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Help Scout MCP Server MCP Server

Search Help Scout conversations, customers, organizations, threads, and inboxes with AI assistants

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Published as help-scout-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

9 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 6.

Most discussed

Feature request: Write tools — createDraftReply, createReply, updateConversationStatus

Summary

The MCP server currently provides excellent read-only access to HelpScout (conversations, customers, threads, organizations). However, there are no write tools available, which means AI assistants cannot complete common support workflows end-to-end.

The most immediately useful additions would be:

1. createDraftReply

Create a draft reply on an existing conversation.

API: POST /v2/conversations/{id}/reply with "draft": true

Use case: AI drafts a reply based on con

Read the thread · 2026-03-28 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Pagination issue with listing conversations

Claude actually pointed out the bug as such:

Both searchConversations and structuredConversationFilter have a cursor parameter defined in the schema but it's never used — the code always hardcodes page: 1: 

  const baseParams: Reco

[Read the thread](https://github.com/drewburchfield/help-scout-mcp-server/issues/21) · 2026-03-26 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Can't add with CoWork, but can add with Code

Using Claude Desktop, I am seeing the below issue under Desktop, but not under Code:

<img width="585" height="294" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/999e9836-5299-4db9-b134-14d47efc5007" />

[Read the thread](https://github.com/drewburchfield/help-scout-mcp-server/issues/20) · 2026-03-26 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Feature request: Support for conversation thread attachments

Hi! I've been using this MCP server and ran into a gap -- there's currently no way to see or retrieve attachments from conversation threads.

The Help Scout API already returns attachment metadata embedded in thread responses (`_embedded.attachments` on each thread from `GET /conversations/{id}/threads`), but the server's `ThreadSchema` doesn't model that field, so the data gets silently dropped.

**Proposal:**

1. **Surface attachment metadata in `getThreads` responses** -- Add an `AttachmentSc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/drewburchfield/help-scout-mcp-server/issues/17) · 2026-03-10 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Feature request: Add reply/write tools (createReply, updateConversation)

## Feature Request

The server currently only exposes read-only tools (search, list, get). The Help Scout Mailbox API v2 supports full write operations that would make this MCP server significantly more useful for AI-assisted support workflows.

## Requested Tools

### `createReply`
Send a reply on an existing conversation via [`POST /v2/conversations/{id}/reply`](https://developer.helpscout.com/mailbox-api/endpoints/conversations/threads/reply/).

Key parameters:
- `conversationId` (required)
-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/drewburchfield/help-scout-mcp-server/issues/14) · 2026-02-16 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Most recent

### REDACT_MESSAGE_CONTENT does not redact customer PII (names, email addresses) from API responses

First off — great project. The server is well-structured, easy to configure, and has genuinely improved how I work with Help Scout conversations in Claude. The inbox auto-discovery and conversation search tools in particular are excellent. Thank you for building and maintaining this.

Description
When REDACT_MESSAGE_CONTENT is enabled, the setting appears to only redact message body content. Customer PII such as full names and email addresses are still returned in API responses and surfaced in t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/drewburchfield/help-scout-mcp-server/issues/27) · 2026-06-11 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 9 reports Pod holds for Help Scout MCP Server](/mcp/help-scout-mcp-server/issues).

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