hey! I have an agent using a Notion MCP. I wonder how I can avoid him to go through my entire Notion to do the task I asked? I think that makes it less accurate, also takes a lot of time which leads to overload or time out (using make). I put in the prompt the url of the Notion DB it needs to search into. I also wrote several times in the prompt where it should look and how it should use Notion DB. But still, it’s going around DB that are not accurate at all for the one task I asked.
Yeah definitely! It won't be able to search by URL but it will definitely be able to leverage your instructions to search specifically at the correct location
However you're gonna need to plug in your Notion as a Connection rather than use the Notion MCP then
One other thing is that, independently from the Advanced search, if you plug in Notion as a Connection you'll be able to select only certain pages/databases in your agent, which will also help drastically On a side note, advanced search is an enhanced version of the search tool that we're starting to roll out
let me know if you need any help getting set up!
(can you send me the email you use for Dust in MP so that I can enable advanced search for your workspace? 🙏)
thanks for the reply! If I plug Notion as a Connection, then the agent is not able to create page / write and everything is it? (that’s why i plug as an MCP, because the agent is meant to create pages in my CRM)
Indeed, Connection do not allow for write actions, in your case it looks to me that you are going to need both!
would be interesting to have both the MCP for write actions and the Connection for read action, mentioning in the agent instructions to use the former for write and the latter for read
I've enabled the advanced search on your workspace, now if you add a Search tool to an agent you'll have a toggle "Advanced search" available
let me know how it goes!
hey aubin, what's advanced search exactly ? 👀
we did release a blog post recently on the topic: https://blog.dust.tt/how-we-taught-ai-agents-to-navigate-company-data-like-a-filesystem/
I have pretty much the same use case, would it be possible to enable advanced search on mine too please 🙌
