How to integrate Brex MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Brex to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Brex agent that can create a new card for our intern, get the latest account statement pdf, add an expense for last week's conference through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Brex account through Composio's Brex MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Brex to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Brex agent that can create a new card for our intern, get the latest account statement pdf, add an expense for last week's conference through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Brex account through Composio's Brex 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 and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Brex
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Brex as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Brex operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

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

The Brex MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Brex account. It provides structured and secure access to your company's financial tools, so your agent can perform actions like managing cards, tracking expenses, creating budgets, and retrieving account details on your behalf.

  • Card creation and management: Instantly issue new cards, assign them to users or vendors, and control spending limits via your agent.
  • Automated expense tracking: Let your agent create and log expenses, helping you keep company finances organized and up to date.
  • Budget and department setup: Quickly create budgets for teams or projects and set up new departments without manual effort.
  • Account and statement retrieval: Fetch detailed account information and download statements whenever you need financial insights or records.
  • User and location management: Add new users or locations to your Brex account, making it easy to scale as your business grows.

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 step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Brex project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
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
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Brex.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Brex
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['brex'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only brex.
  • The router checks the user's Brex connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Brex.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Brex tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Brex. Help users perform Brex operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Brex and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Brex operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Brex.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Brex and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['brex'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Brex. Help users perform Brex operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Brex MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Brex.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Webhook Group Members

Add webhook subscription members to a webhook group.

Archive Budget

Archive a budget to mark it as inactive and prevent future expenses.

Archive Spend Limit

Archive a spend limit in Brex.

Create Budget

Create a new budget for departments or projects.

Create Spend Limit (Budget V1)

Tool to create a new Spend Limit (Budget) in Brex.

Create Card

Create a new card and assign it to a user.

Create Department

Create a new department.

Create Document Upload for Referral

Create a document upload URL for a referral and return a pre-signed S3 upload URL.

Create Expense

Create a new expense.

Create Custom Field

Create a new custom field in Brex.

Create Field Values

Create custom field values for a specific Brex field.

Create Location

Create a new location.

Create Referral Request

Tool to create a new referral to Brex for onboarding.

Create Spend Limit

Tool to create a spend limit in Brex.

Create Job Title

Create a new job title.

Create User

Create a new user in the Brex account.

Create Vendor

Create a new vendor in Brex for payment operations.

Create Webhook Group

Tool to create a webhook group for targeting webhook subscriptions.

Create Webhook Subscription

Register a new webhook subscription to receive real-time notifications for Brex events.

Delete Field

Tool to delete a custom field by Brex ID.

Delete Field Values

Delete custom field values for a specific field.

Delete Vendor

Delete a vendor by ID.

Get Account Statements

Get finalized statements for the primary cash account.

Get Budget Details

Get detailed information about a specific budget.

Get Card Details

Get detailed information about a specific card.

Get Card Expense

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific card expense by its ID.

Get Card Number

Get card number, CVV, and expiration date for a specific card.

Get Card Transactions

Get settled card transactions for the primary card account.

Get Company Cash Accounts

Retrieve all cash (deposit) accounts for the company.

Get Company Details

Get company information associated with the OAuth2 access token.

Get Department By ID

Get detailed information about a specific department by ID.

Get Expense

Tool to get details of a specific expense by ID.

Get Field By ID

Tool to retrieve a custom field by its Brex ID.

Get Field Value By ID

Tool to retrieve a specific field value by field ID and field value ID.

Get Legal Entity

Tool to retrieve a legal entity by its ID from Brex.

Get Location By ID

Get detailed information about a specific location by ID.

Get Referral By ID

Tool to retrieve a specific referral by its ID from Brex.

Get Spend Limit By ID

Tool to get detailed information about a specific spend limit by its ID.

Get Spend Limits

Get spend limits configuration.

Get Title by ID

Get detailed information about a specific job title by ID.

Get Transaction by ID

Get details of a specific transaction by ID.

Get Card Transactions

Get card transactions from the primary Brex account.

Get Transactions by Amount Range

Get card transactions filtered by amount range and date period.

Search Transactions by Description

Search and filter card transactions by description text.

Get User Limit

Retrieves the monthly spending limit and available balance for a specific Brex user.

Get User Profile

Get user profile information from Brex Team API.

Get Vendor By ID

Tool to get vendor details by ID.

Get Webhook Group

Tool to retrieve details of a specific webhook group by ID.

Get Webhook Subscription

Tool to retrieve details of a specific webhook subscription by ID.

List Budget Programs

Tool to list all budget programs in the organization.

List Budgets

List all budgets and show available amounts across all cards.

List Card Accounts

Tool to list all card accounts for the company.

List Cards

List all cards associated with the account.

List Card Statements

Tool to list finalized statements for primary card accounts.

List Departments

List all departments in the organization.

List Expenses

Tool to list expenses from the Brex platform.

List Field Values

Tool to list values under a custom field.

List Legal Entities

Tool to list all legal entities in the Brex account with pagination support.

List Locations

List all locations in the organization.

List Referrals

Tool to list all referrals created in the Brex account.

List Job Titles

List all job titles in the organization.

List Transfers

Lists transfers for the account.

List Trips

Lists trips according to the filters passed in the query string.

List Users

List all users in the Brex account.

List Vendors

List all vendors.

List Webhook Group Members

Tool to list all members of a webhook group.

List Webhook Groups

Tool to list all webhook groups.

List Webhook Secrets

Tool to retrieve webhook signing secrets for validating incoming webhook messages from Brex.

List Webhook Subscriptions

Tool to list all registered webhook subscriptions.

Create Receipt Match

Creates a receipt match request and returns a pre-signed S3 upload URI.

Create Receipt Upload for Expense

Creates a receipt upload request for a specific card expense and returns a pre-signed S3 upload URL.

Set User Limit

Set or update the monthly spending limit for a Brex user.

Transfer Card

Transfer a card to a different user.

Update Budget

Update an existing budget's configuration in Brex.

Update Spend Limit (V1)

Tool to update a Spend Limit (budget) using the v1 API.

Update Card Limits

Update spending limits and controls for a Brex card.

Update Card Status

Update the status of a Brex card by locking, unlocking, or terminating it.

Update Expense

Tool to update an expense by its ID.

Update Field

Tool to update a custom field in Brex.

Update Field Values

Tool to update custom field values in Brex for a specific field.

Update Spend Limit

Updates an existing Brex spend limit by its ID.

Update User

Update user details.

Update Vendor

Tool to update vendor information in Brex.

Update Webhook Subscription

Updates an existing Brex webhook subscription's configuration.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK 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 Brex tools.

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

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