MCP Tools Reference: docsmcp.googleapis.com

Tool: read_doc

This tool retrieves a JSON representation of the Google Doc given its document ID.

The JSON representation includes both the text as well as structural information about the document.

Corresponds to documents.get in the REST API.

The following sample demonstrate how to use curl to invoke the read_doc MCP tool.

Curl Request 
curl --location 'https://docsmcp.googleapis.com/mcp' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
--data '{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "read_doc",
    "arguments": {
      // provide these details according to the tool MCP specification
    }
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1
}'

Input Schema

ReadDocRequest

JSON representation 
{
  "documentId": string
}
Fields
documentId

string

Required. The ID of the document to read. This is the same as file_id from Drive tools.

Output Schema

ReadDocResponse

JSON representation 
{
  "content": string
}
Fields
content

string

The verbalized text content of the document.

Tool Annotations

Destructive Hint: ❌ | Idempotent Hint: ✅ | Read Only Hint: ✅ | Open World Hint: ✅