Can my team share one Z.ai connection?

Yes. One person connects Z.ai in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever sees or handles the API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the person who generated an image or transcribed a call, not just the shared account.

Artificial Intelligence

Z.ai MCP connector

Connect Z.ai to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, 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.

Connect on Elaichi How to connect

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.

14 tools

How to connect

How to connect Z.ai to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

In Elaichi

Connect Z.ai once

Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Z.ai.
Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
Paste a Z.ai API key. One person generates a token in Z.ai 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.

z.ai

All categories

Z.ai

AirOps

Algolia

Botpress

Chatvolt

Cohere

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 Z.ai to Claude

1

Open Customize, then Connectors.
2

Press Add.
3

Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
4

Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Connect Z.ai to ChatGPT

1

Open Plugins, then press the + button.
2

Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

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

Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
4

Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Connect Z.ai to Cursor

1

Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.
2

Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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 Z.ai to any MCP client

1

Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

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

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Use cases

What teams do with Z.ai through Elaichi

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”

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AI tools

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.

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What connecting Z.ai gets you

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

The agent

Ask about Z.ai runs in plain language.

Starter prompts answer from live Z.ai completions, generations and files.

completions
generations
transcriptions
files

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 or Cursor

MCP clients

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Z.ai.

One org 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

14 Z.ai tools ready without custom code.

Browse every Z.ai tool name, resource and method in one catalog.

Create a Z.ai chat completion
Create a Z.ai videos generation
Get single Z.ai paas async result by ID
Create a Z.ai images generation

ElaichiTools

Tool	Action	Description
Create a Z.ai chat completion	Create	Create a chat completion in zai that generates AI replies for a given conversation history. Supports multimodal inputs (text, image, video, file), function calling via tools, and both streaming and non-streaming output modes. Returns the completion object including id, model, choices, and usage. Required: model, messages.
Create a Z.ai videos generation	Create	Create a video generation task in Z.AI using CogVideoX or Vidu models from a text prompt, image URL, or pair of first/last frame images. Supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and first/last-frame-to-video workflows. Returns the created generation task. Returns: model, id, request_id, task_status. Required: model.
Get single Z.ai paas async result by ID	Get	Get the result of an asynchronous request in zai by task id. Returns the async result object with task-type-specific fields — either an AsyncVideoGenerationResponse or AsyncImageGenerationResponse depending on the originating task; consult the zai upstream docs for field-level details. Required: id.
Create a Z.ai images generation	Create	Generate a high-quality image from a text prompt using GLM-Image series models in zai. Returns: url, id, created_at. Required: model, prompt.
Create a Z.ai audio transcription	Create	Transcribe an audio file into text in zai using the GLM-ASR-2512 model, supporting multiple languages and optional real-time streaming output. Returns: id, created, request_id, model, text. Required: model.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Z.ai toolbox.

Toolboxes scope Z.ai completions, generations and agents to the teams that need them.

Research
Content
Support
Engineering

ElaichiToolboxes

Name	Source template	Tools	Created
Research toolbox Z.ai · completions and agents	Z.ai starter	18	Mar 4, 2026
Content toolbox Z.ai · image and video generations	—	9	Mar 2, 2026
Support toolbox Z.ai · transcriptions and web search	—	24	Feb 27, 2026
Engineering toolbox Z.ai · tokenizer and layout parsing	Z.ai starter	6	Feb 19, 2026
Data toolbox Z.ai · files and async results	—	31	Jan 30, 2026
Marketing toolbox Z.ai · reader and web search	—	12	Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates use Z.ai without seeing a key.

See who connected each Z.ai account and how many teams share it.

Research
Content Studio
Support
Engineering

ElaichiConnections

Connection	Scope	Status	Access
Z. Z.ai (Research) Connected by Emma Laurent	Personal	• Active	1 team · 6 members
Z. Z.ai (Content Studio) Connected by James Whitfield	Organization	• Active	3 teams · 24 members
Z. Z.ai (Support) Connected by Sofia Ricci	Organization	• Active	2 teams · 11 members
Z. Z.ai (Engineering) Connected by Daniel Ortega	Personal	• Needs re-auth	1 team · 3 members
Z. Z.ai (Data Platform) Connected by Clara Nowak	Personal	• Active	Not shared
Z. Z.ai (Marketing) Connected by Michael Brennan	Personal	• Active	2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Answer who ran which Z.ai call.

Append-only log records when, who, what happened, type and resource.

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]	Z.ai Users Updated	MCP
26 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM	C Clara Nowak [email protected]	Z.ai Completions Created	MCP
32 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM	M Michael Brennan [email protected]	Z.ai Completions 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 drives Z.ai work end to end.

Six steps fetch Z.ai completions, group them, draft a digest, await approval, post back.

Z.ai digest

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

Run now

✓

Schedule

Every weekday at 08:00

0.2s
✓

Fetch completions

Z.ai

1.4s
✓

Group by owner

Transform

0.1s
✓

Draft the digest

Agent step

Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

6.2s
Approve the digest

Needs approval

Assigned to Michael Brennan

Approve Deny
Post the digest

Z.ai

Queued

Collections and dashboards

Z.ai health counted, not asked for.

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

Z.ai health

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

Live

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%

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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, 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 blocking image or video generation for a given team. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

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, and every other client at the same time.

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