Cats MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Cats MCP or direct API to fetch cat images, look up breed details, share random cat facts, and build interactive cat-powered features through natural language.

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Cats is an API with a huge library of cat images, breed data, and cat facts. It makes finding adorable cat photos and trivia effortless for your apps and users.

18 Tools

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Favourite

Tool to save an image as a favourite to your account.

Create Vote

Tool to vote on a cat image.

Delete Favourite

Tool to delete a favourite from your account by its ID.

Delete Image

Delete an uploaded image from your account by its ID.

Delete Vote

Tool to delete a vote from your account by its ID.

Get Cat Breed by ID

Tool to get detailed information about a specific cat breed by its ID.

Get Favourite by ID

Tool to retrieve a specific favourite by its unique ID.

Get Cat Image by ID

Tool to retrieve a specific cat image by its unique ID.

Get Image Analysis

Get machine learning analysis results for an uploaded image.

Get Image Breeds

Tool to retrieve breed information associated with a specific cat image.

Get Cat Breeds

Retrieves a paginated list of cat breeds from The Cat API.

Get Vote by ID

Retrieves a specific vote by its unique ID from The Cat API.

List Image Categories

Retrieves a list of all active image categories from The Cat API.

List Favourites

Tool to get all favourites belonging to your account.

List Uploaded Images

Tool to get all images uploaded to your account via /images/upload.

List Votes

Tool to retrieve all votes you have created.

Search Cat Breeds

Search for cat breeds by name.

Search Cat Images

Search for random cat images with optional filters.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Cats MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK and Claude Agent SDK
2

Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

console.log("Creating Tool Router session...");
const { mcp } = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${mcp.url}`);
Initialize the Composio client and create a Tool Router session
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: mcp.url,
    headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key' }
  }
});

const tools = await client.tools();

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Show a random cat image' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs( 5 )
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Cats API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Cats Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Show me random cat images with breed names'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Cats actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Cats Integration

  • Supports both Cats MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Cats data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in API key handling and secure storage
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Cats access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Cats
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Cats resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Cats requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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