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Tool Router Sessions
Create Tool Router sessions through the SDK or API
There is no normal dashboard toggle required to enable Tool Router. Create a session through the SDK or the REST API.
If you receive an actual 403 or an error saying Tool Router is not enabled for the account, do not keep repeating the setup steps. Contact Composio support for account-level checking and include the exact error body plus the request or code snippet.
Session lifetime and deletion
Tool Router sessions are long-lived records and do not currently have a time-based expiration. This is separate from temporary workbench files, live sandbox retention, and short response-cache lifetimes.
Reuse an existing TypeScript session with composio.use(sessionId). Delete a session either from the instance or by ID:
await session.delete();
await composio.sessions.delete(sessionId);Deletion takes effect immediately. A deleted, missing, or inaccessible session returns 404 when retrieved; deleting a session does not delete its users, auth configs, or connected accounts.
Select among multiple accounts with an alias or account ID
When a toolkit has multiple connected accounts, assign clear aliases such as work, personal, or primary, then pass the alias as the execution account. Without an alias, use the generated account ID returned by connection discovery.
Do not rely on fuzzy phrases such as “office email” unless a matching alias exists. If explicit account selection is disabled and no account is supplied, the session can fall back to its first/default account.
The session user must match the connected-account user
An account can be active in the dashboard but unavailable to Tool Router when the session uses a different user_id. Private accounts resolve for their owning user; explicitly shared or pinned accounts follow the session configuration.
Create the session and connection with the same stable user ID. If a particular account must be used, pass its allowed connected-account override in the session configuration.
Connected-account selection is live unless pinned
When connectedAccounts is omitted, Tool Router resolves currently active accounts for the session user at execution time, including accounts connected after session creation. When connectedAccounts is supplied, it is an exact toolkit override and Tool Router does not fall back to another active account for that toolkit.
Adding another account later does not change an explicit pin. Update or recreate the session when the pinned account should change; omit the override when you want live account discovery.
Toolkit allowlists are enforced before connection lookup
When a session has a non-empty toolkits.enabled list, every other toolkit is blocked. A toolkits.disabled list does the inverse: listed toolkits are blocked while the rest remain eligible. This restriction is checked before auth configs and connected accounts.
If Tool Router reports [Session Restriction] Toolkit '<name>' is not allowed, update or recreate the session's toolkit configuration first. Only then debug whether that toolkit has an auth config and connection.
A fresh task context is a new session runtime, not model memory
Every create() call returns a new session ID. A session scopes the user,
toolkit and tool access, auth and account selection, and session runtime
resources such as sandbox files. It is not the model's conversation memory.
Reuse a stored session with composio.use(sessionId) when a conversation or
workflow should retain the same session configuration and runtime context.
Create a new session for a different user or materially different setup. A new
session for the same user can still resolve that user's eligible connected
accounts, but it does not inherit the old session's sandbox state.
Auth links create project- and user-scoped connected accounts
session.authorize() and COMPOSIO_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS create a Connect Link
for the session user and selected auth config. After authentication, the
connected account belongs to that project/user rather than only to the session
that produced the link. Later unpinned sessions for the same stable user can
resolve it; an explicit connected-account pin remains unchanged until the
session is updated or recreated.
Toolkit filters do not preload every matching tool
By default, a session exposes meta tools that discover and load app tools at runtime. Enabling a toolkit limits what the session can discover and execute; it does not put every tool from that toolkit into the initial schema set.
Use an explicit preload.tools list when the agent must receive known tools
directly. Use the direct-tools preset or preload.tools = "all" only with a
narrow positive filter; broad preload sets are capped and increase agent
context.
SDK custom tools and Custom MCP toolkits have different runtimes
An SDK-defined custom tool runs inside the customer's application process. Its function body is not uploaded into Composio and is not automatically callable from a remote session MCP URL or Remote Workbench.
To expose customer-owned functionality remotely, host it as an MCP server and register it as a Custom MCP toolkit. The resulting remote tools remain subject to the session's toolkit and connection restrictions.
Enhanced Control requires client support for MCP elicitation
For You's Enhanced Control approval flow relies on MCP elicitation. It works only with clients that advertise and implement that capability. If a client does not support elicitation, use a supported client, set an applicable Always Allow policy, or disable Enhanced Control under For You → Settings → General and reconnect the client.
Pin the intended auth config when a toolkit has multiple auth schemes
Tool Router first uses the auth config explicitly mapped in the session. When
the toolkit supports multiple schemes, map the intended ac_... ID rather than
depending on automatic selection. The selected config must belong to the same
project and be enabled for Tool Router. An explicit connected-account override
is an exact toolkit selection and does not fall back to another active account.
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