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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.
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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 Unthread to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Unthread once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Unthread.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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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.
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
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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 Unthread 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 Unthread 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 Unthread 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 Unthread 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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.
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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.
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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
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Support, sales and ops each see a curated slice of Unthread tools.
- Support
- Customer Success
- Sales
- Engineering
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
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
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
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch conversations
Unthread
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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
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
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%
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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 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.