Update: Agent-optimized MCP capabilities in the iManage AI Productivity Bundle - 11 Nov 2026
In the last couple of weeks, there's been some progress and updates with both the plugin for Copilot Chat and the /search endpoint, which has been available to iManage MCP customers to date.
What appears to have changed
Firstly, the iManage MCP /search endpoint is being moved into the iManage AI productivity bundle, which means that customers must have that added to their subscription in order to use the /search endpoint.
Secondly, the iManage plugin for M365 Copilot Chat has settled down a bit, and fixes on both the Microsoft and iManage side have allowed customers with custom subdomains to use OAuth to connect.
Agent-optimized MCP capabilities in the iManage AI Productivity Bundle
"iManage: We’re renaming the iManage Search connector as Agent-optimized MCP Capabilities. These capabilities are part of the iManage AI Productivity Bundle."
A number of our customers have been testing out Copilot agents or other AI orchestrator MCP connectors using the various iManage MCP endpoints that are available. These are /work and /search. The iManage-published MCP agent tool that's available in Copilot Studio is configured to use the /work endpoint only at this stage (at the time of writing!). The /search endpoint is an extension of /work and allows some extended search capabilities that are powered by the AI technologies on the iManage side. Using the iManage plugin for Copilot Chat or the /work endpoint only, still gives users the capability to search using their AI tool against the iManage MCP server. In this update for iManage, the /search endpoint becomes part of the iManage AI productivity bundle and must be added to your iManage Cloud subscription to become usable. Our take as it stands today:
iManage plugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - no change, all functions still available, including core search. (write controls now available)
iManage Work: https://cloudimanage.com/mcp/work - no change, all functions still available, including core search
iManage Search: https://cloudimanage.com/mcp/search - needs to be licensed with the iManage AI Productivity Bundle as the "Agent-optimized MCP"
iManage plugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
iManage: "We’re adding the write tools for the iManage Work connector, such as create_workspace, create_folder, and upload_document, to the iManage plugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Until then, only read tools are available in Copilot Chat."
Relevant mostly to customers who are looking at the Copilot chat plugin only and were interested in the write tools as part of the connection into iManage MCP. Important to note here that the write tools are off by default and must be enabled by your iManage administrator if you want your end users to be able to access them.
iManage: MCP-488 When registering or updating an OAuth dynamic client, the registration_client_uri returned in the response pointed to the base host—for example, cloudimanage.com—instead of the custom subdomain used for the request (for example, im.cloudimanage.com).
Another step forward here: any customers using a custom subdomain on their cloudimanage.com tenant should be able to connect the iManage plugin for Copilot Chat and other MCP connectors, successfully authenticating with OAUTH. This was holding a few of our customers back, as these plugins and connectors were having trouble authenticating in their iManage Cloud tenant. Early testing shows it appears to have been resolved, and getting these connections and authentication to work is much smoother.
