How to integrate Productboard MCP with Autogen

This guide walks you through connecting Productboard to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Productboard agent that can create a new feature idea in productboard, list all features in the current release, add customer feedback to a specific feature through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Productboard account through Composio's Productboard MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Productboard is a product management platform that consolidates feedback and prioritizes features. It helps teams align roadmaps with customer insights and strategic goals.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Productboard to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Productboard agent that can create a new feature idea in productboard, list all features in the current release, add customer feedback to a specific feature through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Productboard account through Composio's Productboard 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 required dependencies for Autogen and Composio
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Productboard
  • Wire that MCP URL into Autogen using McpWorkbench and StreamableHttpServerParams
  • Configure an Autogen AssistantAgent that can call Productboard tools
  • Run a live chat loop where you ask the agent to perform Productboard operations

What is AutoGen?

Autogen is a framework for building multi-agent conversational AI systems from Microsoft. It enables you to create agents that can collaborate, use tools, and maintain complex workflows.

Key features include:

  • Multi-Agent Systems: Build collaborative agent workflows
  • MCP Workbench: Native support for Model Context Protocol tools
  • Streaming HTTP: Connect to external services through streamable HTTP
  • AssistantAgent: Pre-built agent class for tool-using assistants

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

The Productboard MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Productboard account. It provides structured and secure access to your product management workspace, so your agent can perform actions like managing feature ideas, collecting user feedback, prioritizing roadmap items, and aligning strategic goals on your behalf.

  • Centralized feedback collection: Let your agent gather, aggregate, and organize product feedback from stakeholders and customers, so nothing slips through the cracks.
  • Feature and idea management: Enable your agent to create, update, categorize, and prioritize feature ideas or product requests in your Productboard workspace.
  • Roadmap planning and alignment: Ask your agent to assist in building and updating product roadmaps, ensuring initiatives align with business objectives and customer needs.
  • Insightful prioritization workflows: Have the agent score, sort, and recommend features for development using built-in prioritization frameworks and customer impact data.
  • Collaboration and stakeholder updates: Empower your agent to share status updates, progress changes, and new plans with internal teams and stakeholders directly from Productboard.

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 step08 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

You will need:

  • A Composio API key
  • An OpenAI API key (used by Autogen's OpenAIChatCompletionClient)
  • A Productboard account you can connect to Composio
  • Some basic familiarity with Autogen and Python async
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
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.
3

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio python-dotenv
pip install autogen-agentchat autogen-ext-openai autogen-ext-tools

Install Composio, Autogen extensions, and dotenv.

What's happening:

  • composio connects your agent to Productboard via MCP
  • autogen-agentchat provides the AssistantAgent class
  • autogen-ext-openai provides the OpenAI model client
  • autogen-ext-tools provides MCP workbench support

4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-composio-api-key
OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key
USER_ID=your-user-identifier@example.com

Create a .env file in your project folder.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY is required to talk to Composio
  • OPENAI_API_KEY is used by Autogen's OpenAI client
  • USER_ID is how Composio identifies which user's Productboard connections to use
5

Import dependencies and create Tool Router session

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio

from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient
from autogen_ext.tools.mcp import McpWorkbench, StreamableHttpServerParams

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Productboard session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["productboard"]
    )
    url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • load_dotenv() reads your .env file
  • Composio(api_key=...) initializes the SDK
  • create(...) creates a Tool Router session that exposes Productboard tools
  • session.mcp.url is the MCP endpoint that Autogen will connect to
6

Configure MCP parameters for Autogen

python
# Configure MCP server parameters for Streamable HTTP
server_params = StreamableHttpServerParams(
    url=url,
    timeout=30.0,
    sse_read_timeout=300.0,
    terminate_on_close=True,
    headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")}
)

Autogen expects parameters describing how to talk to the MCP server. That is what StreamableHttpServerParams is for.

What's happening:

  • url points to the Tool Router MCP endpoint from Composio
  • timeout is the HTTP timeout for requests
  • sse_read_timeout controls how long to wait when streaming responses
  • terminate_on_close=True cleans up the MCP server process when the workbench is closed
7

Create the model client and agent

python
# Create model client
model_client = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(
    model="gpt-5",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
)

# Use McpWorkbench as context manager
async with McpWorkbench(server_params) as workbench:
    # Create Productboard assistant agent with MCP tools
    agent = AssistantAgent(
        name="productboard_assistant",
        description="An AI assistant that helps with Productboard operations.",
        model_client=model_client,
        workbench=workbench,
        model_client_stream=True,
        max_tool_iterations=10
    )

What's happening:

  • OpenAIChatCompletionClient wraps the OpenAI model for Autogen
  • McpWorkbench connects the agent to the MCP tools
  • AssistantAgent is configured with the Productboard tools from the workbench
8

