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Summary
Drive Zendesk Support (the help-desk product) from any AI agent: tickets, users, organizations, groups, macros, views, search. 18 tools covering the most common agent workflows. Basic-auth with email+API token.
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Zendesk Support + ChatGPT
Drive Zendesk Support (the help-desk product) from any AI agent: tickets, users, organizations, groups, macros, views, search. 18 tools covering the most common agent workflows. Basic-auth with email+API token.
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:
ZENDESK_SUBDOMAIN, ZENDESK_EMAIL, ZENDESK_API_TOKEN
Step 1 — Get credentials
Setup:
- Sign in to Zendesk as an admin → Admin Center → Apps and integrations → APIs → Zendesk API → Settings → Token access ON.
- Add API token, label it (e.g. 'AnythingMCP'), copy the generated token. It's shown ONCE.
- Set:
ZENDESK_SUBDOMAIN= your account subdomain (e.g.acmeif your URL isacme.zendesk.com)ZENDESK_EMAIL= the agent email of an admin user (the requests will be attributed to this user)ZENDESK_API_TOKEN= the token from step 2
…(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 ChatGPT
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.
ChatGPT connects to MCP servers as custom apps in developer mode, available on paid plans (not on Free). On Business and Enterprise workspaces an admin may have to allow it first.
- In ChatGPT, open Settings → Security and login and turn on Developer mode.
- Go to chatgpt.com/plugins and click +.
- Enter a name and a short description, e.g. Name:
Zendesk Support. - Under Connection, enter the MCP server URL
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_IDand create the connection. - When ChatGPT asks, sign in to AnythingMCP (OAuth) and allow access.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
zendesk_get_current_user | Return the agent user that the API credentials belong to (whoami) |
zendesk_search | Universal search using Zendesk's Lucene-like query syntax |
zendesk_list_tickets | List tickets (cursor-paginated, newest first) |
zendesk_get_ticket | Fetch a single ticket by ID with all fields including custom_fields, tags, requester_id, assignee_id, group_id, status, priority, satisfacti |
zendesk_create_ticket | Create a new ticket |
zendesk_update_ticket | Update a ticket |
zendesk_delete_ticket | Hard-delete a ticket (subject to GDPR retention policy) |
zendesk_list_ticket_comments | List all comments (public replies and internal notes) on a ticket, ordered by creation time |
zendesk_list_users | List users (end-users, agents, admins) |
zendesk_get_user | Fetch a single user by ID |
zendesk_create_or_update_user | Upsert a user by email (matches existing if email already in system) |
zendesk_list_organizations | List organizations |
zendesk_create_organization | Create a new organization |
zendesk_list_groups | List agent groups (used for ticket assignment routing) |
zendesk_list_views | List views — Zendesk's saved filter+sort definitions for tickets |
zendesk_execute_view | Run a view and return the tickets it currently matches |
zendesk_list_ticket_fields | List all ticket fields including custom ones with their IDs, types and allowed values |
zendesk_list_macros | List macros (saved sets of ticket updates an agent can apply with one click — e |
FAQ
Does the free ChatGPT plan work with custom MCP connectors? No. Custom MCP connections need developer mode, which is only on paid plans.
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