# MCP tools > Every tool the RootSmith MCP server offers, grouped by task, with the role each one needs. Source: https://docs.rootsmith.io/docs/agents/tools.md A connected agent sees only the tools its person's role allows. Tools marked **Admin** need the Owner or Admin role. Each tool's full input and output schema comes from the server when the agent connects. ## Start here | Tool | What it does | Access | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------ | | `get_workspace` | The team, your role and permissions, the sites, and unread notifications. Call it first. | All | | `get_overview` | What needs attention: drafts in review, failed publications, incomplete checks, and what's next. | All | | `get_usage` | The plan, credits used and reserved, question and site limits, and the renewal date. | All | ## Sites and brand | Tool | What it does | Access | | -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | `get_site` | Brand profile, competitors, page types, integrations, publishing settings, and ideas. | All | | `get_site_analysis` | Analysis progress, issues, suggested brand profile values with evidence, and the report. | All | | `create_site` | Adds a website and starts analysis. | Admin | | `update_site` | Renames a site or changes its primary domain. | Admin | | `delete_site` | Permanently deletes a site and all its data. Needs the domain to confirm. | Admin | | `start_site_analysis` | Reads the website again for new suggestions. | Admin | | `review_brand_suggestion` | Accepts or dismisses one suggested brand profile value. | All | | `update_brand_profile` | Changes brand profile values. | All | | `update_topic_preferences` | Replaces the topic preferences that guide ideas. | All | | `save_competitor` | Adds or updates a competitor. | All | | `remove_competitor` | Removes a competitor. | All | | `suggest_page_type_setup` | Drafts writing and research guidance for a new page type. | All | | `save_page_type` | Creates or updates a page type. | All | ## Publishing | Tool | What it does | Access | | ------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | `get_sdk_setup` | The package, environment variables, files, and endpoint for the Next.js SDK. | All | | `update_publishing_settings` | Sets approval mode, default schedule, delivery endpoint, and the fallback method. | Admin | | `verify_publishing_connection` | Checks that the site's SDK endpoint answers a signed request. | Admin | | `publish_content` | Publishes an approved page now, schedules it, or retries a failed publication. | All | | `export_content` | Returns the MDX file for a page published by MDX export. | All | | `merge_pages` | Rewrites one live page to replace up to five others. | All | | `retire_merged_pages` | Retires the pages a published merge replaced. | All | ## Content and ideas | Tool | What it does | Access | | ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | `list_content` | Lists ideas, work in progress, or published pages, 25 per page. | All | | `get_content` | One idea, draft, or page with its Markdown, brief, checks, sources, and publication. | All | | `create_content` | Creates a manual draft. | All | | `save_content` | Saves a new version of a draft's title, path, description, and Markdown. | All | | `change_content_status` | Sends to review, approves, returns to draft, cancels a schedule, restores, or rejects. | All | | `work_on_content` | Approves, writes, revises, checks, researches, or refreshes an idea or page. | All | | `update_idea_brief` | Edits an idea's title and brief before writing starts. | All | | `find_more_ideas` | Starts finding new ideas for a site. | All | | `set_target_questions` | Sets the tracked questions a page answers. | All | | `set_content_insight` | Saves the team's first-hand experience, views, and data for a page. | All | ## Automations | Tool | What it does | Access | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | `list_automations` | Automations with their schedule, status, and recent runs. | All | | `save_automation` | Creates or updates an automation for one page type. | Admin | | `set_automation_state` | Pauses or resumes an automation. | Admin | | `retry_automation_run` | Retries the failed drafts or refreshes of one automation run. | Admin | ## Questions and performance | Tool | What it does | Access | | --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------ | | `list_questions` | Tracked and suggested questions with the latest AI engine results. | All | | `add_question` | Tracks a buyer question across AI engines. | All | | `update_question` | Rewords a question or changes its status. | All | | `suggest_questions` | Adds about five suggested questions for a site. | All | | `track_suggested_questions` | Tracks waiting suggestions until the team's question limit. | All | | `get_ai_visibility` | Whether each AI engine cites or mentions you or a competitor, per question. | All | | `get_visibility_answers` | The saved AI answers and citations for one question and engine. | All | | `retry_visibility_check` | Asks the AI engines again for answers missing from an incomplete check. | All | | `get_performance` | AI visibility and citation rates over time. | All | | `get_outcomes` | AI citations and Google clicks for published pages at 14, 30, 60, and 90 days. | All | | `get_search_performance` | Google Search Console clicks, impressions, and position for a site. | All | | `get_page_search` | Google data and top queries for one published page. | All | | `disconnect_search_console` | Disconnects Google Search Console from a site. | Admin | ## Team and notifications | Tool | What it does | Access | | ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | `list_members` | Team members and pending invitations. | All | | `invite_member` | Emails an invitation to join the team. | Admin | | `list_notifications` | Your latest 50 notifications and the unread count. | All | | `mark_notifications_read` | Marks one, some, or all notifications as read. | All | | `get_notification_settings` | Which notifications you also get by email. | All | | `update_notification_settings` | Sets which notifications you also get by email. | All |