Communication

Zendesk Integration

Triage, draft, and resolve support tickets — search and read tickets, create tickets, comment, and update status (writes require approval).

Capabilities

This integration enables workers to:

  • List and search tickets
  • Read a single ticket
  • Create tickets (approval-gated)
  • Add public or internal comments (approval-gated)
  • Update ticket status and priority (approval-gated)

Setup

Follow these steps to connect Zendesk:

  1. Enable token access in Zendesk (Admin Center → Apps and integrations → APIs → Zendesk API)
  2. Create an API token and copy it
  3. Navigate to Integrations and click 'Add Connection'
  4. Select Zendesk and connect with your subdomain, agent email, and API token
  5. Assign your support/operations workers to use it

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Security

  • The API token is encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM)
  • Use a dedicated agent account scoped to least privilege
  • Ticket creation, comments, and status changes require human approval

Credential Storage

All integration credentials are encrypted at rest using AES-256-GCM encryption. OAuth tokens are automatically refreshed when needed.

Supported Roles

The following roles can use this integration by default:

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