HelpCenter.io for agents

MCP server · hosted · v2.5.1 · io.helpcenter/agent

Online · tested 2h agoNEW · 3h agoSeen in the registry 2h ago

Without an account, an AI agent can create or migrate a help center and hand its user a claim link.

What it does

HelpCenter.io for agents is an MCP server, a connector that lets an AI assistant use it as a tool. It is hosted: an assistant connects to it over the internet, nothing to install.

No capability identified yet from its description.

Facts come from the Official MCP Registry, as declared by the publisher. Capabilities are matched automatically (low confidence). None of this is a test of the tool.

At a glance

Hosted (remote)YES

Local installNO

Live checkOnline · 60 tools

Version2.5.1

PriceNot in the registry

First seen03 Nov 2026

Last checked2h ago

How to connect

As declared in the Official MCP Registry · hosted endpoint tested by Electra Index 2h ago (live check)

Hosted endpoint

https://mcp.helpcenter.io/agent streamable-http

In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http helpcenter-io-for-agents https://mcp.helpcenter.io/agent

MCP settings (Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helpcenter-io-for-agents": {
      "url": "https://mcp.helpcenter.io/agent"
    }
  }
}

Live check

Electra Index connected to the hosted endpoint 2h ago

ONLINE HelpCenter.io for agents answered an MCP connection on 03 Nov 2026 and introduced itself as helpcenter-mcp-server 2.5.1 (MCP protocol 2025-06-18).

60 tools offered to AI assistants

helpcenter_create_help_center · Create a new HelpCenter.io help center for the user, with no account and no sign-in: the first step of building or migrating a help center for someone who does not have HelpCenter.io yet. What it returns (also as structuredContent): site_id
helpcenter_request_migration · File a migration request: HelpCenter.io moves one or more knowledge bases (up to 50) into HelpCenter.io for the user, within 24 hours. Needs no agent_key and no account. Use it when a knowledge base is too big to fill yourself (more than 50
helpcenter_get_migration_request · Follow a migration request with the request_id and status_token helpcenter_request_migration returned. Needs no agent_key. Returns (also as structuredContent): status — queued, in_progress, with_our_team, completed or declined; the request
helpcenter_get_help_center · Read the status of the help center you created: whether the user has claimed it, when it is deleted, how full it is, a fresh preview link, and what is left to set up. Call it after writing content, before giving the user the claim link, and
helpcenter_discard_help_center · Delete the help center you created, with everything in it, and revoke its agent key. Irreversible. Only when the user asks for it, or when you created it by mistake (a wrong name or language). There is no need to clean up after handing over
helpcenter_list_imports · List the help center's imports, newest first (at most 50), each with its status, plan and progress. Includes an import the user set up in the dashboard, so you can follow and run a source they connected there (a private Zendesk help center,
helpcenter_scan_import · Read a public Zendesk Guide, Intercom, Document360, Help Scout Docs, Front Knowledge Base or HelpDocs help center and answer what importing it would bring: its categories, articles and languages, and where each language lands here. Imports
helpcenter_get_import · Read one import: its plan, what is chosen, and how a run is going — progress (articles created, updated, conflicts with edits made here, images copied and failed), the imported articles waiting for review, and error once a run stops. limit
helpcenter_choose_import · Choose which categories and languages an import brings, and whether articles arrive as drafts (the default) or as they are at the source. Starts nothing. While the help center is unclaimed, a choice that would take it past its 500 articles
helpcenter_run_import · Start an import now, with what is chosen, or run a finished or failed one again. The run reads the source in the background: follow it with helpcenter_get_import until status is completed or failed. Running again updates the articles it bro
helpcenter_cancel_import · Cancel an import: it never runs again and stops syncing. Nothing it already brought in is deleted, and scanning its address again later picks up what it brought, so nothing arrives twice. A queued or running import cannot be cancelled (impo
helpcenter_get_import_redirect_map · For every article and category an import brought in: the path its page had on the old help center ('from') and the path of the page that replaced it here ('to'), 200 a page, in exactly the shape helpcenter_bulk_create_redirects takes. Use i

