Search through documents using full-text search across content, titles, tags, and metadata. Returns document metadata WITHOUT the full OCR content field to prevent token overflow. Use get_document to retrieve full details for specific documents of interest. Supports Paperless-NGX advanced query s...
AI agents call search_documents to retrieve information from Paperless-NGX MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool queries and retrieves document metadata without modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It exhibits classic Read characteristics: data retrieval with no side effects.
From the tool's definition search_documents performs full-text search across documents, content, titles, tags, and metadata, returning document metadata.
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Search through documents using full-text search across content, titles, tags, and metadata. Returns document metadata WITHOUT the full OCR content field to prevent token overflow. Use get_document to retrieve full details for specific documents of interest. Supports Paperless-NGX advanced query syntax. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Paperless-NGX MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Paperless-NGX MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_documents: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Paperless-NGX MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_documents is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the search_documents rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for search_documents. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
search_documents is provided by the Paperless-NGX MCP Server MCP server (mephistojb/paperless-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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