Design Manager - Access Empower Document Metadata/Tags

How can I access the current Document Metadata from within a Design Manager function?

Is there a set of SYS_* variables available or a function to load them?

I tried quite a while, getting nowhere. Especially I would like to access the "External Document ID" (busDocId) and the Tags (docTags)

Currently I can access these values from the outside (API) but not from the inside. This is a complement to my question about changing variables via an API call.

Currently I see no possibility to transport information via the API INTO the document and no possibility to request them from the inside... 🙄

I cannot believe that there is really NO way to do this.