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searchThings

Search Things

Search the caller's Things: the identity ledger.

read

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "what things do I track", and it calls searchThings.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {},
  "name": "searchThings"
}

Arguments

• querystringoptionalOptional text: matches a Thing's canonical name.
• typestringoptionalOptional type filter: e.g. "person", "repo", "product".
• limitnumberoptionalMax results (default 20).

Returns

Returns the best matches, most relevant (or most recently updated, absent a query) first.

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• what things do I track
• find the repo/person X
• list my products

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• readThing
• resolveThing

Questions

• What does searchThings do?

  Search the caller's Things: the identity ledger. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use searchThings from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "what things do I track", and it calls searchThings.

• Is searchThings safe to let an AI call?

  searchThings is read-only: it changes nothing.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.