ListFolderLABSCO SUMMARY
You choose the scopes when you create the app, which means the permission decision happens before any agent is involved.
Unlike a connector that asks for everything and relies on you reading a consent screen, Dropbox makes you build the app first and tick the scopes there. That is more setup and a better outcome: a read-only app cannot be talked into writing. Version restore is the tool that makes the write side survivable — an agent that overwrites a file has not destroyed it. Markdown extraction is the quiet one worth knowing about, since it turns documents into something a model can actually read.
What it is
Dropbox's own hosted endpoint. Twenty-four tools spanning ordinary file work and the things that are awkward through a UI: restoring a version, extracting text, checking quota.
What you get
- File operations: list a folder, read content, create, delete, copy, move
- Search across the account
- Shared links and file requests
- Version restore
- Transcription and Markdown extraction from documents
- Account quota
Requirements
An app created in the Dropbox App Console with the scopes you want, a redirect URI configured for your client, then OAuth authorisation. The scope selection at app-creation time is where the real permission decision happens.
Setup effort
Paste a URL, then authorize — add the endpoint to your client, then approve the OAuth consent screen
USE CASES
01
Finding and reading a document
Search the account, then pull the content as Markdown rather than a binary.
02
Undoing a bad edit
Restore the previous version instead of recovering from a backup.
03
Sharing a file from the conversation
Create a shared link, or a file request to collect one.
04
Limiting what the agent can do
Tick only the scopes you want when creating the app in the console.
25 tools
Listed in project docs. Your client may show a different list.
GetFileMetadataGetFileContentGetUsageAndQuotaSearchCreateFolderCreateFileCreateSharedLinkWhoAmICopyMoveDeleteCheckJobStatusDownloadLinkListSharedLinksGetSharedLinkMetadataCreateFileRequestGetFileRequestListFileRequestsListFileRevisionsRestoreFileRevisionListRestoreEventsRestoreFolderGetTranscriptGetMarkdownBEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
25 tools named in the project's documentation.
Requires
- an MCP client that can reach a remote endpoint
- OAuth 2.0 against your Dropbox account; you create an app in the Dropbox App Console with the scopes you want and configure a redirect URI
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
Add the endpoint to your client, then approve the OAuth consent screen.
Server setup
ENDPOINT URL
https://mcp.dropbox.com/mcpRequirements
- OAuth 2.0 against your Dropbox account; you create an app in the Dropbox App Console with the scopes you want and configure a redirect URI
