First-party app
Meilisearch

Meilisearch

Search, index documents, and manage Meilisearch indexes and their settings.

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About

Meilisearch ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 24 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.meilisearch
Version
0.1.1
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Search · Databases · Developer Tools

Overview

Meilisearch is a fast, self-hostable search engine, and this app runs both the search and the indexing side of it: search an index with filters, sorting and facets, run several searches at once, add or delete documents, and manage indexes and their settings.

Because a Meilisearch instance can be a customer’s own server as easily as a cloud project, this app connects to whichever address a workflow’s credentials name rather than a fixed vendor host. Writes are asynchronous — adding a document or changing settings returns a task immediately, before the work has actually happened — so this app returns that task and gives a workflow a way to check whether it later succeeded, rather than treating an immediate 200 response as confirmation.

Beyond search and documents, this app manages tasks (checking status, cancelling pending ones), reads API keys and their scopes, and reports index and database statistics. Backup, snapshotting, and minting new API keys are left out, since those carry consequences a workflow step shouldn’t trigger casually.

Build with Meilisearch

Three routes to the same 24 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Meilisearch's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Add or update documents

document-add

Enqueue documents into an index, replacing or merging by primary key.

Delete documents

document-delete

Enqueue a deletion by id, by a list of ids, or by filter.

Get a document

document-get

Retrieve one document by its primary key value.

List documents

document-list

Read documents from an index in index order, without searching.

Clear all documents

documents-clear

Enqueue deletion of every document in an index. The index and settings remain.

Search facet values

facet-search

Find matching values of one facet, with their counts.

Create an index

index-create

Enqueue creation of an index, ideally with an explicit primary key.

Delete an index

index-delete

Enqueue deletion of an index, its documents and all of its settings.

Get an index

index-get

Retrieve one index and its primary key.

List indexes

index-list

List the indexes on this instance, with their primary keys.

Get index stats

index-stats

Document count, whether the index is still indexing, and field distribution.

Set an index's primary key

index-update

Enqueue a primary key change. Only succeeds while the index is empty.

List API keys

key-list

List API keys and the actions and indexes each is scoped to.

Search several indexes

multi-search

Run several searches across indexes in one request.

Search

search

Search an index, with optional filters, sorting and facets.

Get index settings

settings-get

Read an index's whole settings object.

Reset index settings

settings-reset

Enqueue a reset of EVERY setting on an index back to its default.

Update index settings

settings-update

Enqueue a settings change. Unset fields are left alone; changes re-index.

Find similar documents

similar-documents

Recommend documents similar to one you name. Requires a configured embedder.

Get instance stats

stats-get

Database size on disk and per-index document counts.

Cancel tasks

task-cancel

Enqueue cancellation of pending tasks matching a filter.

Get a task

task-get

Find out whether an enqueued write actually succeeded.

List tasks

task-list

List recent tasks, optionally only the failed ones.

Get the engine version

version-get

The Meilisearch version this instance is running.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Meilisearch's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "meilisearch-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "document-add",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.meilisearch",
        "action": "document-add",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "documents": "<documents>",
        "mode": "<mode>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Add or update documents

    perform
    document-add
  • Get a document

    read
    document-get
  • List documents

    read
    document-list
  • Clear all documents

    perform
    documents-clear
  • Search facet values

    read
    facet-search

+19 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Meilisearch, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Meilisearch. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "document-add",
  payload: {
    // indexUid: "<value>",
    documents: "<value>",
    mode: "<value>",
    // primaryKey: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action document-add --payload '{"documents":"<value>","mode":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Meilisearch — without giving it Meilisearch's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.meilisearch#document-add",
    "input": {
      "documents": "<documents>",
      "mode": "<mode>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Meilisearch connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Meilisearch's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Meilisearch itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

Request MCP access

Health checks

Meilisearch declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

dependency

Meilisearch instance reachable

This connection's own server, via its unauthenticated /health endpoint. Sends no credential — an expired key must not make the server look down.

service

Meilisearch Cloud status

Open incidents on Meilisearch Cloud's status feed. Speaks only for Cloud — a self-hosted instance is covered by the `instance` check instead.