freshdesk

# Freshdesk

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer support software that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries. It's used by support teams to track, prioritize, and respond to customer issues through various channels like email, phone, and chat. The primary users are customer service agents, support managers, and businesses of all sizes looking to improve their customer support operations.

Official docs: https://developers.freshdesk.com/

## Freshdesk Overview

- **Ticket**
  - **Note**
- **Agent**

Use action names and parameters as needed.

## Working with Freshdesk

This skill uses the Membrane CLI to interact with Freshdesk. Membrane handles authentication and credentials refresh automatically — so you can focus on the integration logic rather than auth plumbing.

### Install the CLI

Install the Membrane CLI so you can run `membrane` from the terminal:

```bash
npm install -g @membranehq/cli
```

### First-time setup

```bash
membrane login --tenant
```

A browser window opens for authentication.

**Headless environments:** Run the command, copy the printed URL for the user to open in a browser, then complete with `membrane login complete <code>`.

### Connecting to Freshdesk

1. **Create a new connection:**
   ```bash
   membrane search freshdesk --elementType=connector --json
   ```
   Take the connector ID from `output.items[0].element?.id`, then:
   ```bash
   membrane connect --connectorId=CONNECTOR_ID --json
   ```
   The user completes authentication in the browser. The output contains the new connection id.

### Getting list of existing connections
When you are not sure if connection already exists:
1. **Check existing connections:**
   ```bash
   membrane connection list --json
   ```
   If a Freshdesk connection exists, note its `connectionId`


### Searching for actions

When you know what you want to do but not the exact action ID:

```bash
membrane action list --intent=QUERY --connectionId=CONNECTION_ID --json
```
This will return a...