Egnyte MCP connector
The Egnyte connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, or any MCP client look up a specific Egnyte user account or group, with every lookup running as the person who signed in and recorded in an audit log.
- Connects over OAuth
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Show the Egnyte groups this user belongs to.
Working in Egnyte with Elaichi
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Get single Egnyte user by ID
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Get single Egnyte group by ID
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List all Egnyte folders
How to connect Egnyte to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Egnyte 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.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Egnyte MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Egnyte 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. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Egnyte 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.
Egnyte MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect Egnyte to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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.
What teams do with Egnyte through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Egnyte is logged.
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IT
Confirm who owns an Egnyte account
Pull up a single Egnyte user account to check the name, email address, and status behind it before you change anything about the folders that person can reach.
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Security
Check whether a former employee is still active
Look up the Egnyte account of someone who has left and confirm it has been disabled, without opening the admin console and hunting through the user list.
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HR
Verify a new hire's Egnyte account
After onboarding, check that the new person's Egnyte account exists with the right name and email so they are not locked out on their first day.body_fix
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Compliance
Answer an auditor's question about a group
When an auditor asks who sits in a particular Egnyte group, fetch that group's details and give a straight answer with the record to back it up.
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Help desk
Resolve an access ticket faster
Someone says they cannot open a shared folder, so you look up their Egnyte account and the group they should belong to, and see at once whether they are in it.
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Operations
Check a group before granting folder access
Before pointing a new folder at an Egnyte group, look up that group and confirm it is the one you mean and holds the people you expect.
Try asking
- “Show the Egnyte groups this user belongs to.”
- “Look up the Egnyte user behind this account id.”
- “List members of our Egnyte Finance group.”
What connecting Egnyte gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Egnyte account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Show the Egnyte groups this user belongs to.
Look up the Egnyte user behind this account id.
List members of our Egnyte Finance group.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about Egnyte users in plain language.
Type a question and get answers read from live Egnyte users and groups.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
One Egnyte endpoint for every MCP client.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot connect over OAuth, no SDK, no shared API key.
Tool catalog
5 Egnyte tools ready without custom code.
Browse Egnyte tool names, resources and methods, then hand them straight to a client.
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Egnyte toolbox.
Scope one toolbox to IT, another to Legal, each with its own Egnyte tools.
Shared connections
Teammates use Egnyte without touching credentials.
See who connected each Egnyte account and how many teams and members share it.
Audit log
Answer who did what in Egnyte.
Every Egnyte call lands in an append only log with actor, action and resource.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Egnyte digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch users
Egnyte
1.4s -
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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 Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Egnyte
Queued
Automations
A schedule starts real Egnyte work.
Fetch Egnyte users, group them, draft a digest, approve it, post it back.
Egnyte health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the users collection
Users
1,284 ↓ 12%
Groups
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Users created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
IT Admin 34%
Security Review 27%
Legal EMEA 21%
Finance 18%
Collections and dashboards
Egnyte health arrives before anyone asks.
Four metrics, 14 days of records created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Egnyte
All three can connect Egnyte to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Egnyte tools | Allow or restrict single Egnyte tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Egnyte call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
Egnyte tools for your AI agents
5 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Egnyte, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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Questions, answered
How do I connect Egnyte to Claude?
First, connect Egnyte in Elaichi. Egnyte requires an OAuth application registered inside your own Egnyte domain, so an admin brings that application's client ID and secret once, then signs in to Egnyte in the usual browser window and approves access. Second, in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the Elaichi endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude then sees Egnyte alongside anything else your organization has connected.
Does Egnyte work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Egnyte is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Egnyte once and every client your team uses picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Egnyte data?
With this connector, an AI agent can look up a specific Egnyte user account or a specific Egnyte group and report back what it finds, such as the account's name, email, and status, or the group's name and details. It cannot browse or open files and folders, and it cannot create, edit, or delete anything in Egnyte. It is a lookup connector for people and groups, useful for access questions and account checks.
Does connecting Egnyte give the AI access to my whole Egnyte domain?
No. Every request to Egnyte runs as the person who signed in, so the AI can only look up the Egnyte users and groups that person is already allowed to see. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions, but it can never widen it beyond what Egnyte itself grants that person.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Egnyte?
This Egnyte connector only looks things up, so an agent cannot delete, move, or change anything in Egnyte through it. Beyond that, Elaichi restrictions work per action, and a restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, or any other client cannot run it, whatever the prompt says. If you want to restrict even the group lookup for a particular role, you can.
What happens to an Egnyte connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard someone in Elaichi, their access to Egnyte through Elaichi ends at once, in every client they had set up. A shared Egnyte connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you ever want to remove Egnyte entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and every other client at the same time.
Does the Egnyte MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Egnyte 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, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Egnyte?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Egnyte. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Egnyte call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Egnyte?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Egnyte: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Egnyte in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot