How to integrate Sevdesk MCP with Claude Agent SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Sevdesk to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Sevdesk agent that can generate and send a new invoice, list all unpaid customer invoices, add a new business expense entry through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Sevdesk account through Composio's Sevdesk 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 walks you through connecting Sevdesk to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Sevdesk agent that can generate and send a new invoice, list all unpaid customer invoices, add a new business expense entry through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Sevdesk account through Composio's Sevdesk 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 Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Sevdesk
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Sevdesk as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Sevdesk operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

  • Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
  • Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
  • Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
  • Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

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

The Sevdesk MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Sevdesk account. It provides structured and secure access to your accounting workspace, so your agent can perform actions like managing invoices, tracking expenses, generating reports, organizing contacts, and handling payments on your behalf.

  • Invoice creation and management: Instantly generate, send, and track invoices for your clients, keeping your business cash flow streamlined.
  • Expense tracking and categorization: Let your agent record and organize expenses, ensuring your books are always up to date and categorized for tax time.
  • Financial reporting and insights: Request detailed reports and summaries—like profit and loss or balance sheets—so you can make informed business decisions quickly.
  • Contact and customer management: Effortlessly add, update, or retrieve customer details and supplier information to keep your records accurate.
  • Payment and transaction handling: Enable your agent to log payments, match transactions, and help reconcile your accounts, reducing manual entry and errors.

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 Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
  • A Sevdesk account
  • Some knowledge of Python
2

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key
  • Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
  • 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

npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

  • @composio/core provides Composio integration for Anthropic
  • @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
  • dotenv/config loads environment variables
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude
5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

dotenv.config();
What's happening:
  • We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
  • The dotenv.config() function loads environment variables from your .env file
  • This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with Sevdesk functionality
6

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

  // Create Tool Router session for Sevdesk
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['sevdesk'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session?.mcp.url;
What's happening:
  • The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
  • We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
  • The create method creates a Tool Router session for Sevdesk
  • The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use
7

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

const options: Options = {
  permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
  mcpServers: {
    composio: {
      type: 'http',
      url: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
    }
  },
  systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Sevdesk tools via Composio.',
  maxTurns: 10,
};
What's happening:
  • We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
  • permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions' allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
  • The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to Sevdesk
  • maxTurns: 10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage
8

Create client and start chat loop

const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}
What's happening:
  • The readline interface is created to handle user input and output
  • The query function is used to send the user's input to the agent
  • The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'
9

Run the application

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}
What's happening:
  • The chat function is the entry point for the application
  • The try-catch block is used to handle any errors that occur

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Sevdesk and Claude Agent SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import readline from 'node:readline';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { query, type Options } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";

async function chat() {
  const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;
  if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
    throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
  }

  const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });
  const session = await composio.create(USER_ID, {
    toolkits: ['sevdesk']
  });
  const mcp_url = session?.mcp.url;

  const options: Options = {
    permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
    mcpServers: {
      composio: {
        type: 'http',
        url: mcp_url,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': COMPOSIO_API_KEY }
      }
    },
    systemPrompt: 'You are a helpful assistant with access to Sevdesk tools via Composio.',
    maxTurns: 10,
  };

  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: '
  });

  console.log('\nChat started. Type "exit" to quit.\n');

  let isProcessing = false;

  async function ask(prompt: string) {
    isProcessing = true;
    rl.pause();

    process.stdout.write('Claude is thinking...');
    const stream = query({ prompt, options });

    let firstChunk = true;
    for await (const msg of stream) {
      const content = (msg as any).message?.content || (msg as any).content;
      if (Array.isArray(content)) {
        for (const block of content) {
          if (block.type === 'text' && block.text) {
            if (firstChunk) {
              process.stdout.write('\r\x1b[K');
              process.stdout.write('Claude: ');
              firstChunk = false;
            }
            process.stdout.write(block.text);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    process.stdout.write('\n\n');

    isProcessing = false;
    rl.resume();
    rl.prompt();
  }

  rl.on('line', async (line) => {
    if (isProcessing) return;

    const input = line.trim();
    if (input === 'exit') {
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }
    if (input) await ask(input);
    else rl.prompt();
  });

  await ask('What can you help me with?');
}

try {
  await chat();
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
}

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with Sevdesk through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

  • Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
  • Streaming responses for real-time interaction
  • Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Book Invoice Amount

Tool to book an invoice amount in SevDesk.

