How to integrate Scale ai MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Scale ai account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Scale ai account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Scale ai with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Scale ai

Ask your agent to connect to Scale ai, or simply request any Scale ai-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Scale ai connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Scale ai or request any Scale ai-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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

The Scale ai MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Scale ai account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Scale ai operations on your behalf.

Way Forward

With Scale ai connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Studio Assignments

Tool to add project assignments to team members in Scale AI Studio.

Add Task Tags

Tool to add tags to an existing task.

Create Batch

Tool to create a new batch within a project.

Create Document Transcription Task

Tool to create a document transcription task where workers transcribe and annotate information from single or multi-page documents.

Create Image Annotation Task

Tool to create an image annotation task where annotators label images with vector geometric shapes (box, polygon, line, point, cuboid, ellipse).

Create Lidar Annotation Task

Tool to create a lidar annotation task where annotators mark objects with 3D cuboids in 3D space.

Create LiDAR Segmentation Task

Tool to create a LiDAR segmentation task where annotators assign semantic class labels to individual LiDAR points.

Create Named Entity Recognition Task

Tool to create a named entity recognition task for labelers to highlight text entity mentions.

Create Segmentation Annotation Task

Tool to create a segmentation task where annotators classify pixels in an image according to provided labels.

Create Text Collection Task

Tool to create a textcollection task for collecting information from attachments and/or web sources.

Create Video Annotation Task

Tool to create a video annotation task where annotators draw geometric shapes around specified objects across video frames.

Create Video Playback Annotation Task

Tool to create a video playback annotation task where annotators draw shapes around specified objects in video files.

Delete Task Tags

Tool to remove specified tags from a Scale AI task.

Delete Task Unique ID

Tool to remove the unique identifier from a task.

Finalize Batch

Tool to finalize a batch so its tasks can be worked on.

Get Assets

Tool to retrieve file assets with filtering capabilities by project and metadata.

Get Batch

Tool to retrieve the details of a batch with the specified name.

Get Batch Status

Tool to retrieve the current status of a batch and task completion counts.

Get Fixless Audits

Tool to retrieve fixless audits by task ID or audit ID.

Get Project

Tool to retrieve details about a specific Scale AI project using its unique identifier.

Get Quality Labelers

Tool to retrieve training attempts matching provided filter parameters.

Get Studio Assignments

Tool to retrieve current project assignments of all active team users in Scale AI Studio.

Get Studio Batches

Tool to retrieve basic information about all pending batches in Studio.

Get Task

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific task in Scale AI.

Get Teams

Tool to retrieve basic information about all team members associated with the account.

Get Task by ID

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific task using its task ID.

Get Secure Task Response URL

Tool to retrieve secure authenticated task response data.

Import File

Tool to import files from an external URL endpoint into Scale's system rather than uploading directly from local storage.

Invite Team Member

Tool to invite users by email to team with specified role.

List Batches

Tool to retrieve all batches in descending order by creation date.

List Projects

Tool to retrieve information for all projects in the Scale AI account with optional archived filtering.

List Tasks

Tool to retrieve a paginated list of tasks in descending order by creation time.

Re-send Task Callback

Tool to re-send a callback for a completed or errored task to the callback_url.

Remove Studio Assignments

Tool to unassign projects from specified team members in Scale AI Studio.

Reset Batch Priorities

Tool to restore batch priority order to default order (calibration batches first, then sorted by creation date).

Set Batch Priorities

Tool to modify batch priority order in Scale AI Studio.

Set Project Ontology

Tool to set ontologies on a Scale AI project.

Set Project Parameters

Tool to set default parameters for tasks created under a project.

Set Task Metadata

Tool to set key-value metadata on an existing Scale AI task.

Update Task Unique ID

Tool to update or assign a unique identifier to a task.

Upload File

Tool to upload a local file to Scale's servers with a maximum size limit of 80 MB per file.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Hermes 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 Scale ai tools.

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

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