Z.ai MCP connector
Connect Z.ai to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, or the Elaichi Agent can generate images and video, transcribe audio, parse documents, search the web, and run Z.ai agents, with every request logged under the person who made it.
- Connects with an API key
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
ChatGPT
Elaichi connected
Summarize this week's Z.ai image generations by team.
Working in Z.ai with Elaichi
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Get single Z.ai paas async result by ID
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Governance
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Audit log
Last 24 hours
ChatGPT · 9:41 AM
Done
ChatGPT · 9:41 AM
Done
ChatGPT · 9:41 AM
Done
Claude · 9:38 AM
Done
Cursor · 9:35 AM
Done
How to connect Z.ai to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Z.ai 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.
Z.ai 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.
Z.ai 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.
Z.ai 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.
Z.ai 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 Z.ai 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 Z.ai through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Z.ai is logged.
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Marketing
Turn a campaign brief into visuals
Describe the shot you need and get Z.ai images back for a landing page, ad, or social post. Ask for a different angle or color palette and the next version arrives in the same conversation.
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Marketing
Draft a short product video from a script
Hand Z.ai a scene description and a script, then check back for the finished clip once it has rendered. Longer jobs run in the background so nobody sits and waits.
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Support
Transcribe a recorded customer call
Drop in the recording and Z.ai returns a transcript you can read, quote from, and turn into follow-up actions. No more scrubbing through audio to find the moment a customer raised a complaint.
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Operations
Pull the tables out of a scanned contract
Upload a PDF or scan and Z.ai's layout parsing returns the headings, paragraphs, and tables in order. Ask for the payment terms or renewal dates and get them from the right section.
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Research
Read a competitor page and brief the team
Ask for a web search on a topic, have Z.ai read the pages that matter, and get a summary with the sources named. Useful before a pitch, a board update, or a pricing review.
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Product
Set up a Z.ai agent for a recurring task
Create a Z.ai agent with the instructions for a job your team repeats, then start conversations with it and collect the results as they finish. One person configures it, everyone uses it.
Try asking
- “Summarize this week's Z.ai image generations by team.”
- “Which transcriptions did Support run in Z.ai yesterday?”
- “List Z.ai files uploaded by Research this month.”
What connecting Z.ai gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Z.ai account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize this week's Z.ai image generations by team.
Which transcriptions did Support run in Z.ai yesterday?
List Z.ai files uploaded by Research this month.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about Z.ai runs in plain language.
Starter prompts answer from live Z.ai completions, generations and files.
ElaichiAI appsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot reach Z.ai.
One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.
ElaichiToolsTool catalog
14 Z.ai tools ready without custom code.
Browse every Z.ai tool name, resource and method in one catalog.
ElaichiToolboxesToolboxes
Every team gets its own Z.ai toolbox.
Toolboxes scope Z.ai completions, generations and agents to the teams that need them.
ElaichiConnectionsShared connections
Teammates use Z.ai without seeing a key.
See who connected each Z.ai account and how many teams share it.
ElaichiAudit logAudit log
Answer who ran which Z.ai call.
Append-only log records when, who, what happened, type and 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.
Z.ai 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 completions
Z.ai
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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 Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Z.ai
Queued
Automations
A schedule drives Z.ai work end to end.
Six steps fetch Z.ai completions, group them, draft a digest, await approval, post back.
Z.ai health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the completions collection
Completions
1,284 ↓ 12%
Generations
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Completions created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Research 34%
Content Studio 27%
Support 21%
Engineering 18%
Collections and dashboards
Z.ai health counted, not asked for.
Four metrics, 14 days of generations and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Z.ai
All three can connect Z.ai 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 Z.ai tools | Allow or restrict single Z.ai 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 Z.ai 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.
Z.ai tools for your AI agents
14 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Z.ai, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
Questions, answered
How do I connect Z.ai to Claude?
First connect Z.ai in Elaichi by pasting in the API key from your Z.ai account, which takes under a minute. 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 with your Elaichi account and Z.ai appears in Claude ready to use.
Does Z.ai work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Z.ai is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, the Elaichi Agent, and any other MCP client. You connect Z.ai once and every client your team uses picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with Z.ai?
Through this connector an agent can ask Z.ai to write or answer in chat, generate images and video, transcribe audio recordings, and parse the layout of a PDF or scanned document into readable text and tables. It can also run a Z.ai web search, read a web page into text, upload a file for Z.ai to work on, count tokens before a long request, and create and talk to Z.ai agents. Long jobs like video run in the background and the agent collects the result when it is ready.
Does connecting Z.ai give the AI access to everything in my Z.ai account?
Z.ai connects with an API key, so the connection can do exactly what that key's Z.ai account allows and nothing beyond it. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example by allowing transcription and document parsing but not video generation, and it can never widen what the key already permits. Every request is recorded against the person who made it, not against the key.
Can I stop an agent from running expensive or unwanted actions in Z.ai?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow Z.ai chat and transcription while restricting image or video generation for a given role. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, or any other client cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
What happens to a Z.ai connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Z.ai at once across every client they had connected. If they were using a shared Z.ai connection, it keeps working for everyone else on the team. Disconnecting Z.ai once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and every other client at the same time.
Does the Z.ai MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Z.ai 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 Z.ai?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Z.ai. 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 Z.ai call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Z.ai?
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 Z.ai: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Z.ai 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