Check Customer Number Availability

Tool to check if a customer number is available in sevDesk.

Create Accounting Contact

Tool to create a new accounting contact in sevDesk.

Create Check Account Transaction

Tool to create a new check account transaction in SevDesk.

Create Clearing Account

Tool to create a new clearing account in sevDesk.

Create Communication Way

Tool to create a new contact communication way (email, phone, website, etc.

Create Contact

Creates a new contact (person or company) in SevDesk accounting system.

Create Contact (REST API)

Tool to create a new contact in sevDesk using the standard REST API endpoint.

Create Contact Address

Tool to create a new contact address in SevDesk.

Create Contact Custom Field

Tool to create a custom field for a contact in sevDesk.

Create Contact Custom Field Setting

Creates a new contact custom field setting in sevDesk for tracking additional contact information.

Create Credit Note from Invoice

Tool to create a new credit note from an existing invoice in SevDesk.

Create File Import Account

Tool to create a new file import account (check account) in sevDesk.

Create Part

Tool to create a new part (product or service) in SevDesk.

Create Payment Method

Creates a new payment method in sevDesk for tracking different payment types.

Create Private Transaction Rule

Tool to create a new private transaction rule in SevDesk.

Create Tag

Tool to create a new tag and attach it to an object (Invoice, Order, Voucher, or CreditNote) in sevDesk.

Delete Accounting Contact By ID

Permanently deletes an accounting contact from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Check Account By ID

Permanently deletes a check account from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Check Account Transaction

Permanently deletes a check account transaction from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Communication Way By ID

Permanently deletes a communication way from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Contact

Permanently deletes a contact from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Contact Address By ID

Tool to delete a contact address from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Contact Custom Field By ID

Tool to permanently delete a contact custom field by its ID.

Delete Contact Custom Field Setting By ID

Tool to permanently delete a contact custom field setting by its ID.

Delete Credit Note By ID

Permanently deletes a credit note from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Order By ID

Permanently deletes an order from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Order Position By ID

Permanently deletes an order position from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Payment Method

Deletes a payment method in sevDesk by its ID.

Delete Private Transaction Rule By ID

Permanently deletes a private transaction rule from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Delete Tag By ID

Permanently deletes a tag from sevDesk by its unique identifier.

Enshrine Check Account Transaction

Tool to enshrine a check account transaction by its ID.

Export Credit Note CSV

Tool to export credit notes as CSV from SevDesk.

Fetch Dictionary Entries By Type

Tool to retrieve placeholders (dictionary entries) for a specific object type in sevDesk.

Find Contacts By Custom Field Value

Tool to find contacts by custom field value.

Generate Progress Download Hash

Tool to generate a download hash for an export job progress.

Get Accounting Contact By ID

Tool to retrieve accounting contact details by ID.

Get Accounting Contacts

Tool to retrieve accounting contacts from sevDesk.

Get SevClient Account Invoices

Retrieves all sevDesk account invoices for the authenticated client.

Get Check Account Balance At Date

Tool to get the balance of a check account at a specific date.

Get Check Account By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific check account by ID.

Get Check Accounts

Tool to retrieve a list of all check accounts.

Get Check Account Transaction By ID

Tool to retrieve a specific check account transaction by its ID.

Get Check Account Transactions

Tool to retrieve list of check account transactions.

Get CommunicationWay By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific communication way by ID.

Get Communication Way Keys

Retrieve a list of communication way keys from sevDesk.

Get Communication Ways

Tool to retrieve communication ways from sevDesk.

Get Contact Address By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific contact address by ID.

Get Contact Addresses

Tool to retrieve contact addresses from sevdesk.

Get Contact By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific contact by ID.

Get Contact Custom Field By ID

Tool to retrieve a contact custom field by its ID.

Get Contact Custom Fields

Tool to retrieve contact custom fields from sevDesk.

Get Contact Custom Field Setting By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific contact custom field setting by ID.

Get Contact Custom Field Setting Reference Count

Tool to receive the count of references for a contact custom field setting.

Get Contact Custom Field Settings

Tool to retrieve contact custom field settings from sevDesk.

Get Contacts

Tool to retrieve a list of contacts.

Get Contact Tabs Item Count

Tool to get the count of items across all tabs for a specific contact.

Get Credit Note Positions

Tool to retrieve credit note positions from SevDesk.

Get Credit Notes

Tool to retrieve a list of credit notes.

