Create, read, update and comment on tickets, contacts and accounts in Zoho Desk, across every Zoho data centre.
Zoho Desk ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 27 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.
io.w6w.zohodeskZoho Desk creates, reads, updates and comments on tickets, contacts and accounts in Zoho Desk’s customer-support platform, across any of Zoho’s ten regional data centres. Tickets, contacts and accounts can each be listed, read, created, updated and deleted; agents and departments can be looked up; and comments, threads and attachments can be listed and added to a ticket, giving a workflow the same conversation history a support agent sees.
A single search action reaches across tickets, accounts, contacts and tasks at once. Every action resolves the right organization automatically from the connection’s own default, with an explicit override available for an account that spans more than one organization — a detail that would otherwise trip up a workflow the moment an org has more than one.
Zoho Desk is a distinct product and API from Zoho CRM, Zoho Books and Zoho Mail, each already covered by this pack’s other Zoho apps; this app is scoped to the helpdesk surface alone rather than any of the others. SLAs, business hours, macros, blueprints and the knowledge-base/Help Center module are left out, since the actions here focus on the core support-ticket workflow rather than the whole product.
Three routes to the same 27 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Zoho Desk's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.
account-update Update fields on an existing account, e.g. { "website": "https://acme.com" }.
contact-create `lastName` is required, e.g. { "lastName": "Carol", "email": "carol@zylker.com" }. Field names are camelCase (lastName, firstName), unlike Zoho Books' snake_case.
contact-list List contacts, with pagination support. Use `search-records` for a text search instead.
contact-update Update fields on an existing contact, e.g. { "phone": "1 888 900 9646" }.
organization-list List every Zoho Desk organization the connected user belongs to. Use an id from here as `orgId` on any other action, or leave it unset to use the connection's default.
ticket-attachment-create Attach a file to a ticket. Max size 20 MB (Zoho returns RESOURCE_SIZE_EXCEEDED).
ticket-comment-create Add a comment to a ticket. To mention an agent or team, use `zsu[@user:{zuid}]zsu` / `zsu[@team:{teamId}_{teamName}]zsu` in the content.
ticket-create `subject` and `departmentId` are required, e.g. { "subject": "Cannot log in", "departmentId": "1892000000006907", "contactId": "1892000000042032" }. If `contactId` is omitted, include a nested `contact` object with `lastName` or `email` to create one inline.
ticket-thread-list List the conversation threads (customer-facing messages) on a ticket.
A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the
connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the
workflow spec, carrying Zoho Desk's real ids.
{
"manifestVersion": "2",
"name": "zohodesk-example",
"steps": [
{
"id": "account-create",
"uses": {
"app": "io.w6w.zohodesk",
"action": "account-create",
"connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
},
"with": {
"fields": "<fields>"
}
}
]
}account-create account-get account-list account-update agent-get +22 more actions available
Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An
app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the
address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account,
so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Zoho Desk, then fill in
the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the
parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed
from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but
nothing in it is specific to Zoho Desk. The Workflow tab is where this app's
real ids are.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";
// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();
const envelope = await client.run({
urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
action: "account-create",
payload: {
fields: "<value>",
// orgId: "<value>",
},
});
if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value); npm install -g @w6w/cli w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action account-create --payload '{"fields":"<value>"}' Give an AI agent Zoho Desk — without giving it Zoho Desk's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.
One tool call{
"name": "w6w_invoke",
"arguments": {
"ref": "app:io.w6w.zohodesk#account-create",
"input": {
"fields": "<fields>"
}
}
}
Every tool names its target with a single ref. The
app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the
host resolves which of the caller's Zoho Desk connections to sign
with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.
The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.
Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.
Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.
Zoho Desk's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.
The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Zoho Desk itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).
Zoho Desk declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
Reads the "Zoho Desk" component off Zoho's StatusIQ RSS feed (us.zohostatus.com/rss). Unauthenticated and unsigned.
Reads `X-Rate-Limit-Remaining-v3` off `GET /organizations`. Zoho Desk's daily credit allocation varies by edition and add-ons, so this reports `down` only once fully exhausted and `degraded` under a conservative fixed floor.