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Zoho Desk MCP connector
The Zoho Desk connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent read, create, update, merge, and close Zoho Desk tickets as the person who signed in, with every action recorded in an audit log.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. 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 Zoho Desk to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Zoho Desk once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Zoho Desk.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Approve it in Zoho Desk. Zoho Desk's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.
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 Zoho Desk 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.
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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 Zoho Desk 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 Zoho Desk 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 Zoho Desk to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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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 Zoho Desk 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 ticket up after a customer call
Ask the agent to pull up the Zoho Desk ticket by its number, read the latest thread, and update the status, priority, or notes so the record matches what was just agreed on the phone.
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Support
Merge duplicate tickets from the same customer
When one customer emails three times about the same problem, ask the agent to find the matching Zoho Desk tickets and merge them into one so the conversation lives in a single place.
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Support leads
Close out a batch of resolved tickets
At the end of a shift, ask for every open Zoho Desk ticket that has had no reply in a week, review the list, and close them in one go instead of clicking through each one.
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Support leads
Route a backlog to the right agents
Ask the agent to run skill based assignment on the unassigned Zoho Desk tickets in a department so billing questions land with billing agents and technical ones with the right specialists.
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Customer success
Suggest help articles before you reply
Open a Zoho Desk ticket and ask which knowledge base articles fit the question, then attach the useful ones to the ticket so the reply goes out with a link the customer can keep.
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IT helpdesk
Clear spam and split mixed requests
Ask the agent to mark junk Zoho Desk tickets as spam and empty the spam folder, or split a ticket that bundles two unrelated requests into two tickets that can be worked separately.
Try asking
- “List tickets opened this week in Billing Support.”
- “Summarize the oldest ten unresolved tickets by department.”
- “Close the spam tickets flagged since Monday.”
AI tools
Zoho Desk tools for your AI agents
650 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Zoho Desk, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting Zoho Desk gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Zoho Desk account.
The agent
Ask about tickets, get answers back.
Plain language questions run against live Zoho Desk tickets, contacts and agents.
- tickets
- threads
- contacts
- departments
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
List tickets opened this week in Billing Support.
Summarize the oldest ten unresolved tickets by department.
Close the spam tickets flagged since Monday.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor share one endpoint.
Connect Zoho Desk from any MCP client over OAuth, no SDK, no shared key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
650 Zoho Desk tools, ready to call.
Tickets, threads, contacts and departments exposed as tools with no custom code.
- List all Zoho Desk tickets
- Get single Zoho Desk ticket by ID
- Create a Zoho Desk ticket
- Update a Zoho Desk ticket by ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Support, escalations and reporting each see a curated set of Zoho Desk tools.
- Support
- Escalations
- Customer Success
- Quality
Shared connections
Teammates use the desk, never the credential.
One person connects Zoho Desk, then shares it with teams and members.
- Support EMEA
- Support APAC
- Billing Desk
- Enterprise Escalations
Audit log
Every ticket call is on the record.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each Zoho Desk call.
- 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.
Fetch tickets, group them, draft a digest, approve it, post back to Zoho Desk.
Zoho Desk 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 tickets
Zoho Desk
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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
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Post the digest
Zoho Desk
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Ticket health lands before anyone asks.
Four metrics, 14 days of tickets created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
Zoho Desk health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the tickets collection
Tickets
1,284 ↓ 12%
Threads
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Tickets created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support EMEA 34%
Support APAC 27%
Billing Desk 21%
Enterprise Escalations 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Zoho Desk to Claude?
First connect Zoho Desk in Elaichi: choose it from the catalog and you are sent to the normal Zoho sign-in page, where you log in with your own Zoho account and approve access. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the endpoint. Claude asks you to sign in to Elaichi once, and from then on it can work with your Zoho Desk tickets as you.
Does Zoho Desk work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Zoho Desk is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, is what you paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Zoho Desk once and every client uses that one connection.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Zoho Desk data?
An agent connected to Zoho Desk can look up a ticket by number or ID, read the threads on it, list tickets that match a filter, create new tickets, and update fields such as status, priority, or owner. It can also merge duplicates, split a ticket in two, move a ticket to another department, close many tickets at once, mark tickets as spam or unread, view a ticket's history, run skill based assignment, and suggest and attach relevant help articles. Because Zoho Desk offers a lot of actions, short concrete asks like "close ticket 4821" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Zoho Desk give the AI access to every department and ticket?
No. When you connect Zoho Desk you sign in as yourself, so the agent can only see the departments, tickets, and threads that your own Zoho Desk role and profile already allow. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example by hiding delete or merge actions from a team, but it can never grant the agent anything your Zoho Desk account does not have.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing tickets in Zoho Desk?
Yes. In Elaichi you can restrict Zoho Desk action by action, so a team might be allowed to read tickets and threads but not delete tickets, empty spam, or bulk update them. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Zoho Desk connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard a person in Elaichi, their access to Zoho Desk through every AI client ends at once. If they had shared a Zoho Desk connection with a team, that connection keeps working for everyone else, and each remaining person still acts under their own sign-in. If you ever want Zoho Desk gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client in the same step.
Put Zoho Desk in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.