How to connect Zep to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Zep account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to store a memory about today's meeting, retrieve all memories tagged urgent, summarize knowledge about client preferences, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Zep account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to store a memory about today's meeting, retrieve all memories tagged urgent, summarize knowledge about client preferences, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Zep to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp

Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Zep account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Zep or give it any Zep-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

"Store a memory about today's meeting"
"Retrieve all memories tagged urgent"
"Summarize knowledge about client preferences"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Zep account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Zep through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

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

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Add Fact Triple

Tool to add a manually specified fact triple (subject-predicate-object) to the Zep knowledge graph.

Add Session Memory

Tool to add memory messages to a specified Zep session.

Add Thread Messages

Tool to add chat messages to a thread in Zep and ingest them into the user knowledge graph.

Clone Graph

Tool to clone a user or group graph with new identifiers in Zep.

Create Graph

Tool to create a new graph by adding data to Zep.

Create Group

Tool to create a new group in Zep for multi-user graph management.

Create Session

Tool to create a new session in Zep for storing conversation memory.

Create Thread

Tool to create a new thread in Zep for a specific user.

Create User

Tool to create a new user in Zep with properties like user_id, email, and metadata.

Delete Graph

Tool to delete a graph from Zep.

Delete Group

Tool to delete a group from Zep.

Delete Session Memory

Tool to delete a session and its memory from Zep.

Delete Thread

Tool to delete a thread and its messages from Zep.

Delete User

Tool to delete a user and all associated threads and artifacts from Zep.

Get Edge by UUID

Tool to retrieve a specific edge by its UUID from the Zep knowledge graph.

Get Graph by ID

Tool to retrieve a graph by its unique identifier from Zep.

Get Group by ID

Tool to retrieve a group by ID from Zep.

Get Node Entity Edges

Tool to retrieve all entity edges for a specific node in the Zep knowledge graph.

Get Project Info

Tool to retrieve project information based on the provided API key.

Get Session by ID

Tool to retrieve a session by its unique identifier from Zep.

Get Session Memory

Tool to retrieve memory for a given session including relevant facts and entities.

Get Session Message by UUID

Tool to retrieve a specific message by UUID from a Zep session.

Get Session Messages

Tool to retrieve messages for a given session from Zep.

Get Task Status

Tool to check the status of asynchronous operations in Zep.

Get Thread Messages

Tool to retrieve conversation history for a specific thread from Zep.

Get Thread User Context

Tool to retrieve the most relevant user context from the user graph based on thread messages.

Get User by ID

Tool to retrieve a user by their user ID from Zep.

Get User Node

Tool to retrieve a user's graph node and summary from Zep.

Get User Nodes

Tool to retrieve all nodes for a specific user from their graph in Zep.

Get User Sessions

Tool to retrieve all sessions for a user from Zep.

Get User Threads

Tool to retrieve all threads for a specific user from Zep.

Graph Search

Tool to perform hybrid graph search combining semantic similarity and BM25 full-text search across the Zep knowledge graph.

List Graphs

Tool to retrieve all graphs from Zep with pagination support.

List Groups Ordered

Tool to retrieve all groups from Zep with pagination support.

List Sessions Ordered

Tool to retrieve all sessions from Zep with pagination and ordering support.

List Threads

Tool to retrieve all threads from Zep with pagination support.

List Users Ordered

Tool to retrieve all users from Zep with pagination support.

List All Threads

Tool to list all threads with pagination and ordering support.

Update Graph

Tool to update graph information in Zep including name and description.

Update Group

Tool to update group information in Zep including name, description, and fact rating instructions.

Update Message

Tool to update a message in a Zep thread.

Update Session Metadata

Tool to update session metadata in Zep.

Update User

Tool to update an existing user's information in Zep including email, metadata, and ontology settings.

FRAMEWORKS

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Cursor

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OpenClaw

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Hermes

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CLI

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Google ADK

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LangChain

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Vercel AI SDK

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Mastra AI

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LlamaIndex

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CrewAI

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OpenCode

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork 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 Zep tools.

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

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