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title: MCP
description: Expose AI Search content to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint.
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# MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint allows AI agents to discover and interact with your AI Search content. This endpoint follows the [MCP specification ↗](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) and provides tools for querying your indexed content.

## Prerequisites

Enable public endpoints for your AI Search instance:

1. Go to **AI Search** in the Cloudflare dashboard.[ Go to **AI Search** ](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/ai/ai-search)
2. Select your AI Search instance.
3. Go to **Settings** \> **Public Endpoint**.
4. Turn on **Enable Public Endpoint**.
5. Copy the public endpoint URL.

## Available tools

The AI Search MCP endpoint exposes a `search` tool that queries your indexed content.

| Tool   | Description                           |
| ------ | ------------------------------------- |
| search | Finds exactly what you're looking for |

You can customize this in your AI Search instance settings. For more details, refer to [Public endpoint configuration](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/configuration/retrieval/public-endpoint/).

## Test the MCP endpoint

Send a request to the `/mcp` endpoint with the `Accept: application/json, text/event-stream` header:

Terminal window

```

curl https://<INSTANCE_ID>.search.ai.cloudflare.com/mcp \

  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \

  -d '{

    "jsonrpc": "2.0",

    "id": 1,

    "method": "tools/call",

    "params": {

      "name": "search",

      "arguments": {

        "query": "How do I configure AI Search?"

      }

    }

  }'


```

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/directory/","name":"Directory"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/ai-search/","name":"AI Search"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"/ai-search/api/","name":"API"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@id":"/ai-search/api/search/","name":"Search"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@id":"/ai-search/api/search/mcp/","name":"MCP"}}]}
```