How to integrate Elorus MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Elorus MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Elorus is an online invoicing and time-tracking software for freelancers and small businesses. Easily manage finances, bill clients, and track work in one place.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Elorus MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Elorus MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

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

The Elorus MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Elorus account. It provides structured and secure access to your invoicing, billing, and time-tracking tools, so your agent can perform actions like creating invoices, managing contacts, tracking estimates, and sending billing communications on your behalf.

  • Automated invoice creation and delivery: Instruct your agent to generate new invoices, fill in all necessary details, and instantly email them to clients or contacts with just a prompt.
  • Comprehensive contact management: Ask your agent to fetch, list, and organize your business contacts, so you can easily keep your client database up to date or find specific clients in seconds.
  • Dynamic bills and expenses tracking: Let your agent retrieve and manage lists of bills and expenses, helping you stay on top of accounts payable and overall financial health.
  • Flexible product and service catalog management: Direct your agent to create new products or services, update details, or fetch lists of items for invoicing and inventory purposes.
  • Estimates and credit notes retrieval: Have your agent pull up estimates or credit notes with filters for date, contact, or status—ideal for monitoring ongoing deals and financial adjustments.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Elorus with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Elorus directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for Elorus operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various Elorus operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Invoice

Creates a new invoice or receipt in Elorus.

CREATE_PRODUCT

Create a new product or service in Elorus.

Email Invoice

Tool to email an existing invoice to specified contacts.

Get Bills

Retrieve a paginated list of bills (expenses/purchases) from Elorus.

Get Contacts

Tool to retrieve a list of contacts.

Get Credit Notes

Tool to retrieve a list of credit notes.

Get Email Templates

Tool to retrieve a list of email templates.

Get Estimates

Tool to retrieve a list of estimates.

Get Invoices

Retrieves a paginated list of invoices from Elorus with flexible filtering options.

Get Products

Tool to retrieve a list of products/services with optional filtering, sorting, and pagination.

Get Taxes

Tool to retrieve a list of taxes.

Get Templates

Retrieves document templates used for formatting invoices, estimates, credit notes, and other business documents in Elorus.

Update Contact

Update an existing contact in Elorus by ID.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Codex 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 Elorus tools.

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

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