How to integrate Coinranking MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Coinranking to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Coinranking agent that can show top trending cryptocurrencies today, get bitcoin price history for last month, list coins with market cap over $1b through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Coinranking account through Composio's Coinranking MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Coinranking is a comprehensive cryptocurrency market data platform offering access to real-time coin prices, market caps, and historical data. Get accurate, up-to-date stats for thousands of digital assets in one place.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Coinranking to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Coinranking agent that can show top trending cryptocurrencies today, get bitcoin price history for last month, list coins with market cap over $1b through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Coinranking account through Composio's Coinranking 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 Coinranking
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Coinranking as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Coinranking 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 Coinranking MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Coinranking MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Coinranking account. It provides structured and secure access to real-time and historical cryptocurrency market data, so your agent can perform actions like tracking prices, analyzing trends, fetching coin stats, and surfacing trending cryptocurrencies on your behalf.

  • Real-time coin price tracking: Instantly access up-to-date prices for thousands of cryptocurrencies, letting your agent monitor the market or retrieve coin values on demand.
  • Historical performance analysis: Retrieve and analyze historical price data for any coin, so your agent can chart trends and compare past performances.
  • Global market overview: Get comprehensive statistics about the entire crypto market, including total market cap, volume, and dominance, all via your agent.
  • Discover trending assets: Surface the most popular and trending coins based on user engagement, helping your agent highlight coins gaining traction right now.
  • Reference currencies and tags management: Let your agent fetch supported fiat and crypto reference currencies, and retrieve all canonical tags for advanced filtering and categorization.

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 Coinranking 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 Coinranking.
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 Coinranking
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['coinranking'],
});
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 coinranking.
  • The router checks the user's Coinranking connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Coinranking.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Coinranking 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 Coinranking. Help users perform Coinranking 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 Coinranking 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 Coinranking 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 Coinranking.
  • 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 Coinranking 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: ['coinranking'],
  });
  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 Coinranking. Help users perform Coinranking 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 Coinranking MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Coinranking.

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 Coinranking action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Coin Details

Retrieve comprehensive details for a specific cryptocurrency including current price, market cap, supply metrics, description, social links, sparkline data, and historical performance.

Get Coin Fiat Prices

Tool to retrieve the current price of a cryptocurrency in all available fiat currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, and more.

Get Coin History

Tool to retrieve historical price data for a specific coin over a time period.

Get Coin Price

Tool to retrieve the current price or historical price at a specific timestamp for a cryptocurrency coin.

Get Coin Price History

Tool to retrieve historical price data points for a specific coin over selectable time periods.

Get Coins

Retrieve a comprehensive list of cryptocurrency coins with detailed market data including prices, market caps, rankings, and price history.

Get Coin Trading Volume History

Tool to retrieve historical trading volume data for a specific coin to build volume charts and analyze liquidity trends.

Get Reference Currencies

Retrieve a comprehensive list of reference currencies including cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies (USD, EUR, etc.

Get Global Crypto Market Stats

Tool to retrieve global cryptocurrency market statistics.

Get Stats for Selected Coins

Tool to retrieve aggregate statistics for a selection of coins.

Get Tag Details

Get detailed information about a specific cryptocurrency tag including market metrics, volume, associated coin count, and dominance data.

Get Tags

Get all available cryptocurrency tags/categories from Coinranking.

Get Trending Coins

Retrieve a list of trending cryptocurrency coins ranked by user engagement and popularity on Coinranking.

Search Suggestions

Tool to search and get suggestions for coins, markets, exchanges, fiat currencies, and categories by name, symbol, or contract address.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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