ServiceNow MCP connector
The ServiceNow connector brings incidents, user accounts, roles, and tables into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI clients, so people can raise, update, and review ServiceNow records inside their own access while every action is logged.
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Which sys_users gained new roles this week?
Working in ServiceNow with Elaichi
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List all ServiceNow sys users
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Get single ServiceNow sys user by ID
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List all ServiceNow sys user roles
How to connect ServiceNow to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
ServiceNow 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.
ServiceNow 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.
ServiceNow 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.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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.
ServiceNow 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.
ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in ServiceNow is logged.
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IT service desk
Raise an incident from a chat message
Describe the outage in plain language and have a ServiceNow incident created with the right short description, urgency, and assignment group. The record is ready before the caller hangs up.
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IT service desk
Catch an incident up after a call
Update the incident with what the user said, change its state, and reassign it without opening ServiceNow. The full record stays where the rest of the team expects it.
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IT operations
Summarize open incidents before standup
Ask for every open incident assigned to your group, grouped by priority, and get a plain summary of what is stuck and who owns it.
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People operations
Set up a new hire's ServiceNow account
Create the user record with name, email, department, and manager on day one, then grant the roles their job needs. Corrections later are a one line ask.
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Security and compliance
Check who holds an admin role
List the roles assigned to any ServiceNow user and confirm that access matches their current job. Remove a role the moment someone changes teams.
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Platform administration
Review custom tables without a console
List the tables defined in your ServiceNow instance, look up any one by name, and check its label and settings before a change window.
Try asking
- “Which sys_users gained new roles this week?”
- “Summarize open incidents assigned to the service desk.”
- “List sys_user_roles with more than twenty members.”
What connecting ServiceNow gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your ServiceNow account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which sys_users gained new roles this week?
Summarize open incidents assigned to the service desk.
List sys_user_roles with more than twenty members.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask in plain language, read live ServiceNow records.
Questions about users, roles and tables answered from live ServiceNow records.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot share one endpoint.
Connect any MCP client to ServiceNow over OAuth, no SDK, no shared API key.
Tool catalog
230 ServiceNow tools ready without custom code.
Browse tool names, resources and methods across users, roles and tables.
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own ServiceNow toolbox.
Service desk, IT operations and compliance each work from a separate curated toolbox.
Shared connections
Teammates use ServiceNow accounts, never the credential.
See who connected each account and how many teams and members share it.
Audit log
Answer who changed which ServiceNow record.
Every call logged with time, actor, action, type and ServiceNow 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.
ServiceNow digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch incidents
ServiceNow
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
0.1s -
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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
ServiceNow
Queued
Automations
A schedule starts work, a person approves it.
Fetch ServiceNow incidents, group them, draft a digest, approve, then post back.
ServiceNow health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the incidents collection
Incidents
1,284 ↓ 12%
Users
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Incidents created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Service desk 34%
IT operations EMEA 27%
Identity and access 21%
Change management 18%
Collections and dashboards
ServiceNow health numbers land before anyone asks.
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 ServiceNow
All three can connect ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow tools | Allow or restrict single ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow 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.
ServiceNow tools for your AI agents
230 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect ServiceNow, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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Questions, answered
How do I connect ServiceNow to Claude?
Connect ServiceNow in Elaichi by entering your ServiceNow instance app credentials when prompted. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the endpoint. Sign in to Elaichi when Claude asks and your ServiceNow incidents, users, roles, and tables are available in the conversation.
Does ServiceNow work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow once and every client you sign in to sees it, with the same access and the same audit log.
What can an AI agent actually do with my ServiceNow data?
An agent can look up and list ServiceNow incidents, create a new one, update fields like state, assignment group, and work notes, and close or delete a record where you are allowed to. It can also list ServiceNow users and their roles, create or update a user account, grant or remove a role, and look up the tables defined in your instance. Because ServiceNow has many actions available, short concrete asks like "reassign INC0012345 to the network team" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting ServiceNow give the AI access to my whole instance?
No. Every call to ServiceNow runs as the person who signed in, so the agent sees only the incidents, users, roles, and tables that person's own ServiceNow roles and access controls already allow. Elaichi can narrow that further by restricting actions for a role, but it can never widen access beyond what ServiceNow itself grants that person.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in ServiceNow?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading and creating ServiceNow incidents while restricting updates, deletes, or any change to users and roles. 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 ServiceNow connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding the person in Elaichi ends their access to ServiceNow through every AI client at once, with no need to touch each client separately. A shared ServiceNow connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you ever want to remove ServiceNow entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and every other client.
Does the ServiceNow MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use ServiceNow. 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 ServiceNow call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for ServiceNow?
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 ServiceNow: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put ServiceNow 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