How to connect Cats to Grok Bot

Connect Grok Bot to Cats MCP. Show me five random cat images, list popular cat breeds with photos, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Cats is an API with a huge library of cat images, breed data, and cat facts. It makes finding adorable cat photos and trivia effortless for your apps and users.

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Introduction

Grok is xAI's assistant, and its bot builder lets you create a personal agent that holds context, runs skills, and connects to the apps you already use through plugins.

This guide explains how to connect Cats to a Grok bot using Composio Connect, which handles OAuth, token refresh, and reliability so you do not have to. You add Composio as a plugin, authenticate once, then ask your bot to work with Cats in plain language.

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Why use Composio?

Composio exposes 1,500+ apps to your Grok bot through a single connection, so you get:

  • Connect to 1,500+ apps with on-demand tool loading, so you do not fill your context window with unnecessary tool definitions.
  • Use programmatic tool calling through a remote workbench, letting the model write its own code to handle complex tool chaining. This reduces back-and-forth for frequent tool calls.
  • Handle large tool responses outside the model context to keep conversations lean.

Connecting Cats to Grok Bot

Once Grok Bot is set up, you connect Cats entirely from its interface, and the whole flow takes under a minute.

Set up Grok Bot

Get access. Grok Bot is included with Cursor Ultra, Cursor Premium Teams, and SuperGrok Heavy. Get the desktop app for macOS or Windows from x.ai/bot and sign in. An iPhone companion app is also available, and your bots sync across devices.

Create a bot. Pick a suggested role or define your own, then give it a short name, one primary job, and a short description of how it should work. Focused bots work best, because a clear role gives the bot more useful context over time.

Connect Cats

1. Add the Composio plugin

Click the button. The Composio listing on x.ai opens and launches Grok Bot for you. If the app does not open on its own, click Add to Grok Bot.

Add to Grok Bot

Composio for Grok Bot listing on x.ai with the Add to Grok Bot button

Grok Bot opens the Composio plugin, showing its connector and skills. Click Add.

Composio plugin sheet in Grok Bot with the Add button

2. Authenticate

Go to the Installed section and click the Composio entry. You'll see its connector and skills listed.

Installed Composio plugin showing the Authenticate button

Click Authenticate. You'll be taken to the Composio consent screen. Review the access it requests and click Authorize. Composio handles the OAuth handshake for you, so you never touch API keys or tokens.

Composio authorization screen with Authorize and Deny

3. Connect your Cats account

Back in the chat, ask your bot to connect to Cats or give it any Cats task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Show me five random cat images"
  • "List popular cat breeds with photos"
  • "Find unique cat facts for trivia"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in your Grok bot, and your Cats account is ready to use.

What is Grok Bot?

Grok is xAI's assistant, available as a chat interface and a bot builder for creating personal agents that run skills and connect to external apps.

With Composio Connect, your Grok bot can securely access apps like Cats through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The Cats MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Cats account. It provides structured and secure access to a wide collection of cat images, breed information, and fun feline facts, so your agent can fetch cat data, browse curated cat images, and pull breed details on your behalf.

  • Portals listing for cat resources: Instruct your agent to list and browse all available cat-related portals, making it easy to explore organized collections of cat images and data.
  • Metadata exploration with pagination: Have your agent efficiently page through vast cat collections, ensuring you can access just the right portal or dataset without missing a thing.
  • On-demand cat image discovery: Let your agent find and retrieve high-quality cat images from the API’s large, curated library—perfect for enrichment or just a dose of cuteness.
  • Access to detailed breed and fact data: Ask your agent to pull up detailed info on cat breeds and fun facts, making it a handy assistant for both research and entertainment.

Way Forward

Now that Cats is connected, extend your setup by connecting the other apps you already use every day, so your Grok bot can run true cross-app workflows end to end.

  • Connect Calendar to turn threads into scheduled meetings automatically.
  • Connect Slack or Teams to post summaries, approvals, and alerts where your team works.
  • Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, or Asana to convert requests into tickets, tasks, and docs.
  • Connect Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to fetch, file, and share attachments without manual steps.

Start with one workflow you do repeatedly, then keep adding apps as you find new handoffs. With everything behind a single connection, your bot can coordinate multiple tools safely and reliably in one conversation.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Create Favourite

Tool to save an image as a favourite to your account.

Create Vote

Tool to vote on a cat image.

Delete Favourite

Tool to delete a favourite from your account by its ID.

Delete Image

Delete an uploaded image from your account by its ID.

Delete Vote

Tool to delete a vote from your account by its ID.

Get Cat Breed by ID

Tool to get detailed information about a specific cat breed by its ID.

Get Favourite by ID

Tool to retrieve a specific favourite by its unique ID.

Get Cat Image by ID

Tool to retrieve a specific cat image by its unique ID.

Get Image Analysis

Get machine learning analysis for an uploaded image, which may include labels, confidence scores, bounding boxes, and content moderation classifications.

Get Image Breeds

Tool to retrieve breed information associated with a specific cat image.

Get Cat Breeds

Retrieves a paginated list of cat breeds from The Cat API, including breed information such as name, description, temperament, origin, life span, and weight.

Get Vote by ID

Retrieves a specific vote by its unique ID from The Cat API.

List Image Categories

Retrieves image categories from The Cat API, with optional pagination.

List Favourites

Tool to get all favourites belonging to your account.

List Uploaded Images

Tool to get all images uploaded to your account via /images/upload.

List Votes

Tool to retrieve all votes you have created.

Search Cat Breeds

Search for cat breeds by name.

Search Cat Images

Search for random cat images with optional filters.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. Grok Bot 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 Cats tools.

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

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