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Intercom MCP connector
The Intercom connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client read and act on your Intercom conversations, contacts, and companies as the signed-in person, with every call recorded in an audit log.
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How it connects. OAuth or 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 Intercom to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Intercom once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Intercom.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Supply your own Intercom app, then approve. Intercom 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.
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 Intercom 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 Intercom 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 Intercom 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 Intercom 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.
Use cases
What teams do with Intercom 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
Catch up on a conversation before replying
Ask for the full thread with a customer, get the gist of what has happened so far, and send a reply from your own Intercom seat without opening the inbox.
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Support
Route and close conversations in bulk
Hand a batch of conversations to the right Intercom team, snooze the ones waiting on the customer, and close the ones that are done, all from one request.
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Customer Success
Prepare for a renewal call
Pull the company record, the people attached to it, and their recent conversations so you walk into the call knowing what they have asked about lately.
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Sales
Create the contact and company after a demo
Add the new lead and their company to Intercom, fill in the fields you learned on the call, and tag them so the follow-up sequence picks them up.
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Operations
Keep company and contact records clean
Find contacts with missing or mismatched details, update them, and remove duplicate companies without paging through the Intercom admin one record at a time.
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Product
Find what customers are asking about
Ask which open conversations mention a feature or a bug this week and get a plain summary, grouped by company, to bring to planning.
Try asking
- “Which companies opened the most conversations last week?”
- “List conversations tagged billing and still unassigned.”
- “Show open conversation counts by Intercom team.”
AI tools
Intercom tools for your AI agents
98 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Intercom, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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See it in Elaichi
What connecting Intercom gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Intercom account.
The agent
Ask about conversations, get live answers.
Type a question in plain language and read it straight from Intercom records.
- conversations
- companies
- admins
- tags
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which companies opened the most conversations last week?
List conversations tagged billing and still unassigned.
Show open conversation counts by Intercom team.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One Intercom endpoint, every MCP client.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, no SDK and no shared key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
98 Intercom tools, no custom code.
Conversations, companies, admins, teams and tags, each with listed resources and methods.
- List all Intercom teams
- Get single Intercom team by ID
- List all Intercom admins
- Get single Intercom admin by ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Support, success and ops each see only the Intercom tools they need.
- Support
- Customer success
- Support ops
- Knowledge
Shared connections
Teammates use Intercom without a credential.
See who connected each workspace and how many teams and members share it.
- Support EMEA
- Support US
- Customer success
- Sales
Audit log
Every Intercom call has a name on it.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended and never edited.
- 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 and the digest ships.
Six steps fetch Intercom conversations, group them, draft a digest, await approval, post back.
Intercom 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 conversations
Intercom
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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
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Post the digest
Intercom
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Intercom numbers arrive before anyone asks.
Four metrics, 14 days of conversations created, and a team breakdown, computed on schedule.
Intercom health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the conversations collection
Conversations
1,284 ↓ 12%
Companies
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 US 27%
Customer success 21%
Sales 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Intercom to Claude?
First, in Elaichi, choose Intercom and register an OAuth application inside your Intercom workspace, then paste that app's client ID and secret into Elaichi once; an API key works too if you prefer. Second, in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Each person then signs in to Intercom with their own login, and nobody else on the team ever needs to see that client ID or secret again.
Does Intercom work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Intercom is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, is what you add to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Intercom once and every client picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Intercom data?
With Intercom connected, an agent can read and summarize conversations, reply to a customer, assign or close conversations, and start a new one. It can look up, create, update, and delete contacts and companies, apply and manage tags, and see which admins and teams exist in your workspace. Because Intercom exposes many actions, short concrete asks such as "reply to the open conversation with Acme" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Intercom give the AI everything in my workspace?
No. Access follows the person who signed in, so an agent working through Intercom sees only the conversations, contacts, and companies that person's Intercom seat already allows. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions, and it can never widen it beyond what Intercom itself grants.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Intercom?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading Intercom conversations and contacts while blocking replies, updates, or deletes of contacts and companies. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to an Intercom connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Intercom through every connected client immediately. If they were using a shared Intercom connection, it keeps working for everyone else on the team. When you eventually want Intercom gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client at the same time.
Put Intercom in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.