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How to Connect Zendesk Support to Gemini — via MCP

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

MCP connector

Zendesk Support

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.

Tools

18

Region

INTL

Category

Customer Support

Authentication

Basic Auth

Required env vars

ZENDESK_SUBDOMAINZENDESK_EMAILZENDESK_API_TOKEN
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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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Example prompts for Zendesk Support

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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Zendesk Support + Gemini

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:

  1. Sign in to Zendesk as an admin → Admin Center → Apps and integrations → APIs → Zendesk API → Settings → Token access ON.
  2. Add API token, label it (e.g. 'AnythingMCP'), copy the generated token. It's shown ONCE.
  3. Set:
    • ZENDESK_SUBDOMAIN = your account subdomain (e.g. acme if your URL is acme.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

git clone https://github.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp.git
cd anythingmcp && docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Gemini

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",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}
  1. Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → Profile → MCP API Keys → New Key.
  2. Save the file and restart gemini.
  3. Run /mcp inside the Gemini CLI — Zendesk Support should be listed as available.
  4. Vertex AI Studio: pass https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp to the tools array of your request with the same Bearer header.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
zendesk_get_current_userReturn the agent user that the API credentials belong to (whoami)
zendesk_searchUniversal search using Zendesk's Lucene-like query syntax
zendesk_list_ticketsList tickets (cursor-paginated, newest first)
zendesk_get_ticketFetch a single ticket by ID with all fields including custom_fields, tags, requester_id, assignee_id, group_id, status, priority, satisfacti
zendesk_create_ticketCreate a new ticket
zendesk_update_ticketUpdate a ticket
zendesk_delete_ticketHard-delete a ticket (subject to GDPR retention policy)
zendesk_list_ticket_commentsList all comments (public replies and internal notes) on a ticket, ordered by creation time
zendesk_list_usersList users (end-users, agents, admins)
zendesk_get_userFetch a single user by ID
zendesk_create_or_update_userUpsert a user by email (matches existing if email already in system)
zendesk_list_organizationsList organizations
zendesk_create_organizationCreate a new organization
zendesk_list_groupsList agent groups (used for ticket assignment routing)
zendesk_list_viewsList views — Zendesk's saved filter+sort definitions for tickets
zendesk_execute_viewRun a view and return the tickets it currently matches
zendesk_list_ticket_fieldsList all ticket fields including custom ones with their IDs, types and allowed values
zendesk_list_macrosList macros (saved sets of ticket updates an agent can apply with one click — e

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 Bearer headers.

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