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Kintone for AI agents

Kintone is a Japanese business-app platform used here to manage a company's users, departments, groups, and login access across the tools built on top of it. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.

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AUDIT LOG · KINTONEPOLICY: acme-support
09:41:07 · claude · u_8f2read
kintone.list_users
List Users✓ allowed · 212ms
09:41:08 · claude · u_8f2read
kintone.list_members
List Department or Group Members✓ allowed · 164ms
09:41:09 · claude · u_8f2write
kintone.create_users
Create Users✓ approved · approved by user
09:41:12 · claude · u_8f2destructive
kintone.delete_directory_resources
Delete Users, Departments, or Groups✕ blocked · policy: deny
EVERY KINTONE CALL, ON THE RECORD
01 · USE CASES

What agents do in Kintone.

01

List users in a department

Pull the member list for a department or group to confirm who has active access.

02

Update a user's group membership

Move an employee into a new group when their team assignment changes.

03

Approve before deleting a user

Require sign-off before deleting a user or department, since it removes their access and history.

02 · ACTIONS

16 Kintone actions, graded by risk.

Every Kintone action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.

read

4

Look things up. Allowed by default.

  • kintone.list_users
    List Users
  • kintone.list_members
    List Department or Group Members
  • kintone.get_user_access
    Get User Access
  • kintone.list_directory_containers
    List Departments or Groups

write

11

Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.

  • kintone.create_users
    Create Users
  • kintone.update_users
    Update Users
  • kintone.create_groups
    Create Groups
  • kintone.update_groups
    Update Groups
  • kintone.create_departments
    Create Departments
  • kintone.update_departments
    Update Departments
  • kintone.change_login_codes
    Change User Login Codes
  • kintone.replace_group_users
    Replace Group Users
  • kintone.replace_user_groups
    Replace User Groups
  • kintone.set_service_assignments
    Set User Service Assignments
  • kintone.replace_user_departments
    Replace User Departments

destructive

1

Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.

  • kintone.delete_directory_resources
    Delete Users, Departments, or Groups
03 · HOW IT WORKS

Kintone in three steps.

  1. 01Your users connect KintoneThey add their Kintone api key on Arc0 Connect, under your brand. It goes straight into the vault.
  2. 02You set the rulesReads run, writes like “create Users” can wait for the user, and “delete Users, Departments, or Groups” can be denied outright.
  3. 03Any agent can actYour agent calls Kintone through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.
POLICY.TS
await arc0.policies.set('kintone', {
  read: 'allow',
  write: 'ask',        // create_users
  destructive: 'deny',  // delete_directory_resources
})

# Claude Code: the same connection, one URL
$ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \
    https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2
04 · AUTH AND DATA

How Kintone connects.

Users add their Kintone api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.

The same Kintone connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →

AUTH
API key
CREDENTIALS
Per-tenant encrypted vault
MODEL SEES
Results only, never credentials
AUDIT LOG
Every call, on every plan
05 · WORKS WITH

Use Kintone from any agent.

Claude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Codex
VS Code
OpenAI Agents SDK
Claude Agent SDK
Vercel AI SDK
Mastra
LangGraph
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07 · FAQ

Kintone and Arc0, answered.

Q01

Can I use Kintone with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect Kintone to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the Kintone actions you allow.

Q02

How do users connect Kintone?

Users add their Kintone api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.

Q03

Which Kintone actions can my agent take?

16 in total: 4 read, 11 write and 1 destructive, such as “create Users”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.

Q04

Can I stop my agent from deleting things in Kintone?

Yes. Actions like “delete Users, Departments, or Groups” are graded destructive. Set destructive actions to deny, or to ask so the user approves each one, and blocked calls still show up on the audit log.

Q05

Can my own backend call Kintone too?

Yes. The same Kintone connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.

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Plug Kintone into your agent.

Your users connect Kintone once, under your brand. Your agent gets 16 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.

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Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan