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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.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • 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.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Freshdesk once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Freshdesk.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. 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.

freshdesk
Freshdesk
Acquire
Ada
Atomicwork
CM Mobile Service Cloud
Crisp
2

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

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Connect Freshdesk to ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Connect Freshdesk to Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    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

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

See all 161 Freshdesk tools below

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.

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.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emma Laurent

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
S

Sofia Ricci

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
C

Clara Nowak

• Connected Yesterday

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
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Freshdesk agents List List all agents in Freshdesk. Returns fields including id, available status, occasional status, ticket_scope, created_at, updated_at, type, contact details (email, name, active status, language, last_login_at, time_zone), and focus_mode.
Get single Freshdesk agent by ID Get Get information about a specific agent in Freshdesk using id. Returns fields including available, occasional, signature, group_ids, role_ids, skill_ids, ticket_scope, created_at, updated_at, type, contact details (active, email, job_title, language, last_login_at, mobile, name, phone, time_zone, created_at, updated_at), and focus_mode.
Delete a Freshdesk agent by ID Delete Delete an agent by id in Freshdesk. Deleting an agent downgrades them into a contact. Agent's name, phone, mobile number, and job title cannot be updated via API.
Create a Freshdesk agent Create Create an agent in Freshdesk with mandatory email. Returns id, available status, occasional flag, ticket_scope, signature, group_ids, role_ids, skill_ids, created_at, updated_at, available_since, type, contact details, and focus_mode.
Update a Freshdesk agent by ID Update Update an agent by id in Freshdesk. Returns fields including available, occasional, id, ticket_scope, signature, group_ids, role_ids, skill_ids, created_at, updated_at, type, and contact details such as email, language, and time_zone.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Freshdesk toolbox.

Support, escalations and workforce teams each see a toolbox scoped to them.

  • Support
  • Escalations
  • Workforce
  • Quality
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Support toolbox

Freshdesk · tickets and replies

Freshdesk starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Escalations toolbox

Freshdesk · high priority tickets

9 Mar 2, 2026

Workforce toolbox

Freshdesk · agents and roles

24 Feb 27, 2026

Quality toolbox

Freshdesk · ticket reviews and ratings

Freshdesk starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Customer success toolbox

Freshdesk · account ticket history

31 Jan 30, 2026

Operations toolbox

Freshdesk · ticket volume and backlog

12 Jan 22, 2026

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
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
FR

Freshdesk (Support EMEA)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
FR

Freshdesk (Support AMER)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
FR

Freshdesk (Escalations)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
FR

Freshdesk (Billing queue)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
FR

Freshdesk (Onboarding)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
FR

Freshdesk (Quality review)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

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
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emma Laurent

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

James Whitfield

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

S

Sofia Ricci

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

D

Daniel Ortega

[email protected]

Freshdesk Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Freshdesk Tickets Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Freshdesk Tickets List Toolbox

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

  1. Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. Fetch tickets

    Freshdesk

    1.4s
  3. Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. 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

Live

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%

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 my team share one Freshdesk connection?

Yes. One person connects Freshdesk with their API key and shares the connection with a team in Elaichi, and nobody else on the team ever handles that key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person behind every ticket update or contact change 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.