Get Export Invoice CSV

Tool to export invoices as CSV from sevDesk.

Get Export Transactions CSV

Tool to export check account transactions as CSV file.

Get Invoice Is Partially Paid

Tool to check if an invoice is already partially paid.

Get Invoice Positions

Tool to retrieve all line items (positions) for a specific invoice.

Get Invoice Positions

Tool to retrieve invoice positions from sevDesk.

Get Invoices

Retrieves a list of invoices from sevDesk with optional filtering and pagination.

Get Letterpapers With Thumbnails

Tool to retrieve all available letterpapers with thumbnails from sevDesk.

Get Next Customer Number

Tool to retrieve the next free customer number from sevDesk.

Get Order By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific order by ID.

Get Order Discounts

Tool to retrieve discounts applied to a specific order in sevDesk.

Get Order Position By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific order position by ID.

Get Order Positions

Tool to retrieve order positions from SevDesk.

Get Orders

Retrieve a paginated list of orders from sevDesk.

Get Part By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific part by ID.

Get Part Contact Prices

Tool to retrieve a list of part contact prices.

Get Parts

Tool to retrieve a list of all parts.

Get Part Stock

Tool to retrieve the current stock level of a specific part.

Get Part Unities

Retrieves a list of part unities (units of measurement) from SevDesk.

Get Payment Methods

Retrieves all available payment methods from sevDesk.

Get Places

Retrieve a list of places (cities/locations with geographic data) from sevDesk.

Get Private Transaction Rules

Tool to list existing private transaction rules in SevDesk.

Get Export Progress

Tool to retrieve the progress of an export operation.

Get Receipt Guidance For Account Number

Tool to retrieve receipt guidance for a specific Datev account number.

Get Receipt Guidance For All Accounts

Tool to retrieve receipt guidance for all accounts.

Get Receipt Guidance For Expense

Tool to retrieve guidance for expense accounts from sevDesk.

Get Receipt Guidance For Revenue

Tool to retrieve guidance for revenue accounts from sevDesk.

Get Receipt Guidance For Tax Rule

Tool to get guidance by tax rule from sevDesk.

Get Report Invoice List

Tool to export invoice list report from sevDesk.

Get Report Orderlist

Tool to export the order list report from sevDesk.

Get SevClient Config

Retrieves the sevClient configuration settings from sevDesk.

Get Tag By ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific tag by ID.

Get Tag Relations

Tool to retrieve tag relations from sevDesk.

Get Tags

Tool to retrieve tags from sevdesk.

Get Tax Rules

Retrieves tax rules from SevDesk.

Get Bookkeeping System Version

Tool to retrieve the bookkeeping system version from sevDesk.

Render Invoice

Tool to render the PDF document of an invoice by its ID.

Reset Credit Note To Open

Tool to reset a credit note status to open.

Save Invoice

Tool to create a new invoice in SevDesk using the Factory endpoint.

Send Credit Note By

Tool to mark a credit note as sent by updating its send status and type.

Send Credit Note By Printing

Tool to send a credit note by printing and render it.

Send Invoice By

Tool to mark an invoice as sent by specifying how it was sent to the customer.

Mark Order as Sent

Tool to mark an order as sent in sevDesk.

Update Accounting Contact

Tool to update an existing accounting contact in SevDesk.

Update Check Account

Updates an existing check account (bank account) in sevDesk by ID.

Update Check Account Transaction By ID

Tool to update an existing check account transaction in sevDesk.

Update Communication Way By ID

Tool to update an existing communication way by ID in sevDesk.

Update Contact

Tool to update an existing contact's details.

Update Contact Address By ID

Tool to update an existing contact address by its unique identifier.

Update Contact Custom Field

Tool to update a contact custom field in SevDesk.

Update Contact Custom Field Setting

Tool to update an existing contact custom field setting in SevDesk.

Update Invoice Parameter

Tool to update an invoice parameter such as template, language, letterpaper, or PayPal settings.

Update Order By ID

Tool to update an existing order in sevDesk by ID.

Update Order Template

Tool to update an order parameter such as template, language, letterpaper, or PayPal settings.

Update Part By ID

Tool to update an existing part (product/service) in sevDesk.

Update SevClient Export Config

Tool to update the export configuration for a SevClient in sevDesk.

Update Tag By ID

Tool to update a tag's name in sevDesk by its ID.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Agent 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 Sevdesk tools.

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

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