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OpenAI MCP connector

The OpenAI connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client manage your OpenAI organization's users, projects, service accounts, API keys, and rate limits, with each person acting within their own access and every change logged.

  • 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 OpenAI to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect OpenAI once

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

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

  3. Paste an OpenAI API key. One person generates a token in OpenAI 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.

openai
OpenAI
Anthropic
AssemblyAI
Chorus
Circleback
Fathom
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.

OpenAI 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.

OpenAI 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.

OpenAI 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 OpenAI 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 OpenAI through Elaichi

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

  • IT

    Add a new hire to the right OpenAI projects

    Ask for a new teammate to be added to the OpenAI organization and given membership in the projects their team uses, with the role you name. What used to be three admin screens becomes one request.

  • Security

    Find and revoke stale project API keys

    List every API key across your OpenAI projects, spot the ones nobody recognizes or that belong to a service account that should have been retired, and revoke them on the spot.

  • Finance

    Keep OpenAI spend inside project rate limits

    Review the rate limits set on each OpenAI project and tighten the ones for pilots or experiments so a runaway script cannot run up an unexpected bill.

  • Engineering

    Set up a project for a new application

    Create an OpenAI project for a new product, add a service account for it, and add the engineers who will work on it, all from the chat window you are already in.

  • People

    Offboard a leaver from OpenAI in one ask

    When someone leaves, remove them from every OpenAI project they were in and from the organization itself, then confirm nothing they created is still active.

  • Operations

    Answer who has access to which OpenAI project

    Pull a plain list of OpenAI projects with their members, service accounts, and keys, and archive projects that have gone quiet, so the organization stays tidy and reviewable.

Try asking

  • “Which OpenAI projects have no project users left?”
  • “List OpenAI users added to Platform Core this month.”
  • “Summarize archived OpenAI projects and who owned them.”

See all 157 OpenAI tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for OpenAI

All three can connect OpenAI 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 OpenAI, 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 OpenAI tools Allow or restrict single OpenAI 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 OpenAI 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

OpenAI tools for your AI agents

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

See it in Elaichi

What connecting OpenAI gets you

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

The agent

Ask about OpenAI projects, get answers.

Plain language questions read live OpenAI users, projects and project members.

  • users
  • projects
  • project users
  • invites

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Which OpenAI projects have no project users left?

List OpenAI users added to Platform Core this month.

Summarize archived OpenAI projects and who owned them.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One OpenAI endpoint for every MCP client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, no SDK, 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

157 OpenAI tools ready without custom code.

Browse OpenAI users, projects and project user methods in one catalog.

  • List all OpenAI users
  • Get single OpenAI user by ID
  • Delete a OpenAI user by ID
  • Update a OpenAI user by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all OpenAI users List List users in OpenAI organization. Returns id, name, email, role, and added_at for each user.
Get single OpenAI user by ID Get Get a specific user in OpenAI by id. Returns id, name, email, role, and added_at in the response.
Delete a OpenAI user by ID Delete Delete a user in OpenAI. Requires id. Returns object indicating deletion confirmation with object type, id, and deleted status.
Update a OpenAI user by ID Update Update a user's role in OpenAI. Requires id. Returns id, name, email, role, and added_at for the updated user.
List all OpenAI projects List List projects in OpenAI. Returns project id, name, created_at, archived_at, and status fields in the response.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own OpenAI toolbox.

Curate OpenAI tools per team so each group sees only its scope.

  • Platform Engineering
  • Data Science
  • IT Operations
  • Security
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Platform Engineering toolbox

OpenAI · projects and project users

OpenAI starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Data Science toolbox

OpenAI · project usage and members

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

IT Operations toolbox

OpenAI · users and access changes

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Security toolbox

OpenAI · user audits and offboarding

OpenAI starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Finance toolbox

OpenAI · project spend and ownership

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Product Research toolbox

OpenAI · prototype projects and members

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share OpenAI accounts, never the credential.

See who connected each OpenAI account and how many teams and members use it.

  • Platform Core
  • Research Sandbox
  • IT Admin
  • Data Science
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
OP

OpenAI (Platform Core)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
OP

OpenAI (Research Sandbox)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
OP

OpenAI (IT Admin)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
OP

OpenAI (Data Science)

Connected by Tyler Reed

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

OpenAI (Security Review)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
OP

OpenAI (Finance Ops)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every OpenAI call is on the record.

When, who, what happened, type and resource for each OpenAI project change.

  • 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

OpenAI Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

OpenAI Users Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

OpenAI Users 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 drafts your OpenAI project digest.

Six steps fetch OpenAI projects, group them, draft, wait for approval, then post back.

OpenAI digest

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

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch users

    OpenAI

    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

    OpenAI

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

OpenAI project health, counted on a schedule.

Four metrics, 14 days of projects created and a per team breakdown, no model.

OpenAI health

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

Live

Users

1,284 ↓ 12%

Projects

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Users created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Platform Core 34%

Research Sandbox 27%

IT Admin 21%

Data Science 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect OpenAI to Claude?

Two steps. In Elaichi, choose OpenAI and paste an OpenAI admin API key when asked; there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the endpoint. Sign in with your Elaichi account and OpenAI is available in Claude.

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

Yes. Once OpenAI 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 OpenAI once and every client you use picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my OpenAI organization?

With OpenAI connected, an agent can list and update the people in your OpenAI organization, create, update, and archive projects, add or remove project members, create and delete service accounts, review and revoke project API keys, and adjust project rate limits. Because OpenAI exposes a large set of actions, short concrete asks such as "list API keys in the Marketing project" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting OpenAI give the AI full control of the organization?

No. Every action in OpenAI runs inside the access of the person who signed in to Elaichi, so an agent can only see and change what that person's OpenAI role allows. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions, but it can never widen it beyond what OpenAI already grants.

Can my team share one OpenAI connection?

Yes. One administrator connects OpenAI in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the OpenAI API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the person behind every change to a project, user, or key.

Can I stop an agent from deleting users or revoking API keys in OpenAI?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow listing OpenAI projects and members while blocking the actions that delete users, revoke API keys, or archive projects. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to an OpenAI connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to OpenAI through every client at once. A shared OpenAI connection keeps working for everyone else on the team, because it does not depend on the leaver's login. If you ever want OpenAI gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client together.

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

Yes. OpenAI 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 OpenAI?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use OpenAI. 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 OpenAI call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for OpenAI?

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 OpenAI: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put OpenAI 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.