How to integrate Productlane MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Productlane to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Productlane agent that can open productlane widget for user feedback, display specific docs article in widget, register listener for widget submit events through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Productlane account through Composio's Productlane MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Productlane is a customer support and feedback platform built on Linear. It helps companies collect, organize, and act on customer feedback for better product decisions.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Productlane to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Productlane agent that can open productlane widget for user feedback, display specific docs article in widget, register listener for widget submit events through natural language commands.

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

The Productlane MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Productlane account. It provides structured and secure access to your customer feedback and support workflows, so your agent can programmatically control the Productlane widget, surface documentation, listen for widget events, and manage user interaction—all on your behalf.

  • Dynamic widget control: Let your agent open, close, enable, disable, or toggle the Productlane widget in response to customer or team actions.
  • Contextual docs surfacing: Automatically display specific Productlane documentation articles within the widget to assist users at the right moment.
  • Event-driven automation: Register or remove event listeners so your agent can react to widget events like open, close, submit, or widget load—enabling smart, real-time workflows.
  • Seamless widget experience: Programmatically manage the widget's state across your app to ensure users always get the right support touchpoint.
  • Custom interaction flows: Use the widget's event system to trigger your own logic or follow-ups based on how users interact with Productlane support.

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

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

Create Changelog Entry

Tool to create a new changelog entry in Productlane.

Create Company

Tool to create a new company in Productlane.

Create Contact

Tool to create a new contact in your Productlane workspace with optional company linking.

Create Feedback

Tool to create new feedback in Productlane.

Create Insight

Tool to create a new insight/thread in Productlane workspace.

Create Thread

Tool to create a new thread in Productlane.

Create Upvote

Tool to create an upvote for a project or issue.

Delete Company

Tool to delete a company by its unique ID.

Delete Contact

Tool to delete a contact by ID.

Delete Upvote

Tool to delete an upvote by its unique ID.

Enable Productlane Widget

Tool to enable the Productlane widget.

Get Changelog

Tool to retrieve a published changelog by ID from Productlane.

Get Company by ID

Tool to retrieve a company by its unique ID.

Get Contact

Tool to retrieve a contact by ID or email from Productlane.

Get Help Center Article

Tool to retrieve a help center article by its ID.

Get Insight

Tool to retrieve an insight/thread by its ID.

Get Issue by ID

Tool to retrieve a specific issue by its ID from a workspace.

Get Linear Customer Options

Tool to retrieve available Linear customer statuses and tiers for your workspace.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve a project by its ID from a workspace.

Get Workspace

Tool to fetch workspace details by ID.

Invite User to Workspace

Tool to invite a new user to your Productlane workspace.

List Changelogs

Tool to list all published changelogs for a workspace by ID.

List Companies

Tool to list all companies in Productlane.

List contacts

Tool to retrieve all contacts for your workspace.

List Help Center Articles

Tool to list all help center articles for a specific workspace.

List Insights

Tool to list all threads/insights for your workspace with optional filtering.

List Productlane Issues

Tool to retrieve all issues from a Productlane workspace.

List Workspace Members

Tool to retrieve all members of your workspace with their roles and user information.

List Projects

Tool to retrieve all projects within a workspace.

Update Company

Tool to update an existing company record in Productlane by its unique identifier.

Update Contact

Tool to update an existing contact in Productlane.

Update Insight

Tool to update an existing insight (thread) by ID.

Close Productlane Widget

Tool to close the Productlane widget.

Disable Productlane Widget

Tool to disable the Productlane widget across the entire page.

Widget off event

Tool to remove a previously registered widget event listener.

Register Widget Event Listener

Tool to register a listener for Productlane widget events.

Open Productlane Widget

Tool to generate a JavaScript snippet that opens the Productlane widget.

Open Productlane Docs Article in Widget

Tool to open a specific docs article in the Productlane widget.

Toggle Productlane Widget

Tool to toggle the Productlane widget between open and closed states.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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