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Help Scout is a help desk built around a shared inbox. Connect it and your agent can read conversations and help reply.

What the agent can do

Read conversations

Catch up on support threads.

Read customers

Pull a customer’s details.

Draft replies

Prepare responses for your team.

Search

Find the right conversation.

Example agent tasks

What you share

During the connect flow you authorize what the agent can reach. It works only within what you grant. As with every connection, the underlying token is handled securely and never exposed to the model. See Permissioning.

Connecting

1

Authorize Help Scout for the agent

From the agent’s connections, choose Help Scout and sign in.
2

Approve the access

Confirm what the agent can reach. You can change this later.
3

The agent gets to work

It works through the secure proxy, within what you granted.

Learn more

Help Scout Mailbox API docs

The full reference for what’s possible.

How credentials stay safe

The proxy model that keeps tokens out of the agent’s reach.