[Feature]: Any chance of a Tool dedicated to Knowledge Article Search?

[daveries]

Problem statement

I'm impressed with the MCP capabilities so far, and I understand that the teams are continuing to work on new Tools.
The use case I'm working on involves an external AI Agent (FueliX connecting to Salesforce via n8n & MCP), and we'd love the Agent to be able to intelligently answer questions based on our Salesforce Knowledge Base.
eg: "How many shades of blue does our premium widget come in?" ... "There are 5 shades of blue available for our premium widget".

The current Tools in the Salesforce MCP Server that facilitate SOSL/SOQL searches do not seem up to the challenge of finding text within an article to answer a question.

Proposed solution

A new "Knowledge Search" tool that knows how to search all rich text within Knowledge Articles and their attached files to answer questions from a Prompt.

Alternatives considered

We're not doing this today. If a dedicated tool in MCP isn't an option, I'll be exploring an export of our Knowledge Articles and their attachments to a dedicated Vector Store that the LLM can then access.

Area of impact

MCP Tools

Additional context

No response

[rossbelmont]

Thanks for the thoughtful request. There’s not currently a dedicated Knowledge Article Search tool on the near-term roadmap, but this is a great use case and we’re tracking the demand for domain-specific tools like this.

Before moving out all that data, I’d try creating your own Apex-based @InvocableMethod using the Knowledge Search API or KnowledgeArticleVersion SOSL queries. When we go GA, you’ll be able to expose it a custom MCP tool backed by that InvocableMethod. You’d be directly defining the search logic.

We’ll keep this issue open to track interest in a native Knowledge search tool. Thanks for the suggestion.