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Kayako MCP connector
The Kayako connector brings your Kayako cases, replies, notes and tags to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each person can find, update and answer support cases inside their own Kayako access, with every action logged.
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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 Kayako to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Kayako once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Kayako.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a Kayako API key. One person generates a token in Kayako 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 Kayako 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 Kayako 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 Kayako 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 Kayako 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 Kayako 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 the case up after a call
Tell the agent what the customer said on the phone and it adds an internal note to the Kayako case, updates the status and adds the right tags, so the next person to open it sees the whole story.
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Support
Draft the reply before you send it
Ask for a reply that takes the earlier posts and notes on the case into account, read it over, then have it sent as a reply on the case through the channel the customer wrote in on.
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Support leadership
Clear the backlog in one pass
Ask which Kayako cases have had no reply since Friday, then raise their priority or move them to another team in bulk instead of opening each one.
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Customer success
See everything one account has open
Before a renewal call, pull every open case for that organization in Kayako, with the latest note on each, so nothing the customer is waiting on comes as a surprise.
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Quality
Tag this week's cases by theme
Have the agent read the week's new cases and tag them billing, login or shipping, so the weekly review shows where the volume is coming from without anyone sorting by hand.
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Operations
Trace a suspicious email to its source
When a forwarded case looks off, pull up the original email exactly as it arrived in Kayako, trash it in bulk with the rest of the spam, and restore anything that was trashed by mistake.
Try asking
- “Summarize open Kayako cases for the billing organization”
- “Draft a reply to the oldest unanswered Kayako case”
- “Which channels did last week's Kayako cases arrive on”
AI tools
Kayako tools for your AI agents
345 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Kayako, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting Kayako gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Kayako account.
The agent
Ask about Kayako cases in plain language.
The agent reads live Kayako cases, replies and channels to answer.
- cases
- replies
- channels
- organizations
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize open Kayako cases for the billing organization
Draft a reply to the oldest unanswered Kayako case
Which channels did last week's Kayako cases arrive on
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Kayako.
One governed MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.
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Tool catalog
345 Kayako tools ready without custom code.
Browse Kayako cases, replies, channels and organization tools by name and method.
- List all Kayako cases
- Get single Kayako case by ID
- Create a Kayako case
- Update a Kayako case by ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Kayako toolbox.
Support, escalations and reporting each see the Kayako tools their work needs.
- Support
- Escalations
- Customer success
- Quality
Shared connections
Teammates work Kayako cases without a credential.
See who connected each Kayako account and which teams and members share it.
- Support EMEA
- Support US
- Escalations
- Billing
Audit log
Every Kayako call is written down.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each case and reply.
- 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 Kayako cases move.
Fetch cases, group them, draft a digest, approve, then reply back into Kayako.
Kayako 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 cases
Kayako
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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
Kayako
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Kayako case health, computed on a schedule.
Four metrics, 14 days of cases created, and a breakdown by team.
Kayako health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the cases collection
Cases
1,284 ↓ 12%
Replies
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Cases created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support EMEA 34%
Support US 27%
Escalations 21%
Billing 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Kayako to Claude?
Connect Kayako in Elaichi first: Kayako connects with an API key, so you paste the key from your Kayako admin area once and you are done, with no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in as yourself and Kayako cases are available in Claude from that point on.
Does Kayako work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Kayako 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 Kayako once and every client your team uses picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Kayako data?
With Kayako connected, an agent can find cases, read the posts and notes on a case, draft and send replies, add internal notes, change status or priority, add tags and update many cases at once. It can also list the cases open for one organization, pull up the original email behind a case, and trash, restore or empty trashed cases. Because Kayako has a lot of actions, short concrete asks like "show me open cases for Acme" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Kayako give the AI access to every case in the helpdesk?
No. Every request runs as the person who signed in, so the agent sees only the Kayako cases, notes and organizations that person can already see in Kayako. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example limiting a team to reading cases, but it can never widen access beyond what Kayako itself allows that person.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Kayako?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work action by action, so you can block trashing cases, emptying the trash or bulk updates while still allowing replies and notes. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Kayako connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Kayako through every client at once. If they had shared the Kayako connection with a team, it keeps working for everyone else. If you want Kayako gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.
Put Kayako in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.