Active Ants MCP connector
The Active Ants connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent look up orders, shipments, inbounds and products in your Active Ants fulfillment account, create or update them, and log every action to an audit trail.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
39 tools
How to connect
How to connect Active Ants to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Active Ants once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Active Ants.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste an Active Ants API key. One person generates a token in Active Ants and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Active Ants MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Active Ants MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Active Ants MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect Active Ants to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with Active Ants through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Support
Answer where is my order in seconds
A customer writes in and the agent looks up the Active Ants order, checks the shipment and gives the tracking status without anyone opening the warehouse portal.
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Operations
Fix an order before it ships
Change the delivery address or remove a line item on an Active Ants order the moment the customer calls, and attach the corrected paperwork to the order.
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Purchasing
Track inbound stock from supplier to shelf
Ask which inbounds are due this week, what each one contains and whether the packing slip has been created, then create the slip when the goods leave the supplier.
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Merchandising
Add new products to the warehouse catalog
Create the product in Active Ants with its dimensions and barcode, upload the image, and update details later when packaging changes.
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Returns
Open a return without leaving the chat
When a customer wants to send something back, create the return merchandise authorization in Active Ants against the original order in one ask.
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Finance
Reconcile shipped orders at month end
Pull the list of Active Ants orders and shipments for the period so invoices and fulfillment charges can be matched line by line.
Try asking
- “Where is order 48213 and has it shipped yet?”
- “List inbounds arriving this week and what each one contains.”
- “Create a return authorization for order 51977, two items damaged.”
AI tools
Active Ants tools for your AI agents
39 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Active Ants, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting Active Ants gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Active Ants account.
The agent
Ask where an order is, get the answer.
Plain questions about Active Ants orders, shipments and stock, answered from live records.
- orders
- shipments
- inbounds
- products
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Where is order 48213 and has it shipped yet?
List inbounds arriving this week and what each one contains.
Create a return authorization for order 51977, two items damaged.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One endpoint for every AI client you use.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Active Ants through one governed endpoint, no shared API key.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
39 Active Ants tools, ready without any code.
Orders, shipments, inbounds, products and returns covered, nothing for an engineer to build.
- List all Active Ants status
- List all Active Ants settings gets
- List all Active Ants orders
- Create a Active Ants order
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Each team gets its own Active Ants toolbox.
Support sees orders and shipments, purchasing sees inbounds, each scoped to the team.
- Operations
- Support
- Purchasing
- Merchandising
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Share the connection, never share the key.
One person connects Active Ants, teammates work through it without ever seeing a credential.
- Operations
- Support
- Purchasing
- Merchandising
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every order change names who made it.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, for every Active Ants call.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule fires and the work gets done.
Orders are fetched, grouped and drafted into a digest, approved by a person, posted back.
Active Ants digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch orders
Active Ants
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
Active Ants
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Fulfillment numbers arrive before anyone asks.
Orders created over 14 days, split by team, refreshed on a schedule with no model involved.
Active Ants health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the orders collection
Orders
1,284 ↓ 12%
Shipments
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Orders created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Operations 34%
Support 27%
Purchasing 21%
Merchandising 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Active Ants to Claude?
In Elaichi, choose Active Ants and paste the API key from your Active Ants account; there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude signs you in through Elaichi and your Active Ants orders, shipments, inbounds and products are available in the chat.
Does Active Ants work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Active Ants is connected once in Elaichi, and the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. There is nothing extra to set up per client.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Active Ants data?
It can look up an Active Ants order and its shipment, create or change an order, attach a document to it, check inbounds and create packing slips, add or update products and their images, and open a return authorization. Short, concrete asks work best, such as where is order 48213, rather than a long paragraph. The connector covers 39 actions across orders, shipments, inbounds, products and returns.
Does connecting Active Ants give the AI access to my whole warehouse account?
The AI can only do what the Active Ants account behind the API key is allowed to do, and each person still signs in to Elaichi as themselves. Elaichi can then narrow that access, for example to reading orders and shipments only, but it can never widen what Active Ants itself permits.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing orders in Active Ants?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Active Ants orders and shipments while blocking deletes or updates. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to an Active Ants connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Active Ants at once, in every client they used. A shared Active Ants connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you ever want to remove Active Ants entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client.
Does the Active Ants MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Active Ants is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Put Active Ants in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
- Works with
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.