Search Inside Your Server Files Through Your Muse

Through an AnythingMCP File Search connector, your muse can search documents on an SFTP server or network drive in plain words, find the page that answers your question, and hand you the file.

What it does

The connector adds 10 tools and only reads. AnythingMCP signs in to the server you name, reads the folder you pick, and builds a full-text index, then keeps it in sync. Text is pulled from over 100 file types, including PDFs page by page, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, and Outlook mail files. The muse can search the index by words, find a file by name even when it is typed slightly wrong, read a file by page, and run an exact search for a code or number. It can show a PDF page as a picture when a table carries the answer, and give you the file as a temporary download link. Answers name the file, page, and date, so you can check the source. The sharing tool is off at install, and nothing is written back to the server.

How to use it

1. Start an AnythingMCP account and add the SFTP File Search connector.
2. Enter the server address, port, a read-only username, and a password or private key, then pick the folder to index.
3. Run the test step and confirm the server fingerprint it shows. A different one is refused from then on.
4. Scan the folder, uncheck archive folders you do not want searched, and activate.
5. 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 SFTP File Search connector added
• An SFTP server or network drive with a read-only account

What to watch for

• Use a read-only account made for this job, so the limit holds even if a setting changes later.
• Plans cap the number of files indexed and their size. If a folder grows past the plan, syncing pauses and newer files may be missing from answers.
• Scanned PDF files with no text layer need a higher plan for character reading. Without it, files are found by name only.
• The cloud service only reaches servers on the public internet. A server on an office network alone needs the self-hosted version on that network. 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.