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Summary
EspoCRM open-source CRM: accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, cases, calls, meetings and tasks, plus a generic entity route for custom entities. API-key auth against your own instance.
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Example prompts for EspoCRM
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
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EspoCRM + Claude
EspoCRM open-source CRM: accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, cases, calls, meetings and tasks, plus a generic entity route for custom entities. API-key auth against your own instance.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
ESPOCRM_URL, ESPOCRM_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
Getting a key
- In EspoCRM go to Administration → API Users and create an API user. Choose API Key authentication (not HMAC — this adapter sends the plain key).
- Assign a role that grants read access to the entities the agent should see. EspoCRM enforces roles per entity and per field, so a restricted role produces fewer rows and fewer columns rather than an error.
- Copy the generated key into
ESPOCRM_API_KEYand setESPOCRM_URLto your instance root (no trailing slash, no/api/v1).
The header is X-Api-Key.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Claude
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Recommended path — works on claude.ai web without editing any config file.
- In Claude, open Customize → Connectors.
- Click +, then Add custom connector.
- Enter a name, e.g.
EspoCRM, and the remote MCP server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID, then click Add. - Click Connect and sign in to AnythingMCP (OAuth) to allow access.
All tools below appear in your chat — start typing prompts.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
espocrm_get_app_user | Read the API user this key belongs to, with their roles and the entity permissions they carry |
espocrm_list_entities | List records of any entity type with a single where clause |
espocrm_get_entity | Read one record of any entity type by id, with every attribute the API user's role permits |
espocrm_list_accounts | List accounts — the customer companies — with their name, industry, website, phone, billing city and assigned user |
espocrm_list_contacts | List contacts with their name, account, e-mail, phone and title, to find the person before logging an interaction against them |
espocrm_list_opportunities | List opportunities with their name, account, amount, stage, probability and close date — the sales-pipeline view |
espocrm_list_leads | List leads with their name, company, status, source, e-mail and phone — the top of the funnel, before conversion into an account |
espocrm_list_cases | List support cases with their number, subject, status, priority, account and assigned user |
espocrm_get_related | List the records linked to one record — the contacts on an account, the opportunities on a contact, the activities on anything |
FAQ
Does it work with Claude Code as well as Claude Desktop? Yes — point both at https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID.
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