core-mcp-objects

A rule describing the four main kinds of objects in the Model Context Protocol: tools, resources, resource templates, and prompts. MCP is a standard for connecting AI applications with external tools and information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing shared behavior, such as tags or imports, so the behavior is applied consistently to tools, resources, resource templates, and prompts.
Why use it?
It reminds developers that a change affecting one object type may need matching changes and tests for the others.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/prefecthq/fastmcp/core-mcp-objects
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 110 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 110 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00110 $0.00110
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00011

Measured yesterday against content hash 9e483173e3d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

core-mcp-objects scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/core-mcp-objects.mdc · 13 lines

What it actually says

There are four major MCP object types:

  • Tools (src/tools/)
  • Resources (src/resources/)
  • Resource Templates (src/resources/)
  • Prompts (src/prompts)

While these have slightly different semantics and implementations, in general changes that affect interactions with any one (like adding tags, importing, etc.) will need to be adopted, applied, and tested on all others. Note that while resources and resource templates are different objects, they are both in src/resources/.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 13 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 9e483173e3d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

core-mcp-objects is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository PrefectHQ/fastmcp (27,470 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 110 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.