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helpcenter_list_redirects · List the help center's redirects, newest first: each sends a path the help center would otherwise answer with its not-found page on to one of its pages, with a 301. Works once the user has claimed the help center, verified their email addre
helpcenter_create_redirect · Send an old path of the help center ('from') on to one of its pages ('to') with a 301, for as long as nothing else on the help center answers that path. A path that already has a redirect is re-pointed, never duplicated. Works once the user
helpcenter_bulk_create_redirects · helpcenter_create_redirect for up to 200 redirects in one call, saved in order (a later one for the same 'from' wins). A page of helpcenter_get_import_redirect_map can be passed as it is. Works once the user has claimed the help center, ver
helpcenter_delete_redirect · Delete a redirect: its path goes back to the help center's not-found page. Works once the user has claimed the help center, verified their email address and activated a plan; until then it answers capability_locked with the user's next step
helpcenter_get_custom_domain · Read the help center's custom domain: the domain, the DNS record the user must add at their DNS provider, and where it stands on the way to live. Poll it while the user sets up DNS: status moves from pending_dns through verifying and issuin
helpcenter_set_custom_domain · Connect the help center to the user's own domain (e.g. help.example.com), as its Settings page does. Then give the user the DNS record from the result to add at their DNS provider; the certificate is requested once the record points here, a
helpcenter_remove_custom_domain · Disconnect the help center from its custom domain, as its Settings page does: the domain stops answering, and the help center stays on its helpcenter.io address. Only when the user asks for it. Works once the user has claimed the help cente
helpcenter_search_articles · Full-text search a HelpCenter.io help center's articles by query string, returning ranked matches. This performs keyword search (Meilisearch-backed) over published article titles and content for the connected help center. Use it to answer "
helpcenter_list_articles · List and browse a HelpCenter.io help center's articles, optionally filtered by category, status or last update, and ordered by views. Use this to browse "what's in category Y" or "the most-viewed articles", or to walk every article for an a
helpcenter_create_article · Create a new article in the connected HelpCenter.io help center. Requires a write-scoped API key (read-scoped keys get a permission error). Titles, content, and slugs are per-language objects keyed by language code. Slugs auto-generate from
helpcenter_update_article · Update an existing article by id in the connected HelpCenter.io help center. Partial update: only the fields you pass are changed. Requires a write-scoped API key. Per-language fields (title, content, slug) are objects keyed by language cod
helpcenter_get_article · Read one article by id from the connected HelpCenter.io help center. Use this when you already know the id — after a search, or before editing — instead of paging through helpcenter_list_articles to find it again. Read-only. Also the way to
helpcenter_bulk_create_articles · Create or upsert many articles in one request. Use this for imports and migrations instead of calling helpcenter_create_article in a loop. Send at most 50 articles per call; split a larger import into batches of 50. Requires a write-scoped
helpcenter_get_staged_changes · Read the unpublished staged edits waiting on an article. Staged changes let you edit a PUBLISHED article without readers seeing it, then release it deliberately. Staged content is invisible to everything public: the rendered help center, si
helpcenter_stage_article_changes · Save an edit to a published article WITHOUT readers seeing it. Nothing goes live until you call helpcenter_publish_staged_changes. Staged changes let you edit a PUBLISHED article without readers seeing it, then release it deliberately. Stag
helpcenter_publish_staged_changes · Apply staged changes to the live article, making them visible to readers. Staged changes let you edit a PUBLISHED article without readers seeing it, then release it deliberately. Staged content is invisible to everything public: the rendere
helpcenter_discard_staged_changes · Throw away staged edits without publishing them. The live article is untouched. Staged changes let you edit a PUBLISHED article without readers seeing it, then release it deliberately. Staged content is invisible to everything public: the r
helpcenter_list_article_versions · List the archived previous versions of an article, so a past wording can be restored. Every publish archives the version it replaced. Read-only. Args: - article_id (number, required). - response_format ('markdown' | 'json'): default 'markdo
helpcenter_restore_article_version · Roll a live article back to a previously published version. Takes a version id from helpcenter_list_article_versions. The restore is itself archived, so it can be rolled forward again — this is reversible, but it DOES change what readers se
helpcenter_list_categories · List the categories of the connected HelpCenter.io help center. Read-only. Returns each category's per-language name and description, parent id (for hierarchy), and icon. Use this to discover valid category ids before creating or filing art
helpcenter_update_category · Update an existing category by id in the connected HelpCenter.io help center. Partial update — only fields you pass change. Requires a write-scoped API key. Name and description are per-language objects keyed by language code. Args: - categ
helpcenter_create_category · Create a category in the HelpCenter.io help center bound to your API key. Requires a write-scoped API key. This is what lets you build a help center's structure rather than only fill it in: create the categories first, then file articles in
helpcenter_delete_category · Delete a category from the HelpCenter.io help center bound to your API key. DESTRUCTIVE. The category is removed and its contents are moved somewhere else. Fails closed by default: a category holding articles or sub-categories answers 409 u
helpcenter_reorder_categories · Set the order of categories in the HelpCenter.io help center bound to your API key, in one call. Requires a write-scoped API key. Prefer this over repeated helpcenter_update_category calls: an information architecture is decided all at once
helpcenter_reorder_category_articles · Set the reading order of the articles inside one category. Requires a write-scoped API key. Args: - category_id (number, required): the category whose articles are being ordered. - articles (array, required): the articles in the order you w
helpcenter_get_template_guide · Learn what can be customized in a help center's design and exactly how: the model, every edit operation with an example, every component with the settings and values it accepts, theme tokens, custom CSS rules and hooks, scripts and navigati
helpcenter_get_template · Read a help center's current design (the draft): its status, the Template Editor link for the customer to review, and an outline of every page — or one part of the draft in full. A help center's design is its v2 template: theme tokens (colo
helpcenter_list_template_themes · List the ready-made themes a help center can start from, or describe one in full. A help center's design is its v2 template: theme tokens (colours for light and dark mode, fonts, radius, density), six page kinds (home, category, article, se
helpcenter_apply_template_theme · Start the draft from a ready-made theme — the Template Editor's "Compare & apply": copy all of a theme, or only some of its sections, onto the draft. A help center's design is its v2 template: theme tokens (colours for light and dark mode,
helpcenter_update_template_settings · Change document-level design settings in the draft: theme colours (light and dark), fonts, corner radius and density; the brand (name, logo, favicon); meta and SEO; and per-page settings such as a page's layout or how a category page lists
helpcenter_add_template_components · Add components to pages of the draft: a Hero, a CategoryGrid, FeaturedArticles, Faqs, RichText, a CustomHtml block, a Container… It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template Editor opens, wit
helpcenter_update_template_components · Change the settings of components already in the draft: a heading, a variant, a column count, a CustomHtml block's markup. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template Editor opens, with a li
helpcenter_move_template_components · Reorder or move components within their page: to another position among their siblings, to another region, into a Hero or Container, or out to the region's top level. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the
helpcenter_remove_template_components · Remove components from the draft, with everything nested inside them. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template Editor opens, with a live preview. Nothing reaches visitors until helpcenter
helpcenter_update_template_region · Style one region's wrapper on one page: its background, padding, bottom border and alignment. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template Editor opens, with a live preview. Nothing reaches v
helpcenter_sync_template_region · Make a region one shared copy on every page, or let each page keep its own. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template Editor opens, with a live preview. Nothing reaches visitors until help
helpcenter_copy_template_region · Copy one page's version of an unsynced region onto other pages, once, translations included. Each target page's region is replaced, and the pages stay independent afterwards; to keep them identical, sync the region with helpcenter_sync_temp
helpcenter_add_template_css · Add a labelled block of custom CSS to the design, to restyle components, regions or the whole help center beyond what the settings offer. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template Editor o
helpcenter_update_template_css · Change one custom CSS block: replace its CSS, rename it, switch it on or off, or move it in the order. Fields left out keep their value. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template Editor op
helpcenter_remove_template_css · Delete one custom CSS block from the draft. To see the design without it first, switch it off with helpcenter_update_template_css (enabled:false) instead. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's
helpcenter_add_template_script · Add a script or snippet to the help center's pages: an external script (src), inline JavaScript (inlineBody), or raw HTML such as a vendor snippet or a <meta> verification tag (htmlBody) — exactly one of the three — at the start or end of <
helpcenter_update_template_script · Change one script: its code (sending src, inlineBody or htmlBody switches it to that kind), position, pages, label or loading flags — or switch it off (enabled:false) without deleting it. Fields left out keep their value. It edits the help
helpcenter_remove_template_script · Delete one script or snippet from the draft. To stop it running but keep it, switch it off with helpcenter_update_template_script (enabled:false) instead. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's
helpcenter_set_template_navigation · Replace the help center's navigation menu — the one every Navigation component draws, in the header or elsewhere — with the items given, in order. It edits the help center's design DRAFT (its v2 template): the draft the dashboard's Template
helpcenter_publish_template · Put the draft live: every visitor sees the new design from now on. Records a version (restorable later) and starts a fresh draft from it — exactly the Template Editor's Publish button. A help center's design is its v2 template: theme tokens
helpcenter_discard_template_changes · Throw away every unpublished change in the draft and reset it to the live design. The live help center is not affected. Irreversible for the draft: edits that were never published cannot be recovered — including ones a person made in the Te
helpcenter_list_template_versions · List the help center's published design versions, newest first, marking the one that is live — with when, by whom and the publish note. Use it to find a version to bring back with helpcenter_restore_template_version. Args: - response_format
helpcenter_restore_template_version · Load an earlier published design into the DRAFT, replacing the draft's current content — to undo a change, or bring back a previous look. It does NOT go live until you publish it (unlike the Template Editor's one-click revert), so the custo

