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Lenses MCP connector

The Lenses connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI clients list and manage Lenses environments, Kafka connections, users and groups, with every action running as the signed-in person and recorded in an audit log.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Lenses to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Lenses once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Lenses.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a Lenses API key. One person generates a token in Lenses and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

lenses
Lenses
Allium
Amplitude
Artie
AthenaHQ
Botify
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Lenses MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Lenses MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Lenses MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Lenses to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Lenses through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Data platform

    See every Lenses environment at a glance

    Ask for a rundown of all Lenses environments and the Kafka connection behind each one before a release or an on-call handover. Follow up on a single environment by name to get its full details.

  • Platform engineering

    Stand up a new environment for a project

    Create a Lenses environment for a new team or region, then adjust its details as the project settles. Retire it cleanly when the work is done.

  • Platform engineering

    Fix a Kafka connection after a cluster move

    When brokers change, update the Kafka connection on the affected Lenses environment so it points at the right cluster. Confirm the change by asking for the connection details back.

  • Security

    Rotate an environment key on schedule

    Renew the key for a Lenses environment as part of a rotation policy or after someone with access moves on. Ask for the list of environments first so none are missed.

  • IT

    Onboard a new engineer into Lenses

    Create the Lenses user, drop them into the right groups and check their settings in one conversation. Update several profiles or group memberships at once when a whole cohort joins.

  • Compliance

    Review who has access to Lenses

    Pull the full list of Lenses users and groups, spot accounts that should no longer exist and remove them. Have the AI summarize group membership for an access review.

Try asking

  • “List Lenses environments and the Kafka connections each one uses.”
  • “Which Lenses groups changed this week, and who updated them?”
  • “Summarize Kafka connections per Lenses environment for Thursday's platform review.”

See all 258 Lenses tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Lenses

All three can connect Lenses to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Lenses, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Lenses tools Allow or restrict single Lenses tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Lenses call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Lenses tools for your AI agents

258 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Lenses, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Lenses gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Lenses account.

The agent

Ask about Lenses environments in plain language.

Starter prompts return answers from live Lenses environments, groups and Kafka connections.

  • environments
  • kafka connections
  • groups
  • keys

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

List Lenses environments and the Kafka connections each one uses.

Which Lenses groups changed this week, and who updated them?

Summarize Kafka connections per Lenses environment for Thursday's platform review.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Lenses here.

One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

258 Lenses tools arrive ready to call.

Environments, Kafka connections, groups and keys are covered with no custom code.

  • List all Lenses environments
  • Create a Lenses environment
  • Get single Lenses environment by ID
  • Update a Lenses environment by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Lenses environments List List all Lenses environments. Returns a list of environment objects, each with id and content-type-specific fields.
Create a Lenses environment Create Create a new Lenses environment. Returns the newly created environment with its id and content-type-specific fields. Required: name, tier.
Get single Lenses environment by ID Get Retrieves a single environment by name. Returns: name, display_name, lrn, id, created_at, tier, status, metadata. Required: id.
Update a Lenses environment by ID Update Update a Lenses environment by id. Returns the updated environment object with its id and content-type-specific fields. Required: id.
Delete a Lenses environment by ID Delete Delete a Lenses environment by id. Returns an empty 204 response on success. Required: id.

Toolboxes

Each team gets its own Lenses toolbox.

Platform, data and security teams see only the Lenses toolbox scoped to them.

  • Platform engineering
  • Data engineering
  • Security
  • SRE
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Platform engineering toolbox

Lenses · environments and Kafka connections

Lenses starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Data engineering toolbox

Lenses · streams and topic connections

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Security toolbox

Lenses · groups and key renewals

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

SRE toolbox

Lenses · environment health and connections

Lenses starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Analytics toolbox

Lenses · environment and group reporting

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

IT operations toolbox

Lenses · group membership and access

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates use Lenses without seeing a credential.

Each connection shows who connected it and how many teams and members share it.

  • Platform prod
  • Platform staging
  • Data engineering
  • Security
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
LE

Lenses (Platform prod)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
LE

Lenses (Platform staging)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
LE

Lenses (Data engineering)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
LE

Lenses (Security)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
LE

Lenses (SRE on call)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
LE

Lenses (Analytics)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Lenses call is written down.

When, who, what happened, type and resource for each environment or group touched.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

emily.carter@northwind.io

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

jake.morgan@northwind.io

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

megan.brooks@northwind.io

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

tyler.reed@northwind.io

Lenses Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

Lenses Environments Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

Lenses Environments List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule runs the Lenses digest for you.

Six steps fetch environments, group them, draft a digest, await approval, post back.

Lenses digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch environments

    Lenses

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Lenses

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Lenses health arrives counted, not requested.

Four metrics, 14 days of records created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.

Lenses health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the environments collection

Live

Environments

1,284 ↓ 12%

Kafka connections

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Environments created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Platform prod 34%

Platform staging 27%

Data engineering 21%

Security 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Lenses to Claude?

Connecting Lenses takes two steps. In Elaichi, add the Lenses connector and paste in a Lenses API key, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. There is no OAuth application to register for Lenses and no client ID or secret to generate. Once Claude is connected you sign in to Elaichi as yourself and start asking about your Lenses environments.

Does Lenses work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Lenses is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Lenses once and every client you use sees it.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Lenses data?

An agent connected to Lenses can list your Lenses environments and the Kafka connection behind each one, create or update an environment, fix a Kafka connection after a cluster change and renew an environment key. It can also add, update or remove Lenses users and groups, update several user profiles or group memberships at once and review user settings. Because Lenses exposes a large set of actions, short concrete asks such as "list Lenses environments" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting Lenses give the AI access to every environment and user?

No. Every request to Lenses runs inside the access of the person who signed in to Elaichi, so the AI can only see the Lenses environments, Kafka connections, users and groups that person could already manage. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example to read-only, but it can never widen what Lenses itself allows.

Can my team share one Lenses connection?

Yes. One administrator connects Lenses in Elaichi with an API key and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else on the team ever handles that key. Each person still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the individual behind every change to a Lenses environment, user or group.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Lenses?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow listing and viewing Lenses environments and users while blocking deletes, updates or key renewals. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to a Lenses connection when someone leaves?

When a person is offboarded in Elaichi, their access to Lenses through every AI client ends at once. A shared Lenses connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect Lenses in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client in one step.

Does the Lenses MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Lenses is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Lenses?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Lenses. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Lenses call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Lenses?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Lenses: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Lenses in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.