Search Inside Your FTP Server Files Through Your Muse

Through a custom connector, your muse can search documents on an FTP or FTPS server in plain words, such as supplier price lists, find the page that answers your question, and hand you the file itself.

What it does

The connector adds 10 tools and only reads. AnythingMCP builds a full-text index of the folder you pick and keeps it in sync. The muse can search the index, find a file by name even when it is typed slightly wrong, list a folder, and read a file by page. It can run an exact search for a code or number. It can show one page of a PDF as a picture and give you the file as a download link. Answers name the file, page, and date, so you can check the source. Text is read from over 100 file types, including PDF, Word, Excel, and Outlook files. Nothing is ever written to the server.

How to use it

1. Use an FTP account that can read the folder and nothing else.
2. Start an AnythingMCP account and add the FTP or FTPS File Search connector.
3. Enter the host, port, username, password, and folder. Explicit FTPS usually runs on port 21, implicit on 990.
4. Run the test step. A self-signed certificate is shown as a fingerprint: confirm it once, and a different certificate is refused from then on.
5. Scan the folder, uncheck archive folders you do not want searched, and activate.
6. In Muse, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with the address AnythingMCP gives you. Sign in, approve, then ask about the files.

What you need

• A Muse account that can add custom connectors
• An AnythingMCP account with the FTP or FTPS File Search connector added
• An FTP or FTPS server, with a read-only account for the folder

What to watch for

• Use FTPS whenever the server offers it. Plain FTP sends the password unencrypted, and the connector accepts it only after you confirm that.
• Trial and Starter index 500 files in total, Team 2,000, with a largest file of 10 MB on the trial and 25 MB on Starter. If a folder outgrows the plan, syncing pauses and newer files may be missing.
• The cloud service can only reach servers on the public internet. A server on your office network alone needs a self-hosted setup next to it.
• This is a custom connector, and Meta does not review custom connectors. You can disconnect it in Settings at any time. The muse prepares, you decide.