MCP Resource

URI-addressable context exposed by an MCP server. Resources are listed via resources/list and read via resources/read; servers can advertise resources/subscribe and resources/list_changed.

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Properties

Name Type Description
uri string Server-defined URI identifying this resource.
name string
title string
description string
mimeType string
size integer Size in bytes when the server can compute it.
annotations object
icons array
_meta object
View JSON Schema on GitHub

JSON Schema

mcp-resource-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://api-evangelist.github.io/mcp/json-schema/mcp-resource-schema.json",
  "title": "MCP Resource",
  "description": "URI-addressable context exposed by an MCP server. Resources are listed via resources/list and read via resources/read; servers can advertise resources/subscribe and resources/list_changed.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["uri", "name"],
  "properties": {
    "uri": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Server-defined URI identifying this resource."
    },
    "name": { "type": "string" },
    "title": { "type": "string" },
    "description": { "type": "string" },
    "mimeType": { "type": "string" },
    "size": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Size in bytes when the server can compute it."
    },
    "annotations": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "audience": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "enum": ["user", "assistant"] }
        },
        "priority": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 1 }
      }
    },
    "icons": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object" } },
    "_meta": { "type": "object" }
  }
}

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