How to integrate Brilliant directories MCP with Google ADK

This guide walks you through connecting Brilliant directories to Google ADK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Brilliant directories agent that can add a new member with company details, delete user and remove their uploaded images, list all categories used to organize members through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Google ADK agent real control over a Brilliant directories account through Composio's Brilliant directories 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 will help you understand how to give your Google ADK agent real control over a Brilliant directories account through Composio's Brilliant directories 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 Brilliant directories account set up and connected to Composio
Install the Google ADK and Composio packages
Create a Composio Tool Router session for Brilliant directories
Build an agent that connects to Brilliant directories through MCP
Interact with Brilliant directories using natural language

What is Google ADK?

Google ADK (Agents Development Kit) is Google's framework for building AI agents powered by Gemini models. It provides tools for creating agents that can use external services through the Model Context Protocol.

Key features include:

Gemini Integration: Native support for Google's Gemini models
MCP Toolset: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol tools
Streamable HTTP: Connect to external services through streamable HTTP
CLI and Web UI: Run agents via command line or web interface

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

The Brilliant directories MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Brilliant directories account. It provides structured and secure access to your membership community and business directory platform, so your agent can perform actions like managing users, retrieving data categories, and automating lead and review workflows on your behalf.

User creation and management: Easily instruct your agent to create new users with detailed profiles or delete existing members, streamlining your directory's onboarding and maintenance.
Deep data category access: Ask your agent to fetch all available data categories from your site, making it simple to organize content or power dynamic site navigation experiences.
Lead field discovery and automation: Let your agent retrieve the full structure of your leads table, helping you automate lead capture, validation, or enrichment workflows with up-to-date field metadata.
Review field extraction and insights: Direct your agent to pull all available review fields, enabling smarter review management, analytics, or custom reporting based on your site’s feedback system.
User data field exploration: Have your agent fetch and analyze all user-related fields, supporting advanced user segmentation, targeted updates, or personalized communications.

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:

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

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:

A Google API key for Gemini models
A Composio account and API key
Python 3.9 or later installed
Basic familiarity with Python

Getting API Keys for Google and Composio

Google API Key

Go to Google AI Studio and create an API key.
Copy the key and keep it safe. You will put this in GOOGLE_API_KEY.

Composio API Key and User ID

Log in to the Composio dashboard.
Go to Settings → API Keys and copy your Composio API key. Use this for COMPOSIO_API_KEY.
Decide on a stable user identifier to scope sessions, often your email or a user ID. Use this for COMPOSIO_USER_ID.

Install dependencies

bash

pip install google-adk composio python-dotenv

Inside your virtual environment, install the required packages.

What's happening:

google-adk is Google's Agents Development Kit
composio connects your agent to Brilliant directories via MCP
python-dotenv loads environment variables

Set up ADK project

bash

adk create my_agent

Set up a new Google ADK project.

What's happening:

This creates an agent folder with a root agent file and .env file

Set environment variables

bash

GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-composio-api-key
COMPOSIO_USER_ID=your-user-id-or-email

Save all your credentials in the .env file.

What's happening:

GOOGLE_API_KEY authenticates with Google's Gemini models
COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
COMPOSIO_USER_ID identifies the user for session management

Import modules and validate environment

python

import os
import warnings

from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from google.adk.agents.llm_agent import Agent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import StreamableHTTPConnectionParams
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset

load_dotenv()

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*BaseAuthenticatedTool.*")

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.")

