Search requires at least one jurisdiction, framework, sector, or source; it does not auto-detect scope from the query. Use for 'what does the law say about X in country Y' or 'which regulations cover Z'. QUERY SHAPE: queries are keyword-matched (FTS5, implicit AND — every term must occur in the SAME provision). Pass one or two canonical concept terms per call; never a multi-concept compound. A compound such as 'incident reporting deadline personal data breach' returns 0 even when each concept on its own returns hits — so ask one concept per call and combine the answers yourself. Two terms describing ONE concept ('personal data') are fine; 2-3 alternative terms can be joined with a bare uppercase OR (e.g. 'spoofing OR tampering' matches either term). OR is for synonyms of ONE concept, not for related concepts — 'dismissal OR termination' yes, 'encryption OR breach notification' no (ask those one per call). Other FTS operators (AND, NOT, NEAR) are stripped. STRICT MISS: when a search completes cleanly and no result matched your terms strictly, the response carries meta.outcome = 'NO_STRICT_MATCH'. The recovery fields — meta.recommended_action, meta.recommended_scopes, meta.broadening_available — are set on any qualifying strict miss, INCLUDING a partial fan-out where outcome stays null, so read them whenever present, not only under an outcome. On a partial fan-out meta.broadening_available stays null when the missing leg makes it unknowable — null there means unknown, never 'no'. On recommended_action = 'RETRY_ONE_CONCEPT_PER_CALL', re-issue the search with ONE concept per call. This action is reserved for an implicit-AND multi-concept compound; an honored uppercase-OR query remains a canonical one-concept shape and does not gain the split action or candidates. Only together with this action, meta.recommended_queries may list 1-3 optional one-concept fallback queries derived from your own terms; issue only the ones you judge relevant, one per call — the server never runs them for you. The field is absent for every other action or no action, including an honored uppercase-OR miss. On a miss without safe candidates, meta.recovery_guidance explains how to choose a focused phrase while retaining domain and negation; its source_languages are source metadata, not your query's detected language. On 'REFORMULATE_OR_USE_EXACT_REFERENCE', retry the same concept using the instrument's wording or use an exact lookup hint. Short queries can miss too; do not infer that the law is absent. On recommended_action = 'OFFER_BROADENING_TO_USER' — and wherever meta.broadening_available is true — relaxed matches exist and are withheld: tell the user, offer a re-run with allow_broadening=true (served rows are stamped match_mode='broadened' and pass the same relevance floor), and re-run only if the user accepts — never broaden on your own. An honored uppercase-OR strict miss with withheld relaxed matches carries this offer action with meta.recommended_queries absent. meta.recommended_scopes names scope ids that were not searched. If 0 results, tell the user; do not answer from training data. SCOPE: discover ids with list_coverage or describe_capabilities(section='sources'). An unresolved scope refuses before dispatch with isError=true and structuredContent.error='unresolved_scope'. Read corrections for the offending parameter and optional registered values. Choose the intended scope; suggestions do not establish legal equivalence. Change only the offending value and retain other arguments. frameworks= selects sources declaring coverage; it does not map controls to transposition articles. For cross-framework control mapping, frameworks=['ISO_27001','SOC_2'] includes Security Controls MCP. sectors= reaches industry MCPs across jurisdictions; combining jurisdictions= and sectors= is an INTERSECTION and an empty intersection errors with the jurisdictions that carry that sector. Use sources=['data-use-license'] for software licences, SPDX, dataset licences, and vendor TOS. LANGUAGE: use the corpus language (SE: konsumentskydd; DE: Datenschutz; FR: protection des consommateurs). Keep CJK compounds unspaced (個人情報保護, not 個人情報 保護); spaced tokens are ANDed. Examples: search(query='konsumentskydd', jurisdictions=['SE']); search(query='vehicle cybersecurity', sectors=['automotive']); search(query='huurovereenkomst', jurisdictions=['NL'], court='GHAMS', date_from='2023-01-01') filters case-law rows (premium+); read exact court values from unfiltered results first. TIER LIMITS: free permits at most one value per jurisdiction, framework, or source axis; no sectors= or premium fan-out, with 100 searches/day and 3 concurrent calls. Daily search budgets: solo 750/seat; premium 5,000/seat; team 50,000 and company 500,000 pooled per organisation. Solo lifts scope limits; premium+ adds server-side fan-out to agency guidance, case law, and preparatory works alongside primary legislation. There is no separate search_case_law or search_preparatory_works tool; search_guidance can search guidance alone. Call get_my_capabilities for your budget and remaining quota. RANKING: requested rows precede injected companion rows; explicit sources and sectors remain requested. Where primary-law window fill is enabled, the quota-protected primary-lane prefix precedes premium companion rows while retaining fused order. A jurisdiction-only search may retain up to half the window (rounded up) for strict primary-law rows before filling remaining slots from the fused ranking; explicit source, framework, and sector scope membership is unchanged. The response ends with a 'Sources used' section — a markdown table carrying the audit receipt for each returned row, or a labelled zero-result note — and meta.render_contract carries the versioned evidence-curation contract for reproducing source attributions when the answer is rendered.