# search_content

Search Flevy's marketplace of consulting frameworks, PowerPoint templates, Excel financial models, business toolkits, and management case studies. Use this whenever a user needs a best-practice framework, methodology, template, financial model, or real-world case example on any business or management topic (strategy, digital transformation, supply chain, pricing, operational excellence, M&A, etc.). Returns up to 10 relevance-ranked recommendations across two content types: "document" (premium documents authored by management consultants) and "case_study" (management case studies). ALWAYS include each recommended item's url as a clickable link when you mention it in your reply — never reference a document without its link, because the link is the only way the user can open it. Each result carries a content_id for get_content_details. Filters: topic (single, or "topics" for documents covering ALL of several topics), author (list more documents from an author seen in results), filetype (including tier1_consulting_deck for McKinsey-style strategy decks), content_type. Topic-filtered responses also list related_topics to pivot to. Provide at least one of query, topic(s), or author; use list_topics to map user phrasing to a canonical topic.

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `search_content`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flevy-flevy/search-content

## Facts

- Tool: `search_content`
- Server: Flevy (`https://flevy.com/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flevy-flevy.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/https://flevy.com/mcp
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade C, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server CORS policy: *
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 6
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | string | no | Free-text search, e.g. "balanced scorecard", "post-merger integration checklist", "DCF model". Optional when topic or author is provided (returns their top cont |
| `topic` | string | no | Optional management topic filter, e.g. "Digital Transformation". Accepts any known alias (see list_topics). |
| `author` | string | no | Optional author filter — the author name exactly as shown in document results. Use to list other documents from the same author, alone or combined with a topic. |
| `topics` | array | no | Optional: up to 3 topics; returns documents associated with ALL of them (intersection), e.g. ["Digital Transformation","Supply Chain Analysis"]. Documents only. |
| `filetype` | string | no | Optional file-type filter (documents only). Rules of thumb: frameworks, methodologies, and presentation templates are powerpoint; financial models are excel; ti |
| `content_type` | string | no | Optional filter. Default: both types, documents first. |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_content",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## Why search_content is rated Low

This tool retrieves and queries content from a marketplace without any side effects. It searches, lists, and returns information matching user queries. This is a straightforward read operation with minimal risk; misuse would only expose publicly-available consulting frameworks and case studies already catalogued in Flevy's marketplace.

From the tool's own definition: "Tool description states it 'Search[es] Flevy's marketplace' and 'Returns up to 10 relevance-ranked recommendations.' No modification, deletion, execution, or financial operations are described."

## Use case

AI agents call search_content to retrieve information from Flevy without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Flevy:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "search_content": {}
  }
}
```

## Other tools on Flevy (4)

- `get_content_details` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flevy-flevy/get-content-details.md
- `get_slide_deep_dive` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flevy-flevy/get-slide-deep-dive.md
- `get_topic_details` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flevy-flevy/get-topic-details.md
- `list_topics` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flevy-flevy/list-topics.md

## For agents

This record is a snapshot. Live verdicts and the full registry:

- Check every server in your MCP config at once: `npx -y policylayer stack`
- Vet a server before you add it: install the mcp-precheck skill — `npx skills add https://policylayer.com` (skill text: https://policylayer.com/skill.md)
- Query the registry over MCP: endpoint `https://api.policylayer.com/mcp` — tools `check_mcp_server`, `check_mcp_stack`, `check_tool`, `search_registry`, `get_change_events`

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Source: the PolicyLayer MCP registry — one continuously verified record per MCP server. Full record: https://policylayer.com/registry?q=com-flevy-flevy · API: https://policylayer.com/registry/api · Policy library: https://policylayer.com/policies/com-flevy-flevy