Help Scout MCP connector
The Help Scout connector brings your customers, conversations, replies, notes, attachments, tags and team members to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and other MCP clients, so each person works their queue in plain language inside their own Help Scout access.
- Connects over OAuth
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Summarize open Help Scout conversations assigned to me today.
Working in Help Scout with Elaichi
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List all Help Scout customers
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Get single Help Scout customer by ID
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List all Help Scout conversations
How to connect Help Scout to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Help Scout 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.
Help Scout 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.
Help Scout 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.
Help Scout 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.
Help Scout 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.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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 Help Scout 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 Help Scout through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Help Scout is logged.
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Support
Catch up on a customer before replying
Ask for everything Help Scout has on a customer, including their open and recent conversations, and read the thread history before you answer.
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Support
Draft a reply or leave a note
Have a reply drafted from the conversation so far, or add an internal note on the thread for the next agent who picks it up.
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Support leads
Find what is piling up in the queue
List active conversations by tag, mailbox or assignee and see where the backlog is before the morning standup.
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Success
Open a conversation on a customer's behalf
Start a new Help Scout conversation after a call, attach the file the customer sent, and get it into the right mailbox without switching windows.
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Sales
Check a prospect's support history
Before a renewal or upsell call, pull the account's recent Help Scout conversations and see what they have been asking about.
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Operations
Keep customer records clean
Create a Help Scout customer for a new account, fix a wrong email or company name, and merge duplicates when they show up.
Try asking
- “Summarize open Help Scout conversations assigned to me today.”
- “Which customers have more than three unresolved conversations?”
- “List Help Scout users with conversations waiting over 24 hours.”
What connecting Help Scout gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Help Scout account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize open Help Scout conversations assigned to me today.
Which customers have more than three unresolved conversations?
List Help Scout users with conversations waiting over 24 hours.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about Help Scout conversations in plain language.
The agent reads live conversations, customers and users, then answers in seconds.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot share one endpoint.
Connect Help Scout from any MCP client over OAuth, no SDK, no shared key.
Tool catalog
91 Help Scout tools ready on connect.
Conversations, customers, users and threads are covered without a line of custom code.
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Help Scout toolbox.
Curate one toolbox per team so support, sales and ops see different tools.
Shared connections
Teammates work through your Help Scout connection.
See who connected each mailbox and how many teams and members it reaches.
Audit log
Every Help Scout call is written down.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for each conversation and customer touched.
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.
Help Scout digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
0.2s -
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Fetch conversations
Help Scout
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
Help Scout
Queued
Automations
A schedule drafts your Help Scout digest.
Six steps fetch conversations, group them, draft a digest, wait for approval, then post back.
Help Scout health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the conversations collection
Conversations
1,284 ↓ 12%
Customers
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Conversations created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support EMEA 34%
Support Americas 27%
Billing Inbox 21%
Customer Success 18%
Collections and dashboards
Help Scout health, counted not generated.
Four metrics, 14 days of conversations created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Help Scout
All three can connect Help Scout 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 Help Scout tools | Allow or restrict single Help Scout 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 Help Scout 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.
Help Scout tools for your AI agents
91 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Help Scout, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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Questions, answered
How do I connect Help Scout to Claude?
First, register an OAuth application inside Help Scout under your profile's My Apps page and copy its client ID and secret into Elaichi once, when you add the Help Scout connector. Elaichi then sends you to Help Scout's own sign-in screen, where you approve access as yourself. Second, in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the address. Nobody else on your team has to touch the client ID or secret again.
Does Help Scout work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Help Scout 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 Help Scout once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Help Scout data?
With Help Scout connected, an agent can look up a customer, read their conversations and the replies and notes on each one, draft a reply or add a note, open a new conversation, and download or attach files. It can also list your mailbox users, teams and tags so it can sort and filter the queue the way you would. Short, concrete asks work best, such as "find open conversations tagged billing" rather than a long paragraph.
Does connecting Help Scout give the AI every mailbox?
No. Every request runs as the person who signed in to Help Scout, so the agent only sees the mailboxes, conversations and customers that person can already open in Help Scout. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions, but it can never grant access the person does not already have.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Help Scout?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Help Scout conversations and customers while restricting deletes, edits, or sending replies. 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.
What happens to a Help Scout connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard someone in Elaichi, their access to Help Scout through every connected client ends immediately. If they had shared a Help Scout connection with a team, it keeps working for everyone else. Disconnecting Help Scout once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and every other client at the same time.
Does the Help Scout MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Help Scout 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 Help Scout?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Help Scout. 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 Help Scout call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Help Scout?
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 Help Scout: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Help Scout 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