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How to Connect EspoCRM to Gemini — via MCP

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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EspoCRM

EspoCRM

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.

tools

9

Region

INTL

Category

CRM

Authentication

API Key

Required env vars

ESPOCRM_URLESPOCRM_API_KEY
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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 + Gemini

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

  1. In EspoCRM go to Administration → API Users and create an API user. Choose API Key authentication (not HMAC — this adapter sends the plain key).
  2. 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.
  3. Copy the generated key into ESPOCRM_API_KEY and set ESPOCRM_URL to 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 Gemini

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 shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (or %APPDATA%\gemini\settings.json on Windows). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}
  1. Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
  2. Save the file and restart gemini.
  3. Run /mcp inside the Gemini CLI — EspoCRM should be listed as available.
  4. Vertex AI Studio: pass https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID to the tools array of your request with the same X-API-Key header.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
espocrm_get_app_userRead the API user this key belongs to, with their roles and the entity permissions they carry
espocrm_list_entitiesList records of any entity type with a single where clause
espocrm_get_entityRead one record of any entity type by id, with every attribute the API user's role permits
espocrm_list_accountsList accounts — the customer companies — with their name, industry, website, phone, billing city and assigned user
espocrm_list_contactsList contacts with their name, account, e-mail, phone and title, to find the person before logging an interaction against them
espocrm_list_opportunitiesList opportunities with their name, account, amount, stage, probability and close date — the sales-pipeline view
espocrm_list_leadsList leads with their name, company, status, source, e-mail and phone — the top of the funnel, before conversion into an account
espocrm_list_casesList support cases with their number, subject, status, priority, account and assigned user
espocrm_get_relatedList the records linked to one record — the contacts on an account, the opportunities on a contact, the activities on anything

FAQ

Does Gemini 1.5 Pro or 2.x support MCP? Yes — Gemini CLI ≥ 0.4 and Vertex AI tools API both accept MCP httpUrl connectors with custom headers.

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