What's happening:

os reads environment variables
Composio is the main Composio SDK client
GoogleProvider declares that you are using Google ADK as the agent runtime
Agent is the Google ADK LLM agent class
McpToolset lets the ADK agent call MCP tools over HTTP

Create Composio client and Tool Router session

python

composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY)

composio_session = composio_client.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["brilliant_directories"],
)

COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url,
print(f"Composio MCP URL: {COMPOSIO_MCP_URL}")

What's happening:

Authenticates to Composio with your API key
Declares Google ADK as the provider
Spins up a short-lived MCP endpoint for your user and selected toolkit
Stores the MCP HTTP URL for the ADK MCP integration

Set up the McpToolset and create the Agent

python

composio_toolset = McpToolset(
    connection_params=StreamableHTTPConnectionParams(
        url=COMPOSIO_MCP_URL,
        headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY}
    )
)

root_agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash",
    name="composio_agent",
    description="An agent that uses Composio tools to perform actions.",
    instruction=(
        "You are a helpful assistant connected to Composio. "
        "You have the following tools available: "
        "COMPOSIO_SEARCH_TOOLS, COMPOSIO_MULTI_EXECUTE_TOOL, "
        "COMPOSIO_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_BASH_TOOL, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_WORKBENCH. "
        "Use these tools to help users with Brilliant directories operations."
    ),
    tools=[composio_toolset],
)

print("\nAgent setup complete. You can now run this agent directly ;)")

What's happening:

Connects the ADK agent to the Composio MCP endpoint through McpToolset
Uses Gemini as the model powering the agent
Lists exact tool names in instruction to reduce misnamed tool calls

Run the agent

bash

# Run in CLI mode
adk run my_agent

# Or run in web UI mode
adk web

Execute the agent from the project root. The web command opens a web portal where you can chat with the agent.

What's happening:

adk run runs the agent in CLI mode
adk web . opens a web UI for interactive testing

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Brilliant directories and Google ADK:

python

import os
import warnings

from composio import Composio
from composio_google import GoogleProvider
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from google.adk.agents.llm_agent import Agent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import StreamableHTTPConnectionParams
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset

load_dotenv()
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*BaseAuthenticatedTool.*")

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.")

composio_client = Composio(api_key=COMPOSIO_API_KEY, provider=GoogleProvider())

composio_session = composio_client.create(
    user_id=COMPOSIO_USER_ID,
    toolkits=["brilliant_directories"],
)

COMPOSIO_MCP_URL = composio_session.mcp.url


composio_toolset = McpToolset(
    connection_params=StreamableHTTPConnectionParams(
        url=COMPOSIO_MCP_URL,
        headers={"x-api-key": COMPOSIO_API_KEY}
    )
)

root_agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash",
    name="composio_agent",
    description="An agent that uses Composio tools to perform actions.",
    instruction=(
        "You are a helpful assistant connected to Composio. "
        "You have the following tools available: "
        "COMPOSIO_SEARCH_TOOLS, COMPOSIO_MULTI_EXECUTE_TOOL, "
        "COMPOSIO_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_BASH_TOOL, COMPOSIO_REMOTE_WORKBENCH. "
        "Use these tools to help users with Brilliant directories operations."
    ),  
    tools=[composio_toolset],
)

print("\nAgent setup complete. You can now run this agent directly ;)")

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Brilliant directories with the Google ADK through Composio's MCP Tool Router. Your agent can now interact with Brilliant directories using natural language commands.

Key takeaways:

The Tool Router approach dynamically routes requests to the appropriate Brilliant directories tools
Environment variables keep your credentials secure and separate from code
Clear agent instructions reduce tool calling errors
The ADK web UI provides an interactive interface for testing and development

You can extend this setup by adding more toolkits to the toolkits array in your session configuration.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Album Photo

Tool to add a new album photo to a user's portfolio in Brilliant Directories.

Create Data Category

Creates a new data category (post type) in the Brilliant Directories website database.

Create Data Post

Tool to create a new Single Image Post (member post) in the Brilliant Directories database.

Create Lead

Tool to create a new lead in the Brilliant Directories database.

Create Portfolio Group

Creates a new multi-image portfolio post in the Brilliant Directories database.

Create Unsubscribe

Tool to add an unsubscriber to the database and unsubscribe a member from email campaigns.

Create User

Creates a new user/member account in the Brilliant Directories website database.

Create Users Click

Tool to add a new user clicked link tracking record to the database.

Create Widget

Tool to create a new widget in the Brilliant Directories website database.

