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Snipe-IT + Memtro

Ask Snipe-IT who has a laptop, and which licences are running out.

Connect Snipe-IT with your host and an API token and Memtro reads hardware assets with who holds them, a person's assets, licences with free seats, accessories, consumables, components, maintenances and the activity log. Licence keys are never read. It reads on demand and there is no hourly sync. When you ask, and once an administrator has granted them by name, it can check assets, licence seats, accessories and consumables out or in, which may email the person, create and change assets, licences and catalogue records, log audits and maintenances, and deactivate a person's sign-in. Deleting a maintenance record is permanent.

In Memtro

What you can do with Snipe-IT in Memtro

Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Snipe-IT tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.

What it does

  1. 01Hardware assets by text, status, model or category, with who or where each is checked out to
  2. 02The assets one person holds, and people with how many assets and licences they have
  3. 03Licences with seats, free seats and expiry dates, never licence keys or licensee emails
  4. 04Maintenances, accessories, consumables, components and the activity log of check-outs, check-ins and audits
  5. 05When asked and granted, checks assets, licence seats, accessories and consumables out or in and installs components in assets, and Snipe-IT may email the person
  6. 06When asked and granted, creates, changes, deletes or restores assets, creates licences, models, categories, locations and other records, adds notes, audits and maintenances, changes a person's details or sign-in, and permanently deletes maintenance records

Acts when asked

When you ask it to

These tools change something in Snipe-IT. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.

  1. 01Add a note to an asset
  2. 02Create an asset, without checking it out
  3. 03Overwrite an asset's name, serial, status or notes
  4. 04Delete an asset that is not checked out (restorable by an administrator)
  5. 05Check an asset out to a user, location or asset (may email the user)
  6. 06Check an asset back in (may email the holder)
  7. 07Create a maintenance record for an asset
  8. 08Assign a licence seat to a user or asset (may email the user)
  9. 09Free a licence seat
  10. 10Create an accessory
  11. 11Check accessories out to a user, asset or location (may email the user)
  12. 12Check an accessory checkout back in
  13. 13Create a consumable
  14. 14Hand consumables out to a user (may email the user)
  15. 15Log an audit of an asset
  16. 16Restore a deleted asset
  17. 17Create a location
  18. 18Create an asset model
  19. 19Create a category (EULA and check-in emails off unless asked)
  20. 20Create a manufacturer
  21. 21Create a status label
  22. 22Create a licence record, without its product key
  23. 23Overwrite a licence's name, seats, dates, cost or notes
  24. 24Create a component
  25. 25Install a quantity of a component in an asset
  26. 26Check a component checkout back in
  27. 27Overwrite a person's job title, department, location, manager, end date or notes
  28. 28Deactivate or reactivate a person's Snipe-IT sign-in
  29. 29Delete a maintenance record (permanent)
In practice

Ask it like you would a colleague

Once Snipe-IT is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.

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  • Who has the laptop with tag ACME-0042?

  • What equipment does Dan Fletcher have checked out?

  • Which software licences expire in the next 60 days?

  • Which assets are ready to deploy?

  • Check laptop ACME-0117 out to Priya Nair

01

A leaver's equipment

Before Dan Fletcher's last day IT asks what he holds. Memtro reads his assets: a laptop, a monitor and a phone, plus two licence seats, and lists the asset tags so they can be checked in.

02

Kitting out a starter

The IT lead asks Memtro to check a ready laptop and a licence seat out to Priya Nair. With both actions granted, Memtro checks them out to her, and Snipe-IT may email her a checkout notice or an acceptance request under the category's settings.

Teams

Where it fits

The teams that lean on Snipe-IT most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.

Better together

Works with

A record in Snipe-IT is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.

Also in Engineering and operations

Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.

Setup

How to connect

Connect withHost and API token
  1. 1

    In Snipe-IT open (your name, top right) → Manage API Keys, using a dedicated user with only the permissions Memtro should have: view assets, licences, accessories and consumables, and create, update, check out, check in or delete only where you want those actions

  2. 2

    Create New Token, name it Memtro, and copy it: it is shown once

  3. 3

    In Connections → Snipe-IT in Memtro type your server's name in Host only, public over https with a trusted certificate, plus the Install path and port if needed, and paste the API token

  4. 4

    Ask what Priya Sharma has checked out

Also works from

Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Snipe-IT tools are the same everywhere.

FAQ

Questions

Can Memtro change anything in Snipe-IT?+

Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: add a note to an asset; create an asset, without checking it out; overwrite an asset's name, serial, status or notes; delete an asset that is not checked out (restorable by an administrator); check an asset out to a user, location or asset (may email the user); check an asset back in (may email the holder); create a maintenance record for an asset; assign a licence seat to a user or asset (may email the user); free a licence seat; create an accessory; check accessories out to a user, asset or location (may email the user); check an accessory checkout back in; create a consumable; hand consumables out to a user (may email the user); log an audit of an asset; restore a deleted asset; create a location; create an asset model; create a category (EULA and check-in emails off unless asked); create a manufacturer; create a status label; create a licence record, without its product key; overwrite a licence's name, seats, dates, cost or notes; create a component; install a quantity of a component in an asset; check a component checkout back in; overwrite a person's job title, department, location, manager, end date or notes; deactivate or reactivate a person's Snipe-IT sign-in; delete a maintenance record (permanent). Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.

Who can use a Snipe-IT connection?+

A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.

Does Memtro store my Snipe-IT data?+

Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded.

How do I connect Snipe-IT?+

Host and API token. In Snipe-IT open (your name, top right) → Manage API Keys, using a dedicated user with only the permissions Memtro should have: view assets, licences, accessories and consumables, and create, update, check out, check in or delete only where you want those actions.

Connect Snipe-IT in a few minutes

Seven-day free trial, then one monthly price per organisation. Connectors, jobs and memory are never metered.

Where agents remember your company

Sign in, add a provider key, create an API key and point your tools at Memtro. It takes about five minutes.

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