How to integrate Sevdesk MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Sevdesk to the OpenAI Agents 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 OpenAI Agents 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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sevDesk is online accounting software for small businesses and freelancers. It streamlines invoicing, expense management, and reporting so you can focus on your business.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Sevdesk to the OpenAI Agents 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 OpenAI Agents 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 OpenAI 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 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 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 OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Sevdesk 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 Sevdesk.
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 Sevdesk
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['sevdesk'],
});
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 sevdesk.
  • The router checks the user's Sevdesk connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Sevdesk.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Sevdesk 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 Sevdesk. Help users perform Sevdesk 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 Sevdesk 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 Sevdesk 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 Sevdesk.
  • 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 Sevdesk 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: ['sevdesk'],
  });
  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 Sevdesk. Help users perform Sevdesk 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 Sevdesk MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Sevdesk.

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 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.

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. 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 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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