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Summary
Zammad open-source helpdesk: tickets, their articles, users, organizations and groups, plus full-text search across the ticket base. REST API v1 on your own Zammad instance, token auth.
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Zammad + Cursor
Zammad open-source helpdesk: tickets, their articles, users, organizations and groups, plus full-text search across the ticket base. REST API v1 on your own Zammad instance, token auth.
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:
ZAMMAD_URL, ZAMMAD_API_TOKEN
Step 1 — Get credentials
Getting a token
- Sign in to Zammad, open your avatar → Profile → Token Access, and switch token access on if an admin has not already.
- Create a token with the permissions the agent needs —
ticket.agentto read and answer tickets,adminonly if you really want the agent to change configuration. - Put it in
ZAMMAD_API_TOKENand your instance's base URL (no trailing slash, no/api) inZAMMAD_URL.
The Authorization header is Token token=…, Zammad's own scheme — not Bearer. This adapter sends it correctly; it is the first thing to check when hand-building a Zammad connector that 401s with a token you know is good.
…(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 Cursor
Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:
{
"mcpServers": {
"anythingmcp": {
"url": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
}
}
}
- Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → Profile → MCP API Keys → New Key.
- Save the file and restart Cursor.
- Open Cursor → Settings → MCP to verify
Zammadis listed and "Connected". - Start chatting — all
Zammadtools are now invokable.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
zammad_get_me | Read the user the token belongs to, with their roles, group memberships and permissions |
zammad_list_tickets | List tickets, newest first, with state, priority, group, owner and customer |
zammad_search_tickets | Full-text search across tickets |
zammad_get_ticket | Read one ticket by number or id with all its attributes: state, priority, owner, customer, group, SLA and custom fields |
zammad_list_ticket_articles | Read the conversation on one ticket: every article in order, with sender, type, body and whether it is internal |
zammad_list_users | List users (agents and customers) with their name, e-mail, organization and active flag |
zammad_search_users | Find a user by name, e-mail or phone fragment — the usual first step before opening a ticket for somebody |
zammad_list_organizations | List organizations (the customer companies tickets are grouped under) with their domain, note and VIP flag |
zammad_list_groups | List the groups (queues) tickets are routed into, with their assignment and follow-up settings |
zammad_create_ticket | Open a real ticket in the live instance |
zammad_add_article | Add an article to an existing ticket |
FAQ
Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.
Next steps
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