Run the interactive chat loop

python
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
print("Ask any Productboard related question or task to the agent.\n")

# Conversation loop
while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    # Run the agent with streaming
    try:
        response_text = ""
        async for message in agent.run_stream(task=user_input):
            if hasattr(message, "content") and message.content:
                response_text = message.content

        # Print the final response
        if response_text:
            print(f"Agent: {response_text}\n")
        else:
            print("Agent: I encountered an issue processing your request.\n")

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Agent: Sorry, I encountered an error: {str(e)}\n")
What's happening:
  • The script prompts you in a loop with You:
  • Autogen passes your input to the model, which decides which Productboard tools to call via MCP
  • agent.run_stream(...) yields streaming messages as the agent thinks and calls tools
  • Typing exit, quit, or bye ends the loop

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Productboard and AutoGen:

python
import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from composio import Composio

from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient
from autogen_ext.tools.mcp import McpWorkbench, StreamableHttpServerParams

load_dotenv()

async def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Productboard session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["productboard"]
    )
    url = session.mcp.url

    # Configure MCP server parameters for Streamable HTTP
    server_params = StreamableHttpServerParams(
        url=url,
        timeout=30.0,
        sse_read_timeout=300.0,
        terminate_on_close=True,
        headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")}
    )

    # Create model client
    model_client = OpenAIChatCompletionClient(
        model="gpt-5",
        api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
    )

    # Use McpWorkbench as context manager
    async with McpWorkbench(server_params) as workbench:
        # Create Productboard assistant agent with MCP tools
        agent = AssistantAgent(
            name="productboard_assistant",
            description="An AI assistant that helps with Productboard operations.",
            model_client=model_client,
            workbench=workbench,
            model_client_stream=True,
            max_tool_iterations=10
        )

        print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
        print("Ask any Productboard related question or task to the agent.\n")

        # Conversation loop
        while True:
            user_input = input("You: ").strip()

            if user_input.lower() in ['exit', 'quit', 'bye']:
                print("\nGoodbye!")
                break

            if not user_input:
                continue

            print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

            # Run the agent with streaming
            try:
                response_text = ""
                async for message in agent.run_stream(task=user_input):
                    if hasattr(message, 'content') and message.content:
                        response_text = message.content

                # Print the final response
                if response_text:
                    print(f"Agent: {response_text}\n")
                else:
                    print("Agent: I encountered an issue processing your request.\n")

            except Exception as e:
                print(f"Agent: Sorry, I encountered an error: {str(e)}\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Conclusion

You now have an Autogen assistant wired into Productboard through Composio's Tool Router and MCP. From here you can:
  • Add more toolkits to the toolkits list, for example notion or hubspot
  • Refine the agent description to point it at specific workflows
  • Wrap this script behind a UI, Slack bot, or internal tool
Once the pattern is clear for Productboard, you can reuse the same structure for other MCP-enabled apps with minimal code changes.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Note Followers

Tool to add multiple followers to a Productboard note.

Add Note Tag

Adds a tag to a Productboard note for categorization and organization.

Create Company in Productboard

Tool to create a new company in Productboard.

Create Company Custom Field

Tool to create a new custom field for companies.

Create Component

Tool to create a new (sub)component under a product or component.

Create Entity Relationship

Tool to create a relationship between two entities in Productboard.

Create Entity (v2)

Tool to create a new entity in Productboard using the v2 API.

Create Feature

Tool to create a new feature or subfeature in Productboard.

Create Feature-Objective Link

Tool to create a link between a feature and an objective (OKR).

Create Note Link

Tool to create a link between a note and an entity.

Create Note (v2)

Tool to create a new note in Productboard using the v2 API.

Create Objective

Tool to create a new objective in Productboard.

Create Objective-Feature Link

Tool to create a new link between an objective and a feature.

Create Release

Tool to create a new release in Productboard.

Create User

Tool to create a new user in Productboard.

Create Webhook Subscription

Tool to create a new webhook subscription.

Delete Company

Tool to delete a specific company.

Delete Company Field

Tool to delete a specific company custom field.

Delete Custom Field Value

Tool to delete a custom field value from a hierarchy entity in Productboard.

Delete Entity Relationship

Tool to delete a relationship between two entities.

Delete Entity V2

Tool to delete a PM entity using the v2 API.

Delete Feature

Tool to delete a specific feature.

Delete Feature Objective Link

Tool to delete a link between a feature and an objective.

Delete Initiative

Tool to delete a specific initiative.

Delete Key Result

Tool to delete a specific key result from Productboard.

Delete Note Relationship

Tool to delete a note relationship.

Delete Note V2

Tool to delete a note using the v2 API.

Delete Note Tag

Tool to remove a tag from a Productboard note.

