MCP HTTP URL that exposes Booqable tools
7

Initialize the MCP Server

python
server_params = {
    "url": url,
    "transport": "streamable-http",
    "headers": {"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY},
}

with MCPServerAdapter(server_params) as tools:
    agent = Agent(
        role="Search Assistant",
        goal="Help users search the internet effectively",
        backstory="You are a helpful assistant with access to search tools.",
        tools=tools,
        verbose=False,
        max_iter=10,
    )
What's Happening:
  • Server Configuration: The code sets up connection parameters including the MCP server URL, streamable HTTP transport, and Composio API key authentication.
  • MCP Adapter Bridge: MCPServerAdapter acts as a context manager that converts Composio MCP tools into a CrewAI-compatible format.
  • Agent Setup: Creates a CrewAI Agent with a defined role (Search Assistant), goal (help with internet searches), and access to the MCP tools.
  • Configuration Options: The agent includes settings like verbose=False for clean output and max_iter=10 to prevent infinite loops.
  • Dynamic Tool Usage: Once created, the agent automatically accesses all Composio Search tools and decides when to use them based on user queries.
8

Create a CLI Chatloop and define the Crew

python
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

conversation_context = ""

while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    task = Task(
        description=(
            f"Conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
            f"Current request: {user_input}"
        ),
        expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
        agent=agent,
    )

    crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task], verbose=False)
    result = crew.kickoff()
    response = str(result)

    conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
    print(f"Agent: {response}\n")
What's Happening:
  • Interactive CLI Setup: The code creates an infinite loop that continuously prompts for user input and maintains the entire conversation history in a string variable.
  • Input Validation: Empty inputs are ignored to prevent processing blank messages and keep the conversation clean.
  • Context Building: Each user message is appended to the conversation context, which preserves the full dialogue history for better agent responses.
  • Dynamic Task Creation: For every user input, a new Task is created that includes both the full conversation history and the current request as context.
  • Crew Execution: A Crew is instantiated with the agent and task, then kicked off to process the request and generate a response.
  • Response Management: The agent's response is converted to a string, added to the conversation context, and displayed to the user, maintaining conversational continuity.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Booqable and CrewAI:

python
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, LLM
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

load_dotenv()

GOOGLE_API_KEY = os.getenv("GOOGLE_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_API_KEY = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
COMPOSIO_USER_ID = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_USER_ID")

if not GOOGLE_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("GOOGLE_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_API_KEY:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set in the environment.")
if not COMPOSIO_USER_ID:
    raise ValueError("COMPOSIO_USER_ID is not set in the environment.")

# Initialize Composio and create a session
composio = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY)
session = composio.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["booqable"],
)
url = session.mcp.url

# Configure LLM
llm = LLM(
    model="gpt-5",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
)

server_params = {
    "url": url,
    "transport": "streamable-http",
    "headers": {"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY},
}

with MCPServerAdapter(server_params) as tools:
    agent = Agent(
        role="Search Assistant",
        goal="Help users with internet searches",
        backstory="You are an expert assistant with access to Composio Search tools.",
        tools=tools,
        llm=llm,
        verbose=False,
        max_iter=10,
    )

    print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

    conversation_context = ""

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()

        if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
            print("\nGoodbye!")
            break

        if not user_input:
            continue

        conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
        print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

        task = Task(
            description=(
                f"Conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
                f"Current request: {user_input}"
            ),
            expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
            agent=agent,
        )

        crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task], verbose=False)
        result = crew.kickoff()
        response = str(result)

        conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
        print(f"Agent: {response}\n")

Conclusion

You now have a CrewAI agent connected to Booqable through Composio's Tool Router. The agent can perform Booqable operations through natural language commands.

Next steps:

  • Add role-specific instructions to customize agent behavior
  • Plug in more toolkits for multi-app workflows
  • Chain tasks for complex multi-step operations
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Customer

Tool to create a new customer.

Create Order

Tool to create a new order.

Create Product Group

Tool to create a new product group in Booqable.

Delete Customer

Tool to delete (archive) a customer by ID.

Delete Order

Tool to delete (archive) an order by ID.

Delete Product Group

Tool to delete a product group by ID.

Get Customer

Tool to fetch a specific customer by ID.

Get Customers

Tool to retrieve a list of customers.

Get Inventory Levels

Tool to fetch inventory levels for products.

Get New Order

Tool to retrieve a new order template with default values.

Get Order

Tool to retrieve a specific order by ID.

Get Product

Tool to fetch a specific product by ID.

Get Product Group

Tool to fetch a specific product group by ID.

List Barcodes

Tool to retrieve a list of barcodes.

List Bundle Items

Tool to retrieve a list of bundle items.

List Clusters

Tool to retrieve a list of clusters from Booqable.

List Coupons

Tool to retrieve a list of coupons.

List Default Properties

Tool to retrieve a list of default properties from Booqable.

List Documents

Tool to retrieve a list of documents.

List Email Templates

Tool to list email templates from Booqable.

List Employees

Tool to retrieve a list of employees from Booqable.

List Inventory Breakdowns

Tool to retrieve a list of inventory breakdowns filtered by status and product/product group.

List Items

Tool to retrieve a list of items (products and product groups).

List Lines

Tool to retrieve a paginated list of lines from orders.

List Locations

Tool to retrieve a list of locations from Booqable.

List Notes

Tool to retrieve a list of notes.

List Orders

Tool to retrieve a paginated list of orders.

List Payment Methods

Tool to retrieve a list of payment methods from Booqable.

List Payments

Tool to list all payments from Booqable.

List Photos

Tool to retrieve a paginated list of photos from Booqable.

List Plannings

Tool to retrieve planning records that track product and bundle reservations across locations and time periods.

List Price Rulesets

Tool to list price rulesets.

List Price Structures

Tool to list price structures.

List Product Groups

Tool to list product groups from Booqable API v4.

List Products

Tool to retrieve a list of products.

List Properties

Tool to retrieve a list of properties.

List Provinces

Tool to retrieve a list of provinces.

List Stock Item Plannings

Tool to retrieve a list of stock item plannings.

List Stock Items

Tool to retrieve a list of stock items.

List Tax Rates

Tool to retrieve a list of tax rates.

List Tax Values

Tool to retrieve a list of tax values.

List Users

Tool to retrieve a list of users from Booqable.

Search Bundles

Tool to search bundles with advanced filtering.

Search Customers

Tool to search customers in the Booqable system.

Search Documents

Tool to search documents using advanced filtering with logical operators.

Search Items

Tool to search items (products and bundles) with advanced filtering.

Search Orders

Tool to search orders with advanced filtering using logical operators.

Search Plannings

Tool to search plannings with advanced filtering.

Update Company

Tool to update the current company's information in Booqable.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. CrewAI 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 Booqable tools.

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

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