How to integrate Pushover MCP with Autogen

This guide walks you through connecting Pushover to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Pushover agent that can send device alert for server downtime, notify me of new support tickets, push daily summary to your phone through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Pushover account through Composio's Pushover MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Pushover is a real-time notification service that sends messages to your devices via a simple API. It's perfect for instant alerts and staying on top of important events wherever you are.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Pushover to AutoGen using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Pushover agent that can send device alert for server downtime, notify me of new support tickets, push daily summary to your phone through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your AutoGen agent real control over a Pushover account through Composio's Pushover 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 Pushover
  • Wire that MCP URL into Autogen using McpWorkbench and StreamableHttpServerParams
  • Configure an Autogen AssistantAgent that can call Pushover tools
  • Run a live chat loop where you ask the agent to perform Pushover 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 Pushover MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Pushover MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Pushover account. It provides structured and secure access to your notification system, so your agent can send instant alerts, deliver custom messages, manage notification priorities, and automate device notifications on your behalf.

  • Instant push notifications: Have your agent send real-time alerts to your devices for important events, tasks, or reminders.
  • Custom message delivery: Allow your agent to craft and deliver personalized notifications with specific titles, messages, and sounds.
  • Priority and sound control: Let the agent set notification priority levels and choose custom sounds to ensure the right alerts stand out.
  • Device targeting: Direct your agent to send notifications to specific devices or user groups for tailored communication.
  • Automated workflow integration: Seamlessly trigger Pushover alerts from other automated tasks or events managed by your agent, keeping you informed in real-time.

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 Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["pushover"]
    )
    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 Pushover 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 Pushover assistant agent with MCP tools
    agent = AssistantAgent(
        name="pushover_assistant",
        description="An AI assistant that helps with Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["pushover"]
    )
    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 Pushover assistant agent with MCP tools
        agent = AssistantAgent(
            name="pushover_assistant",
            description="An AI assistant that helps with Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover 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 Pushover, you can reuse the same structure for other MCP-enabled apps with minimal code changes.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Cancel Receipt Retries

Tool to cancel further retries for an emergency-priority message before its expiry.

Cancel Retries by Tag

Tool to cancel retries for all active emergency-priority Pushover messages matching a specific tag.

Client Acknowledge Delete Up To ID

Tool to delete/acknowledge device messages up to a specific message ID.

Fetch Pending Messages

Tool to download pending messages for a registered device.

Pushover Client Login

Tool to authenticate a Pushover user by email and password.

Client Realtime WebSocket Connection

Tool to establish a secure WebSocket connection for real-time message notifications.

Register Open Client Device

Tool to register an Open Client desktop device.

Get Application Icon Image

Tool to fetch an application icon PNG by icon identifier.

Get App Limits

Tool to retrieve the current monthly message limit, remaining messages, and reset time for a Pushover application.

Get Application Token

Tool to fetch stored Pushover application API token.

Get Receipt Status

Tool to poll the status of an emergency-priority notification receipt.

Get Team API Token

Tool to fetch stored Pushover for Teams API token.

Glances Update

Tool to update a user's Glances widget data without sending a notification.

Add User to Group

Tool to add an existing Pushover user to a delivery group.

Create Group

Tool to create a new Delivery Group.

Disable Group User

Tool to temporarily disable deliveries to a user or specific device within a Pushover group.

Group Enable User

Tool to re-enable deliveries to a previously disabled user (or specific device) within a Pushover group.

Get Group Details

Tool to retrieve details for a Delivery Group.

List Delivery Groups

Tool to list all Delivery Groups.

Remove User from Group

Tool to remove a user (or optionally a specific device) from a Pushover delivery group.

Rename Delivery Group

Tool to rename an existing Delivery Group.

Assign License

Tool to assign a pre-paid license credit to a Pushover user by key or email.

Check License Credits

Tool to retrieve remaining license credits for a Pushover application.

Send Message

Tool to send a push notification with optional title, URL, priority, sound, attachments, and filters.

Store Team API Token

Tool to securely store a Pushover for Teams API token.

Subscription Flow

Tool to validate and return a Pushover subscription code.

Add Team User

Tool to add a user to a Pushover for Teams organization.

Remove User from Team

Tool to remove a user from a Pushover for Teams organization.

Validate User or Group

Tool to validate a Pushover user or group key for deliverability.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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