Integration · Team chat
AI agents for HelpCrunch
Find chats and customers, read messages, reply or leave private notes, start chats, and change status, assignee, department and tags in HelpCrunch.
- Actions
- 16
- Read
- 9
- Write
- 7
Actions
What your agents can do in HelpCrunch
16 actions. Each one is a tool your agents can call and a step your workflows can run.
Read 9
Look things up. Nothing changes.
List chats
Lists chats, 100 a page at most, sorted by creation, last customer message, last message or close date.
Search chats
Finds chats by their attributes.
Get a chat
Reads one chat by ID: status, customer, assignee, agents, department, rating, lastMessageText, createdAt, closedAt and snoozedUntil.
List messages in a chat
Reads a chat's messages, newest first, 100 a page at most.
Search customers
Finds customers by their attributes.
Get a customer
Reads one customer by HelpCrunch ID.
List agents
Lists the team members.
List departments
Lists departments.
List applications
Lists the account's applications (website widgets, mobile apps and messaging channels).
Write 7
Create, change or send.
Reply or add a private note
Posts a message in a chat on behalf of an agent (agent_id, from List agents).
Change a chat's status
Sets a chat's status to new, opened, pending, on hold, no communication or closed.
Assign a chat
Assigns a chat to an agent (from List agents).
Move a chat to a department
Assigns a chat to a department (from List departments).
Start a chat
Creates a chat for an existing customer in an application (a website widget or app, from List applications), optionally assigned to an agent or department.
Create a customer
Adds a customer with a name, email, phone, company, your own user ID, notes and tags (new tags are created).
Tag a customer
Adds tags to a customer (HelpCrunch tags customers, and a chat shows its customer's tags).
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your HelpCrunch account.
What you enter
- API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your HelpCrunch data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can list chats, search chats or get a chat in HelpCrunch, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update HelpCrunch
Have the agent reply or add a private note or change a chat's status in HelpCrunch as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Work from your CRM
Give one agent HubSpot and HelpCrunch: it can search contacts in HubSpot and reply or add a private note in HelpCrunch in the same run.
FAQ
HelpCrunch and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to HelpCrunch?
Yes. The HelpCrunch connector has 16 actions: 9 read and 7 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect HelpCrunch?
Paste an API key from your HelpCrunch account. You'll need: API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in HelpCrunch without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 7 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use HelpCrunch in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every HelpCrunch action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put HelpCrunch to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.