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.
Guided setup
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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.
Setup
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)
Prerequisites: ESPOCRM_URL, ESPOCRM_API_KEY
Install the connector locally
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
Open http://localhost:3000/connectors/store, pick EspoCRM and paste in the env vars listed under Prerequisites.
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 |
Next steps
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