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Unthread MCP connector

The Unthread connector brings your Unthread conversations, customers, accounts and approval requests to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI clients, so each person can read, update and create them inside their own Unthread access, with every action logged.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. 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 Unthread to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Unthread once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Unthread.

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

  3. Paste an Unthread API key. One person generates a token in Unthread 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.

unthread
Unthread
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 Unthread 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 Unthread 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 Unthread 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 Unthread 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 Unthread through Elaichi

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

  • Support

    Catch a conversation up after a customer call

    Pull up the open Unthread conversation for a customer, add what was agreed on the call, and assign a collaborator to pick up the follow-up.

  • Support

    Loop the right people into a ticket

    Add a product manager as a follower on a Unthread conversation so they see every reply, and remove them once the question is settled.

  • Customer success

    Keep customer records current

    Create a customer when a new company starts writing in, update the record when their contact or plan changes, and list accounts before a renewal check-in.

  • Support leadership

    Review what is open across the queue

    Ask for the Unthread conversations still open this week, grouped by customer, and spot the accounts that have been waiting longest.

  • Operations

    Raise an approval request from a conversation

    When a refund or exception comes up in a Unthread conversation, create an approval request so the decision is recorded and routed rather than lost in a thread.

  • Engineering

    Hand a bug off without leaving Unthread

    Create an external task from a Unthread conversation so the engineering team gets the report in their tracker while the customer thread stays linked to it.

Try asking

  • “Summarize open Unthread conversations for the Acme account this week.”
  • “Which Unthread approval requests are still waiting on someone?”
  • “List Unthread accounts with more than five conversations today.”

See all 66 Unthread tools below

AI tools

Unthread tools for your AI agents

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

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Unthread gets you

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

The agent

Ask about conversations, get real answers.

Plain language questions run against live Unthread conversations, accounts and approval requests.

  • conversations
  • accounts
  • approval requests
  • automations

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Summarize open Unthread conversations for the Acme account this week.

Which Unthread approval requests are still waiting on someone?

List Unthread accounts with more than five conversations today.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Unthread.

One governed MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API 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

66 Unthread tools ready to call.

Conversations, accounts, automations and collaborator types are covered without custom code.

  • Create a Unthread account
  • Get single Unthread account by ID
  • Update a Unthread account by ID
  • Delete a Unthread account by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
Create a Unthread account Create Create a new account in Unthread. Returns the created account including id, name, primarySupportAssigneeId, primarySupportAssigneeType, secondarySupportAssigneeId, secondarySupportAssigneeType, emailsAndDomains, slackChannelIds, slackTeamIds, customFields, supportSteps, imageUrl, externalCrmMetadata, createdAt, updatedAt, createdBy, updatedBy, slackChannels, slackTeams, and tags. Required: name.
Get single Unthread account by ID Get Get a single Unthread account by id. Returns the account including id, name, emailsAndDomains, slackChannelIds, slackTeamIds, customFields, supportSteps, imageUrl, externalCrmMetadata, createdAt, updatedAt, createdBy, updatedBy, slackChannels, slackTeams, and tags. Required: id.
Update a Unthread account by ID Update Update a Unthread account by id. All fields from the create request schema can be updated. Returns the updated account including id, name, emailsAndDomains, slackChannelIds, slackTeamIds, customFields, supportSteps, imageUrl, externalCrmMetadata, createdAt, updatedAt, createdBy, updatedBy, slackChannels, slackTeams, and tags. Required: id.
Delete a Unthread account by ID Delete Delete a Unthread account by id. Returns an empty 204 response on success. Required: id.
List all Unthread accounts List List Unthread accounts following the standard list conventions with select, order, where, and descending filters. Returns each account with id, name, emailsAndDomains, slackChannelIds, slackTeamIds, customFields, supportSteps, imageUrl, externalCrmMetadata, createdAt, updatedAt, createdBy, updatedBy, slackChannels, slackTeams, and tags. Max 100 per page.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own toolbox.

Support, sales and ops each see a curated slice of Unthread tools.

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

Support toolbox

Unthread · conversations and replies

Unthread starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Customer Success toolbox

Unthread · accounts and escalations

9 Mar 2, 2026

Sales toolbox

Unthread · account records and intros

24 Feb 27, 2026

Engineering toolbox

Unthread · bug reports and triage

Unthread starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Operations toolbox

Unthread · automations and approval requests

31 Jan 30, 2026

Finance toolbox

Unthread · approval requests and billing tickets

12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates work without seeing a credential.

Each Unthread connection shows who connected it and which teams and members share it.

  • Support EMEA
  • Support US
  • Customer Success
  • Engineering Triage
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
UN

Unthread (Support EMEA)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
UN

Unthread (Support US)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
UN

Unthread (Customer Success)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
UN

Unthread (Engineering Triage)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

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

Unthread (Enterprise Accounts)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
UN

Unthread (Operations)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Unthread call is on the record.

When, who, what happened, type and resource for each conversation or account 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]

Unthread Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Unthread Conversations Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Unthread 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 fires, a digest ships.

Unthread conversations are fetched, grouped, drafted by an agent, approved, then posted back.

Unthread digest

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

  1. Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. Fetch conversations

    Unthread

    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

    Unthread

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Unthread health arrives before you ask.

Four metrics, 14 days of conversations created, split by team, refreshed on schedule.

Unthread health

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

Live

Conversations

1,284 ↓ 12%

Accounts

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%

Engineering Triage 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Unthread to Claude?

Connect Unthread in Elaichi first, then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste in https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. The Unthread step is pasting an API key from your Unthread settings into Elaichi, and that is the whole sign-in. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate.

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

Yes. Once Unthread 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 Unthread once and every client uses it.

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

It can read and update Unthread conversations, add or remove followers, assign a collaborator, create an external task from a thread, and download a file attached to a conversation. It can also create and update customers and accounts, raise approval requests, and set up or activate automations. Because Unthread has many actions available, short concrete asks such as list open conversations for Acme work better than long sentences.

Does connecting Unthread give the AI everything in my helpdesk?

No. Every call runs as the person who signed in, so the AI sees only the Unthread conversations, customers and accounts that person's own Unthread key already allows. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions per team, but it can never widen what Unthread itself grants.

Can my team share one Unthread connection?

Yes. One person connects Unthread in Elaichi and shares it with a team, and nobody else ever handles the API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person behind every Unthread action, not the account owner.

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

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading Unthread conversations while blocking updates to customers or the deletion of accounts entirely. A blocked action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to a Unthread connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Unthread through every AI client at once. A shared Unthread connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want the connector gone altogether, disconnecting Unthread once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client.

Put Unthread in front of your team

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