About supportchat
supportchat wraps a core set of Intercom REST API operations for conversations, contacts, tags, and articles, for developers and agents working with Intercom support. It uses an access token for API requests and does not reproduce hosted OAuth.
Key features
- 01List, search, and retrieve conversations
- 02Reply to or close conversations
- 03List, create, and update contacts
- 04List tags and tag contacts
- 05List articles
Use cases
- 01Find open support conversations
- 02Reply to or close a customer conversation
- 03Maintain contact details and tags
- 04Browse Intercom articles
MCP support
It runs as a stdio MCP server and exposes 12 Intercom REST API tools to MCP clients. Calls require INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
12Saved tool list · updated 1w ago
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| state | string | No | Optional conversation state to filter by, passed as the state query parameter. |
| per_page | number | No | Optional maximum number of conversations to return per page. |
Details
From the project READMEsupportchat
Intercom support conversations as MCP tools, talking to the Intercom REST API. supportchat is a clean-room rebuild of the core surface of the Intercom MCP server, under a new name: fresh code, no copied branding. The original is Intercom's hosted remote MCP (OAuth); hosted OAuth is NOT reproduced — this rebuild is a token REST client for the same API.
Tools (core subset, 12)
list_conversations, get_conversation, reply_to_conversation,
close_conversation, search_conversations, list_contacts,
get_contact, create_contact, update_contact, list_tags,
tag_contact, list_articles.
Not in this subset: article detail (get_article, dropped to keep exactly 12), companies, teams and teammates admin, events and data attributes, notes, tickets, workflows, visitor conversion tools, and counts and reporting exports.
Setup
Create an access token for your Intercom workspace and set it:
export INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN=dG9r...
Optionally override the API base with INTERCOM_API_BASE_URL
(default https://api.intercom.io). Every request carries the
Intercom-Version: 2.11 header. Without the token, every tool call
fails with an error naming the missing variable. Replying and closing
conversations require the acting admin's admin_id.
CLI
npx @reneturcios/supportchat list_conversations '{"state":"open"}'
npx @reneturcios/supportchat mcp # stdio MCP server
Each tool name is a subcommand taking one JSON object argument.
MCP client config
{
"mcpServers": {
"supportchat": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/supportchat", "mcp"],
"env": { "INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN": "dG9r..." }
}
}
}
Docker
docker run -i -e INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/supportchat
Development
npm install
npm run build
npm test
License
MIT
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