Dovetail MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Dovetail MCP or direct API to analyze interview transcripts, code research responses, extract insights, and summarize survey feedback through natural language.

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Dovetail is a research analysis platform for transcript review and insight generation. It helps teams code interviews, analyze feedback, and create actionable research summaries.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Channel

Creates a new channel in Dovetail to organize and collect feedback data.

Create Contact

Tool to create a new contact in Dovetail.

Create Data

Tool to create a data item in a Dovetail project with text content, title, and/or structured fields.

Create Data Point

Tool to create a data point within a channel.

Create Doc

Tool to create a doc in a Dovetail project with text content, title and/or custom fields.

Create Insight

Creates a new insight in Dovetail to store synthesized research findings, observations, or conclusions.

Create Note

Tool to create a note in a Dovetail project with text content, title and/or custom fields.

Create Project

Tool to create a new project in your Dovetail workspace.

Create Topic

Tool to create a new topic in a Dovetail channel.

Delete Channel

Tool to delete an existing channel.

Delete Data

Tool to delete an existing data item.

Delete Doc

Tool to delete an existing doc.

Delete Insight

Tool to delete an existing insight.

Delete Note

Tool to delete an existing note.

Delete Topic

Tool to delete an existing topic.

Export Data

Tool to export data in HTML or Markdown format.

Export Doc

Tool to export a doc in HTML or Markdown format.

Export Insight

Tool to export an insight in HTML or Markdown format.

Export Note

Tool to export a note from Dovetail in HTML or Markdown format.

Get Contact

Tool to retrieve details of a specific contact.

Get Data

Tool to retrieve details of a specific data item by ID.

Get Doc

Tool to retrieve details of a specific doc by ID.

Get File

Tool to retrieve details of a specific file by its ID.

Get Folder

Tool to retrieve details of a specific folder.

Get Insight

Tool to retrieve details of a specific insight by ID.

Get Note

Tool to retrieve details of a specific note.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve details of a specific project.

Get Token Info

Retrieves information about the current API token, including its unique identifier and the associated workspace subdomain.

Import Data File

Tool to import a public URL of a file as new data in Dovetail.

Import Doc File

Tool to import a public file URL as a new doc in Dovetail.

Import Insight from File

Tool to import a file from a public URL as a new insight in Dovetail.

Import Note File

Tool to import a file from a public URL as a new note in Dovetail.

List Contacts

Retrieves a paginated list of contacts from a Dovetail workspace.

List Data

Tool to list data items in Dovetail.

List Docs

Tool to list docs in a Dovetail workspace with optional filtering, sorting, and pagination.

List Folders

Tool to get a list of folders associated with a workspace.

List Highlights

List highlights from your Dovetail workspace with optional filtering and pagination.

List Insights

Tool to get a list of insights associated with a workspace.

List Notes

List notes in Dovetail workspace with optional pagination and sorting.

List Projects

Tool to list all projects in Dovetail.

List Tags

List all tags in the authenticated Dovetail workspace.

List User Docs

Tool to get a list of docs associated with a user in Dovetail.

List User Insights

List personal insights for a user in Dovetail.

Magic Search

Tool to perform a magic search across workspace data.

Update Channel

Tool to update an existing channel's title or context.

Update Contact

Tool to update an existing contact in Dovetail.

Update Data

Tool to update a data item in Dovetail.

Update Doc

Tool to update a doc in Dovetail.

Update Insight

Updates an existing insight in Dovetail, allowing you to modify the title and custom fields.

Update Note

Tool to update an existing note in Dovetail.

Update Topic

Tool to update an existing topic.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Dovetail 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: 'List all contacts in the workspace' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(5)
});

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

Connect Dovetail 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 Dovetail 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: 'Summarize all feedback for project Q2 launch'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Dovetail actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Dovetail Integration

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

Managed Auth

  • Built-in OAuth handling with automatic token refresh and rotation
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Dovetail 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 Dovetail
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Dovetail resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Dovetail 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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