Delete Objective

Tool to delete a specific objective from Productboard.

Delete Objective-Feature Link

Tool to delete a link between an objective and a feature.

Delete Release

Tool to delete a specific release.

Delete User

Tool to delete a specific user.

Delete Webhook Subscription

Tool to delete a webhook subscription.

Get Component

Tool to retrieve details of a specific component.

Get Custom Field Value

Tool to retrieve a custom field's value for a specific hierarchy entity.

Get Entity Configuration

Tool to retrieve entity configuration for a specific type.

Get Entity V2

Tool to retrieve a PM entity using the v2 API.

Get Feature Release Assignment

Tool to retrieve a specific feature release assignment.

Get Hierarchy Entity Custom Field

Tool to retrieve a specific custom field definition for hierarchy entities.

Get Notes Configuration V2

Tool to retrieve note configuration by type (simple, conversation, or opportunity).

Get Note V2

Tool to retrieve a note using the v2 API.

Get Objective

Tool to retrieve details of a specific objective.

Get Release

Tool to retrieve details of a specific release by ID.

Get Release Group

Tool to retrieve details of a specific release group.

Get Webhook Subscription

Tool to retrieve details of a specific webhook subscription.

List Analytics Member Activities V2

Tool to retrieve member activity analytics data from Productboard.

List Companies

Tool to list companies.

List Company Custom Fields

Lists all custom field definitions for companies in your Productboard workspace.

List Custom Fields

Lists custom field definitions for hierarchy entities (Products, Components, Features).

List Custom Field Values

Lists custom field values for hierarchy entities (products, components, features) in Productboard.

List Entities Configurations V2

Tool to retrieve configurations for all entity types in Productboard.

List Entity Relationships

Tool to retrieve relationships for an entity in Productboard.

List Entities V2

Tool to list entities from Productboard using the v2 API.

List Feature Initiatives

Tool to list initiatives linked to a given feature.

List Feature Objectives

Lists all objectives (OKRs) linked to a top-level feature.

List Feature Release Assignments

Tool to list feature–release assignments.

List Feature Statuses

Tool to list feature statuses.

List Feedback Form Configurations

Tool to list feedback form configurations.

List Initiatives

Tool to list initiatives from Productboard.

List Jira Integrations

Tool to list Jira integrations.

List Key Results

List key results from Productboard.

List Notes Configurations V2

Tool to list note configurations from Productboard v2 API.

List Note Links

Tool to list links associated with a note.

List Note Relationships V2

Tool to retrieve relationships associated with a note.

List Notes V2

Tool to retrieve a paginated list of notes from Productboard using the v2 API.

List Note Tags

Tool to retrieve all tags associated with a specific Productboard note.

List Objective Linked Features

Lists all features linked to a specific objective.

List Objective Linked Initiatives

Tool to list initiatives linked to a specific objective.

List Plugin Integrations

List all plugin integrations in the Productboard workspace.

List Release Groups

Lists all release groups in the Productboard workspace.

List Releases

Tool to list all releases in Productboard.

List Users

Retrieves a paginated list of all users in the Productboard workspace.

List Webhook Subscriptions

Tool to list all webhook subscriptions.

Remove Note Follower

Tool to remove a follower from a Productboard note.

Retrieve Company

Tool to retrieve details of a specific company.

Retrieve Company Field

Tool to retrieve details of a specific company custom field.

Retrieve Company Field Value

Tool to retrieve a specific company custom field value.

Retrieve Feature

Tool to retrieve details of a specific feature.

Retrieve Product

Tool to retrieve details of a specific product.

Retrieve User

Tool to retrieve details of a specific user.

List SCIM Users

Tool to list users via SCIM.

Search Entities V2

Tool to search for entities across Productboard using the v2 API.

Set Company Field Value

Tool to set or replace a specific company custom field's value.

Set Custom Field Value

Tool to set a custom field value on a hierarchy entity.

Set Entity Parent Relationship

Tool to set parent relationship on an entity.

Set Feature Release Assignment

Tool to update a feature release assignment.

Set Features

Tool to update a feature by ID.

Set Note Customer Relationship

Tool to set a customer relationship on a note in Productboard.

Set Product

Tool to update a product using PUT method in Productboard.

Update Company Custom Field

Tool to update a company custom field name.

Update Company

Tool to update an existing company in Productboard.

Update Component

Tool to update an existing component.

Update Entity V2

Tool to update a PM entity using the v2 API.

Update Features

Tool to update a feature in Productboard.

Update Note V2

Tool to update a note using the v2 API.

Update Objective

Tool to update an existing objective in Productboard.

Update Product

Tool to update a product in Productboard.

Update Release

Tool to update an existing release in Productboard.

Update User

Tool to update a user's information.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Autogen 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 Productboard tools.

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

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