diff --git a/src/tools/index.ts b/src/tools/index.ts
index 13e9d53..9e78a57 100644
--- a/src/tools/index.ts
+++ b/src/tools/index.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { registerMetadataTools } from "./metadata.js";
 import { registerModuleIssueTools } from "./module-issues.js";
 import { registerModuleTools } from "./modules.js";
 import { registerProjectTools } from "./projects.js";
+import { registerSearchIssueTools } from "./search-issues.js";
 import { registerUserTools } from "./user.js";
 import { registerWorkLogTools } from "./work-log.js";
 
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ export const registerTools = (server: McpServer) => {
   registerUserTools(server);
 
   registerProjectTools(server);
+  registerSearchIssueTools(server);
   registerModuleTools(server);
   registerModuleIssueTools(server);
   registerIssueTools(server);
diff --git a/src/tools/search-issues.ts b/src/tools/search-issues.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..541f793
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tools/search-issues.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { McpServer } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js";
+import { z } from "zod";
+
+import { makePlaneRequest } from "../common/request-helper.js";
+
+export const registerSearchIssueTools = (server: McpServer): void => {
+  server.tool(
+    "search_issues",
+    "Use this to search issues by text query. This requests project_id as uuid parameter. If you have a readable identifier for project, you can use the get_projects tool to get the project_id from it",
+    {
+      limit: z.number().describe("The number of issues to return").optional(),
+      project_id: z.string().describe("The uuid identifier of the project to search issues for").optional(),
+      search: z.string().describe("The search query"),
+      workspace_search: z.boolean().describe("Whether to search across all projects in the workspace").optional(),
+    },
+    async ({ limit, project_id, search, workspace_search }) => {
+      // send the params if not null as query string
+      const queryParams = new URLSearchParams();
+      if (limit) queryParams.set("limit", limit.toString());
+      if (project_id) queryParams.set("project_id", project_id);
+      if (workspace_search) queryParams.set("workspace_search", workspace_search.toString());
+      if (search) queryParams.set("search", search);
+
+      const response = await makePlaneRequest(
+        "GET",
+        `workspaces/${process.env.PLANE_WORKSPACE_SLUG}/issues/search/?${queryParams.toString()}`
+      );
+      return {
+        content: [
+          {
+            type: "text",
+            text: JSON.stringify(response, null, 2),
+          },
+        ],
+      };
+    }
+  );
+};