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Help Scout MCP connector

The Help Scout connector brings your customers, conversations, replies, notes, attachments, tags and team members to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients, so each person works their queue in plain language inside their own Help Scout access.

  • How it connects. Connects over OAuth. 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 Help Scout to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Help Scout once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Help Scout.

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

  3. Supply your own Help Scout app, then approve. Help Scout needs an OAuth app you register yourself, so bring its client ID and secret. One person does this once for the organization.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

help scout
Help Scout
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 Help Scout 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 Help Scout 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 Help Scout 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 Help Scout 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 Help Scout through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

See all 90 Help Scout tools below

AI tools

Help Scout tools for your AI agents

90 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.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Help Scout gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Help Scout account.

The agent

Ask about Help Scout conversations in plain language.

The agent reads live conversations, customers and users, then answers in seconds.

  • conversations
  • customers
  • users
  • threads

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 or Cursor

MCP clients

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor share one endpoint.

Connect Help Scout 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

90 Help Scout tools ready on connect.

Conversations, customers, users and threads are covered without a line of custom code.

  • List all Help Scout customers
  • Get single Help Scout customer by ID
  • Create a Help Scout customer
  • Delete a Help Scout customer by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Help Scout customers List List customers filtered by mailbox, firstName, lastName, or modifiedSince in Help Scout. Returns id, firstName, lastName, gender, jobTitle, location, organization, photoType, photoUrl, age, createdAt, updatedAt, background, and draft fields.
Get single Help Scout customer by ID Get Get customer details by id in Help Scout. Returns fields including firstName, lastName, jobTitle, location, organization, photoUrl, background, gender, age, createdAt, updatedAt, draft, and embedded sub-entities like emails, phones, chats, social_profiles, websites, properties, and address.
Create a Help Scout customer Create Create a new customer in Help Scout with provided customer details. Returns the resource ID and location of the created customer.
Delete a Help Scout customer by ID Delete Delete a customer by id in Help Scout, including their survey responses and conversations. This operation hard-deletes the customer and cannot be undone. Fails if user lacks access to all conversations or if customer has more than 100 conversations.
Update a Help Scout customer by ID Update Update a customer profile by id in Help Scout using patch operations on fields such as firstName, lastName, emails, phones, and social profiles. Returns no content on success.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Help Scout toolbox.

Curate one toolbox per team so support, sales and ops see different tools.

  • Support
  • Customer Success
  • Sales
  • Product
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Support toolbox

Help Scout · conversations and threads

Help Scout starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Customer Success toolbox

Help Scout · customers and accounts

9 Mar 2, 2026

Sales toolbox

Help Scout · customer records and inbound replies

24 Feb 27, 2026

Product toolbox

Help Scout · conversation tags and themes

Help Scout starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Support Ops toolbox

Help Scout · users, mailboxes and workflows

31 Jan 30, 2026

Quality toolbox

Help Scout · conversation reviews and ratings

12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates work through your Help Scout connection.

See who connected each mailbox and how many teams and members it reaches.

  • Support EMEA
  • Support Americas
  • Billing Inbox
  • Customer Success
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
HE

Help Scout (Support EMEA)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
HE

Help Scout (Support Americas)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
HE

Help Scout (Billing Inbox)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
HE

Help Scout (Customer Success)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

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

Help Scout (Sales Inbound)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
HE

Help Scout (Product Feedback)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Help Scout call is written down.

When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for each conversation and customer touched.

  • 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]

Help Scout Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Help Scout Conversations Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Help Scout Conversations 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 drafts your Help Scout digest.

Six steps fetch conversations, group them, draft a digest, wait for approval, then post back.

Help Scout digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent

  1. Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. Fetch conversations

    Help Scout

    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

    Help Scout

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Help Scout health, counted not generated.

Four metrics, 14 days of conversations created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.

Help Scout health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the conversations collection

Live

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%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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, 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 my team share one Help Scout connection?

Yes. One person connects Help Scout in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the client ID, secret or a password. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person behind every reply, note and customer change.

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 blocking deletes, edits, or sending replies. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

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 and every other client at the same time.

Put Help Scout in front of your team

Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.