How to integrate Rocketlane MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Rocketlane to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Rocketlane agent that can create a new onboarding project for acme corp, log two hours to client implementation task, archive completed projects from last quarter through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Rocketlane account through Composio's Rocketlane MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

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

The Rocketlane MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Rocketlane account. It provides structured and secure access to your onboarding projects, tasks, and customer data, so your agent can perform actions like creating tasks, managing companies, tracking time entries, and handling project organization on your behalf.

Project and company management: Easily direct your agent to create new projects or companies, retrieve detailed company info, and keep your workspace organized.
Task creation and deletion: Have your agent add new tasks to any project or swiftly delete outdated tasks using their unique identifiers.
Time entry tracking: Log time spent on tasks or projects, review details, or delete time entries for accurate billing and reporting.
Custom field insights: Retrieve all available custom fields or fetch specific field details to tailor onboarding workflows to your needs.
Project archiving and cleanup: Archive completed projects for future reference or permanently delete projects when they're no longer needed, keeping your workspace tidy.

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:

Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

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Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:

Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
A live Rocketlane project
Some knowledge of Python or Typescript

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.
Go to Settings and copy your API key.

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

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.

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 Rocketlane.

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.

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Rocketlane
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['rocketlane'],
});
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 rocketlane.
The router checks the user's Rocketlane connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Rocketlane.
This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Rocketlane tools only when needed during the conversation.

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 Rocketlane. Help users perform Rocketlane 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 Rocketlane 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 Rocketlane operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.

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 Rocketlane.
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 Rocketlane 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: ['rocketlane'],
  });
  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 Rocketlane. Help users perform Rocketlane 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 Rocketlane MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Rocketlane.

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

Add Assignee To Task

Add assignees to a task by task ID.

Add Field Option

Tool to add a new option to a SINGLE_CHOICE or MULTIPLE_CHOICE field.

Add Followers To Task

Tool to add followers to a task by Id.

Add Members to Project

Tool to add team members to a project using the projectId.

Add Members to Conversation

Add members to a conversation in Rocketlane.

Archive Project by ID

Archives a specific project based on its unique identifier.

Create Comment

Tool to create a comment in Rocketlane.

Create Company

Creates a new company (account) in Rocketlane.

Create Conversation

Creates a new conversation in Rocketlane.

Create Field

Tool to create a custom field in Rocketlane.

Create Phase

Tool to create a new phase in a Rocketlane project.

Create Project

Tool to create a new project in Rocketlane.

Create Space

Creates a new space for a given project in Rocketlane.

Create Space Document

Tool to create a new space document in Rocketlane.

Create Task

Creates a new task.

Create Time Entry

Tool to create a new time entry in Rocketlane.

Delete Comment By ID

Tool to delete a comment by its ID.

Delete Conversation

Tool to delete a conversation by its unique identifier.

Delete Field

Tool to permanently delete a custom field using its unique identifier.

Delete Phase

Permanently delete a phase from the project using its unique identifier (phaseId).

Delete Project

This tool allows users to permanently delete a project in Rocketlane.

Delete Space

Tool to permanently delete a space from a project by its ID.

Delete Space Document

Tool to permanently delete a space document by its ID.

Delete Task By ID

Delete a specific task using its unique identifier (taskId).

Delete Time Entry by ID

Delete a specific time entry using its unique identifier (timeEntryId).

Get All Conversations

Tool to retrieve all conversations in Rocketlane.

Get All Fields

Retrieve all custom fields available in the system.

Get All Resource Allocations

Tool to retrieve all resource allocations from Rocketlane.

Get All Spaces

Tool to retrieve all spaces for a specific project in Rocketlane.

Get All Tasks

Tool to retrieve all tasks from Rocketlane with advanced filtering options.

Get All Time-Offs

Tool to retrieve all time-offs from Rocketlane with advanced filtering options.

Get Comments

Tool to retrieve all comments from Rocketlane.

Get Company

This tool retrieves detailed information about a specific company/account in Rocketlane by its ID.

Get Conversation

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a conversation by its ID.

Get Field By ID

Retrieve detailed information about a specific custom field using its unique identifier (fieldId).

Get Phase by ID

Tool to retrieve extensive information about a specific phase by its unique identifier.

Get Project by ID

Retrieves detailed information about a specific project using its unique identifier.

Get Space by ID

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific space using its unique identifier.

Get Task By Id

Retrieve extensive information about a specific task using the task's unique identifier (taskId).

Get Template By ID

Retrieve detailed information about a specific template using its unique identifier (templateId).

Get Time Entries

Tool to retrieve all time entries from Rocketlane.

Get Time Entry By ID

Retrieve detailed information about a specific time entry using its unique identifier (timeEntryId).

Get Time Entry Categories

Tool to retrieve time entry categories from Rocketlane.

Get User By ID

Retrieve detailed information about a specific user using their unique identifier (userId).

List Companies

This tool retrieves a list of all companies/accounts in Rocketlane.

List Currencies

Returns a predefined list of commonly used currencies since Rocketlane API doesn't provide a dedicated currencies endpoint.

List Project Phases

This tool retrieves a list of project phases from Rocketlane.

List Projects

This tool retrieves a list of all projects in the Rocketlane instance.

List Templates

This tool retrieves a list of all available templates in Rocketlane.

List Users

This tool retrieves all users in the Rocketlane instance.

Move Task To Given Phase

Tool to move a task to a different phase by task ID and phase ID.

Remove Assignees From Task

Tool to remove assignees from a task by its unique identifier.

Remove Dependencies From Task

Tool to remove dependencies from a task by ID.

Remove Followers From Task

Tool to remove followers from a task by task ID.

Remove Members from Conversation

Remove members from a conversation in Rocketlane.

Retrieve Subscription Details

Retrieves detailed information about the current subscription.

Search Invoices

Tool to retrieve all invoices from Rocketlane.

Search Time Entries

Tool to search time entries with filters in Rocketlane.

Search User By Email

Search User By Email Id.

Update Company

This tool updates an existing company/account in Rocketlane.

Update Conversation

Tool to update an existing conversation in Rocketlane by its ID.

Update Field

Tool to update field information by ID.

Update Field Option

Tool to update an existing option's label and color in a SINGLE_CHOICE or MULTIPLE_CHOICE field.

Update Phase

Tool to update phase information by phase ID.

Update Project By Id

Updates an existing project's details using its unique identifier.

Update Space

Tool to update space details by its unique identifier.

Update Space Document

Tool to update a space document's properties by its unique identifier in Rocketlane.

Update Task by ID

Tool to update task details by ID.

Update Time Entry by ID

Update existing time entry details using its unique identifier (timeEntryId).

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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How to integrate Rocketlane MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

Connect Rocketlane without auth hassles

Introduction

Also integrate Rocketlane with

TL;DR

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

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

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

How the Composio SDK works

Step-by-step Guide

Prerequisites

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

Install dependencies

Set up environment variables

Import dependencies

Set up the Composio instance

Create a Tool Router session

Configure the agent

Start chat loop and handle conversation

Complete Code

Conclusion

Supported Tools

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Frequently asked questions

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Rocketlane MCP?+

Can I use Tool Router MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK?+

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Rocketlane while using Tool Router?+

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?+

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