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How to integrate Plain MCP with Codex
Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Plain 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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Plain is a collaborative support platform for B2B teams, focused on consolidating conversations and boosting efficiency with AI. Enjoy streamlined, modern workflows to assist customers across channels from one place.
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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 Plain MCP in Codex
Run the setup command
Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.
It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.
(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth
To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.
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codex mcp login composioVerify the connection
Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.
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codex mcp listCodex App
Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.
- Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
- Fill the header and Key fields with
{ "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }. - The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
- Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
- Restart and verify if it's there in
.codex/config.toml
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[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }What is the Plain MCP server, and what's possible with it?
The Plain MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Plain account. It provides structured and secure access to your B2B support workspace, so your agent can perform actions like managing customers, creating support threads, fetching company details, handling issues, and organizing customer groups on your behalf.
- Customer management and onboarding: Automatically create new customer records, fetch customer information by email or ID, and add customers to specific support groups for better organization.
- Support thread creation: Let your agent create new support threads tied to customers, making it easy to kick off or escalate conversations without manual intervention.
- Issue tracking and retrieval: Fetch all external issue links associated with a customer, helping your team stay on top of ongoing problems and resolutions.
- Company and tier information access: Retrieve detailed company profiles and tier metadata, including contract value, owner details, and more, to personalize support interactions.
- User and customer cleanup: Safely delete customers or users from the system when offboarding or data hygiene is needed, all through agent-driven actions.
Conclusion
You've successfully integrated Plain with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Plain 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 Plain 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 Plain operations
- Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
- Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
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Every Plain action and event your agent gets out of the box.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
With a standalone Plain MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Plain tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Plain 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 Plain tools.
Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Plain 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 Plain data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.
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