diff --git a/backend/app/api/routes/items.py b/backend/app/api/routes/items.py
index 177dc1e476..7dfac1a6ea 100644
--- a/backend/app/api/routes/items.py
+++ b/backend/app/api/routes/items.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from typing import Any
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException
-from sqlmodel import func, select
+from sqlmodel import func, select, or_
 
 from app.api.deps import CurrentUser, SessionDep
 from app.models import Item, ItemCreate, ItemPublic, ItemsPublic, ItemUpdate, Message
@@ -12,31 +12,36 @@
 
 @router.get("/", response_model=ItemsPublic)
 def read_items(
-    session: SessionDep, current_user: CurrentUser, skip: int = 0, limit: int = 100
+    session: SessionDep,
+    current_user: CurrentUser,
+    skip: int = 0,
+    limit: int = 100,
+    search: str | None = None
 ) -> Any:
     """
     Retrieve items.
     """
 
     if current_user.is_superuser:
+        query = select(Item)
         count_statement = select(func.count()).select_from(Item)
-        count = session.exec(count_statement).one()
-        statement = select(Item).offset(skip).limit(limit)
-        items = session.exec(statement).all()
     else:
+        query = select(Item).where(Item.owner_id == current_user.id)
         count_statement = (
             select(func.count())
             .select_from(Item)
             .where(Item.owner_id == current_user.id)
         )
-        count = session.exec(count_statement).one()
-        statement = (
-            select(Item)
-            .where(Item.owner_id == current_user.id)
-            .offset(skip)
-            .limit(limit)
+
+    if search:
+        search_filter = or_(
+            Item.title.contains(search, autoescape=True),  # type: ignore
+            Item.description.contains(search, autoescape=True),  # type: ignore
         )
-        items = session.exec(statement).all()
+        query = query.where(search_filter)
+        count_statement = count_statement.where(search_filter)
+    count = session.exec(count_statement).one()
+    items = session.exec(query.offset(skip).limit(limit)).all()
 
     return ItemsPublic(data=items, count=count)
 
diff --git a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_items.py b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_items.py
index c215238a69..808e022504 100644
--- a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_items.py
+++ b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/test_items.py
@@ -162,3 +162,102 @@ def test_delete_item_not_enough_permissions(
     assert response.status_code == 400
     content = response.json()
     assert content["detail"] == "Not enough permissions"
+def test_search_items_by_title(
+    client: TestClient, superuser_token_headers: dict[str, str], db: Session
+) -> None:
+    # Create test items using the existing function
+    item1 = create_random_item(db)
+    item2 = create_random_item(db)
+    
+    # Update the first item to have a specific title for testing
+    item1.title = "Alpha Item"
+    item1.description = "First item"
+    db.add(item1)
+    db.commit()
+    
+    # Test search by title
+    response = client.get(
+        f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/items/?search=Alpha",
+        headers=superuser_token_headers,
+    )
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    content = response.json()
+    assert content["count"] == 1
+    assert content["data"][0]["title"] == "Alpha Item"
+
+
+def test_search_items_by_description(
+    client: TestClient, superuser_token_headers: dict[str, str], db: Session
+) -> None:
+    # Create test items
+    item1 = create_random_item(db)
+    item2 = create_random_item(db)
+    
+    # Update the first item to have a specific description for testing
+    item1.title = "First"
+    item1.description = "UniqueAlphaDescription"  # More unique
+    db.add(item1)
+    db.commit()
+    
+    # Test search by description
+    response = client.get(
+        f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/items/?search=UniqueAlpha",  # More specific search
+        headers=superuser_token_headers,
+    )
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    content = response.json()
+    assert content["count"] == 1
+    assert content["data"][0]["description"] == "UniqueAlphaDescription"
+
+
+def test_search_items_no_results(
+    client: TestClient, superuser_token_headers: dict[str, str], db: Session
+) -> None:
+    # Create test items
+    item = create_random_item(db)
+    
+    # Update item to have specific content
+    item.title = "Alpha"
+    item.description = "First item"
+    db.add(item)
+    db.commit()
+    
+    # Test search with no matches
+    response = client.get(
+        f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/items/?search=NotFound",
+        headers=superuser_token_headers,
+    )
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    content = response.json()
+    assert content["count"] == 0
+    assert content["data"] == []
+
+
+def test_search_items_with_pagination(
+    client: TestClient, superuser_token_headers: dict[str, str], db: Session
+) -> None:
+    # Create multiple test items
+    item1 = create_random_item(db)
+    item2 = create_random_item(db)
+    item3 = create_random_item(db)
+    
+    # Update items to have specific content for testing
+    item1.title = "Test Item 1"
+    item1.description = "First test"
+    item2.title = "Test Item 2"
+    item2.description = "Second test"
+    item3.title = "Other Item"
+    item3.description = "Not matching"
+    
+    db.add_all([item1, item2, item3])
+    db.commit()
+    
+    # Test search with pagination
+    response = client.get(
+        f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/items/?search=Test&skip=0&limit=2",
+        headers=superuser_token_headers,
+    )
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    content = response.json()
+    assert content["count"] == 2
+    assert len(content["data"]) == 2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/openapi.json b/openapi.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/release-notes.md b/release-notes.md
index cc477d3e7c..fa78877d0d 100644
--- a/release-notes.md
+++ b/release-notes.md
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 * 👷 Do not sync labels as it overrides manually added labels. PR [#1307](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1307) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 👷 Use uv cache on GitHub Actions. PR [#1366](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1366) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 👷 Update GitHub Actions format. PR [#1363](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1363) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
-* 👷 Use `uv` for Python env to generate client. PR [#1362](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1362) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
+* 👷 Use `uv` for Python env to gener  ate client. PR [#1362](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1362) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 👷 Run tests from Python environment (with `uv`), not from Docker container. PR [#1361](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1361) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 🔨 Update `generate-client.sh` script, make it fail on errors, fix generation. PR [#1360](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1360) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 👷 Add GitHub Actions workflow to lint backend apart from tests. PR [#1358](https://github.com/fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template/pull/1358) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).