Delete Album Photo

Tool to delete an album photo and its related data from the database.

Delete Data Category

Tool to permanently delete a post type (data category) and all related data from the database.

Delete Lead

Tool to delete a lead and their related data from the database.

Delete Portfolio Group

Tool to delete a multi-image post (portfolio group) and its related data from the database.

Delete Unsubscribe Record

Tool to delete an unsubscribe record and its related data from the database.

Delete User

This tool deletes an existing user record from the Brilliant Directories website database.

Delete Users Click

Tool to delete a user clicked link and their related data from the database.

Delete Widget

Tool to delete a widget and its related data from the database.

Get Album Photo

Retrieves the complete metadata and details for a single album image from Brilliant Directories.

Get Data Categories Fields

This tool retrieves all available custom fields for Data Categories (Post Types) in a Brilliant Directories website.

Get Data Category

Tool to retrieve configuration data for a single post type (data category) in Brilliant Directories.

Get Data Post

Tool to retrieve a single image/video post from the Brilliant Directories member posts system.

Get Lead

Tool to retrieve a single lead's complete information from Brilliant Directories.

Get Lead Fields

This tool retrieves all available fields in the leads table from a Brilliant Directories website.

Get Portfolio Group

Tool to retrieve multi-image post data by group_id.

Get Review

Tool to retrieve complete review data from Brilliant Directories based on review_id.

Get Reviews Fields

Get metadata about all available fields in the users_reviews table from a Brilliant Directories website.

Get Unsubscribe Record

Tool to retrieve a single unsubscriber record by ID.

Get User by ID

Tool to retrieve comprehensive data for a single user by their user_id.

Get User Data

Retrieves comprehensive user data from the Brilliant Directories database by searching for a specific property value.

Get User Clicked Link

Tool to retrieve click tracking data for a single user clicked link based on the click_id.

Get User Transactions

Retrieves payment and transaction history for a member in Brilliant Directories.

Get Widget

Retrieves the data of a single widget based on the widget_id.

Match Leads

Tool to match a batch of emails or user IDs to a specific lead record.

Search Reviews

Search reviews and their related data from the database.

Search Users

Search for users/members in the Brilliant Directories database with advanced filtering options.

Update Album Photo

Updates an existing album photo record in the Brilliant Directories database.

Update Data Category

Tool to update an existing post type (data category) record in Brilliant Directories.

Update Data Post

Updates a single image post record and related data in the Brilliant Directories database.

Update Lead

Updates an existing lead record in the Brilliant Directories website database.

Update Portfolio Group

Tool to update a multi-image post (portfolio group) record in the Brilliant Directories database.

Update Unsubscribe

Updates an existing unsubscribe list record in the Brilliant Directories database.

Update User

Updates an existing user record in the Brilliant Directories website database.

Update User Click Record

Updates a user clicked link record and their related data from the database.

Update Widget

Tool to update an existing widget record in the Brilliant Directories database.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Google ADK 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 Brilliant directories tools.

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

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How to integrate Brilliant directories MCP with Google ADK

Connect Brilliant directories without auth hassles

Introduction

Also integrate Brilliant directories with

TL;DR

What is Google ADK?

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

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

What is Composio SDK?

How the Composio SDK works

Step-by-step Guide

Prerequisites

Getting API Keys for Google and Composio

Install dependencies

Set up ADK project

Set environment variables

Import modules and validate environment

Create Composio client and Tool Router session

Set up the McpToolset and create the Agent

Run the agent

Complete Code

Conclusion

Supported Tools

How to build Brilliant directories MCP Agent with another framework

OpenAI Agents SDK

Claude Agent SDK

Claude Code

Claude Cowork

Codex

OpenClaw

Hermes

CLI

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Vercel AI SDK

Mastra AI

LlamaIndex

CrewAI

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Hubspot

Pipedrive

Salesforce

Apollo

Frequently asked questions

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Brilliant directories MCP?+

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Google ADK?+

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Brilliant directories while using Tool Router?+

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?+

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