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Facts & evidence

Each fact shows where it was seen and when.

Fact	Value	Evidence	Source	Last confirmed
Hosted endpoint	https://mcp.helpcenter.io/agent	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	2h ago
Local install (package)	no	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	2h ago
Remote access (hosted)	yes	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	2h ago
Website	https://developers.helpcenter.io/content/connect-an-ai-assistant-to-your-help-center	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	2h ago
Registry status	active	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	2h ago
Version	2.5.1	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	2h ago
MCP server	yes	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	2h ago

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Questions about HelpCenter.io for agents

How do I connect HelpCenter.io for agents?

Use the hosted endpoint https://mcp.helpcenter.io/agent in your assistant's MCP settings. The exact settings are in "How to connect" above, as declared in the Official MCP Registry.

What tools does HelpCenter.io for agents offer?

When Electra Index connected on 03 Nov 2026, it listed 60 tools: helpcenter_create_help_center, helpcenter_request_migration, helpcenter_get_migration_request, helpcenter_get_help_center, helpcenter_discard_help_center, helpcenter_list_imports, helpcenter_scan_import, helpcenter_get_import and more. The full list is in "Live check" above.

Is HelpCenter.io for agents online?

Yes. Its hosted endpoint answered an MCP connection from Electra Index 2h ago.