Helpdesk
Freshdesk MCP connector
The Freshdesk connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent search, create, and update Freshdesk tickets, contacts, and agents inside each person's own Freshdesk access, with every action recorded in an audit log.
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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.
How to connect
How to connect Freshdesk to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Freshdesk once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Freshdesk.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a Freshdesk API key. One person generates a token in Freshdesk 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.
Connect Freshdesk to 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.
Connect Freshdesk to 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.
Connect Freshdesk to 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 Freshdesk 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 Freshdesk 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
Find every open ticket about one issue
Ask for all tickets mentioning a failed login or a delayed refund, and get the list with priority, status, and who they belong to, without building a filter in Freshdesk first.
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Support
Catch up a ticket after a call
After speaking with a customer, tell the agent what was agreed and have the ticket status, priority, and notes updated while it is still fresh.
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Customer success
Read the whole thread before a renewal
Pull the conversation history on a customer's tickets and get a short account of what went wrong and how it was resolved before you pick up the phone.
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Operations
Clean up duplicate contacts
Spot customers who exist twice in Freshdesk under slightly different emails and merge them into one record so their ticket history sits in one place.
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Support leads
Raise a ticket on a customer's behalf
When a request comes in by phone or in a meeting, create the Freshdesk ticket and the contact in one go, with the right priority and description already filled in.
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IT
Keep agent seats and roles in order
List who holds a Freshdesk agent seat, check which role each person has, and add or remove agents when people join or leave the desk.
Try asking
- “Show open Freshdesk tickets older than three days.”
- “Which agents closed the most tickets last week?”
- “List Freshdesk roles and the agents assigned to each.”
AI tools
Freshdesk tools for your AI agents
161 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Freshdesk, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
See it in Elaichi
What connecting Freshdesk gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Freshdesk account.
The agent
Ask about tickets, get real answers.
Plain language questions run against live Freshdesk tickets, agents and roles.
- tickets
- agents
- roles
- conversations
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Show open Freshdesk tickets older than three days.
Which agents closed the most tickets last week?
List Freshdesk roles and the agents assigned to each.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor share one endpoint.
Connect Freshdesk from any MCP client over OAuth, no SDK, no shared key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
161 Freshdesk tools ready without custom code.
Browse tool names, resources and methods across tickets, agents and roles.
- List all Freshdesk agents
- Get single Freshdesk agent by ID
- Delete a Freshdesk agent by ID
- Create a Freshdesk agent
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Freshdesk toolbox.
Support, escalations and workforce teams each see a toolbox scoped to them.
- Support
- Escalations
- Workforce
- Quality
Shared connections
Teammates work tickets without seeing credentials.
See who connected each Freshdesk account and how many teams and members share it.
- Support EMEA
- Support AMER
- Escalations
- Billing queue
Audit log
Every Freshdesk call is on the record.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each ticket action.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching 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, a digest ships.
Fetch Freshdesk tickets, group them, draft a digest, approve, post back.
Freshdesk 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 tickets
Freshdesk
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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
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Freshdesk
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Freshdesk ticket health, counted not guessed.
Four metrics, 14 days of tickets created, split by team, refreshed on schedule.
Freshdesk health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the tickets collection
Tickets
1,284 ↓ 12%
Agents
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Tickets created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support EMEA 34%
Support AMER 27%
Escalations 21%
Billing queue 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Freshdesk to Claude?
Connect Freshdesk in Elaichi first: Freshdesk connects with an API key, so you copy the key from your Freshdesk profile settings and paste it in. 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 the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in as yourself and Freshdesk is available in Claude.
Does Freshdesk work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Freshdesk is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Freshdesk once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Freshdesk data?
With Freshdesk connected, an agent can search and list tickets, open a specific ticket and read its conversation thread, create new tickets, update status, priority, and details, and restore tickets that were deleted. It can also look up, create, update, and merge contacts, and list the agents and roles on your helpdesk. Short, concrete asks work best, such as "show me urgent tickets updated today" rather than a long paragraph.
Does connecting Freshdesk give the AI everything in my helpdesk?
No. Every call to Freshdesk runs as the person who signed in, so the agent sees only the tickets, contacts, and agent records that person's Freshdesk role already allows. Elaichi can narrow that further by turning off individual actions, but it can never grant more than the person already has in Freshdesk.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Freshdesk?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading and searching Freshdesk tickets while blocking deletion, bulk deletion, or contact merges. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Freshdesk connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Freshdesk through every client at once. If they connected a shared Freshdesk account, that connection keeps working for everyone else it was shared with. Disconnecting Freshdesk once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client together.
Put Freshdesk in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.