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Looker MCP connector

The Looker connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent manage Looker users, roles, alerts, and boards on your behalf, with every action running as the signed-in person and recorded in an audit log.

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ChatGPT Elaichi connected

List Looker users who have no role assigned.

Working in Looker with Elaichi

  • List all Looker users
  • Get single Looker user by ID
  • List all Looker user roles
Ask anything…
Governance / Audit log Last 24 hours
Looker List all Looker user roles Emily Carter · ChatGPT · 9:41 AM Done
Looker Get single Looker user by ID Emily Carter · ChatGPT · 9:41 AM Done
Looker List all Looker users Emily Carter · ChatGPT · 9:41 AM Done
Looker Create a Looker user Megan Brooks · Claude · 9:38 AM Done
Looker Update a Looker user by ID Ryan Hayes · Cursor · 9:35 AM Done

How to connect Looker to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot

Step by step, for each AI app

Looker MCP connector for 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.

Looker MCP connector for Claude Code

  1. 1

    In a terminal, run claude mcp add with the endpoint.

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

    Start Claude Code and run /mcp.

  3. 3

    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.

Looker MCP connector for 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. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Looker MCP connector for 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.

Looker MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot

  1. 1

    In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.

  2. 2

    Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.

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

    Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.

  4. 4

    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 Looker 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.

What teams do with Looker through Elaichi

Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Looker is logged.

  • Data

    Set up a new analyst in Looker

    Create the Looker user, assign the right roles, and confirm the setup in one ask instead of clicking through the admin pages.

  • IT

    Review who holds which Looker role

    List every Looker user and role, spot people with more access than their job needs, and tighten a role without opening Looker.

  • Analytics

    Find out why an alert fired

    Search Looker alerts, read the notifications behind a threshold breach, and follow the ones that matter to your dashboards.

  • Operations

    Keep alert thresholds current

    Update a Looker alert when a target changes, or trigger it right away to check the new threshold behaves as expected.

  • Finance

    Follow revenue alerts without a Looker login

    Follow or unfollow Looker alerts on the numbers you care about, and catch the notification the moment a figure crosses a line.

  • IT

    Offboard a leaver from Looker

    Remove the departing person's Looker roles and delete the user, with the change recorded against whoever asked for it.

Try asking

  • “List Looker users who have no role assigned.”
  • “Which Looker alerts fired more than once this week?”
  • “Show roles added to Looker in the last 30 days.”

See all 294 Looker tools →

What connecting Looker gets you

6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Looker account.

Elaichi Agent

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

List Looker users who have no role assigned.

Which Looker alerts fired more than once this week?

Show roles added to Looker in the last 30 days.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot

The agent

Ask about Looker users and roles in plain language.

Starter prompts return answers from live Looker users, roles and alerts.

ElaichiAI apps
Claude ChatGPT Cursor Microsoft Copilot

Copy the endpoint

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

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

AI apps

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot reach Looker through one endpoint.

Connect any MCP client over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Looker users List Get information about all users in Looker. Returns user details including id, display_name, email, first_name, last_name, is_disabled, and credentials information.
Get single Looker user by ID Get Get information about the user with a specific id in Looker. Returns full user information if the caller is an admin or the user themselves; otherwise returns minimal public info including user name and avatar URL.
Delete a Looker user by ID Delete Delete the user with id in Looker. This operation deletes the user and all looks and other information owned by the user.
Create a Looker user Create Create a user with the specified information in Looker. Returns the created user's id, display_name, email, first_name, last_name, is_disabled status, locale, role_ids, group_ids, and credentials details.
Update a Looker user by ID Update Update information about the user with a specific id in Looker. Returns the updated user object including id, first_name, last_name, email, display_name, is_disabled, locale, role_ids, group_ids, and credentials details.

Tool catalog

294 Looker tools are ready without custom code.

Browse tool names, resources and methods across Looker users, roles, alerts and dashboards.

ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Data platform toolbox

Looker · roles and permission sets

Looker starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Analytics engineering toolbox

Looker · looks and dashboards

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Revenue operations toolbox

Looker · sales dashboards and alerts

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Finance toolbox

Looker · scheduled reports and queries

Looker starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

IT administration toolbox

Looker · users and group membership

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Customer support toolbox

Looker · read-only looks and alerts

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Looker toolbox.

Curate one toolbox per team and scope it to the Looker work they do.

ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
LO

Looker (Data platform)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
LO

Looker (Analytics EMEA)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
LO

Looker (Revenue operations)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
LO

Looker (Finance reporting)

Connected by Tyler Reed

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

Looker (IT administration)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
LO

Looker (Support read-only)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Shared connections

Teammates query Looker without seeing a credential.

The connections table shows who connected each Looker account and which teams share it.

ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

[email protected]

Looker Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

[email protected]

Looker Users Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

[email protected]

Looker Users List Toolbox

Audit log

Every Looker call is answerable after the fact.

The append-only log records when, who, what happened, type and Looker resource.

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.

Looker digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch users

    Looker

    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 Jake Morgan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Looker

    Queued

Automations

A schedule fires and the Looker digest ships.

Six steps fetch Looker alerts, group them, draft a digest, await approval, then post back.

Looker health

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

Live

Users

1,284 ↓ 12%

Roles

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Users created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Data platform 34%

Analytics EMEA 27%

Revenue operations 21%

Finance reporting 18%

Collections and dashboards

Looker health arrives before anyone asks for it.

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

For IT and engineering

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Looker

All three can connect Looker to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Looker, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Looker tools Allow or restrict single Looker 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 Looker 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.

Looker tools for your AI agents

294 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Looker, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

Showing 274 of 294 Looker tools here. Connect Looker and call search_tools or tools/list over the MCP endpoint for the complete set.

Questions, answered

How do I connect Looker to Claude?

Connecting Looker takes two steps. First, connect Looker in Elaichi by entering its app credentials once; there is 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 in https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and Looker is ready in Claude.

Does Looker work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Looker 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 Looker once and every client picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Looker data?

With Looker connected, an agent can list and look up Looker users, create or update them, and assign or change roles. It can search Looker alerts, follow or unfollow them, read the notifications behind them, update their thresholds, trigger one on demand, and list your Looker boards. Short, concrete asks such as "show me every Looker user with the Admin role" work better than long paragraphs, because Looker has hundreds of actions and the agent searches for the right one.

Does connecting Looker give the AI access to every user, role, and alert?

No. Every call to Looker runs inside the access of the person who signed in, so an agent sees the Looker users, roles, alerts, and boards that person could already see. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example by restricting role changes or user deletion for a role, but it can never widen what Looker already allows.

Can my team share one Looker connection?

Yes. One person connects Looker in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the Looker credentials. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every change to a Looker user, role, or alert is logged under the name of the person who made it.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Looker?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Looker users and alerts while restricting user deletion, role edits, or alert changes. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.

What happens to a Looker connection when someone leaves?

When you offboard a person in Elaichi, their access to Looker through Elaichi ends at once, and every client they used stops working for them. A shared Looker connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want Looker gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and every other client at the same time.

Does the Looker MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Looker 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 Looker?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Looker. 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 Looker call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Looker?

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 Looker: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Looker 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