Tools, skills, and MCP

Connect your AI employees to your business tools.

Give employees access to the apps and data they need for their jobs. Connect business accounts or custom MCP servers, then choose what each employee can do and when it must ask for approval.

Yodu tool workspace showing the app catalog, connected accounts, employee access, custom MCP servers, and skills
1,000+

business app toolkits available through Composio

5 views

catalog, connections, access, MCP, and skills

Per employee

tool and skill access with a visible autonomy mode

Health checked

custom MCP endpoints can be verified and re-tested

One connection layer

Connect an account and choose who can use it.

Connections belong to your workspace. You decide which employees get access and can review or revoke that access as their jobs change.

01

Connect an account

Authorize Gmail, GitHub, HubSpot, Stripe, Calendar, or another app from the catalog. Yodu stores a redacted connection reference, not a secret in the chat.

02

Choose the employee

Grant the app or skill to one AI employee, several employees, or the workspace. Every grant can be reviewed and revoked.

03

Set the autonomy level

Choose Draft only, require approval for external actions, or allow a defined workflow to run autonomously.

The apps your team already knows

Email, calendars, CRM, code, and billing.

Find the app in the catalog, review its available actions, and connect your account. Options include Gmail, Google Calendar, GitHub, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Shopify, Zendesk, and Resend.

Catalog availability and individual actions come from the connected provider and can change over time. Yodu shows the current toolkit before you grant access.

Gmail
Email
Google Calendar
Scheduling
GitHub
Engineering
HubSpot
CRM
Stripe
Billing
Notion
Knowledge
Airtable
Operations
Shopify
Commerce
Zendesk
Support
Resend
Email API
Mailchimp
Marketing
PostHog
Analytics
Yodu custom MCP server view showing an authenticated healthy endpoint and re-test controls
Private and specialist tools

Connect internal and specialist tools with MCP.

Use custom MCP when the work depends on an internal API, a private data service, or a specialist product that is not in the app catalog. Add the endpoint, attach an optional auth header, verify the handshake, and then grant access like any other tool.

1

Add the HTTPS endpoint and a clear name.

2

Store an optional header value as an encrypted workspace secret.

3

Run a real MCP handshake and check the reported protocol health.

4

Give only the employees who need it access to its tools.

Configure a custom MCP server
Yodu employee access view showing workspace, role-specific, autonomous, draft-only, and revoked tool grants
Guardrails that match the work

Set permissions for each employee’s job.

Let a research employee read information, a sales employee prepare drafts, or an employee request approval before issuing a refund. Review each grant and its permission mode in Yodu.

Draft only

Read context and prepare output without taking an external action.

Approval required

Require a decision before sending, publishing, spending, or changing connected data.

Autonomous

Run a bounded, reviewed workflow without asking on every safe step.

Revoked

Remove access immediately while preserving the grant history.

Three MCP surfaces, three different jobs

Use MCP to connect tools or manage Yodu.

An employee can use an external MCP server to do its job. Your own AI client can also use Yodu’s Platform MCP to manage a workspace. Each connection has its own access requirements.

Platform MCP

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or another external client operates one Yodu workspace through 53 curated tools and a scoped API key.

Employee MCP usage

A Yodu employee calls an approved external server while completing assigned work, subject to its tool grant and autonomy policy.

Custom MCP entries

The workspace registers and verifies a private HTTPS MCP server, stores its authorization safely, and chooses which employees receive access.

Yodu skills directory showing installed and available capabilities for research, communication, CRM, engineering, finance, legal, hiring, and analytics
Reusable ways of working

Give employees instructions they can reuse.

Skills describe how to approach a job, such as researching a prospect, reviewing code, or preparing a report. Install a skill from the directory or add your own, then assign it to the employee that needs it.

Sourced research and evidence gathering
Email, chat, and customer-ready drafts
Repository, issue, test, and pull-request workflows
Invoices, spend review, and finance-data preparation
Task routing, handoffs, and team coordination
Your own role-specific operating playbooks
Yodu settings showing configured OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude subscription, and OpenRouter model access
Bring your own model access

Choose how to power your AI employees.

Configure OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or a supported Claude subscription token at workspace level. Then choose a model for an individual AI employee and let Yodu apply the change to the running workspace.

OpenAI
Anthropic
Claude subscription
OpenRouter
Compare model access options

Tools and MCP questions

Connect your tools with help from Shashank.

Tell us which apps your first job needs. We’ll check the integrations with you and help configure the connections and permissions.