02 - MCP Primitives: Tools, Resources and Prompts
The three MCP protocol primitives: Tools for executing actions, Resources for exposing data and Prompts for reusable templates. Zod schema, typing and
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The three MCP protocol primitives: Tools for executing actions, Resources for exposing data and Prompts for reusable templates. Zod schema, typing and best practices.
What you'll learn
- Fundamental Tool Characteristics
- Anatomy of a Tool in TypeScript
- Tool Response Format
- Tool Categories in the Tech-MCP Project
- Fundamental Resource Characteristics
This article is part of the MCP series on federicocalo.dev.
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➡️ 02 - MCP Primitives: Tools, Resources and Prompts
https://federicocalo.dev/en/blog/mcp-primitives-tools-resources-prompts
By Federico Calò — Software Developer & Technical Writer