amazing news!
on access to file content via API/MCP, the use case here is that many of the teams I support are increasingly starting their work in claude (desktop, web, and actually a good bit claude code), so I’m looking for ways to bring dovetail content as close to their workflows as possible.
where file content comes in is the growing library of industry reports and prior research, mostly as PDFs, that we’ve added to dovetail.
currently, limitations in the api mean that the MCP can report that there is data that seems like it might be relevant, but cannot access the data unless someone added highlights, which is unlikely for something like an industry report. Ideally, dovetail could return a summary of the relevant parts of a file and a link to the file in question.
dovetail search does a good job of this today, but ideally I could make it available to people who aren’t thinking to start their work in dovetail or who are using workflows that don’t make sense in dovetail, like drafting a research plan or an opportunity framing document (you might have seen an earlier post about what I'm doing there)
