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TLDR

Toolkit that gives AI agents the ability to take real actions, browse websites, call services, interact with tools, through 1000+ pre-built integrations with third-party platforms.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      AI agent actions
      Third-party integrations
      Authentication handling
    How to use
      Python SDK
      TypeScript SDK
      Initialize and configure
    Supported frameworks
      OpenAI
      LangChain
      CrewAI
      Anthropic
    Use cases
      Autonomous agents
      Live data retrieval
      Service automation

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build an AI assistant that searches Hacker News and retrieves live data to answer user questions.

USE CASE 2

Create an autonomous agent that books appointments, posts updates, or performs actions across multiple third-party services.

USE CASE 3

Integrate AI agents into existing workflows using your preferred framework (OpenAI, LangChain, CrewAI, etc.) without building custom integrations.

USE CASE 4

Develop a customer support bot that can look up information, create tickets, and interact with external tools on behalf of users.

Tech stack

TypeScriptPythonOpenAIAnthropicLangChainLlamaIndexCrewAI

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires API keys for at least one LLM provider (OpenAI/Anthropic) and potentially third-party service integrations to see meaningful agent actions.

Use freely for any purpose including commercial, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

Composio is a toolkit for building AI agents, programs powered by large language models that don't just answer questions but actually take actions in the outside world, like reading a Hacker News post, sending an email, or filing a ticket. The description says Composio powers more than 1000 toolkits along with tool search, context management, authentication, and a sandboxed workbench, so the idea is that instead of wiring up each external service yourself, you let Composio hand your agent a ready-made set of tools it can call. The repository contains the official Composio SDKs in two flavors: a TypeScript SDK published as @composio/core on npm, and a Python SDK published as composio on PyPI. The typical pattern shown in the README is: install the core SDK, install a provider package that matches the AI framework you are using, then ask Composio for the tools tied to a particular toolkit name (such as HACKERNEWS) and hand those tools to an agent. The agent can then use them automatically during a run. Each call is tied to a user id, which is how Composio tracks per-user authentication to the underlying services. A wide range of AI frameworks are supported as providers, including OpenAI, OpenAI Agents, Anthropic, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK, Google Gemini, Google ADK, Mastra, Cloudflare Workers AI, CrewAI, and AutoGen, with the support matrix differing between TypeScript and Python. If a framework is missing, the docs point to a "custom provider" mechanism. You would reach for Composio when you are building an AI agent and don't want to write and maintain custom integrations, auth flows, and tool-calling glue for every external app yourself. The Python SDK supports Python 3.10 and up. The full README is longer than what was provided.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to set up a Composio agent in Python that can fetch data from Hacker News and answer questions about trending stories.
Prompt 2
I want to build an AI agent using LangChain that can interact with GitHub. How do I use Composio to add GitHub integration without writing custom authentication code?
Prompt 3
Create a TypeScript example of a Composio agent that uses multiple toolkits to automate a workflow across different services.
Prompt 4
How do I handle authentication and context management when building an agent with Composio that needs access to multiple third-party APIs?
Prompt 5
Show me the code to initialize a Composio SDK and give an AI agent access to specific toolkits for a real-world use case.
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