Zendesk MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server for Zendesk.

Note: This is a fork of reminia/zendesk-mcp-server with the following additions:

• search_tickets tool for searching tickets by text, filters, custom fields, and date ranges

This server provides a comprehensive integration with Zendesk. It offers:

• Tools for retrieving and managing Zendesk tickets and comments

• Ticket search with support for custom fields, filters, and date ranges

• Specialized prompts for ticket analysis and response drafting

• Full access to the Zendesk Help Center articles as knowledge base

Prerequisites

• uv - Python package manager (required)

  Install uv if you don't have it:

  # macOS/Linux
  curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
  
  # Or with Homebrew
  brew install uv

Related MCP server: zendesk-mcp

Setup

1. Clone the repository and note the full path (you'll need it for configuration):

   git clone <repo-url> /path/to/zendesk-mcp-server

2. Build the project:

   cd /path/to/zendesk-mcp-server
   uv venv && uv pip install -e .

3. Configure Zendesk credentials in a .env file:

   cp .env.example .env
   # Edit .env with your Zendesk subdomain, email, and API key

4. Configure in Claude Desktop (or Claude Code):

   Add to your MCP settings, replacing /path/to/zendesk-mcp-server with the absolute path to where you cloned the repo:

{
  "mcpServers": {
      "zendesk": {
          "command": "uv",
          "args": [
              "--directory",
              "/path/to/zendesk-mcp-server",
              "run",
              "zendesk"
          ]
      }
  }
}

Example paths:

• macOS: /Users/yourname/dev/zendesk-mcp-server

• Linux: /home/yourname/projects/zendesk-mcp-server

• Windows: C:\\Users\\yourname\\dev\\zendesk-mcp-server

zendesk-help Skill

The zendesk-help skill provides tools for searching and managing Zendesk tickets. If you upload the SKILL.md file to Claude Desktop, you can use the zendesk-help skill to search for tickets and manage them. This will make claude's use of the zendesk-mcp-server more seamless.

Resources

• zendesk://knowledge-base, get access to the whole help center articles.

Prompts

analyze-ticket

Analyze a Zendesk ticket and provide a detailed analysis of the ticket.

draft-ticket-response

Draft a response to a Zendesk ticket.

Tools

get_tickets

Fetch the latest tickets with pagination support

• Input:

  • page (integer, optional): Page number (defaults to 1)

  • per_page (integer, optional): Number of tickets per page, max 100 (defaults to 25)

  • sort_by (string, optional): Field to sort by - created_at, updated_at, priority, or status (defaults to created_at)

  • sort_order (string, optional): Sort order - asc or desc (defaults to desc)

• Output: Returns a list of tickets with essential fields including id, subject, status, priority, description, timestamps, and assignee information, along with pagination metadata

get_ticket

Retrieve a Zendesk ticket by its ID

• Input:

  • ticket_id (integer): The ID of the ticket to retrieve

get_ticket_comments

Retrieve all comments for a Zendesk ticket by its ID

• Input:

  • ticket_id (integer): The ID of the ticket to get comments for

create_ticket_comment

Create a new comment on an existing Zendesk ticket

• Input:

  • ticket_id (integer): The ID of the ticket to comment on

  • comment (string): The comment text/content to add

  • public (boolean, optional): Whether the comment should be public (defaults to true)

create_ticket

Create a new Zendesk ticket

• Input:

  • subject (string): Ticket subject

  • description (string): Ticket description

  • requester_id (integer, optional)

  • assignee_id (integer, optional)

  • priority (string, optional): one of low, normal, high, urgent

  • type (string, optional): one of problem, incident, question, task

  • tags (array[string], optional)

  • custom_fields (array[object], optional)

update_ticket

Update fields on an existing Zendesk ticket (e.g., status, priority, assignee)

• Input:

  • ticket_id (integer): The ID of the ticket to update

  • subject (string, optional)

  • status (string, optional): one of new, open, pending, on-hold, solved, closed

  • priority (string, optional): one of low, normal, high, urgent

  • type (string, optional)

  • assignee_id (integer, optional)

  • requester_id (integer, optional)

  • tags (array[string], optional)

  • custom_fields (array[object], optional)

  • due_at (string, optional): ISO8601 datetime

search_tickets

Search Zendesk tickets using query syntax with support for text search, filters, custom fields, and date ranges.

• Input:

  • query (string, optional): Text to search in subject/description

  • status (string, optional): Filter by status - new, open, pending, hold, solved, closed

  • priority (string, optional): Filter by priority - low, normal, high, urgent

  • assignee (string, optional): Filter by assignee email

  • requester (string, optional): Filter by requester email

  • tags (array[string], optional): Filter by tags

  • custom_field_id (integer, optional): Custom field ID to search

  • custom_field_value (string, optional): Value to match in custom field

  • created_after (string, optional): ISO date - tickets created after this date

  • created_before (string, optional): ISO date - tickets created before this date

  • sort_by (string, optional): Field to sort by - created_at, updated_at, priority, status (defaults to updated_at)

  • sort_order (string, optional): Sort order - asc or desc (defaults to desc)

  • limit (integer, optional): Max results, up to 100 (defaults to 25)

• Output: Returns matching tickets with id, subject, status, priority, description, timestamps, assignee info, and tags, along with search metadata

• Example - Search by custom field (e.g., transfer ID):

  {
    "custom_field_id": 23301179390491,
    "custom_field_value": "txn_abc123"
  }