> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Search Short Term • AI Agent SDK

> search_short_term: Search MongoDB short-term collection.

# search\_short\_term

Method

> This is a method of the [**MongoDBMemoryAdapter**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/MongoDBMemoryAdapter.md) class in the [**factories**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/factories.md) module.

Search MongoDB short-term collection.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def search_short_term(query: str, limit: int) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]
```

## Parameters

**query** `str` *required*

No description available.

**limit** `int` (default: 5)

No description available.

### Returns

**Returns** `List[Dict[str, Any]]`

The result of the operation.

## Used By

* [`AgentTeam.restore_session_state`](../functions/AgentTeam-restore_session_state)
* [`Memory.search_short_term`](../functions/Memory-search_short_term)
* [`Memory.delete_memories_matching`](../functions/Memory-delete_memories_matching)
* [`Memory.build_context_for_task`](../functions/Memory-build_context_for_task)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/memory/adapters/factories.py#L587)
>
> `praisonaiagents/memory/adapters/factories.py` at line 587


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